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Welcome to
Park Spring Primary School

‘Achieving Together ● Inspired To Be Successful’

Year 3

Welcome to Year 3!

To get in touch with the Year 3 team, email:

year3@parkspringprimary.co.uk

3A

Teacher– Miss Hartley

Teaching assistant– Mrs Patrascu and Miss Bowes

3B

Teacher– Miss Wright

Teaching assistant – Miss Owen, Mrs Croft, Miss Croft

 

Important dates

Home Learning: Sent home on a Monday to be completed by the following Monday.

Reading records: Hand in on Mondays, children need to have read x4 times.

PE: Monday and Thursday, children to wear PE uniform on these days.

Spelling test: Friday

Multiplication tables: 2, 5, 10 and 3s this term

 

Useful links

TT Rockstars

Hit the Button (Multiplication game)

Mathletics

Reading Eggs

 

Home Learning:

Sent home weekly on a Monday to be handed in the following Monday. A mix of reading comprehension, spelling practice and maths fluency questions.

What are we learning about this year?

Year Group 3 Curriculum Maps (LTP and topic themes)

2024/2025

Spring 1

Here are our Knowledge Organisers for Spring 1:

For our Geography topic, we are learning about the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

For our PSHE topic, we are learning about keeping safe and how to stop bullying from happening. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

For our Science topic, we are learning about our bodies and how to look after our nutrition/ diets. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

Our author of the half term is Joseph Coelho.

Our class reader this half term is ‘Please Mrs Butler’ by Allan Ahlberg.

Week 1

Year 3 had their first forest school session on Wednesday. They enjoyed building a shelter together and playing in the snow. At the end of the session they sat around the fire. They learnt about the rules of looking after ourselves, each other and the world.

Week 2

 

 

Week 3

 

 

Week 4

In science, we have been learning about the 5 key food groups. We discussed what foods we had eaten in a day and which groups they would belong to and have studied the nutritional labels on packaging.
This week in English, we have been writing our own school themed poems inspired by the work of Allan Ahlberg. We studied and came up with our own ideas for repeating phrases and rhyming couplets.
In PSHE, our topic has been all about bullying. We discussed what bullying is, what it might look like, how it can affect people and how best we should respond. The children filled an outline of a person with how a victim might feel if they were bullied and created a ‘goodwill heart’ to show how they can positively support others.

Week 5

This week, Year 3 started their new Music topic learning about rhythm, dynamics and structure of a piece of music. The children had the opportunity to get involved and make up their own body percussion patterns as well as clapping out their names and seeing how many syllables they have.

Week 6

 

Autumn 2 

Here are our Knowledge Organisers for Autumn 2:

For our DT topic, we are learning about digital sketching. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

 

For our RE topic, we are learning about spirituality. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

For our PSHE topic, we are learning about healthy eating and looking after our physical health. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

Our Author of the Half Term is Phillip Pullman.

Our class reader this half term is ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. 

Week 1

Year 3 have had a great first week back after October half term. On Tuesday, we had a special visit from Dave at D Side who spoke to the children about the importance of being safe online. The children enjoyed class discussions about what is okay to share online and what to keep private.

Week 2 

Year 3 had a great day celebrating children in need. Lots of the children went all out in their dressing up and Mr Hansen told the children what the money that they had raised would go to. Well done Year 3!

Week 3 

Year 3 have been busy practising for their drumming performance that is in two weeks time and parents are invited to come along. Mr G has taught the children a variety of different rhythms on the djembe drums and they got to try their own solos too, making up their own melody.

Well Done to all the Year 3 children for trying their best and we can’t wait to hear the performances on the 9th of December.

Week 4

Year 3 have kicked off their advent calendar this week ready for the 1st of December. Today’s task was all about dreaming big whether that’s driving a nice car, achieving your dream job or travelling and exploring a new country. The children loved thinking about the future and had fun drawing what they see in their future.

Here are some examples below:

Week 5

This week, Year 3 had the opportunity to visit a synagogue as part of our RE topic this term. The children had a tour round the synagogue, looked at important items that you might find in a synagogue and got to ask lots of questions to improve their knowledge further.

Here are some pictures from our visit:

Week 6

On Monday this week, Year 3 had to chance to show off their learning in their drumming lessons with Mr G. Parents were invited to see their performances and they received some big rounds of applause’s.  Well Done Year 3!

Here are some pictures below from their performance:

Week 7

Year 3 have got into the Christmas spirit this week with making their own Christmas cards and calendars for 2025. They had the opportunity to use their creativity skills too and produced some lovely, colourful pieces of work.

Autumn 1

Here are our Knowledge Organisers for Autumn 1:

For our History topic, we are learning about The Stone Age. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

For our Art topic, we are learning about who were the first artists. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

For our  Geography topic, we are learning about the countries in Europe. Here is our knowledge organiser for this topic:

Our author of the half term is Roald Dahl.

Our Class reader this half term is ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter.

Week 1

We have had a great first week at Year 3. We have been learning more about this term’s topic of ‘The Stone Age’ and learning about what life was like 10,000 years ago. We discovered that it is very different to how we live today.

We have been reading Stone Age Boy- a story about a boy who falls into a cave and wakes up in the Stone Age.  He meets strange people and learns about their lives.

Week 2

This week, Year 3 got the opportunity to go on a problem solving and exciting trip to Nell Bank. The children were tested on their team-working skills, problem solving and resilience. It was great to see the children working together and having fun.

Thank you so much to our parent volunteers who came on the trip, it is very much appreciated.

Week 3

This week, Park Spring celebrated their 60th anniversary. Year 3 had an amazing time learning about what life was like in the 60’s, specifically what kind of television programmes they used to watch.

We even got to dress up as characters from the film ‘Mary Poppins’ as the film came out in 1964.

Week 4

This week, Year 3 had the opportunity to go the polling station to vote for our student councilors for 24/25. The children had their ballot papers and got to choose their winner.

Thank you to all of the candidates who put themselves forward and well done to our winners.

Week 5

This week, Year 3 had the opportunity to learn a new song in their singing assembly. This particular song was a well-known favourite from the movie ‘Grease’. We go together…

Week 6

On Thursday 10th of October, we celebrated World Mental Health Day and got to wear an item of yellow. In Year 3, we had class discussions about why our mental health is as important as our physical health and what to do to look after our mental health.

We also did some mindfulness colouring which the children thoroughly enjoyed.

Week 7 

On Tuesday 15th October this week, Park Spring had a Commando Joes celebration day. Commando Joes is a lesson we have each week where the children have the opportunity to participate in problem solving and team building activities. An instructor came in and all Year 3 had a great lesson and participated well, showing great teamwork skills.

Week 8

This week, we learned more about our Stone Age topic by learning about a place called Star Carr. Star Carr is a place from the Mesolithic Stone Age that archaeologists today use to learn about what happened all those years ago. The children learnt that at Star Carr, there were lots of items left from the Stone Age such as fossils, antler masks and tools.

Here are some examples of the children’s learning:

 

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