Hello,

We hope you have all had a great week so far.

This week, Year Three have been very busy across their curricular learning! In English, the children have published and evaluated their slave diary entries. Both classes showed excellent collaboration when they colour-coded their work and then shared with a partner for ‘2 stars and a wish’ (i.e. two successes and one suggestion for improvement). Towards the end of the week, Year Three were given a non-fiction Roman text and participated in the challenge of correcting any spelling and punctuation errors. It was fantastic to see the children using their thesauruses independently, as a means of locating more powerful adjectives that those provided to them. Well done Year Three, an example of great critical thinking!

In Maths, the children have continued to work upon multiplication and division. In particular, they have enjoyed tricky mastery and reasoning tasks including scaling problems. Both classes also worked in pairs, to interpret a set of word problems before categorising them as Multiplication or Division questions. The children used a wide range of methods in order to solve them, before comparing which method was the most efficient. After half term, we look forward to learning about Addition and Subtraction in the context of statistics and data.

During our Science unit, we have enjoyed planning our own ‘plant growth’ investigations. Each group chose a variable to test and then worked together to monitor their results whilst ensuring all other variables remained constant. Afterwards, we then discussed ‘fair testing’ and the children were given an opportunity to explain whether or not they felt they had conducted a fair test. Please see the photos below…

We would like to thank Mrs Sumba for all of the support she has provided in Hippo class across the Autumn and Spring terms. She will be missed by all of the children and the Year 3 team – we hope to see her again at St Peter’s sometime in the future! We would also like to welcome back Mrs Stewart, who has recently returned from maternity leave. The children look forward to seeing her in the classroom across the Summer terms.

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and look forward to seeing you again soon,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Luter, Mrs Sumba and Mrs Stewart.