Azure

Welcome to Year 3 and Team Azure 2025/26

Your teacher is Ms Dyer

Your teaching assistants are Miss Kellaway. Mrs Stretton and Mrs Rogers

We have had a really busy but rewarding start to the Juniors in Year 3. All the children have worked incredibly hard, engaging in a variety of interesting and fun activities. Here are just a few of our highlights from the Autumn Term so far.

In English, we have been learning about a range of texts. We created our own free verse poems based on Kit Wright’s ‘The Magic Box’ at the beginning of the term, then used the story of ‘Mini Rabbit Not Lost’ to develop our descriptive techniques. To end the half term, we read the story ‘How to babysit a Granny.’ We went on to create our own instructions on how to babysit someone special to us. We really enjoyed this topic.

At the start of each Mathematics lessons, we practised our times tables. We began the year by working on adding and subtracting both within and across 10, consolidating our prior learning using a range of concrete and pictorial supports. We have then moved onto understanding numbers up to 1000. We have been working with numbers up to 100, through addition, subtraction, counting and partitioning. Finally we have ended the half term bridging 100.

Our Science topic this term has been ‘Plants’. We are now much more knowledgeable about what plants need in order to grow. We were very excited to conduct experiments as well as understanding the life cycle of plants and the parts that are key for this.

Our History topic this term has been ‘Through the Ages’ which has included investigating the Stone, and Bronze ages. We have enjoyed taking part in many P4C (Philosophy for Children) sessions using artefacts to stimulate our discussions, building on each other’s points of view.

In Art, we have been learning about Cave Art and got the opportunity to plan and create our own as well as enjoying taking part in a gallery walk, sharing our work and celebrating each other.

Well done to Year 3 for all your fantastic hard work this term and many thanks to all our families for their support. We hope you have a lovely holiday and look forward to seeing everyone back in November. Happy holidays from Team Year 3!