Year 3

Welcome to Year 3's page all about the wonderful things that we get up to in 3S and 3W.

We are looking forward to a great year with loads of brilliant things going on.

 PE is currently on a Wednesday.  We have Squash coaches coming in to teach children how to play squash.  Children need to come to school on a Wednesday wearing school PE kit.  This is a plain black or red sweatshirt and plain black tracksuit bottoms or legging.  T shirts should be plain white or red.  Children need to be wearing trainers and need to be able to remove their own earrings.  If they cannot remove their own earrings they should not be worn to school on a Wednesday.

Spelling and maths homework is set weekly on Edshed.  Children should be logging in and completing this each week.  All children have received their logins.

Children should be regularly logging in and using TT Rockstars.  This is a fun way for children to learn and practice their times tables.

Children should be reading regularly at home and returning their reading diaries to school each day.  If children read 5 times in a week they receive a raffle ticket and have the opportunity to win a book in our Friday awards assembly.

There was no Awards Assembly on Friday 29th January as it was Spanish Day.

In Maths children have been continuing to use multiplication facts they already know to help them multiply by bigger number. If we know that 2x4=8, we can use this knowledge to help us work out that 2x40=80.

We have continued learning all about recounts.  This week we planned and wrote a recount about the Science Boffin visit we had on Wednesday.

This week, in geography, children researched the different animals that live in the rainforest.  They found out lots of interesting facts including where exactly they live and what they eat.

This week in science we started a new topic about fossils.  Children learnt about what fossils are and how they are formed.

On Wednesday we had a visit from a Science Boffin.  Children took part in an exciting assembly where they saw Elephants Toothpaste and exploding capsules.  In the afternoon children took part in a workshop where they learnt all about how electricity flows through conductors and made some slime.

The children loved creating slime at the end of the workshop!

                          We worked in groups of three to create some slime.  

Next week is our assessment week.  Children will be doing assessments in maths, reading and grammar.  The assessments will take place across the whole week and are a chance for us to assess how much progress your child has made.

  If you have any problems please speak to your child's class teacher or send an email. year3@hazelmere-jun.essex.sch.uk