It was great to see many of you during parents evening this week. Overall, the children have been doing well and have fully adapted to being in KS2. It is crazy to think World Book Day is already here and with it, only 4 more months of school...  We hit the ground running this week and half-term seems like a distant memory already. We have carried on learning about measuring and perimeters in Maths. In English we have focused on upgrading our simple noun phrases by using adjectives and verbs. Would you believe that we are half way through Year 3 already?!    Year 3 have taken part in a recycling audit with Devon County Council this week and what a learning experience it was!     Not long now and Year 3 will have a well deserved break. They have shown an incredible amount of development and learning this term (Even if it has been a long one!) I am impressed by them all.  Year 3 have had Recycle Devon come in and give a lesson regarding batteries, how they work and how we can help reduce wasting them. We also had the opportunity to create our own to power a clock, calculator and LED light using fruit and vegetables! Yep, it is that time of year already. 8 weeks in school is a long time, however I feel as though it has flown by for Year 3.
Already the children are showing progress and adapting ever so well to KS2. We have been creating pots similar to those made by the beaker people throughout the Bronze age and had a go at painting them too. Year 3 are also moving on to more complex mathematics, where they are adding and subtracting 10s and 1s across 100s. In English, they have been retelling the story of the first painting, putting themselves in the shoes of a stone age person and writing in first person using a range of grammatical structures. It has been a learning curve these past two months and Year 3 deserve a break - enjoy!! This week Year 3 have travelled back in time to the Stone Age! We have been studying the Stone age through to the Bronze age in History but also focusing on the subject in our English writing. The children have focused on imagining what it would have been like to be in the Stone Age. Their school trip to Kents Cavern truly helped bring their imaginations alive, solidifying their knowledge of the period, despite the fact it can be a difficult time in History to picture. I was particularly impressed by how much knowledge the children were able to remember from lessons and share during the tour. Would you believe we are half way through this half term?
It has been very much a hit the term running in Year 3 this week. Despite heightened expectations and differences in their daily routines, the former Year 2 class have shown resilience and independence already.
As we move on into the Autumn term and catch as much sun as we can before the inevitable long nights and short days, I am sure we will see far more development across the curriculum. Keep up the good work year 3!! |
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