Meet the Year 3 Team
Year 3 Teachers
Miss Hunt
Year 3 Class Teacher
Mrs Egan
Teaching Assistant/Deputy Midday Supervisor
Miss Hunt
Year 3 Class Teacher
Mrs Egan
Teaching Assistant/Deputy Midday Supervisor
Welcome to year 3! It is your first year as a junior. We are as excited as you to experience a year filled with great projects and experiences. Please keep checking our class pages for important updates, messages and pictures.
Homework
Spellings will be sent home every other Friday to be learnt ready for the spelling test the following week. Times tables should also be practised at home. Your child is expected to read at home. Each time you read with your child please sign their reading record. Reading book bags must be in school every day.
PE
We have PE every Monday and Friday. Please ensure children have PE kits in school and any earrings are removed or plasters need to be provided for the children to cover them with.
Uniform
All children should wear full uniform including their ALWAYS badges.
We do allow pupils to wear all black trainers - no coloured swooshes/stripes etc. with all black soles.
Black shoes are also still acceptable and preferred for school.
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.
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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.
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Christmas Crafts in Year 3
Year 3 and Year 4's Christmas Party!
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!
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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.
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.
Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term
Year 3 Autumn 1 - Knowledge mats
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!
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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.
Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term
Year 3 Autumn 2 - Knowledge mats
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.
Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term
Year 3 Spring 1 - Knowledge mats
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!
Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term
Year 3 Spring 2 - Knowledge mats
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!!
Have a look at our knowledge mats to see what we are learning this term
Year 3 Summer 1 - Knowledge mats
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.
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