We have been working on our problem solving in maths this week. We are working hard to solve multiplication and division word problems based on our times tables. We have also had a times table test so all children should know their next steps for which ones they need to…
This week in maths we have been looking at multiplication and division and the relationship between them. We have investigated the relationship between the 2, 4 and 8 times tables and started to answer questions by doubling what we already know e.g. if 3 x 2 = 6 then 3…
In English this week we have started looking at our new class book, Leon and the Place Between. This has a circus setting. Following on from the wonderful work that the children did last week on ‘Sentences of 3 for Description’ we revisited Prepositions and used our senses to describe…
Happy New Year! We hope you had a fantastic Christmas break. Thank you so much for the kind cards and gifts – we are really looking forward to booking our experience, lots to choose from! We are starting our new topic this term which is Geography based. We started by…
We have had a busy time this week practicing our Christmas play which is starting to look really good! The children have worked so hard to learn their lines and are singing beautifully – we are very proud of them. Last week for our topic, Mr Silvester came into class…
This week in maths, we are consolidating what we have been doing with column subtraction and answering missing number questions. We are thinking about estimating our answers first and checking for mistakes using an inverse sum. In English we finished our planning and wrote our recount of our class trip…
We had a brilliant start to the week with our class trip to the Earth Trust. We were lucky enough to visit during the archaeological dig and got to see this in action and speak to one of the archaeologists. The children also then took part in artefact handling, den…
In English this week we have been looking at different examples of diary entries. We found the key features and then planned our own diary entry as the main character from the book, Stone Age Boy. We have now started to write them and get feedback and are working hard…
Year 3 Geographers went to Wallingford first thing on Monday morning. We spotted geographical features during our walk e.g. roads, the River Thames and the Wallingford Bridge. Once in the centre of Wallingford, a group of us spoke with local people to find out what the purpose of their visit…
The children have been busy writing some lovely stories based on the book ‘Journey’ and are excited for you to see these at parents evening. We are now moving towards writing a newspaper report so have started to look at some examples of this style of writing and picked out…
