Amber

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

We have had another very busy half term in Year 3! We have enjoyed rehearsing and performing our Christmas production ‘Christmas with the Aliens’ and have learnt a lot about what makes a successful performance from our wonderful panto trip and from being on stage ourselves. Our RE lessons this half term have focused on the Nativity story, Christmas traditions and the importance of angels.

In History, we have taken part in discussions about the greatest achievements of people that lived ‘Through the Ages’ creating fire, inventing the wheel and taming horses. As historians, we have also learnt about Stonehenge and its purpose, understanding that historians are required to use a range of sources to develop their understanding of the past.

In computing lessons we have continued learning about coding and have planned algorithms that include collision detection, timers and the repeat command. We have also been developing our understanding of how to keep ourselves safe online as well as the importance of film and PEGI ratings.

As scientists we have enhanced our understanding of plants, creating experiments including one that helped develop our knowledge of how water is transported through plants. We have also used our P4C skills to discuss if we think plants would grow on Mars.

The children have worked really hard this term and they should be very proud, as we are, of all their achievements. Next term, we will begin our history topic of ‘The Romans’ how they became so powerful and how they were defeated. Also we will be learning about their influence on us today as well as how they changed Britain. In Science we are learning about ‘Animals including Humans’ whereby we will learn about how to keep ourselves healthy, bone and muscles of the human body, different skeleton structures and the features of them all. In computing we will be developing our touch typing skills. In Music, we will be learning how to play the cornet!

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and enjoy the holidays and we look forward to seeing you for the new term!