Week ending 12th September 2025
Hello Year Three,
We have had a busy week!
We are working on place value in our maths lessons.
For English the children have enjoyed reading 'The BFG' and carrying out work associated to this wonderful story. We have a dream jar in the classroom and the children have used crystals to ask for special dreams! They have used noun phrases in their writing and identified the difference between nouns and proper nouns.
We began our science project on humans and other animals and they can recognise the difference between vertebrate and invertebrates.
Geography was a huge hit! They love discovering facts about volcanoes! They learned about the different layers of planet Earth.
For RE the children learned the signs and symbols used in Christianity and Hinduism. We will be spending a day at a Hindu Temple in a few weeks and they are very excited!
We had our first Spanish lesson today as the children learned different greetings in Spanish.
This afternoon the children had a music lesson and PHSE. We talked about difficult feelings and it was great to hear so many verbalise how they feel and how their bodies feel when experiencing different emotions.
We finished the day with a fun African dancing which they loved!
NEXT WEEK
Maths
We will continue to learn place value.
English
The children will be working on comprehension and how to use similes to enhance their descriptive writing. They will be discovering different 'shun' words and how to spell them, such as 'station, magician and comprehension.'
Science
We will explore the human skeleton.
Geography
As we continue with our project on Volcanoes we will learn about the planet's tectonic plates.
Art
We will begin our art lessons by drawing and defining our skills. We will begin with a still life drawing.
Computing
We will explore digital devices and how they accept inputs and produce outputs
Spellings
BFGs
eight
eighth
eighty
weight
neighbour
vein
veil
beige
sleigh
freight
Sunshine Group
night
sight
might
eight
nose
chin
kept
book
took
look
The children will bring a practise sheet home to work on these spellings.
Half Term Project - 500 Words - Due in w/c 20th October 2025
500 Words Challenge
I would like all Year 3 children to enter the BBC's 500 Words Challenge. All children need to do is write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or less. Spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - it's all about creativity!
50 finalists will be invited to a star-studded grand final in February 2026, which will be supported by Her Majesty The Queen. If that's not enough, each winner will also see their story be read aloud by a superstar celebrity on TV, which will be shown as part of a special 500 Words programme with The One Show. The official panel of celebrity judges, Sir Lenny Henry, Malorie Blackman, Francesca Simon, Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell-Boyce will crown the winners.
There are also lots of prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners also win 500 books for their school library. In addition to the book prizes, each of our winning stories will receive a framed illustrated cover produced exclusively by top children's illustrators.
Children can only submit one story each. There are very few rules on 500 Words but a few points to remember:
All the stories must:
- Be 500 words or less (title is not included in the number)
- Be written by an individual and not a group
- Be a child’s own original idea
- Be prose, not rap or poem
Stories must not:
- Give any personal details of the child, including their name
- Recount an historical event (but they can use a real person or historical character as a source of inspiration)
- Be created, written or developed by AI
In every 500 Words competition, all stories are judged on the following criteria:
- Characterisation
- Plot
- Originality
- Language
- Enjoyment
I hope you all enjoy the 'Friday Fun Day!'
Many thanks
Ms Davis
