Azure

Welcome to Year 3 and Team Azure 2025/26

Your teacher is Ms Dyer

Your teaching assistant is Miss Kellaway

Welcome back everyone. We hope you had a great half term break and are ready for Summer Term 2.

We’ve been busy already this week, starting our new topic in English – persuasion. We started the week learning about rhetorical questions. We then looked at different types of language we use when persuading someone; we learnt the difference between fact and opinion, then created sentences using facts, supported by our opinions. Finally, we created a persuasive poster, using the different sentence types that you would use to persuade someone.

Next week in English, we will be learning how to write and perform a persuasive radio advert.

In Maths this week, continued our topic of fractions. We have been learning about unit and non-unit fractions. We have found non-unit fractions a little bit tricky, so any practise at home would be greatly appreciated.

In Science this week, we have also started a new topic ‘Light and Shadow.’ We started our topic, by thinking about different light sources. We talked about man-made light and natural light. We were very impressed with the responses regarding natural light. For instance, did you know that lava is considered a natural light source? But the moon is not.

In RE this week, we made mind maps about Islam and Christianity, using our previous knowledge and through watching videos on Muslim’s and Christian’s beliefs and practices. We then looked at Muslim and Christian artefacts and discussed the importance of these to both religions. Lastly, we looked at a religious story from Islam and Christianity, and discussed the morals in each of the stories.

In PSHE this week, we started our lesson by matching baby animals with their parents and discussing the changes baby animals go through to reach adulthood. We discussed the role of the female in that they normally look after the baby whilst it’s young, and the importance of the male role being valuable too. We looked at how the male penguin has an important part to play in keeping a baby safe. We looked at what young animals and babies need in order to be cared for, and discussed why they need this in order to be healthy and grow. Lastly, we choose an animal pair from our starter activity to draw as a baby, a young animal and an adult.

That’s all for this week. We hope you have a great weekend.

Optional Home Learning

The Science topic this half term is Light and Shadow. If you would like to, we are setting an optional homework linked to our topic. We can't wait to see your posters, investigations, information leaflets; the world is your oyster. Have fun and surprise us with your ideas.