“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Year 3 have had a wonderful start to their new school year and are enjoying being back together. Take a look below at what we have been learning about in our first term…
Maths
In our first half term we have been working on place value. We have learnt about 3 digit numbers going up to 1000 and improved our knowledge of thousands, hundreds, tens and ones by playing games such as: roll it, draw it!
English
Our class text this half term was ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs’. The children loved reading this book and its clever twist on a classic! The children interacted with this book in lots of different ways, eventually writing their own version, such as the three bunnies and the fox.
RE
Our first unit of RE was spent looking at the sacraments. We started this off by learning the first sacrament, Baptism. The children were lucky to be able to visit the church, where Deacon Pat helped them to act out a baptism on one of the school dolls. The children took on all of the roles bringing their learning to life. We finished this off by creating a non-fiction book on Baptism for our class library!
Design Technology
The children worked with Mrs Breakwell to investigate bags and how they are constructed, in particular ‘bendy bags’ and their purpose. They then designed, made and evaluated their own bendy bags. Lots of great opportunities to develop their sewing and construction skills.
Geography
In Geography we took a local focus, as part of building up the children’s knowledge and understanding of place, by starting with somewhere familiar to them. In early years the children start by thinking about the school and its site and this focus then widens out as they go up the school, with the children in Year 6 focussing their local study on Worcester.
Year 3 investigated Wyre Piddle, its location in relation to Pershore, and a comparison of its human and geographical features. A vital element of this learning was a field trip, to see what it is like to be in that place and to make observations of what they found there.