Year 3

Remote Learning

We have outlined our remote learning procedures during the covid pandemic on this page, following the guidelines set by the government. If there is a need to switch back to remote learning in the future, we will adhere to our Remote Learning policy. We will make sure to review and update it according to the current situation and the lessons we have learned from the previous period of school closure. Rest assured, we will communicate these changes clearly to parents.

Remote Learning Policy

Remote Learning Statement

Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term

Year 3 Autumn 1 - Knowledge mats

What a lovely morning we've had in Year 3! The children have been working on activities that reflect their unique traits and our connections to one another. Their behaviour has been excellent!

In Maths, we have been representing and partitioning numbers to 100. We have used various resources to help us and all our knowledge from Year 2.

In Science, we have started our new topic of Rocks. We have been exploring various types and looking at them through magnifying glasses. We have learnt that rock is always beneath us, as it is earth's crust

Year 3 had a fantastic PE lesson today with Sam! They were all super active and had a blast participating in different activities that got their hearts racing.

Year 3 are this week's Attendance Champions!

This term we have Blackburn Rovers in to teach us Gymnastics. Today we have warmed up by stretching and playing games. Then we used various equipment to balance and jump in different shapes. Well done Year 3!

Today in RE, we're learning about the harvest!

Yesterday we were learning that the Stone Age lasted for approximately 3.4 billion years! We went outside with our base 10 to help us understand how long ago this actually was. The children were amazed! They had a great time exploring the concept of time.

Year 3 have done it again and are the Attendance Champions this week! Well done Year 3. Keep up the great work of coming to school and arriving on time. Same again next week!

In English, we have been preparing for our big write, taking ourselves to different locations and describing what we can see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. Yesterday we went to space. Today we have been deep in the sea. This has been super fun and has given us some great ideas ready for our own stories!

In Computing with Junior Jam, we've been diving deep into the world of songs! We learned about all the different parts that make up a melody, rhythm, and harmony. Then, we teamed up with our partners to create our very own musical masterpieces on the iPad

Using Chromebooks in maths now we are in the juniors.

This afternoon we have been scientists. We have been observing sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks in water to see if they are impermeable or permeable. We have enjoyed experimenting and adding new words to our vocabulary.

In PSHE, we have been learning to co-operate and collaborate. We had the challenge of working with our partners to cut out shapes and use them to create different images. We had to use our oracy to communicate and work as a team.

This week in PE we have warmed up by stretching and playing games. Then we used various equipment to support us with a forward roll. Well done, Year 3!

To celebrate Poetry Week, Yr 2 and Yr 3 pupils have been mixed into groups to participate in various poetic activities. My group activity gave the children the opportunity to watch different types of performance poems and discuss what made them special.

A wonderful morning as part of our poetry week. Mrs Hargreaves has had a great time reading a range of different poetry books in our school library.

This week it has been poetry week! In Years 2 and 3, we have done a variety of workshops. In this session, we learnt all about acrostic poems and had a go at writing our own Autumn one.

We have finished our first class novel this week! We have really enjoyed reading An Alien in the jam factory and we are ready to start our next one.

This week in PE we have warmed up by stretching and playing games. Then we used various equipment to support us with a hand stand. Well done, Year 3!

In Music with Junior Jam, we've been exploring the differences between major and minor keys.

On Friday, Years 1 and 3 went to The Billy Project to deliver the food we collected for harvest. We felt proud that as a school, we were using our school value of love to support people less fortunate than us.

Our Year 3 art project has been a prehistoric adventure! We've mastered new drawing skills, experimented with natural pigments, and recreated the feel of cave walls. Plus, we've worked together to create stunning hand paintings. It has been so much fun!

Yesterday we were archaeologists! We investigated Stone Age poo. We measured it, described it, and took it apart to work out what foods were eaten in the past! We had a lot of fun, even though some of us found it disgusting.

In DT this week we are making seasonal vegetable tarts!

Thank you to all the parents/carers who have already sent their child in with £1 to pay for all the resources used across the week. 

Our first focus in DT week is investigating – 

We have researched on chrome books, explored recipe books, tried various seasonal vegetables and carried out questionnaires around the school

Year 3 DT Week - Investigating

Our end product! We worked super hard on our seasonal vegetable tarts to ensure they met our design criteria. They tasted and looked delicious! We are so proud of our end result. Well done Year 3!

Our next focus in DT week is skills -

We have practised cutting using the bridge and claw methods; we have premade pesto for the base of our tarts with the help of Miss Sprot and finally, we have designed our tarts.

Year 3 DT Week - Skills

Today we have had a visit from a famous poet, Paul Cookson. We enjoyed a whole school assembly, and then we had our session in Year, where he helped us to write a poem all about the Stone Age. We had so much fun!

Today was our final session doing gymnastics with Blackburn Rovers. We practised all the skills we have learnt over the past few weeks. We had two special visitors, Poppy and Tia, who are football players for the women's Blackburn Rovers team! They supported us during the session, and we had the opportunity to ask them questions at the end. What a fabulous way to end our first half term!

Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term

Year 3 Autumn 2 - Knowledge mats

On Monday, we were adding and subtracting multiples of 100 in Maths.

In science our new topic is Forces and Magnets. We started our topic by learning all about contact force. Ask your child to tell you what this is.

In PE, Sam has been teaching us about team sports.

Yesterday, Year 3 started the GULP program with Blackburn Rovers!

This program aims to help children reduce their intake of sugary drinks. Coaches will be using fun activities and games to educate children about the negative impacts of sugary drinks on their health.

In these fantastic sessions, your child will:

Learn about the importance of drinking water and low-fat milk.

Receive a free reusable water bottle.

Be encouraged to give up sugary drinks for 21 days.

By participating in GULP, your child is taking a step towards a healthier future, reducing their risk of dental problems, obesity, and other health issues.

We have begun our non-fiction text in English. We're creating a holiday brochure!

To start we have been looking over a variety of holiday brochures, both on paper and on Chromebooks, in order to plan. We have been identifying the characteristics of this kind of writing and rebuilding the structure of a scattered text

Our new topic is off to fantastic start! At home, ask your children what we know so far!

We have begun our non-fiction text in English. We're creating a holiday brochure!

We are learning to play the samba drums in Music with Junior Jam.

In our GULP session yesterday we discussed how fizzy drinks may impact our teeth. We have done an experiment as we have put eggs in water, orange juice and coca cola. We are going to observe them over the next few weeks to see what effect the drinks have on the shell just like they would our teeth.

GULP session 2

We have finished our second class novel this week! We have really enjoyed reading Planet Omar accidental trouble magnet and we are ready to start our next one.

Today in Year 3, we have been very lucky to have the opportunity to use a smoothie bike. We made 3 smoothies and all had a turn riding the bike. We tasted them all and they were delicious! This helped us to remember that we should be eating 5 a day and staying healthy.

Today in Year 3, we have been very lucky to have the opportunity to use a smoothie bike!

In Science, we have been learning all about forces and resistance. This week we did an experiment to find out which material had the most resistance and slowed the car down. We had some interesting results and we enjoyed experimenting.

In Geography, we have started our new topic of Volcanoes and Earthquakes. In today's lesson, we have recapped continents and oceans, as this will link closely with what we are going to be learning. The children did a great job of recalling them.

Continuing to work on our dodgeball skills in PE with Sam.

Pantomime time! The children can't wait for it to start.

Sebastian busy making Christmas crafts whilst singing Christmas songs, with a very happy Mrs Jones.

Friday's snowball disco. All the children enjoyed themselves that much that we forgot to take pictures as we were too busy dancing!

What a great day we have had! It’s starting to feel very festive

Thank you to all the parents and carers who joined us in Year 3 for our Christmas Craft! It was wonderful to see everyone having fun and getting creative. We had the best time!

This afternoon, we have had our Christmas party! We played games and listened to music, it was so much fun!

For the 4th time… Year 3 have done it AGAIN and are the Attendance Champions this week! Well done Year 3. Keep up the great work of coming to school and arriving on time!

Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term

Year 3 Spring 1 - Knowledge mats

Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term

Year 3 Spring 2 - Knowledge mats

Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term

Year 3 Summer 1 - Knowledge mats

Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term

Year 3 Timetable: /files/Timetable_Y3_2024_(1).pdf

Year 3 Summer 2 - Knowledge mats

Autumn 1

We are working hard in English this morning. We have just started the book ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hug.

English

Enjoying our lessons with Junior Jam this morning.

We had a fantastic morning using LEGO. We built a shelter using LEGO then programmed a light and alarm to go off.

LEGO

To celebrate Black History month we have been finding out about black British sporting heroes.

Black History Month

In our Art lesson this afternoon we have been creating pictures based on the work of Howard Hodgkin and Anthony Frost. We have used our oracy skills to discuss our pictures and talk like an artist.

Art

We really work like the juniors now!

LBQ with Mrs Harrison

We have made shadow puppets in Science this afternoon and have investigated what happens to the size of the shadow as we get closer to the light source.

Science

Autumn 2

We have enjoyed mark making using string in our Art lesson this afternoon.

Mark Making

We have enjoyed tie dyeing in our Art lesson today.

Tie Dyeing

DT Week

This morning as part of DT Week we have been finding out about where our food comes from.

Where our food comes from

DT Week continued. Designing and building fairground rides.

We had a fantastic afternoon making toasties.

Christmas Crafts in Year 3

Year 3 and Year 4's Christmas Party!

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Spring 1

This morning, Bruce visited school along with Tyson and Eric to start our new English unit of work. We thought about how dogs view our world and observed them eating and playing. We had a fantastic morning. Ask your child all about it!

Very special guests!

In maths we have been looking at grouping and sharing.

Gymnastics with Blackburn Rovers

We enjoyed our lunchtime Lego club today with Mrs. Harrison. We built a Lego seesaw and used coding to make it move up and down.

Lego Club 25.01.23

Another week of Lego club at lunch!

Thank you to two of our pupils for sharing some Ancient Egyptian artefacts and bringing in a book from home. The class enjoyed learning more about Ancient Egypt and hearing some new facts! 

Ancient Egypt

A few action shots from tonight’s athletics. We didn’t win but we all tried our best and showed great sportsmanship. Well done year 3 and 4!

A few action shots from tonight’s athletics.

Number Fun Day 2023

We are learning how to multiply a 2-digit by a 1-digit number in Maths.

In Science this afternoon, we have enjoyed making our own skeletons and finding out that we need them for support, protection and to help us move.

Science 06.02.23

This week is Children's Mental Health week and the focus is on connecting with others. In our PSHE lesson today we played 'Let's Connect Bingo' to find out more about the other children in our class.

PSHE 07.02.23

Blakewater enjoying their winner's treat from Ninja Coffee!

Year 3's Ancient Egypt trip to Bolton Museum. What an amazing day!

Spring 2

We have enjoyed World Book Day today. It was fun to have crazy hair for the day :)

Crazy hair for World Book Day- Year 3

We enjoyed taking part in different activities today.

In our Art lessons we have been studying the artist Paul Klee and created our own pictures based on his work.

Paul Clee - Year 3

We have had a great start to Science week today.  We really enjoyed the floating ghosts experiment.

Science Week in Year 3 - Floating Ghosts!

Ask us how the experiment works :)

Science Week in Year 3 - Grow a Rainbow

Today, Charlotte from Elektec came to talk to us about electricity and construction. It gave us lots of ideas and made us think about what we want to be when we grow up.

Charlotte from Elektec

Today we made DIY lava lamps as part of Science week.

DT week: We have enjoyed making our prototype for our shaduf today :)

We made our shadufs today.

We had a fantastic trip to Blackburn Cathedral yesterday.

We acted out the events of Holy Week.

We also enjoyed the craft activities and making our own crosses.

Last few photographs of our trip.

Summer 1

In maths this morning, Year 3 have been working on fractions. It was lots of fun!

Play time was fantastic with all of the new things we now have to play with :)

Yesterday, as part of our history topic, we went for a walk along part of the Leeds Liverpool canal and compared pictures of what it was like over a hundred years ago with now. We also used our Geography skills of map reading and identified the lock and aqueduct.

We enjoyed our coronation activities this afternoon.

This morning we had a visitor from the Rivers and Canals Trust to talk to us about the Leeds Liverpool canal as we have been learning about this in our history lessons. Katie talked to us about when and why the canal was built. We also made a model of the canal and the mills along it.

Summer 2

In maths this morning we have been finding unit fractions of objects.

We have enjoyed playing dodgeball in our final GULP session with Blackburn Rovers.

DT Week

Structures - /Shell frame

Structures and strengthening

Bridges - Local Area

We have enjoyed creating our bridge prototypes using pasta and masking tape. We discussed which parts worked well and which parts we need to improve in order to make the bridge stronger.

We have really enjoyed making our bridges for our DT project.

Our finished bridges.

On Wednesday we brightened up many people’s afternoons by sharing random acts of kindness.

Autumn 1

Today in English we had an experience day. Nala (Mrs Harrison's dog) came to see year 3. We thought about how Nala was moving, how she was feeling and what she could hear and see.

Today in maths we have been using equipment to represent numbers up to 1000.

This afternoon in PSHE we have been interviewing our friends to find out how we can look after our special people.

This afternoon in maths we have been using equipment to partition numbers in different ways.

In English we have been writing our own versions of the story feast. Today we have been editing using our purple pens.

In science today we have been learning about shadows. We have made our own shadow puppets!

Investigating how we can change the size of shadows. Ask us what we found out.

Today we finished our first class novel 'Planet Omar'. We really enjoyed it! We are excited to read the next one in the series later on in year 3.

During our experience day today we have thought about how our comfort toys would help us to feel safer when we are frightened just like Lucy's pig puppet.

In science today we have been finding out what happens to shadows when we move the light source to different angles.

Today in PSHE we have been discussing our different opinions on a range of topics. We have learnt that people can have different opinions and still be friends.

This afternoon in art we are using viewfinders to pinpoint different parts of a pattern.

Today in English we have had an experience day. We had a spooky wolf party. Ask us all about it!

This afternoon we have completed our first challenge for Oracy October. Ask us what we would do/say when we meet someone for the first time.

This morning we have tasted different fruits and vegetables to decide which ones we would like to use on our tarts.

Making our tarts this morning.

Our delicious tarts!

Evaluating our tarts.

We have really enjoyed making tarts this week for D.T week. Well done to all of you for trying new foods and developing your own tart recipe.

Today we have been historians and thought about what the Stonehenge may have been used for. We have really thought about how we can use evidence to support our reasoning. Ask us what we explained.

Autumn 2

This morning in maths we have been using equipment to add across the tens.

Today in R.E we have thought about the presence of Jesus in our lives. We have recapped the nativity story and talked about when Jesus was born and how his presence was felt then and is still felt now.

This afternoon in Art we have been mixing colours to see what colours we can make.

In science we have been testing the hardness of rocks and then we have used the the Mohs scale to rate the hardness.

Measuring in cm and mm from Friday

Today in maths we have been dividing into groups of 2.

Today we have been learning how to write code, to make the robot move, using the Sphero app with Junior Jam.

Spring 1

In English today we have been thinking about the horror of falling off a boat. We have used freeze frames to show how our bodies and faces would show how we would act and feel.

Year 3 showing excellent enthusiasm putting together a dance routine.

Year 3 are looking at the effects sugary drinks have on there bodies with Brad from Blackburn Rovers. They have been challenged to cut back on sugary drinks and drink more water or milk for 21 days.

Today in science we have been making muscle models to help us explain how muscles work. Ask us all about it!

Spring 2

Turning shapes through angles in maths today. Ask us about them when we get home.

Today in English we have started our next unit on instructions we have been matching features of the text to the shape.

This afternoon we started our new history topic 'Ancient Egypt'. We have been fact hunting around our classroom. Ask us what we have found out.

Experimenting with a roller in art.

Enjoying our first Gymnastics lesson with Ria.

This afternoon we have re-enacted the story of Jim and the Beanstalk.

World Book Day with year 3!!

Summer 1

This afternoon in PE with Sam, the children focused on practising forward throws, bounce throws, and dribbling skills. They all worked incredibly hard!

Music with Junior Jam. We are learning to play the steel pan drums.

In Science, we are focusing on Forces and Magnets. This week, we have been conducting experiments to understand why different surfaces have an impact on the movement of objects. Ask your child/ren what they found out.

This morning with Junior Jam.

Started our day with Spanish with Junior Jam.

Then drumming in our Music lesson

Now we are recording our podcasts in Computing.

Last Friday in PE, we were continuing to work on our catching and throwing abilities. The children also had the chance to observe their classmates and offer constructive feedback on ways to enhance their skills.

Our Year 3s are so fortunate as they have visited Blackburn Rovers today. The children got to explore the changing rooms, walk through the tunnel, and even play on the pitch. It was amazing!

This morning, we had a visit from Deaf Village. They taught us how to use sign language and answered any questions the children had. It was very informative. Ask your child/ren to show you what they have learnt.

This afternoon, we have been on a local walk to Mill Hill Train Station. The children learnt that the railways are used to transport goods and we spoke about the changes through the years. A freight train even came past.

We’ve been on LBQ this afternoon.

Thank you to Katie from the Canal and River Trust for visiting our school today. Katie shared the fascinating story of how the canal came to be, followed by a walk to the nearby canal where we met David, the lock keeper. David talked to us all about locks and even demonstrated how they work by opening one up. 

Ask your child what interesting facts they learned today!

Yesterday, we finished our latest novel ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children thoroughly enjoyed it. I wonder what our next novel will be?!

Dodgeball fun in PE

Summer 2

LBQ time

In PE we are working on our athletics skills.

Pizza making with Aspens

Earlier today, we had an exciting English experience lesson where we visited Mill Hill Library. We explored the world of new and old books and spoke about how books can take us to places we have never been before.

On the way back from the library, Year 3 spotted Mill Hill Park covered in litter. We came back in the afternoon with gloves, litter pickers, and bin bags. The children worked hard and managed to fill up 5 bags with rubbish! The park looks so much better.

Year 3 absolutely loved glow in the dark dodgeball yesterday!

VR Experience workshop

Y3 are having a lovely time in Y4 for transition day.

This afternoon in Science, we have made a compass using a magnet, water, sponge and a paper clip.