Welcome to Year 3 and Team Amber 2025/2026

Your teachers are Mrs Bollen and Mrs Bonner

Your teaching assistants are Miss Greatbatch, Mrs Angela and Mr Dakin

Welcome back to what has been a very busy week of learning in Year 3! 

In English this week, we have started our new topic ‘Adventure Stories.’ We have been reading Winnie the Pooh and enjoying the adventures that he and his friends got up to. We loved taking part in the role play lesson, reading a chapter of the story and acting it out with our friends. We went on to create a character profile of Winnie the Pooh; some of us also took on the challenge of profiling his friends too. After that we studied a scene in 100 Aker Wood, discussing adjectives to describe what we could see. We then each wrote a setting description in our own words. Next week, we will be writing an adventure story for Winnie The Pooh,

In Maths this week we have been learning how to divide amounts into groups of 2,4 and 8. We have learnt how to use the times tables to answer questions, and also how to find multiplication and division facts by x10 and ÷10.

As Musicians, we have been learning how to play the glockenspiel, following a beat and preparing to learn a new whole class song. We had great fun, but it was very noisy!

In RE, we discussed the 5 Pillars of Islam, remembering our previous learning on them and why they hold importance to Muslims. This week, we focused on the Pillar Sawm which represents fasting. We learnt about what Ramadan is and why Muslims fast and how this is important in order for them to be able to feel close to God. We learnt about who is exempt from fasting in Ramadan and what their role is during Ramadan in order for them to be able to feel close to God in this time. Lastly, we thought about Muslims values in relation to fasting and related these to our own values in what we do in order to feel close to God.

In Art this week, we looked at a range of fossils. We all had a go at becoming palaeontologists, using a dig kit to search for fossils. We were all very excited about it. We then used descriptive words and phrases to describe the fossils, thinking about their size and shape. We ended our lesson using pencils to draw and shade a variety of fossils on display.

Spring Term Optional Home Learning

This half term our topic is The Romans. If you would like to, we are setting an optional homework linked to our topic. This project involves you researching a topic and presenting it as a fact sheet, poster or anything your imagination can think of.

Topics to choose from are:

Roman Religion (Gods and myths)

Roman Sports and Leisure (Gladiators, competitions, etc…)

Roman Towns (Houses, town planning, etc…)

Roman Homes (Mosaics, food etc…)

Roman Army (Soldiers, road building, etc…)

Well done to our Weekly & Termly Award Winners!

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers 

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our Half Term Challenge Readers!!

Eva Mithula Manreet Florence Archie Imogen Charlotte	Noah Bella Connor James Mollie Harriet Amelia