Azure

Welcome to Year 3 and Team Azure 2025/26

Your teacher is Ms Dyer

Your teaching assistant is Miss Kellaway

We hope you all had a lovely half term, it has certainly been another busy week of learning in Team Azure!

Our English unit this term is to learn to write a personal narrative. We began this week by looking at the stories, Ralph Tells A Story, The Proudest Blue and Jabari Jumps. We then started to look at the personal elements we would need to include in our narratives. We discussed the use of speech and dialogue to introduce the characters and how they are feeling. We practised the use of a simile, in order for the reader to picture this in their mind and the use of character’s inner thoughts for readers to understand more about them.

In Maths this week, we have been learning to explain why the order of addition and subtractions steps can be chosen and solving multi-step problems. We then went onto explain that addition and subtraction are related with 2 digit numbers. We now know that addition and subtraction are related with 3 digit numbers. We then finished the week by identifying what is known and what is unknown in an equation.

In RE this week, we learnt what the word temptation means. We watched a few videos to help with our understanding, then read the story of Adam and Eve and discussed, what would you do if you were Eve? Why do you think Eve decided to eat the fruit? We had a think about what good could have come from her decision and then finally discussed whether we think temptation is always a bad thing or not!

In Science this week, we started the lesson by creating a mind map of what we already know about forces and magnets, and wrote down things we would like to know by the end of the unit. We then watched a video on forces, looking at the pushes and pulls, and how they act upon objects, either making them start or stop. We went through examples of activities where the push and pull force were acting upon objects. Next, we selected an activity in learning partner’s which was using either a push or pull force and freeze framed it to present to the rest of the class. The rest of the class had to decide which force our freeze frames were showing. Lastly, we completed a worksheet on the push and pull forces, and whether they started or stopped it.

In French this week, we started to learn teacher commands in the classroom like, sit down, stand up, listen, speak, read and write.

That’s all for this week – as always make sure you practise your times tables over the weekend!

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…)