Glorious week in Year Three and important updates

 Hi Year 3 families,

I am sure like me your are very proud of the hard work that children did for their class assembly on Friday, thank you for coming and for your continued support.

We had a rather busy week all in all!

In art we used our knowledge of pointillism to create Mother's Day cards, the children are such talented artists. We have loved having Art on a Tuesday this half term.

In maths we were finishing our work on capacity and in History we were learning about the brilliant Boudicca and had so much fun doing our video to share with you.

The final week of term will be even busier with TWO trips this week.

On Monday afternoon we will be going to Maiden Castle Farm, please ensure that your child has suitable footwear and coat for the trip tomorrow. If you are accompanying us we will be leaving school at 1:00pm. (We will have an earlier lunch tomorrow.) 

On Wednesday we are visiting Dorchester museum and The Roman Townhouse. Please ensure your child has a backpack to keep their drinks and lunch in for the day, plus suitable footwear and a coat suitable for the weather.  We will be arriving at the museum for 10:00 and will be returning in time for the end of the day.

It has been such a busy half term, but the children have been fantastic, I am so proud of how hard they are working.

Ms Evans, Mrs Scott and Mrs Thomas.

Romans, birds and newspaper reports

 Hi Year Three Families,

We have had a lovely week this week, we have continued our focus on The Escape from Pompeii in English we are turning our attention to writing newspaper reports detailing what happened during the eruption.

In Maths we have been working on Mass and using our knowledge of grams and kilograms to help us work out how much something weighs and which item weighs the most.

In History we learnt about when the Romans invaded Britain and the reasons why they wanted to come.

In Art we we have completed our 'bird' pictures which display our hatching and cross hatching skills. I am sure you will be as impressed as I was with their amazing creations.

On Friday next week we will be visiting Maiden Castle with Steve Wallis, this will compliment our learning about hillforts and the celts. Please ensure children have suitable footwear and coats for the weather on the day. We will return before lunch which will be as normal.

Here is what we are learning next week!

Composing Emails

Today in Computing, we had an exciting lesson with Mr. Spracklen all about Composing Emails! 📨

Aims:
We learned how to open and respond to an email, which was really fun. We also practiced writing emails to our classmates and sending them from our address book. Mr. Spracklen explained how emails are like sending letters but much faster! 

Success Criteria:
By the end of the lesson, we could:

• Open an email and reply to it.
• Write emails to our friends in the class.
• (Extension) Use the search option to find our classmates in the address book to send emails to them!

In today’s lesson, we used 2Email in PurpleMash, which is a special sandbox environment designed for us to practice safely. It’s like a mini email system just for our class, where we can send and receive emails without worrying about real-world emails. 

We practiced checking our inboxes and clicking on emails to open them. 

Once we read them, we could click Reply and write our answers. 

Everyone had a go at sending an email to someone else in the class. It was great fun!

Some of us even went further and used the search bar to find our friends' names quickly when sending emails. It was a little tricky at first, but we got the hang of it in no time.

It was a fun and important lesson and we can’t wait to learn more about using emails in the future! 

World Book Day

 Hi Year 3 Families,

We have had a smashing World Book Day, the children all looked AMAZING in their costumes. We visited the Book swap, and I hope the children have enjoyed reading their new book this evening.

We also had a fantastic Live Lesson with the legendary Micheal Rosen during English today.

Here are some photos of our fabulous costumes.

Ms Evans and the Year 3 team.

Smashing start to Spring 2

 Hi Year Three Families,

We had an absolutely lovely week of new beginnings. We started new learning focuses in: English, Art, Science and History.

In English our new book is called The Escape from Pompeii and complements our new history topic of Celts and the Roman Invasion of Britain perfectly. 

In Art we are learning all about hatching and cross hatching, we also learnt how to draw birds, all the children's artwork was impressive.

In Science our topic this half term is on light, this week we were exploring the differences between natural and artificial light. 

We also had great fun on Break the Rules day and a few pranks were played on me with a Whoopee Cushion!!

In the coming week we have World Book Day on Thursday, children will still be swimming in the afternoons so please be mindful of this with their costumes, please no hair spray or make up. If you would prefer for your child to change out of their costume before we go to the pool please ensure they have a suitable change of clothes with them.

We will also be having 3 mystery readers this week.

Photos to follow as I'm having some techincal issues!

Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss anything.

Ms Evans, Mrs Scott and Mrs Thomas.

This Week in Year 3

 Hi Year 3 Families,

It has been a lovely busy week here in Year 3. In English we have continue our focus on The Tin Forest, this week we have been focussing on writing description using expanded nouns phrases and adjectives. 

In Maths we have been converting Ms CMs and Mms and subtracting and adding lengths. 

In Geography we learnt about the different types of rainforests. 

We have also said a fond farewell to Miss Gosling and we wish her the very best of luck in her future placements. 

Home Learning: This week children should have brought home Year 3 spellings and my RWI group also have spellings.

Each child has brought home a paper copy of TT rockstars, there are a lots of questions on their, these can be completed over the next few weeks.

Next week we will start a focus on Fractions towards the end of the week and finish our Tin Forest work by producing an information leaflet.

Please do get in touch if you need anything

Ms Evans and the Year 3 Team

Magnets, Castles and a Gorilla

Wow!

What a week we've had! I've been looking back through the pictures and oh my goodness we were moving and shaking this week!

In Science we were looking at North and South poles on magnets and we conducted a 'floating magnet' experiment. We will be continuing our forces focus until the end of half term.

In Geography we were identifying human and physical features of South America and  we had a rather wonderful visit from a furry friend during the lesson!

On Thursday our friends from TeachRex brought Thomas the Gorilla to meet us, just before lunch we also met a baby sloth and a parrot, true Inspired To Learn at it's best!

On Friday in DT we made our castles, this was such a fun afternoon and the children were brilliantly resilient as we worked through the trials and tribulations of cutting, sticking and folding to make them!

I have been blown away by all the amazing progress children have been making in English since the beginning of term, they are doing so well!

Friday brings Miss Gosling's last day with us, Miss Gosling has worked incredibly hard with the class since October and I know myself and the children will miss her as we wave her off on her next adventure.  So a HUGE Year 3 club THANK YOU to her!!

We have parent's consultations to look forward to this week I can't wait to share all the fabulous work children have done since our last meetings.

Please do get in touch if you need anything.

Ms Evans, Miss Gosling, Mrs Scott and Mrs Thomas.