Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Our class Teacher is Mrs Wilkinson.
This term, our PE Day is Monday.
Curriculum Overview - Summer 2
Class Novel
Homework
Year 3 started GULP today - Giving up loving pop! Olivia set us the challenge to give up fizzy drinks for the next week. Can we do it? 🥤
Year 3 have been working hard on their construction skills by finishing their Roman topic and making Roman Forts ✂️
Year 3 started their narrative work by reading and performing poems by Paul Cookson. They really enjoyed using their voices for expression 🗣️
Year 3 enjoyed painting Darwen in Summer for the art competition for the Spring Vale Ramblers 🖼️ 🎨
Year 3 planted their beans and are looking forward to watching them germinate 🌱
Year 3 have started their research on the Romans for their fact file
Year 3 held a beautiful liturgy where we remembered the late Pope Francis ❤️
Year 3 really enjoyed the outdoor activities with Brad from Blackburn Rovers.
Year 3 enjoyed a beautiful sunny morning at Forest school with NRG
Year 3 have continued their sculpture work and are now decorating their pieces
Year 3 are enjoying their reading stage of writing a diary by reading The Diary of a Wimpy Kid 📖
Year 3 really enjoyed the cricket roadshow this morning! 🏏
Year 3 are continuing to work on their TT Rockstars times tables💻
Year 3 had fun investigating magnetic and non magnetic objects
Year 3 really enjoyed watching our volcano erupt 🌋 🌋🌋
Year 3 continued designing their 3-D sculptures
Year 3 are enjoying testing each other on this week’s spellings 🖊
Year 3 are improving their scores all the time on TT Rockstars
Year 3 had fun exploring magnetic forces in Science 🧲🧲
Year 3 really enjoyed the changes in surface experiments
Thank you Mark 10 Mission for explaining the meaning of Lent to Year 3
Year 3 were thrilled to see Dan and Emily again this morning for Lent 2025, especially Mrs Wilkinson they sang her favourite hymn too.
Year 3 continued their Sacramental Programme with our Lenten preparation meeting with the support of the school Chaplains
Year 3 enjoyed making 3d sculptures with cardboard this afternoon.
Year 3 are enjoying our new class novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Today we are thinking about questions we would like to ask the Iron Man.
Year 3 had an amazing morning with Aqua Lease Explorers! 🦀🦀🦀 They learnt all about how to look after our Oceans and how to keep themselves safe. They got to meet and hold a variety of sea creatures including a star fish, different types of crabs and a sea urchin whilst learning lots of interesting facts about them.
To finish our topic on rocks and fossils Year 3 had lots of fun being palaeontologist’s!
Year 3 had great fun making s’mores at Forest school
As part of safer internet day Year 3 discussed safety online and what scamming looks like. We also read Tek which was great for our Stone Age Theme.
Year 3 are working hard on their practical understanding of division with remainders.
Year 3 Liturgy leads led a Friday reflection ✝️
Year 3 enjoyed acting out our different scenarios about our emotions 😀🤣😒
Year 3 had a great time at Forest School today making our creatures out of natural materials
Year 3 enjoyed their art lesson on cave hand printing 🖐
RSE work on emotional wellbeing. We discussed what we can do to help ourselves.
Year 3 had an amazing Stone Age day, finished with a super Stone Age assembly!
Using charcoal to make prehistoric art 🎨
Year 3 had lots of fun trying to erode rocks and then test their permeability 🪨 🧪
Year 3 are working hard on their dictionary skills finding definitions in guided reading for our vocabulary jar. 📚
Year 3 Liturgy Leads led a beautiful respond session on our Journey in life. We related to being ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ 💙
Our second Sacramental Programme meeting took place on Tuesday in preparation for our sacrament of Reconciliation. ✝️
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed our Pilgrims of Hope day. We watched Mark 10 and sang along. We talked about the unfairness in the world and the role of CAFOD and then we wrote out our hopes for this year.
The beginning of our Sacramental Programme in Year 3. The children were extremely respectful and ready to continue on their journey!
Year 3 really enjoyed starting their prehistoric art work with Kapow
Studying different rock characteristics
A very muddy Forest School
Stone Age Workshop
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their season with Steven and Harold where we learnt all about the brain, friends and being resilient 🧠👫
Year 3 have enjoyed working in small groups gathering ideas for our new topic on the Stone Age. We have started reading The Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura.
Our first ukulele lesson of 2025! Year 3 were very competitive with the 12 finger race!
Year 3 are becoming 3 Times Table champs with the help of Super Movers!
Having fun in the snow ⛄️ ❄️
We enjoyed starting our computer science topic by using 2 code on Purple Mash 💻
