Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to Year 3's class page. In the Autumn term our theme is A journey back in time! The teaching staff have worked together to create an amazing curriculum to engage your child this term. We will be exploring the Stone Age and reading quality texts surrounding this. We have planned a Stone Age visitor and hope to share our new learning and knowledge with them!
If you have any questions or concerns please do come and speak to one of us 
Miss Handley, Miss Hare, Miss Harvey
Science week!
During science week, year 3 completed experiments to discover what makes the strongest backbone. We used paper reels of different sized, widths, thickness and height to decide which would make the strongest backbone. We then tested our backbones using lots of books from our classroom library!
Writing
Year 3 are currently learning about the rainforest and deforestation in year 3! This half term, we will be starting our learning with a focus on an explanation text exploring what deforestation is. The children will be researching and explaining the effects of deforestation. After this we will be using this knowledge to create a persuasive letter. We will be linking our topic of Rainforests to this. The children will also be debating deforestation and whether it should/should not be banned.
Maths
This half term year 3 briefly revisited fractions, relating these to scales involving capacity, mass and length. We used lots of manipulatives and practical group activities to support our learning. Following this we will be learning about money, recognising how to convert pounds into pence, adding and subtracting amounts of money alongside finding out change. Lastly, we will start out topic on time, learning how to tell the time on an analogue clock to the nearest minute. The children will also learn about Roman numerals and how to count up to 12 with these.
Stone Age day!
