Year 3 Looking back and forth 24/4/26

Friday 24th April 2026 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 3

Looking back:

We have had a great second week this week and everyone’s smiling faces have happily greeted the sunshine which has been lovely to see. We got busy straight away this week by beginning our new topic of The Romans in History, finding out when, where and how Rome was founded. We began our five weeks of cricket last week and continued with those skills this week, where we worked on bowling using the correct arm action and accuracy of aim. Our new English book has really grabbed our attention this week too, writing character comparison poems and we are now ready to write our own sophisticated fable writing. Maths has been great this week as we have got to grips with numerators and denominators and what they mean and in arithmetic, we played a blinder with our methods and most of us smashed our times tables out of the water! Science was fascinating as we learned about the different parts of a flower and in reading, we began our first play script all about the ‘Working Children’ of Victorian times – our dramatic skills are beginning to show – and we finished our week off with our collage work in art - well done Class Three!

Year 3 – Pupils’ Highlights:

  • Playing on the field with our friends in the sunshine
  • Cricket with Mrs Murdoch
  • Learning about flowers in Science
  • Writing our poems in English
  • Times tables challenges
  • Skipping practise for our Maypole Dance
  • Everything!

Family discussion questions:

Ask your children…

  • What is a unit fraction?
  • What is a character comparison poem?
  • What are the different parts of a flower called?

Looking forward:

Next week, we will be making our very first steps towards our maypole routines – hold onto your hats kids!!! Well…your ribbons actually!!! We will be beginning to plan for and write our fable narrative in English, continuing to learn more about fractions in Maths, using evidence to find out how Rome was founded in History and what life was like in Britain before the Romans invaded. In Geography, we will find out about the layers of the earth and types of volcanoes, continuing with our playscripts based on the working children in reading, more Science experiments, continuing to look into forgiveness in RE and cricket in PE ~ all of this, alongside reading quizzes, spellings and sentence accuracy ~another busy week!

A quick reminder that Parents’ Evenings are Monday and Tuesday of this coming week too!

 

Mrs Sant