Blog Archive
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10 July 2026
Pentagon, Hexagon, Decagon, The Year’s Almost Gone!
Almost at the end of Year 3! What a wonderful journey it has been! The children have been incredible! In English, we finished editing our poems about nature...
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26 June 2026
Poets Through the Scorching Land
What an incredibly warm week! Nevertheless, the children did amazing and we continued to learn wonderfully. In English, we created more poems related to nature, this time trying...
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19 June 2026
Acrostic Adventures
What a sunny ending of the week! Lots of learning once more in Year 3! In English, we planned and revised our Acrostic poems, and the children were...
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12 June 2026
Poets in the Making!
Another amazing week in Year 3. Whilst patiently waiting for the sun to show, the children enjoyed their opal play despite the rain and thunderstorms! The children’s creativity...
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5 June 2026
Memories Sent!
What an amazing first week back in Year 3! We can’t believe we are already at the tail end of the Summer Term! In English, we finished...
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15 May 2026
Varjak Paw Triumphs!
We are at the end of another great week in Year 3! In English, we started editing our memoirs, focusing on capital letters and punctuation. The children are...
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8 May 2026
Technological Storytellers
What a wonderful Spring week! In English, we finished drafting our memoirs and delved into revision. The children have done an incredible work, really doing their best in...
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1 May 2026
Magnificent Memoirs
Another learning filled week in Year 3! In English, we started drafting our memoirs, thinking about first person and past tense, two key points to keep in mind...
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24 April 2026
Electrical Safety Week!
Welcome back to our Year 3 Blog everyone, we had another incredible knowledge-filled week! In English, we finalised the memories for our Memoir and started planning it....
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17 April 2026
Welcome to Summer 1!
We have had a lovely first week back after the Easter Break. The children all seem well rested and ready to enjoy the Summer Term. In Guided Reading,...
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27 March 2026
Healthy Eating and the Skeleton!
How amazing to think how far we have come since the start of the year! We can’t believe there is only one term left of Year 3! This...
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27 February 2026
It’s Cold in the Polar Regions!
Welcome back to Year 3 everyone! What a week! In English, we have started our editing process, having just looked at capital letters and ambitious vocabulary. Our Fairy...
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13 February 2026
Stig’s Story Unveiled!
We are at the end of another amazing half-term! It’s crazy to believe we are now over halfway through the year! In English, we have continued our revision...
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6 February 2026
Magnetic or Non-Magnetic?
It is crazy how fast this half-term is going! We have learned so much and continue to do our absolute best in Year 3! In English, we are...
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30 January 2026
Stone Age Explorers
Another learning filled week in Year 3! In English, we finally drafted the first version of our fairy tales, and the children produced some incredible writing, using a...
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23 January 2026
Heroes, Villains and Scientific Experiments
What a full week for Year 3! In English, we continued exploring Fairy Tales and studied their structure, ultimately creating our own plan. The children’s creativity really stood...
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16 January 2026
Forest Explorers
Very exciting week in Year 3 with our first Forest School session, during which the children had time and resources to build their own dens! In English, we...
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9 January 2026
Back with a Bang!
Wonderful first week back in Year 3! Everyone is was rested and ready to learn! In English, we have introduced our new unit, which will be based on...
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19 December 2025
Happy Christmas!
An end to a very happening and festive week and beginning of the happy holidays! It was wonderful to see children dressed in their colourful tops and jumpers...
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5 December 2025
Vegetables or Fruit?
We can’t believe it’s December already! Another full week in Year 3! In English, we have published our information texts, choosing our formats and getting ready to showcase...
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28 November 2025
From Seeds to Plants
Super busy week in Year 3! In English, we have finalised the first drafts of our information texts, next week, we will editing and publishing this ready for...
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20 November 2025
From Source to Sea
Another amazing week in Year 3! The children were so positive and ready to learn! In English, we started writing the first two paragraphs of our information texts,...
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14 November 2025
4.5 Billion Year Old Water
Very scientific week in Year 3! In English, we have continued exploring Information Texts, learning bout Rhetorical Questions and how to use them in our work. The children...
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7 November 2025
Rivers and Mountains
Incredible first week back in Year 3! In English, we have started our new unit on information texts. The children explore various texts and discussed the important features...
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21 October 2025
Happy Half-Term!
What a lovely end of our first half term! In English, we have finally published our spooky stories and shared them to spook our friends! The stories were...
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17 October 2025
Ancient Earth and Fossils!
Another knowledge-filled week in Year 3! In English, we have finished our spooky stories! The children have created some amazing narratives, and it was incredible to see...
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10 October 2025
Number lines and Mummies!
Amazing week in Year 3! In English, we continued crafting our spooky stories, focusing on the sense of sight to create spooky details about the settings, which are...
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3 October 2025
Spooky Week!
Whispers of spooky settings and stories in Year 3! In English, we started our “Spooky Stories” project, exploring the genre and the various “craft moves” that authors employ...
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26 September 2025
Hieroglyphic Adventures
Another knowledge filled week in Year 3! In English, we finished “Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx”, seeing how Marcy became a courageous explorer and bested the...
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19 September 2025
Year 3 Rocks!
A fun week ending in sunshine here in Year 3! In English, we explore writing statements based on “Marci and the Riddle of the Sphinx”. The children showcased...
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12 September 2025
First Week Fun
Welcome to Year 3! It has been a wonderful first full week back filled with fun and learning. The children have settled in really nicely and forming nice...
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18 July 2025
What a Wonderful Year!
It is crazy to think that this is already our last blog! We have had an incredibly positive year and the children have been amazing! In English, we...
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11 July 2025
We’re almost at the finish line!
As we fast approach the final stretch of year 3, the children have been finishing up their final projects. In English, this has been publishing their fables for...
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4 July 2025
Time Travellers
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 3! The children in Oak class had a fantastic visit to Wandlebury Country Park- we loved seeing our learning...
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27 June 2025
Iron Age Explorers
What a successful week in year 3! In English, we have continued writing our fables, which are now starting to develop. The children have been incredible and have...
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20 June 2025
Once upon a time in a hot, muggy classroom…
This week it’s been heating up both literally and figuratively in the classroom. The children have been dabbling in English lessons as they write through their draft fables,...
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13 June 2025
Once upon a lever
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 3! The children have worked incredibly hard this week and they should be very proud of all the learning...
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23 May 2025
From Whiskers to Wires
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 3! The children have worked incredibly hard this week and they should be very proud of all the learning...
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16 May 2025
An Electricifying Week
Well done to all of the year 3 children who have shown a great attitude and effort in this assessment week. They have all done their very best...
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9 May 2025
A Week to Remember
What a retrospective week in Year and in school in general. We had an incredible VE day celebration and the children really enjoyed learning about this important moment...
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2 May 2025
Magical Memories and Coding Adventures
What an amazing week in Year 3! In English, we started writing our memoirs, focusing on vivid memories and description. The children really loved revisiting their memories and...
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28 March 2025
For the Beauty of the Earth…
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 3! The children have worked incredibly hard this week and they should be very proud of all the learning...
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21 March 2025
Powerful Poetry
Another knowledge filled week in Year 3! In English, we have started drafting our climate change poems. The children have come up with some incredible rhymes, alliterations and...
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14 March 2025
Time for Rhyme and Lots of Squats!
It’s been another terrific week for Year 3! Despite a turn in the weather the children have carried on through with their sunny selves and tackled various new...
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7 March 2025
Poetry in bloom
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 3! The children have worked incredibly hard this week and they should be very proud of all the learning...
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28 February 2025
Poets in Training
What an incredible start of the half term in Year 3! In English, we have explored our project, which is to create an amazing poem on climate change!...
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14 February 2025
Happy Half Term!
Thank you all for such a lovely half term of learning! It’s been wonderful to see the children enjoy the freedom of Forest School, whether that’s been wittling...
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31 January 2025
Magnetic or non-magnetic?
What an incredibly exciting week in Year 3! In English, we finished our fairy tales and started editing them to be the best they can be! The children...
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24 January 2025
Fairy Tales and Ancient Villages!
This week we have explored both magical and real worlds! In English, we continued our fairy tales and looked at how to use our senses to describe characters,...
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17 January 2025
Magnetic Learning
What a great knowledge-filled week we had in Year 3! In English, we continued to carefully craft our fairy tales by creating our heroes and villains. The children...
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10 January 2025
Welcome Back!
It has been lovely to see everyone back at school – even if it has been a shorter one. In English we have started a new unit on...
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13 December 2024
Syllables and Subtraction
An amazing week children working their socks off publishing haikus. Ask your children to explain why THAT is a haiku! Year 3 have been writing haiku poetry...
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6 December 2024
Fruit or Vegetable?!
Another great week in Year 3! In English, we have published our works! we had lots of fun editing and decorating our amazing information texts. next week, we...
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29 November 2024
The Flowing River of Learning
This week in English we have thought about cause and effect alongside emphasis, using both in our interest board paragraphs. We’ve also considered how to change the tone...
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21 November 2024
A Short, Super Week!
It has been a short but super week! In English we continued to work on our information texts, thinking about how we could use generalisers and show cause...
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15 November 2024
From Precipitation to Plants
What an incredible week in Year 3! In English, we continued outlining our plan to create an information text, culminating in our last lesson, during which we started...
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8 November 2024
Incredibly informative
What an amazing week in Year 3! In English, we have launched our new writing project. We will be writing our own information texts about a topic that...
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18 October 2024
The Tell Tale Class
This week we’ve edited, rehearsed, edited some more and then finally wrapped up our spooky stories by telling each other our terrifying tales in an end of unit...
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11 October 2024
Magnificent Mummification
What an amazing week in Year 3! In English, we explored how to end a story and analysed three different types of endings. The children had fun thinking...
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4 October 2024
Spooky Stories and Historical Hierarchies
It’s been another great week in Year 3! In English, we began drafting our spooky stories using our super setting illustrations and story rivers. We considered which type...
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27 September 2024
Hieroglyphic Handwriting and Spooktacular Stories
It’s been another great week in Year 3! In English, we launched our new writing focus in English which is spooky stories. We have begun by writing as...
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20 September 2024
Tutankhamun’s Mystery
Another wonderful week in Year 3! In English, we explored statements and the rules they follow, subsequently creating our own. The children were amazing and created some incredible...
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13 September 2024
A wonderful start
What a fantastic week! The children have had brilliant first weeks in Year 3 and have settled into their new classes really well. They are already working hard...
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5 July 2024
Wish Writing and a Whole lot of Fractions
In English this week we have been innovating upon our focus text: The King of the Fishes. We’ve used the structure of the story to explore our own...
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28 June 2024
Wishes and Wandlebury
What a wonderful week! The children have had the most fantastic time on their trips to Wandlebury. They impressed the staff at the venue with the amount of...
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14 June 2024
Week 2
What a wonderful week! The children have been working incredibly hard this week to write their own responses to the question: ‘what are the qualities of an enjoyable...
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17 May 2024
Just a fraction left…
This week we’ve turned our attention to the villain of Varjak Paw, Sally Bones. We’ve considered the tropes of superhero origin stories and how Sally could’ve come from...
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10 May 2024
4 out of 6 week done – or should that be Paw…
It’s been a hot summery week but that hasn’t stopped us from working hard with our learning (Please remember to send children in with hats!). In English we...
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3 May 2024
Happy Bank Holiday Weekend!
Thank you so much for attending learning conversations with us – it is such a wonderful way to celebrate the children and their progress throughout the year and...
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26 April 2024
Down behind the dustbin…
Down behind the dustbin, I met a group called year 3 and on the second week of term they really learned greatly! We have had a lot of...
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19 April 2024
A Big Welcome Back – plus a notice!
It has been wondeful to have all the children back at school ready to learn. They have been consistent (unlike the weather) in their hard working attitude, which...
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22 March 2024
The Colours of a Climate…
What an inspiring week! The children have found their speech making voices this week to share important messages about climate change. We have been delighted with the speeches...
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15 March 2024
Wanted: Intrepid Explorers…
What a wonderful week! The children have been working incredibly hard this week to write their own adverts to convince potential explorers to apply for a role in...
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8 March 2024
You are cordially invited…
…To read all about our fantastic week of learning in Year 3! This week we have been so impressed with the writing the children have produced during their...
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1 March 2024
All the fun of the fair…
This week we began our English unit by exploring the front cover of ‘The Midnight Fair’, The children make some wonderful observations: “Where did the animals learn to...
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16 February 2024
Much ado about Shakespeare
It’s been a wonderful Shakepeare week – the children have been learning A Midsummer Night’s Dream through active storytelling. We’ve enjoyed all the drama and mix ups from...
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9 February 2024
Measure for measure
In English: Carrying on from last week’s focus on portal stories, we used an explicit story structure as a success criteria to assess how successful an example story...
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2 February 2024
Magical Worlds and Wonderful Magnets
In English: We have begun to think about how to write a portal story and started by coming up with key portal objects – these included things such...
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26 January 2024
An Ug-cellent Week of Learning!
In English: We have started our new text ‘Ug’. We have used it to help us write fronted adverbials, and then use them in comparisons between things that...
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19 January 2024
Brrr-illiant learning
Despite the icy cold weather, the children have warmed up their fingers by writing lots in English. We have retold the story of the ‘Stone Age Boy’ but...
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12 January 2024
Welcome Back!
Welcome back! It’s been lovely to have all the children back ready to learn. Whilst it has been an adjustment coming back from the holidays, the children have...
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15 December 2023
Powerful Publishers
It was wonderful to welcome so many of you into our classrooms this mornings- the children loved sharing their learning and there were so many moments of joy!...
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8 December 2023
Magnificent Mountains
This week we were so impressed with the way that children have applied their learning from Geography into their English learning. We explored the books ‘Highest Mountain, Deepest...
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1 December 2023
Budding journalists
This week we were so impressed with the budding journalists in Oak, Redwood and Maple. The children were so excited by the breaking news and events unfolding as...
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24 November 2023
Breaking news…
This week we began by exploring the different features of newspaper reports. We read lots of reports based on familiar stories and picked out the key features. We...
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10 November 2023
Hot and cold haikus
This week we began by exploring haikus and spotting the rules for these short and sweet poems. We worked hard to gather our own weather themed vocabulary before...
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3 November 2023
Fantastical Feathers and Firebirds!!!
What a truly wonderful Arts week we have had in Year 3! The children have loved exploring the story of ‘The Firebird’. The week began with some active...
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20 October 2023
End of an (ancient) era
We have come to the end of our Ancient Egypt project and hope you enjoyed seeing all of the wonderful learning the children in year 3 have been...
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13 October 2023
Tutankhamun’s Tomb
We learned what the ancient Egyptian’s believed about life after death this week, and the process of mummification to keep the “ba” connected and safe. This was accompanied...
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6 October 2023
Hieroglyphics & Soil
This week we began working on a showcase of writing for our Ancient Egypt project. Children chose an animal (either cat, crocodile, scarab beetle or falcon) and researched...
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29 September 2023
Fantastic Fossils
This week has been another wonderful week in Year 3. During science the children have researched fossils and the fossilisation process. They created some beautifully presented posters showcasing...
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22 September 2023
Marcy’s adventures with Arthur
Not only did we continue our work on compound sentences this week, but we also moved into descriptive writing using expanded noun phrases and time conjunctions. We read...
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15 September 2023
Ancient Egypt: exploring with Howard Carter
With our Learning to Learn week complete, our second week of term saw us get back into the regular routines of subjects such as Phonics/Spelling, History and Science....
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8 September 2023
Welcome to Year 3!
We have had a busy and varied week this week as the children have got back into the swing of school: with new classes, classrooms, teachers and subjects,...
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14 July 2023
Quiosco de helados!
English This week in English, we enjoyed learning about the Hindu festivals of Diwali, Holi and Kumbh Mela when reading ‘The Big Book of Festivals’ which is a...
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6 July 2023
Looking closely…
English This week in English, we continued enjoying ‘Umbrella’ by Elena Arevalo Melville, a beautiful picture book about a magical umbrella that helps people. This week we thought...
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29 June 2023
Magical Umbrella…
English This week in English, we began focusing on ‘Umbrella’ by Elena Arevalo Melville, a beautiful picture book about a magical umbrella that helps people. We used role...
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22 June 2023
Shape Detectives
English This week, we have continued to read “The Adventures of Beekle, an Unimaginary Friend”. We focused on justifying opinions with evidence from the text, particularly looking at...
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18 June 2023
Parallel or perpendicular?
English This week we have continued to read “The Adventures of Beekle, an unimaginary friend”. The children adore this book and digging deeply into character perspective has been...
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8 June 2023
Welcome back!
English This week we started a new book called “The Adventures of Beekle, an unimaginary friend”. The children loved their introduction to this sweet book all about friendship....
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27 May 2023
Computing Showcase!
It’s been another busy week in Year 3 as we head towards half term; a lot of time this week has been taken up with our half-term assessments...
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18 May 2023
When is a quarter not a quarter? When it’s a half!
We’ve had another great week in Year 3 with a somewhat technological focus! English In English, we continued reading and enjoying Varjak Paw. We discussed how the author...
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11 May 2023
Super Spheros and Sunshine!
This has been another fantastic week of learning and the first proper appearance of spring sunshine! We had a great time coding our Spheros robots in computing, including...
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5 May 2023
Cycles and Celebrations!
This has been a very exciting week of learning, coronation celebrations and Bikeability, all sandwiched between two bank holiday weekends! We had a wonderful whole school lunch on...
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28 April 2023
UCPS is part of a whole!
Another exciting week of learning is complete! English This week we have continued to read a selection of poems by Michael Rosen. We are using his collection of...
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21 April 2023
A noble, special type of cat…
We have had a great first week of learning after the Easter break! We have some exciting projects planned for the coming six weeks in Year 3. English...
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30 March 2023
A life on the ocean waves
***STEM*** update 18/04/23: we are now learning about pneumatics in STEM/DT and planning how to design and make a simple pneumatic toy. The children are really engaged with...
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23 March 2023
Rain, Rain, Go Away!
We have had another great week of learning this week and are enjoying the warmer, sunnier days. However, our climate project has taught us that climate change is...
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17 March 2023
Extreme Weather and Powerful Speeches
What a wonderful week of learning we have had! Although in-class teaching was a bit shorter this week due to the strikes, we were able to dig deeply...
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9 March 2023
Whatever The Weather!
This week’s learning in Year 3: In Maths we’ve been built on our understanding of the inter-relatedness of times tables facts and our understanding of multiplying by ten...
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2 March 2023
You’re a poet but you don’t know it…
This week’s learning in Year 3: Maths/English/learning challenges In Maths we’ve been making connections between the 2, 4 and 8 times tables and using our knowledge of multiples...
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23 February 2023
Herbivore, carnivore or omnivore?
This week’s learning in Year 3: Maths/English/learning challenges In Maths we’ve been making connections between the 3 times tables and the 6 times tables. We’ve been exploring adjacent...
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3 February 2023
Mongering through the Iron (and Stone) Age!
This week’s learning in Year 3: English In English this week we had a blast trying out our dramatic skills in order to learn more about adverbs. This...
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27 January 2023
Booklets and Brilliant Learners!
This week’s learning in Year 3: English This week was assessment week, so we worked very hard in our English Reading, Spelling and Grammar and Punctuation booklets. We...
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20 January 2023
May the force be with you!
This week’s learning in Year 3: English In English, we continued exploring the book, ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. We are focusing on developing inference skills, explaining...
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13 January 2023
Forest School is go!
This week’s learning in Year 3: The children have completed their first full week back in school after their break, and are settling back into our routines and...
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6 January 2023
New Year, New Project!
This week’s learning in Year 3: Happy New Year! We are very excited to be back at school and to have started our new project, Stone Age to...
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21 December 2022
Rocking around the Christmas Tree!
This week’s learning in Year 3 This has been a very exciting week of Christmas celebrations! We had a disco on Tuesday, where we enjoyed dancing away to...
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16 December 2022
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!
This week’s learning in Year 3 What an exciting week of snow and Christmas excitement! A reminder that we break up for the Christmas holidays on Wednesday at...
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3 December 2022
Portals and beyond!
This week’s learning in Year 3 English This week, we have been finalising our ‘portal’ stories where an everyday object (e.g. a puddle) acts as a portal and...
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18 November 2022
Into the Rainforest
This week’s learning in Year 3: In geography, we focused on rainforests, learning about the different layers that can be found: the forest floor, the underlayer, the canopy...
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12 November 2022
Tasty TastED
This week’s learning in Year 3 TastED learning in STEM This week, Year 3s had a scrummy STEM session, tasting a range of fruit and vegetables! As they...
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4 November 2022
Brilliant Biomes!
This week’s learning in Year 3: Our new project is biomes. In geography, we learnt about the main types of biomes around the world and their features. English: We...
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21 October 2022
The British Museum comes to UCPS
This week’s learning in Year 3 Egyptian Museum Exhibition We were really pleased to welcome so many Year 3 parents to the children’s Museum Exhibition. They were so...
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14 October 2022
Paleontology in minutes!!
This week’s learning in Year 3: English: We have been researching our non-chronological reports for our UCPS Museum next week. We have worked in triads for this and...
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30 September 2022
Rocks in Eddington
This week’s learning: English: We have been continuing our non chronological reports by focusing on how King Tut’s tomb was discovered. Grammar focus: Adverbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfenLGAYDeg Maths:...
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26 September 2022
Egyptian life
This week in English, we focused on compound sentences and using conjunctions to put together two simple sentences. We also explored non chronological reports and what features they...
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16 September 2022
Delving into Ancient Egypt
We can’t believe how quickly this year is going already! We have had a fantastic week with Year 3, and we are so impressed by how the children...
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9 September 2022
Year Three Glee!
Welcome back! It’s been great to have the children back and to welcome them to Redwood, Maple and Oak. This week has been a fantastic week of getting...
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15 July 2022
Carnival Celebrations!
This week was the second week of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) fortnight, which was rounded off with the wonderful carnival and parade! Today, we...
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8 July 2022
Flowers Galore!
This week was our first week of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) fortnight, and we have been doing some really exciting learning. We spent a...
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1 July 2022
Art Attack
The next two weeks of school are going to look a little different to normal. They are called the STEAM weeks (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) and...
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24 June 2022
Sports Spectacular
What a wonderful sunny week! We’ve had yet another great week of learning as well as some extra special events. The most notable was of course… SPORTS DAY!!!...
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17 June 2022
Our Eddington
Alongside the glorious weather we have also done lots of glorious learning! In English, we created our own Diary’s based on Ann Fine’s ‘Diary of a killer cat’....
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15 June 2022
Showcasing our best angle
It has been a great and learning filled start to the final half term of this academic year! In English, we have been completing an author study. We...
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27 May 2022
Jubilee Glee
Happy half term! We are so proud of what the children in Year 3 have achieved this half term, including designing and creating shadow puppet theatres, writing scripts...
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20 May 2022
Shadow Shenanigans
Wow – what a great week of exciting learning, sunshine and creativity! In Topic, we continued making and decorating our shadow puppet theatres. We created screen for our...
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13 May 2022
Shadow Puppet Painting
Thank you SO much for all your cardboard boxes – this is what we needed them for!!! We took the first steps towards creating our shadow puppet theatres...
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6 May 2022
Mythical Magic
This week, year 3 have been continuing to explore this term’s shadow play topic. This has seen us testing different materials for the upcoming shadow puppet theatre and...
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29 April 2022
Recounting our adventure
In English we have been recounting our experience last week in relation to the mythical Eddington Beast. We explored past tense verbs and how they can be regular...
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22 April 2022
A Mystical, Mythical Week
This week we have had a roaring start to our summer term. We started our week by hearing about a mysterious creature that Dr Biddulph spotted in the...
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31 March 2022
Celebrating our World
Happy Easter holidays! We have had a great last week of term with our ‘around the world’ event and preparations. Despite the weather, it was a fantastic afternoon...
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25 March 2022
Dancing into Spring
We have had some fantastic learning from Year 3 this week and can’t believe it was our last full week of learning this term! We have been rehearsing...
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18 March 2022
Fractions Frenzy
Yet again, year 3 have wowed us all with a week full of brilliant learning. They developed their portal stories, investigated fractions, created beautiful art, continued working on...
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11 March 2022
Portal Adventures
The term really is flying by. We are now well into our Around the World in 80 Days topic and the children are making the most of an...
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6 March 2022
Mesmerizing magnets
This week in Maths, we have been focusing on multiplying a two digit by a one-digit number. In order to do this we have been looking at the...
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25 February 2022
Poetry Performers
Wow – we cannot believe we have already completed the first week of this half term, and it has gotten off the a cracking start! In maths, we...
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11 February 2022
Happy Rainbow Friday
Wow – we cannot believe we have already reached half term, and what a half term it has been! This week was the perfect way to end Spring...
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4 February 2022
Sing a Forest Tune
What a fantastic week this has been! The children have really enjoyed the extra topic lessons we have had this week, which included constructing their board games and...
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28 January 2022
Super Circuits
What a week! Everyone has really thrown themselves into our Inventions topic with gusto, and this week it was finally time to write a set of immersive instructions...
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21 January 2022
Multiplication Madness
This week has been a busy week of learning! In maths, we have begun learning about multiplication. We looked at the patterns in the 3x table and how...
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14 January 2022
Exciting instructions
What a wonderful week of learning!! English This week in English we have been exploring what makes effective and clear instructions. First we explored how unclear instructions could...
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7 January 2022
The Tale of The Tin Soldier
Even in just three days, Year 3 have done so much learning this week! This week marked our annual book week where we looked at the story of...
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17 December 2021
Happy Holidays!
What a wonderful term it has been. All three classes have truly risen to the challenges that being in Key Stage 2 has brought and are growing into...
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10 December 2021
Writing Showcase
What a week! Year 3 have impressed us all no end this week. Over the course of Monday and Tuesday they wrote writing showcases that blew us away,...
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3 December 2021
An Array of Learning
This week has been another busy week of learning for Year 3. In English, we have started a new book, Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, which tells the...
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26 November 2021
Making Waves on STEM Day
We cannot believe we are already more than half way through this half term and only have three weeks until the Christmas holidays! We have had a great...
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19 November 2021
No Electricity? No Problem
This four day week has been packed full of exciting learning! In English, we have been moved by the experiences that refugees have to go through in...
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12 November 2021
Refugees, Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Although it has been a shorter week, this week has still been packed full of fantastic learning! In English, building on the story of ‘The Journey’ we have...
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5 November 2021
Diwali!
We’re sure you agree that although half-term was fun, it’s even better to be back learning! This week saw the advent of our new topic: Survival. The clue’s...
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22 October 2021
Museum Magic
The first half-term of year 3 has absolutely flown by, as has our ancient Egypt topic. We have spent the past 7 weeks exploring dark tombs, uncovering glittering...
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15 October 2021
Grateful to live in the 21st Century!
This week has been another busy and wonderful week of learning for Year 3, and what a day Thursday was! Thank you everyone for being so flexible and...
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8 October 2021
Amazing Artists
We cannot believe we have already had five weeks of term! We have had a great week of learning, including two wonderful Art lessons. We created different buildings...
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1 October 2021
Marvellous Mummification
In English, this week we focused on using adverbs in our writing while using the content of our Ancient Egypt topic. We have now begun to draft our...
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25 September 2021
Exploring the Tombs of Ancient Egypt!
This week has been another week of fantastic learning in Year 3! In English, we have been exploring the features of non-chronological texts and using this, alongside our...
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17 September 2021
Egyptian Energy
How is it already the end of the second week of term!? We are all extremely impressed with the year 3 children as they have continued to give...
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10 September 2021
First-week Fun
Welcome back everyone!!! It’s been wonderful having all the children back in school this week and everybody has loved being back with their friends and teachers, as well...
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15 July 2021
Skipping to the end of term!
This week we have had an exciting visit from SkipBeatz, a world-record holding skipping champion! Pete gave us a demonstration of his incredible skills with a skipping rope,...
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9 July 2021
Epic Endings…
This week, we have really enjoyed being authors, writing some incredible stories about characters stranded in the Amazon Rainforest, inspired by our focus text ‘The Explorer.’ We have...
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2 July 2021
Exploring the Amazon
With each passing week, we find ourselves deeper in the Amazon rainforest. This week, we’ve continued reading The Explorer and have centered our learning around the four main...
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25 June 2021
Hajanga!
Year 3 have had an absolutely spectacular Arts week. We have been inspired by Jacob Collier’s song Hajanga and have used the themes as a springboard for all sorts...
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18 June 2021
The Explorer
This week, we have been diving into our new book ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell, a dramatic story about a group of children who need to survive in...
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11 June 2021
The Vanishing Rainforest
Goodbye Fashion, hello Rainforest! Our final topic of year 3 is all about the amazon rainforest, so naturally the learning street is feeling a bit overgrown. We kicked...
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28 May 2021
Puppet fashion!
It has been a week of successes and celebrations as we have finished off the topic on Fashion. Year 3 have been creating puppet sculptures in Art and...
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21 May 2021
Deep thinking and developing plots…
Firstly, a huge welcome back to Redwood Class! We missed you last week and are so happy for your return! This week has been full of deep thinking....
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14 May 2021
Bill’s New Frock
New week, new frock. For Bill that is, the protagonist of Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine, the classic story about a boy that wakes up one day...
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12 May 2021
Redwood Online Learning (Thursday 13th May)
Hi Redwood, Here is the grid paper you can use for your map making today: Grid paper Map Making Enjoy!
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7 May 2021
Sewing for sustainability!
It has been a packed week this week. Year 3 have squeezed so much learning into the shorter week! A particular highlight of the week was script-writing and...
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30 April 2021
Fashionable Fun
Our Fashion topic is now well underway and year 3 have really enjoyed getting their teeth into it this week. Across the week, we have spent our English...
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23 April 2021
Skipping through the week…
This week has been Skipping Challenge Week! We have been putting ourselves (and our teachers!) skipping talents to the test by practicing different skipping skills. Here are the...
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16 April 2021
Fashion!
Welcome back to a new term! The children had an exciting surprise on their return to school on Tuesday… a fashion show through the decades put on especially...
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26 March 2021
Gratitude and Hope
This week we marked a year since the beginning of lockdown restrictions as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. All of Year 3 stopped for a minute...
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19 March 2021
Two weeks of fun
Two weeks back in school? It feels like we never left now! Everybody in year 3 is fully back in the swing of things. We love going outdoors...
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12 March 2021
REUNITED!!!
Well, what an absolute JOY this week has been! We have absolutely loved having the children back!!! We are so proud of their resilience, adaptability and the way...
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4 January 2021
Online Learning
Week beginning 11th January Year 3 Home Learning – Week 2 Booklet The Way Back Home Week beginning 4th January The Fox and the Star booklet
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18 December 2020
Happy Holidays!
Wow, what a term! To all of our Year 3 children, we want to say how PROUD we are of you and all that you have already accomplished...
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11 December 2020
Story time!
This week in English we have been working on a story about the character we created last week. This character was alive during the time of the British...
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4 December 2020
I went to market and I bought…
As you may have noticed on Monday, we dived into this week by travelling back in time to a market in colonial India. After debating about Britain’s treatment...
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27 November 2020
I call this house to order!
For the past two weeks Year 3 have been honing their debating skills, with increased confidence and articulate speech. We have investigated two topics of debate: School is...
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13 November 2020
The Proudest Blue
After two weeks back in school, it really feels like we’ve never been away. Children from Oak, Redwood and Maple are truly back in the swing of things...
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6 November 2020
Diversity and Discrimination
It’s been a super week back after our half term break! We launched our new topic ‘Power and Invasion’. We played ‘Capture the Flag’ to experience what it...
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23 October 2020
Healthy Living Week
This week the whole of UCPS has been thinking about healthy living, with a particular focus on exercise. Each class in Year 3 has taken on the daily...
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16 October 2020
We’re poets and we didn’t even know it!
How can there only be one more week in Autumn 1? Everyone from Maple, Redwood and Oak has continued to work hard this week, striving to maintain the...
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9 October 2020
The Lost Chapter…
We have been so impressed by the children’s writing this week. They have been incredible authors, writing ‘The Lost Chapter’ to the story of Odysseus, imagining that before...
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2 October 2020
Odysseus and the Scylla
We are well into the swing of things this term and have been thoroughly enjoying immersing ourselves in the story of Odysseus. One of the ways that we...
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25 September 2020
It’s all Greek to me…
25th September 2020 Wow, where have the last three weeks gone? We are now well into our first half-term and year 3 are proving themselves to be very...
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18 September 2020
All Things Great and Greek…
Well, what a FABULOUS week of learning we have had! We continue to be blown away by how quickly the children are settling into their new routine; we...
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11 September 2020
Welcome back to school!
We were so excited to welcome the children back to school after such a long time away. It has been a fantastic start to Year 3, with all...
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10 July 2020
The Rescue! (w.c. 13th July)
The Rescue! To make sure you are ready for 2020-21 here are some key learning goals for you to think of: Year 3 to 4 readiness Welcome to...
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3 July 2020
Crash Landing! (w.c. 6th July)
Crash Landing! Welcome to week 2 of the ‘UCPSpace’ project learning! We hope that you enjoyed the launch of our new learning projects last week! The anticipation is...
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26 June 2020
Lift Off! (w/c 29.6.20)
We Have Lift Off! This week, the University of Cambridge Primary School is embarking on a three week project that will culminate in the children meeting their new...
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19 June 2020
Learning Links for w/c 22nd June
Hello everyone. Welcome to a new week of your online learning! Messages for the Week Premier Sport have very kindly offered to send us some fitness and exercise...
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12 June 2020
Learning Links for w/c 15th June
Hello everyone! Welcome to a new week of your online learning! Messages for the Week Each week, in addition to the Maths sessions, there will be a focus...
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5 June 2020
Learning Links for w/c 8th June
Hello everyone! Please see below for all of your learning links for the week. Although we have numbered the sessions, please feel free to go at your own...
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31 May 2020
Learning Links for w/c 1st June
Hello everyone! Welcome back to your online learning! We hope that you had a lovely half term. Please see below for all of your learning links for the...
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17 May 2020
Learning links for w/c 18th May
Welcome back to another week of online learning! Can you believe that it is nearly half-term? Here is a booklet all about Empathy for you and your families...
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10 May 2020
Learning links for w/c 11th May
Welcome back to another week of online learning, we hope you had a lovely long weekend! Here is an uplifting video shared by Mr Smith. You could use...
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3 May 2020
Learning Links for w/c 4th May
This image is taken from Reasons to be Cheerful which is a selection of poems for children and adults alike. Enjoy reading together and remember that you are...
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26 April 2020
Learning Links for w/c 27th April
Please see below for worksheets and activities linked to this week’s lessons. You will find the Maths and English lessons are on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with a...
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19 April 2020
Welcome back and dive with us Under the Sea w/c 20.04.2020
Welcome back to online learning with Miss Natale, Miss Lownsbrough and Miss Millar. We hope you and your family kept safe and had a lovely Easter break. Our...
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29 March 2020
Learning links for the w/c 30.03.20
Hi year 3! We hope you had a great weekend and that you are looking forward to week 2 of virtual learning! You will be sent a daily...
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22 March 2020
Learning links for the week beginning 23.03.20
Hi year 3! You will be sent a daily email from enquiries with the UCPS YouTube videos for each day’s learning. If you have any questions during this...
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13 March 2020
STEM WEEK: learning outside!
There have been many highlights this week and we have enjoyed working together and exploring the wonders of our environment. We used our forest to hunt for invertebrates...
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6 March 2020
Share a Million Stories!
This week we have delved into books and have started planning our own ones as well as being inspired by well-known books. We thought about the power of...
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28 February 2020
Around the World in 80 Days
It has been a busy start to the half term and Year 3 have immersed themselves in our new topic ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. The children...
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14 February 2020
Here We Are: exploring character
This week we delved into the book Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers and focused on creating characters. We got a chance to meet another character and work...
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7 February 2020
Find your brave!
This week we celebrated Mental Health and discussed what being brave means and how we can show courage in our everyday lives. In English we have been writing...
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31 January 2020
The power of persuasion…
Year 3 have really stepped up to the challenge of speech writing this week, exploring many of the different features from the persuasive speeches we studied last week....
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24 January 2020
Trip to Cambridge Museum of Technology.
Our highlight this week has been our trip to the Cambridge Museum of Technology. We explored different inventions and took part in interactive, hands-on workshops about bricks, steam...
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17 January 2020
Do you want to taste the most amazing sandwich?
In English this week we put our instruction knowledge to the test! First, we came up with our perfect sandwich. Next, we wrote detailed instructions on how to...
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10 January 2020
Interesting inventions!
Welcome back to Spring 1! Our Topic this term is Inventions and we started it by finding everyday inventions around the class. We then had to persuade each...