Welcome to Year 3 Page - Downside Primary School, Luton

Welcome to Year 3

An overview of Year 3 curriculum:

Year 3 Curriculum - September 2021

To find out more about Year 3’s curriculum, please click on the current newsletter below or speak to your child’s class teacher / Year Leader (Mrs Ali).

Summer Newsletter - April 2022

Welcome to Year 3: September 2021

All About Year 3

Year 3 - Summer 1 Spelling Focus

Year 3 - Summer 1 Spellings

Statutory Spellings for Years 3 and 4

Year 3 - Latest News

Summer 1

Week 2

Year Group Events

Rocksteady 2022

Click HERE to see all about Rocksteady 2022

Wardown Park Museum 2022

Click HERE to see all about our visit to Wardown Park Museum

Stone-Age experience day 2021

Click HERE to see all about our Stone Age Experience Day

Year Group ideas to try at home

Recipes

Click on the recipe book to see this week’s recipe

Fish Cakes

Recipes from previous weeks:

Cheese and Tomato Egg Muffins

Frozen Banana Yogurt Bites

Mind full or Mindful?

Year 3 Teachers would like to share some ideas with you. Simple activities you can try at home to support your child’s social and emotional skills.

Click on the ‘brain’ to see this week’s idea

5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1

Activities from previous weeks:

Archived News from Year 3

Summer 1

Spring 2

Spring 2

Spring 1

Week ending 7th January 2022

Week ending: 10th December 2021

It’s nearly the end of the term but Year 3 are still working super hard!

The children have all produced a great explanation report on global warming. During our research we have come across lots of shocking facts and impressive words such as ‘industrialization’, ‘contributing’ and ‘pollutants’ just to name a few. It’s lovely to see how interested and involved this next generation will be about such an important topic.

How many minutes are there in an hour, how many hours and there in a day and how many days are there in a week are only a few of the questions we’ve been answering this week involving time. We’ve been reading the clock, telling the time and some children have even been calculating time durations! If you’ve got a clock at home, why not ask your child to see if they can tell you the time.

On Friday, the children did a ‘Santa Dash’ which involved them running around the field as many times as they could. It’s been great to see their fitness levels increase throughout the term. Hopefully they keep active during the holidays!

Most classes have started their final pieces of artwork, inspired by the Brazilian artist Romero Britto. His artwork shows positivity, happiness and joy and the children have really loved developing their artistic skills which include using perspective and proportion. The final pieces look AMAZING!

Well done everyone for another great week! Only one more to go!

The Year 3 Team

Week ending: 26th November 2021

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Week ending: 12th November 2021

Week ending: 15th October 2021

Week ending: 8th October 2021

Week ending: 1st October 2021

Week ending: 24.09.21

By now the children have really settled back into the routine of school and have started to produce some excellent work in class.

This week we have finished writing our information report about nocturnal animals. These have turned out amazing and the children did really well when they were converting the facts that they learnt from the previous week into interesting sentences.

In maths we have continued to build our understanding of place value (hundreds, tens and ones) and are now learning how to exchange ones into a ten and tens into a hundred.

In science we have learnt about food groups and how each nutritional value effects our body.

We are continuing to read ‘The Hodgeheg’ in our reading lessons. We have been predicting, learning new vocabulary meanings and building up our retrieval skills.

A Gentle Reminder:

– Both pieces of homework should be handed in prior to Monday morning via Google Classroom.

-Children should be reading at home at least 3 times a week.

-Spellings should be practised at home every day.

The Year 3 Team

Week ending 17th September 2021