Welcome to the Year 3 Class Page 2024-2025

Class Teacher: Mrs  A Attridge

Teaching Assistant: Mrs E Humphreys

Friday 4th July 2025

After what was a very hot start to the week we finally started our new Geography topic of Rainforests! We learnt where they were, What the weather was like and where the equator is and how the climate is very much constant throughout the year. We researched the weather in different rainforest and gave a weather report in true BBC Weather presenter style to the whole class. 

We also joined other schools in the Broxbourne Area for a live online assembly on Online Safety. Year 3 were not fooled by any of the online scams!. Well done Year 3. 

27th June 2025 - World Market Day

This week we have been very busy getting ready for World Market Day. Our Class were representing Belgium. What is Belgium famous for I hear you ask! Well It's Chocolate, Beer and Waffles!! So we made our own Belgium chocolates by combining white and milk chocolate in seashell moulds like the famous ones you can buy! We also bought waffles which we served with cream and sauce. We made all the price labels and flags to decorate our stall. Unfortunately we did not get any beer for our stall!!

We also started an amazing new book in English called Future Hero by Remi Blackwood. This was to insprire us to write our own adventure stories in the final few weeks left of Year 3!

20th June 2025 - Sports Week

What a fun time we have had for National Sports Week. Despite the extreme heat this week Year 3 have taken part in our Sports Carousel on Thursday as well as practicing on Tuesday Monday morning. Pictures for Sports Day can be seen in the latest news section of the website. So please take a look! We also had a fun PE lesson on Tuesday of rounders and kick rounders. We even had a sports day themed comprehenson in English today. We were also very excited to hear all out our upcoming end of term trip to The Paddington Bear Experience in London. Please see the letter above for more details. As a alternative to Sports day on Thursday afternoon we cooled down by watching the film adaptation of Charlotte's Web. We all loved the book so much and lots of discussion was had afterwards of how the film and the book compared. 

Next week we will be busy getting ready for World Market Day next Friday. Year 3 have picked Belguim as our country so make some room for Begium waffles and Belguim Chocolates!

28th March 2025

A busy week of rehearsing our show ready to perform next week, its all starting to come together! We also had a visit from Sublime Science on Tuesday, who wowed us with his experiments in our class session and then the larger show on the field at the end of the day. We have also been busy with our English and Maths assessments as part of assessment week. We finished off the week by writing up our letters to TV presenter and author Stephen Mulhern as we wanted to let him know how much we have enjoyed his books and want to know when to expect book number 4 in the series of Max Magic!

21st March 2025

Another busy week in Yr3. We have been finishing our personal narrative writing this week ready to publish as a book for our book corner. We have also been perfecting our skills in measuring in centimeters and millimeters in our new maths topic. We have also been looking at what makes a good design for food packets in D&T ready to design our own packets for Easter Cakes. Year 3 have been asked to research what makes a good box for Easter cakes as part of their homework this week. In the afternoons we have alo been busy rehearing for our Easter Show with Year 4 called The Tale of Three Trees. We cannot wait to share it with you! 

31st January 2025

This week in Art we have been studying water colour techniques. We looked at the work of Claude Monet and used the technique of wax relief to create our own versions his famous painting Water lillies. Once they are on display, I will add a photo to show their masterpieces. 

24th January 2025 

This week in science we had lots of fun testing out the effects of friction. We sent cars down ramps covered with different surfaces to see which one travelled the furthest. We made predictions before we carried out our tests in small groups. 

17th January 2025

In P.E this week we completed fitness circuits. We really enjoyed the boxing. 

18th October 2024

What a busy week we have had in Year 3 this week! We started off the week with a fabulous coding lesson, then on Tuesday we finished our Design Technology unit by making our Stone Age clay pots. On Wednesday we made our South African Apple Cake for our diversity afternoon and finally today we have had a wonderful Samba lesson and then we returned to class to find out that we had won the attendance cup with 100% attendance!

Well Done Year 3 we  are so proud of you!

Mrs Attridge & Miss Spears. 

This week in DT we made our own paint stone age style! We used rocks (rolling pins) to crush up our coloured rocks (chalk) and charcol to mix with water and use to paint our clay tiles that we made two weeks ago. We will then use these skills to decorate our clay pots when we make them. We then used the spare paint to make our own paintings. 

13th September 2024

This week year three have been very busy getting to know all thier new topics for the term.

A few reminders 

PE kits should be in school for our lessons on Tuesday and Thursday.

No earrings should be worn on these days. A jumper or joggers would be good as the weather gets colder. 

Spelling Tests will be on Thursday with new spellings and homework also given out this day. 

Meet the Teacher for Year 3 is on Tuesday at 9.00 in the school hall.

It will be wonderful to see as many of you as possible.

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Archive Yr 3 2023-2024

Week 5

This week Year 3 took a class trip to Frameless Multi-Sensory Art Exhibition. it was an interactive art exhibition which allowed us to think creatively about the different types of painting portrayed. 

Week 4 

This week in Geography Year 3 have been learning about deserts. We startd by labelling the different deserts on a map then analyzing the different climates in the desert. 

Week 3

On Tuesday Four Swannes had their Sports Day. Well done to all students who participated in Sports Day and thank you to parents for attending our Sports Day!

16.05.2024

This week in English Year 3 learnt about imperative verbs and how to use them to make our sentences more interesting. Year 3 have also enjoyed learning Time as our new topic in Maths this term.

9.05.24

This week Year 3 have started reading a new book for our English topic. Our new book this week is called George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. Year 3 had fun reading the first chapter together and prediciting what the next chapter of the story was going to be. We had also drawn a picture of what our predictions would look like.

21.03.24

Year 3 has been practicing really hard for our Easter play this week and are really excited to show our parents our performance. We look forward to seeing you on the 27th at 2.15pm!

Welcome To Year 3

We hope you enjoy seeing our fantastic learning in Year 3!

Class Teacher: Miss Rasa

Teaching Assistant: Miss Spears

3.11.23

Welcome back after the half term, I hope everyone had a lovely break. This week, in Geography Year 3 looked at the different countries in the United Kingdom and learned to use an Atlas. We then learned to label a map using the Atlas to help us.

18.10.23

This half term we were learning the song Let Your Spirit Fly. We had fun putting in actions to match the lyrics that we were singing.

13.10.23

This week for History we are looking at the topic of Anglo Saxons and Scots so in Art we had a go at designing our own brooches while taking inspiration from how the Anglo Saxons used to design their brooches. We had a lovely time looking at the different colours and shapes our brooches could be.

28.09.23

This week for Science Year 3 has been looking at the different food groups and why it is important to have a healthy diet. We then sorted the different foods into their respective food groups.

21.09.23

This week Year 3 was able to have the opportunity to watch the Canoe Slalom World Championships at Lee Valley White Water Centre. It was a very exciting day and Year 3 had an amazing time watching the different competitions taking place.

15.09.23

This week for English, we are looking at Fables in particular the story of War and Peas by Michael Foreman. We have enjoyed reading the story as well as learning what are fables. Year 3 has also done an amazing job with including different conjunctions in their writing.

20.7.23 : Last day of term!

Thanks for all your hard work this year, Year 3 : you've been fantastic! Have a great summer, love from Ms. Steel and Mrs. Cunningham

23.06.23 Well done Year 3 for the excellent effort you made at Sports Day this week. You were really supportive of one another and all made a great effort. Great job!

9.6.23 Year 3 have had a great first week back and in English, we've been looking at the poetry of Joseph Coelho. The children were challenged to write a poem about emotions and came up with brilliant similes such as : 'when I'm angry, my hands scrunch like a paper ball' and 'when I'm excited, my fingers are like a slide tingling down my arm' and 'when I'm angry, my tummy boils like a kettle'. Great work Year 3!

31.03.23

Thank you once more for all your hard work this term Year 3! You've done brilliantly and really pushed yourselves to achieve : we're so proud of you! Have a lovely Easter break and we'll see you again soon. 

from Ms. Steel and Mrs. Cunningham

24.2.23

Year 3 had the opportunity to work on their handwriting this week for a national competition. They had to copy out a poem onto unlined paper, focusing on their joins, letter sizes and overall presentation. Fingers crossed!

Thanks for all of your hard work this half term Year 3! Just one more day of the week to go and then you get a well earned rest. You've worked really hard and definitely deserve a break. Make sure you find plenty of time to relax and we'll see you again soon!

Ms. Steel and Mrs. Cunningham

Year 3 have been working really hard this week on their assessments and rehearsing for their production next week. Well done Year 3!

~~ Welcome to a new school year! ~~

10.6.22

Even though it has been a shorter week the children have been very busy.  In English we have been looking at the rules for using apostrophes. We remember that we don't use apostrophes for plurals.    In Maths we are looking at multiplication by ten.   Our new topic for science is light. So we had a great investigation that helped us understand that we can't see objects without light.  We have also danced to music, had PE with Mrs Alcock and recapped our Spanish musical instruments! Busy busy busy!

Welcome To Year 3!

We hope you enjoy seeing our fantastic learning in year 3!

Class Teacher: Mrs V Emsley

Teaching Assistant: Mrs S Dhanjal

Year 3 and 4 are busy preparing for our Christmas performance

We really enjoyed our trip to the Natural History Museum. We learned so much that fits in with our science topic.  We saw and named bones. We compared dinosaur and mammal bones with our own bones. We also had a workshop where we "dived" down to 3000m to see what life is like underwater. Please enjoy the photos- sometimes the quality is not so good because it was dark.

What an exciting half term we have had. We have had some wonderful experiences recently.  Black history month was  a great success, we had lots of visitors to the school and we learned about their lives.  We also had an RE day which was fun too. Below you can see just some of the things we have been up to.

Today is RE day. Year 3 are having a fantastic time learning all about Harvest Festival and the Sikh festival of Bandi Chhor Divas.   

We had a visit from Kerry from the North London Foodbank. She helped us understand what the foodbank does and how we can help. We are hoping to collect lots of food to donate to them as part of our Harvest Festival.

It's been a busy and exciting beginning to the term in year 3. Please enjoy some pictures that show some of the things we have been up to.

As a whole school we are focussing on reading this term.  Mrs Dhanjal has created a beautiful reading corner for us.  We read in the reading corner every day because we know just how important it is to hear good reading.

We had an exciting visit from an engineer who gave us a science workshop. We learned about the importance using renewable energy sources. We even had a go at making our own wind turbines, this took a lot of team work and concentration. Well done year 3!

As part of our RE curriculum KS2 went to visit the North Enfield Foodbank.  The children toured the warehouse, were awed by the stock and had a chance to create food parcels for those in need.  They learnt why the Christians who run Foodbank feel it is important to care for those around them.

Activity day

We had a great time on Spanish day.  As you can see we learnt to speak and write more spanish words, we learnt some Flamenco dancing and created Spanish food and drink. Most of us thought it was delicious

Year 3 have been busy planting seeds and comparing plants to enhance our science learning this term. 

Learning from home

From today, I will not be posting weekly activities that you can do at home. If you go to the home learning page on the school website, there are home learning resources that are really beneficial for the children to be using instead. I will also be adding activities for pupils to complete on Purple Mash.