Year 3 Looking Back and Forth 12/9/25
Friday 12th September 2025 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 3
Looking back:
Thank you to all of the children in Class Three for another great week. My goodness have we worked hard. We’ve loved learning about so many sophisticated words and phrases in English and being introduced to our new book ‘Egyptology’. We have begun our Arithmetic Friday sessions today, complete with our first against the clock times tables challenge – what a great start to that!!!We have also continued to extend our maths work to include numbers to 1000 as part of our place value skills – how very impressive. We have shown what we know so far as we have completed our assessments and in Geography, we worked through our pre-learning, new vocabulary based on Africa and discovered the Equator and Hemispheres. Our first PE session saw Class 3 get into Tag Rugby skills and our first Science and French lessons with Mrs Riddell went extremely well too. We finished our week off with art work this afternoon based on our book The Swallow’s Journey and shaping techniques – What a week!!!
Year 3 – Pupils’ Highlights:
- PE – learning the basics in Tag Rugby skills
- Beginning our Egyptian mystery as we ventured inside Egyptology!
- All maths work, especially Arithmetic Friday!
- Science – learning about animals and people
- Art, drawing birds
- Playing with my friends
- Everything!
Family discussion questions:
Ask your children…
- What is the imaginary line called which flows horizontally around the Earth?
- Who began their adventure to Egypt in our new book?
- Challenge Question: What does ornate mean?
Looking forward:
We will be starting our spelling and reading program this week and will be continuing with this each week going forward as part of our sentence accuracy work. Our arithmetic sessions will continue too, alongside learning our all-important times tables ready for our test on Friday! We will be working on our History this coming week, finding out why Africa was so important to the development of humans across the World and in Geography, we will be learning about the Prime Meridian and how to write as a geographer. We are also continuing with our exciting art project based on The Swallows Journey, more computing work, Tag Rugby skills in PE, and Swallows Journey reading – can’t wait!
Just a quick reminder to all children to remember to bring a waterproof coat into school each day please.
Thank you again for a wonderful week last week and I hope that you are all having a lovely weekend.
Take care,
Mrs Sant