Welcome to Year 3!

Homework - Spellings

We are learning the spellings every day in school and there is no requirement to learn them at home.  However, they are here in case you want to look at them. 

The children will be tested on Friday this week.

The /l/ sound:

early, island, ball, signal, visual, medal, meddle, visible, eventually

Planting vegetables in the garden

Today Ruth helped us plant vegetables in the school gardens. We planted a variety of plants from onions to pumpkins. Check out how well they are growing!

Going back to the Stone Age at Skelton Grange

We had a lovely trip to Skelton Grange to learn all about life in Stone Age, We enjoyed stealth  hunting, target shooting rabbits and mammoths, den making and cooking on an open fire. Here are some of our photos from our day.

Well Being Day

During our school well being day we completed lots of different activities that can help our mental health and give us strategies to cope with worries and anxieties we might have. 

Dance - Being physically active means sitting down less and moving our bodies more. Many people find that physical activity helps them maintain positive mental health.

Art/Sewing - Creative hobbies can have many positive effects on your mental health, it  can allow us to express our feelings and emotions.

First Aid for our minds - During this time we learnt about strategies we can use when our worries get too much including grounding, breathing and using a special happy stone. 

Here are some photos of the activities we completed. 

In RE we have been learning about Creation and the Fall. We created these art works to represent the fall. 

We have mummified some tomatoes to understand a little about the mummification process. 

We have loved learning about Ancient Egypt so far and have created some fantastic art work too. 

Science

We had great fun predicting what would happen with the walking water and different types of coke.

Our World

This term we will be learning about the threats to our planet, learning about the impacts of climate change and ways we can stop it. We will be calculating our own carbon footprint and learning about fair trade, ways to help people across the globe. 

Stone Age to Iron Age:

This term we will be learning about the beginnings of British history as we learn about what life was like during the stone age, how tools developed with the discovery of ways to make bronze and iron. This in turn transformed life from hunter gatherers to farming communities to hill forts.

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a British author who penned 19 children's books over his decades-long writing career. We will be reading The Magic Finger, Esio Trot and George's Marvellous Medicine. 

Ancient Egyptians

Our topic this term is the Ancient Egyptians. We will be learning about the Pharaohs who were the Kings of all the land, the hundreds of gods and goddesses worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians, the pyramids and mummification and the importance of the River Nile for everyday life. 

The Victorians

This half term we will be learning about our local area and the Victorians. We will be using old maps to look at how Leeds grew during the Industrial Revolution. We will be learning about schools, medicine and the factories of Victorian times. We will be reading Street Child and writing a diary pretending to live in a Victorian workhouse. 

Sikhism:

Our topic this term is Sikhism, Sikhism developed in the Punjab region from the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak.

Homework - Maths

See the links below for the My Maths and Times Tables Rockstars websites.