I can’t believe an entire school year has past.

I will certainly miss the class an awful lot, I’ve loved teaching them this year and look forward to hearing about their progress in year 4. I hope you enjoyed reading the reports last week and it gave you a smile.

Have an absolutely wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you all in September!

We are into our penultimate week of the school year as we begin ending lots of units of work and complete year 3!

Significantly, the class had their Year 4 transition day this week. Meeting their two new teachers and having a lovely day of creativity and fun! All of the children seemed very happy and had a wonderful day.

In Maths, we are doing a unit of work on statistics looking at tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. Finding information, representing that data in different ways.

In English, after completing our unit on the Cloud Tea Monkeys, we have moved onto to a short poetry unit on ‘Ozymandias’. We looked at how the poem made us feel, how many lines make up a sonnet and the creation of haikus.

We celebrated England’s win at the Azteca with learning a few world cup related dances and songs, learnt about the scientific process of how a baby is made (apologies for any tricky questions at home!!),  we carried out our end of unit assessment in RE ‘how and why do people try to make the world a better place’ which has proven to be a really nice summary unit to complete this years religious education.

Wow what a week we’ve had!

Our school trip to Attingham Park on Monday and Sports Day on Friday sandwiched the departure of our student teacher Mr Brown.

All the staff and children would like to wish Mr Brown well for the future in his job that he secured for September, he’s been a fantastic member of our class and we will certainly miss him in the final two weeks of term!

On Wednesday we also got to watch the fantastic Year 6 performance, all their hard work has certainly paid off!

As we near the end of term and the end of the year we will have lots of excitement, so it is always so lovely to have days like the one at Attingham to just enjoy eachothers company. Have a lovely weekend.

We have had another wonderful week in year 3. Lots of learning and lots of fun.

In English, we have continued our unit on ‘Cloud Tea Monkey’s and completed reading the story. We’ve used past perfect tense with ‘have seen’ ‘has sat’, prepositions which tell us where something is and bossy verbs.

In Maths, we have had a tricky week learning about time. AM or PM, days and hours, days, months and years. The concept of time is a really difficult one to learn, along with the challenging maths that comes with it. But the confidence is rising and we hope to see improvements again next week.

In our foundation subjects we learnt about land use in Geography, building a laptop in Computing, we moved onto a brand new Spanish unit, our second lesson on people of the world in RE, the developments of babies in PSHE, and rounders and athletics in PE.

We have begun our final half term of Year 3!

In English we have begun our new unit on ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’. In our first session we became tea testers, experiencing three different flavoured teas and describing the flavours. We then did a session on prepositions and wrote short descriptions about the monkeys from the story.

In Maths we began our new unit of time, looking at Roman numerals, telling the time to 5 minutes and telling the time to the minute. Make sure your clocks are out at home, the best way of learning time is practically throughout the day!

In our afternoons we did a variety of foundation subjects. In Geography we started our Land Use unit and created basic maps. In D&T we looked at the features of a castle, the names of them and how they might be designed. In Computing we explored input and output systems, in Spanish we completed our ‘la classe’ unit with an evaluation sheet.

We also started a World Cup competition in class, giving all of the class members a country that they can support during the 2026 World Cup. The winning country will win a prize.

I can’t believe that we are 5/6’s of the way through the year, we have a very exciting final half term to come, so it is not over just yet!

In English over the past couple of weeks, we have written then edited and marked our big writes for our story Flotsam. The class were able to continue the story from where the book left of, using fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases and using paragraphs to section our story. We did a lot of planning and preparation for this and they all made a piece of writing they can be proud of.

In Maths,  we have completed our second (and final) unit on fractions and moved onto to money. Exploring pounds and pence, adding and subtracting sums and working out tricky word problems.

In Spanish,  we have been learning all about items you would have in the classroom. How to spell, say and listen to each of the words in Spanish.

In History, we have learnt more about the Romans with Boudica, the Celts and Roman settlements alongside different discoveries the Romans brought into Britain like flushing toilets, laws and education.

In Art, we used the website sketchpad to create more abstract pictures of our flowers from the previous lesson. Experimenting with a variety of different drawing tools which made for some really artistic and beautiful creations.

We have also completed our Reading The Game series of lessons. Coach Neil has been coming in each week to deliver reading, writing and football sessions that the class have really enjoyed. Each week we had two certificate winners and we have even selected two lucky winners for Shrewsbury Town tickets!

Despite having a bank holiday Monday, we have still managed to pack lots of learning into our four day week!

In English, we have began preparing for the big write of Flotsam. Looking at a non chronological report about the history of photography as well as planning out a storyboard of what has happened in the story.

In Maths, we have worked on unit and non unit fractions using objects to help answer tricky questions. This has been a really challenging week with lots of complex multiplication questions that the class have dealt with well.

In History, we designed a Roman city with Mr Brown. Looking at all of the different traditional buildings within a normal Roman city and where they would have been.

In Art, we took inspiration from Yellena James abstract flowers to create our own flower pictures. Developing from our bulb from the previous week.

In Spanish, we started to create sentences about our classroom items. Saying what we have in our pencilcases.

We’ve finally got some lovely weather which has kept us all smiling throughout the week this week.

We’ve got a new member of staff with us this term, Mr Brown who was working in Year 2 is now in Year 3 and is training to be a teacher. He will be supporting the class and teaching a variety of lessons.

In English this week we continued learning about our story Flotsam. We explored the differences between fantasy and reality in different settings and looking at the covers of books from our class.

In Maths, we completed our unit on mass and capacity looking at equivalents in millilitres and litres, adding and comparing different amounts of water.

In RE, we continued looking at the creation story exploring the story and discussing god’s creations. What we believe is a creation of God.

In History, we learnt about how the Romans conquered Britain and why they decided to take over our country. Looking at resources they would have desired and the status it would give to any Roman able to do it.

In Art, the class continued with our ‘being an artist’ unit focussing on shading this week.

I can’t believe we’re into the summer term already. We’re two thirds of the way through Year 3 and we’ve started wonderfully well.

In English, we have begun a new writing unit on the book Flotsam. David Weisner’s surreal book began with some creative writing all about finding a chest on the beach and its contents, while also making inferences around bizarre images of clockwork fishes.

On Tuesday afternoons we are very lucky to have Coach Neil doing a reading the game session. The sessions are half writing and half football, writing about a variety of topics to do with Shrewsbury Town and then testing our football skills. I have posted a letter on dojo explaining the sessions and how they work.

In Maths, we continued with our mass and capacity unit. Adding and subtracting, comparing masses, as well as measuring in millimetres.

In RE, we completed our unit on Judaism. Recapping our knowledge of Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and family festivals celebrated in the Jewish faith.

In History, we began our new unit on the Roman empire. This week we focussed on where the Romans came from and the city of Rome.

In Art, we began seeing and drawing like an artist. Using shapes to create different fruit and vegetables.