Welcome to our class web page where you can find out about our amazing learning journey. You will find

information about our activities, examples of our work and comments from us! Please visit often to see our learning journey develop.

Key information:

3CE have ​​​​​indoor PE on a Tuesday and outdoor PE on a Thursday.

3CE's entrance and exit point is the main gate next to the car park.

Please wait on the playground area outside of the Year 3 classrooms.

Term 4

Year 3 Learning Overview 4: What is underneath our feet?

This term, we will be exploring our book 'Stranded' which is based on a  true story about some explorers who got stranded on an active volcanic island in Iceland! As part of this writing unit, we will be writing diary entries which include many new targets such as fronted adverbials of time and place.

Alongside our writing, we will exploring a new enquiry 'What is beneath our feet?' In this enquiry, we will be scientists and geographers by exploring many things such as types of rock. Please check our page often so see our fantastic learning!

Engage - Being Engineers!

This afternoon, we had a great time taking part in our 'engage' activity which set us the task of building structures which would survive an earthquake. We worked well in teams to get the bases of these built and we will continue to work on these next week.

Term 3

Year 3 Learning Overview 3: What is underneath our feet?

This term, we will be continuing to explore our enquiry 'How we do we live a healthy life?'. Within this enquiry, we will be scientists exploring the food groups and the importance of understanding the nutrition food brings to the body. We will also be engineers and make a nutrious meal incorporating all of the food groups. Moving on from this, we will be starting our new enquiry- What is underneath our feet? Within this enquiry, we will be geographers- learning about the formation of volcanoes, tectonic plates and the different rock formation.

Alongside this enquiry, we will be exploring our new class book, Krindlekrax. This is a thriller book all about a mysterious creature living underground in Lizard Street. As part of this book, we will be writing a non-chronological report about Krindlekrax. We will then be completing a diary entry based around the book- Stranded.

Pizza making - Being Engineers!

This afternoon, we used our plans to create some delicious pizzas with a variety of toppings. We thought carefully about what makes a healthy pizza and some of us even added huge amount of vegetables!

Pizza testing - Being Engineers!

This morning, we tried out some different flavoured pizzas as part of some market research. We thought about the texture, taste, appearance, aroma and general appeal of the pizzas. We then used this to help us finish our final plans.

Non-Chronological reports- Being Writers!

This week, we have been working hard on our non-chronological reports to finish our unit of writing. We are so proud of them and we think that they showcase all of our fantastic new writing skills as well as our understanding of the cruel and evil Krindlekrax!

Scratch - Being Technologists!

This afternoon, we have been using our technology skills to create moving sprites on Scratch. We used different blocks to get our sprite to move.

Term 2

Year 3 are continuing this term with a debate answering our enquiry question of 'What can we learn from Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age?' Alongside this, we will be creating our very own cave art. After that, we will be jumping into our second enquiry, answering our enquiry question- 'How do we live a healthy life?'

Within this enquiry, we will be scientists exploring the food groups and the importance of understanding the nutrition food brings to the body. We will also be engineers and make a nutrious meal incorporating all of the food groups.

We will continue reading our book 'Georges marvellous medicine' and use this to introduce targets into our writing to make it engaging for our readers. 

Keep checking out our webpage to see all of our fabulous work and find out the answer to our enquiry question!

TT Rockstars - Being technologists and mathematicians

This afternoon, we were working hard on our times tables using TT Rockstars. We worked hard on our quick recall as well as our keyboard skills during this session.

Term 1

Year 3 are kick starting the year with an incredible enquiry into the lives of people living in the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We will be using the books 'The Stone Age Boy' to help us introduce targets into our writing to make it engaging for our readers. 

In order to answer our enquiry question of 'What can we learn from Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age?', we will be explore what life was like for people living throughout these years to compare what was the same and what changed. 

Keep checking out our webpage to see all of our fabulous work and find our the answer to our enquiry question!

Being Writers - Instructions

Today, we explored our new text type - intstructions. We had to tell Mrs Edwards how to make a jam sandwich and we realised how messy this can be if there are not clear instructions. We then had to follow a bad set and a good set of instructions to make a paper plane, We thought about what makes successful instructions.

Being Theologians - Trip to St Stephen's Church

This morning, we had a fantastic trip to St Stephen's Church. We celebrated harvest festival before exploring the key features of a church. We really enjoyed our time here.

Being writers - Poetry day!

Yesterday, we had a fantastic day exploring many different poems. We explored a poem called 'Puddles' and had a go at creating our own poems based on this. We also had a go at performing this.

Being Geographers - Map work

This week, we have been working on our maps skills during our enquiry lessons. We looked at identifying capital cities as well as different parts of the UK.

Being Mathematicians - Representations

In maths this week, we have been exploring different representations. These have been a mixture of bar models, cherry models and number lines. We are enjoying using them to support our maths understanding.

Being Historians - Trip to Cheddar Gorge
Today, we had a fantastic trip to Cheddar Gorge. As part of our trip, we got to explore both incredible caves, take a trip through pre-history and even met a ‘Stone Age’ person called Arht who showed us how the Stone Age people lived, hunted and started fires!

Being Historians- Engage

To kick start our learning about our new enquiry- what can we learn from how the stone, bronze and iron ages lived? we tried out three stone age activities. We learnt how to weave using a small loom and paper strips, went outside into the secret forest and made shelters out of natural materials and handled flint whilst guessing what they could have been used for during the stone, bronze and iron ages. We can't wait to find out more about this time period and how these people used to live!