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 been working hard together to create an amazing curriculum to engage your child this term. We have been exploring the Stone Age and reading quality texts surrounding this. We have had a Stone Age visitor and had an excellent time exploring what life was like during this time period!
If you have any questions or concerns please do come and speak to one of us 
Mrs bines, Miss Harvey, Mrs Streeton & Mrs Glinn
Writing
This term so far, we have explored a variety of different texts for a range of different purposes. So far we have written a set of instructions on how to wash a wooly mammoth and began exploring the features that are needed in order to write an engaging narrative! The children have become more confident in using fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases.
This half term, we focus on writing poetry that helps to commemorate remembrance day.
Our reading texts
So far this term, we have read some excellent texts such as: ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’, ‘Stone Age Boy’ and ‘Pebble in my pocket’
Moving forward into this term, we are starting a new text of 'When the storm comes in' and 'Cloud soup'
We ask that children read regularly at home as this is a vital skill towards developing children's education.
Maths
So far this year, the children have been developing their knowledge of place value which help them create a good foundation for the remainder of the maths curriculum. They have been practising their knowledge of the four operations and are starting to practise their times tables more regularly.
Currently the children are learning different methods in order to add and subtract more efficiently.
Stone age day!
We started our morning by meeting Ugg. He showed us how Stone age people communicated and grunted at us. He showed us how he made tools that he needed for hunting, whilst we were in the hall he also chased Mrs Walker! After this Ugg spoke to us and explained a bit about the Stone age times- showing us weapons, animal skins and bones from the past. We then went to our classroom to have a go at making our own weapons using sticks, flint and twine. It was a difficult to hold the flint and stick together before wrapping it with the twine, we worked in pairs and had success!! We then went and looked at artefacts from the stone age some were primary sources and some were secondary sources. We had four questions to think about- What is it? What is it made from? How’s it made? What could it be used for? We looked at a range of artefacts including animal skins, boots, weapons and traps. After discussing the artefacts, we moved onto archery, we got to load our bows, aim and then fire them towards animals. During the afternoon we started with a bone investigation- we looked at different types of bones and discussed what they could be from and what they could be used for. It was very interesting to look at the bones up close and think how the stone age people used it. We then had a go at drawing them and writing what we thought they were and what they could have been used for. Our last task of the day was to look at some cave paintings and created our own.
We shared some of our favourite parts of the day
Carter- ‘the archery and Ugg chasing us’ Nova- ‘Cave painting because we got to draw stone age drawings’
Alfie – ‘The cave painting and when Ugg thought the tiger bag was real’. Maxim- ‘the archery and cave painting’
Lilah- ‘When Ugg chased the teachers and the archery’. Josh- ‘The archery because we got to have 3 shots.’
Patryk-‘The cave painting’. Noah- ‘The bow and arrows’. Alena- ‘Looking at and touching the artefacts.’
