Year 3 Blog

This week, Year 3 have been working on Time. In Year 3 we are expected to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24- hour clocks.

This is a very tricky part of Maths but we are all trying really hard. Practise at home on …

Now we are in Year 3, our sign that it is nearly Easter is to remember to make a decorated egg for the Key Stage 2 Egg Decorating Competition, which takes place on Wednesday. Get your thinking caps on to come up with a really good idea! Hopefully we'll have a really good display of eggs again this…

We have had great fun this week investigating lots of exciting things.  Our favourite experiment was called 'Walking Water' in which we found out about capillary action.

As I mentioned to parents on Parents' Evening, I have now added High Frequency Word Lists to the Year 3 Information Page.  These are words that every child in Year 3 is expected to be able to read and spell correctly. Please have a look at them and check which ones you can practise with your child…

We have had a wonderful 10 weeks of Swimming Lessons at Farnworth Pool. We have really enjoyed ourselves and today we played on the floats and water toys at the end of our lesson!

Remember that there is the opportunity for those children who have not yet swum 25 metres in the big pool unaided…

Some of the exciting things that we will be getting up to this week include making a zipline for toys, shrinking eggs and making water walk.

Hope you all liked the  Mothering Sunday cards we made!

We have begun our new PE Unit - Street Dance. As you can see we are all having a great time!

We are all trying really hard with our swimming. We know it is very important to learn how to swim and we are very lucky to be offered the chance to take part in a four day intensive lesson programme for only £8 during the Easter holidays. This is open to any child in Year 3 who is still…

We wrote letters to each other just like the letter Beatrix Potter wrote to Noel Moore, the little boy who was ill. We took these home last week - hope Mums and Dads enjoyed looking at them too!