Year 3
Welcome to Year 3’s class page…
A very warm welcome to Year 3!
Year 3 are taught by myself, Mrs. Wilks, and I am so looking forward to getting to know you all better throughout the year. Please feel free to come and see me anytime!
I am very fortunate to be supported by the wonderful Mrs. Duncan, Miss Stedman, Mrs Smith and Mr McKeown at various points throughout the week. On Wednesday mornings, Miss Mallinson will be teaching Music and Mrs. Spacey will be teaching French and Maths. We are also very lucky to have Mrs. Hayes, who will be taking our Forest School sessions throughout the year.
Year 3 is an exciting year for the children as they move up to the juniors, and we will be working on making the transition as smooth as possible for them to ensure that they settle in to their new learning environment.
Take a look at the information below to see what we have been getting up to!
This term’s Stars!
Friday afternoons are a special time at The Willows, when the whole school gather together in the school hall to celebrate the star performer from each class that week. Mrs. Wilks tells the school what we have excelled at throughout the week and that child’s parents are even invited! Well done to all of our recent Star Award winner
Important things to know about…
Times Tables – Every week, we are given Times Tables to learn and we are tested on these every Friday. Please try and practise them at home – we’ll be practising in school too.
Spellings – Each Friday I will give the children their new spelling list. At the same time we will run through the spellings they have been learning throughout the week. Make sure you’re practising them at home!
Reading at Home – We should read at home (independently or with an adult) every day and it should be logged in our Reading Diary. Reading Diaries will be checked daily. Reading is EXTREMELY important because it helps our children to unlock more of the curriculum.
Maths and English Homework – Just like the rest of the school, we are set homework on a Friday and it is due in for the following Friday. Homework is set via Seesaw and it is to be submitted on or before the following Friday. Homework will be based on our learning in school and will alternate between Maths and English each week.
PE – Our PE sessions are timetabled for Monday afternoons and Wednesday afternoons. No Earrings please!
Year 3’s Latest News
KS2 Colour Run!
On Monday 14th July, the whole school held an amazing colour run afternoon as an end of year celebration. KS2 children combined the colour run with a 'wet and wild' fun run, with a 200m course set up around the school field where teachers were stationed throwing holi...
Year 3 and 4 Euro-Football Tournament
During the week of Monday 30th June, all classes in school took part in our latest inter-house sporting competition, a mixed year-group Euro Football Tournament. Year 3 and 4 combined and were split into 12 teams, each 5-a-side. Each team picked a European country out...
Year 3 – Stations of the Cross
The Stations of the Cross depict the last few hours of Jesus’s life.Almost two thousand years ago, an event took place in Jerusalem thatchanged the history of our lives. Today, we are here to remember thatday: the day on which the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ,...
Year 3 Meet Luce!
Luce is the official mascot of the Jubilee year! The Vatican chose Luce to connect with young people and inspire hope and faith in the younger generation. The name 'Luce' means 'light' in Italian, symbolising hope and guidance on the journey of faith!. Luce is our...
Year 3 – Glow Dance!
Year 3 loved our Glow Dance Festival!
Year 3’s World Book Day!
On Thursday 6th March, everyone at The Willows celebrated World Book Day. Year 3 came dressed as their favourite book characters for the day and there were some incredible outfits! We spent the entire day off-timetable, celebrating our love of reading, our favourite...
Year 3 – Safer Internet Day!
Year 3 have had lots of discussions around Safer Internet Day this week. We completed lots of tasks, challenges and discussions on varying themes relating to how to stay safe online and using technology responsibly. The children enjoyed working together to try to...
Year 3 – Roman Recruits!
On Tuesday Year 3 had a very special visitor. At first, we didn't understand what he was saying as he was talking to us ion Latin! We found out that his name was Marcus and that he had come to train us up for the Roman army. We spent the morning learning Latin...
Year 3 – Escape from Pompeii!
Year 3 are enjoying their new text ‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Christina Balit in English! They have spent lots of time this week really trying to understand the character’s emotions and have even created their own drama pieces depicting their own escape from the...
Year 3 – Roman Spies!
Year 3 spent the afternoon being Roman spies! They had to imagine they had been sent on a mission to find out what Britain was like before the Romans invaded. Their task was to find out what they could and report back to their commanders to help them prepare for the...
Year 3 Happiness Day!
On Wednesday 15th January, the whole school took part in a Happiness Theme Day to beat away the January blues! Year 3 themed their lessons for the entire day on self-expression, our feelings and ways to promote mindfulness and relaxation. The children studied happy...
Year 3 – Rock Investigation!
Children enjoyed being geologists and carried out investigations to compare and group different rocks. There were three different investigations that the children needed to find the best rock for each job described. – Investigation 1 was to test how hard wearing the...
Year 3 – Rock Dances!
Year 3 enjoyed making dances to demonstrate each part of the rock cycle! The rock cycle is the process by which rocks of one kind change into rocks of another kind. There are three main kinds of rocks: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. It can melt...
KS2 Christmas Disco!
KS2 enjoyed their Christmas Disco in the hall together. We enjoyed dancing, pass the parcel and even a snowball fight to finish! A BIG thank you to our PTFA for providing prizes and treats to make our time even more fun!
Christmas Dinner!
We all enjoyed a beautiful Christmas dinner. A HUGE thank you to the wonderful ladies in the kitchen for making such a fabulous lunch and for such an amazing Santa's grotto at the hatch!
Year 3 Annunciation
Year 3 have been thinking about the angels that bring messages from God in the Gospel. They spent time reading stories from both Luke and Mark's Gospels and enjoyed hot seating Mary to ask her questions about how she was feeling when the Angel Gabriel was sent down...
Year 4 Plague Doctor Visit!
To bring our topic of The Great Plague to life, Year 4 had two very special visitors join them in class last week! A plague doctor and his young apprentice came to Year 4 to explain all about the remedies and 'cures' plague doctors from the 1600's would administer to...
Year 3 Art
Year 3 enjoyed using paint to explore tint and shade in art.
Year 3 – Advent promises
Year 3 spent time thinking about their Advent promises after leading a special Advent Prayer and Liturgy.
Year 3 Advent Celebration
Year 3 led prayers to mark the beginning of Advent. They explained that Advent is a time of waiting in joyful hope for the coming of Jesus and shared a reading from the book of Isaiah. The children told us that the first candle on the Advent wreath is sometimes called...
Dance Festival 2024
We are all immensely proud of, not only the energy and sparkle that the children put into their performance on stage, but the way that they conducted themselves backstage in terms of behaviour, manners and caring for and supporting each other. Every single one of them...
Year 3 Stone Age DT
Year 3 were asked to design and make suitable packages that could transport a Stone Age artefact to a museum in London. The children had to research existing packaging, design their own package based on the design brief, make a prototype and then make their own...
Year 3 Visit St Michael’s!
On Tuesday, Year 3 walked to St Michael's Church to visit the Roman exhibition. They were led in a very interesting session about Kirkham as a Roman town by Mike Glover who told them all about the big archeological digs that had taken place over years to collect the...
Year 3 Diwali Workshop!
Year 3 started the week learning all about the celebration of Diwali.They loved taking part in all the different activities celebrating light, creating Rangoli patterns and dressing up!
Year 3’s Creation Prayer and Liturgy
Year 3 led their first whole school prayer and liturgy of the year and were absolutely amazing! They delivered the message to care for God’s Creation confidently and even shared their favourite Creations with us. The children shared the story of Creation and reflected...
Year 3 Survival Treasure Hunt!
We are loving learning about the Stone Age in Year 3. We are learning all about the different periods of the Stone Age and know that during the Mesolithic period (middle Sone Age), people were hunter-gatherers in order to survive. In teams, we thought about what life...
Year 3 Create Cave Art!
Year 3 looked at the famous Caves of Lascaux, in France. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They consist mostly of primitive images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. The images...
Year 3 Glow Volleyball
What a fantastic time we had playing glow volleyball. The children enjoyed using beach balls and glow up balls to play against one another . Everyone had a wonderful time and loved glowing in the hall!
Year 3 Forest School
Take a look at the pictures below of our first session at Forest School of the year!
Year 3 Outdoor Adventurous Activities!
In PE, Year 3 have been working on their communion and team work skills through a series of different activities. They have taken part in many different activities such as passing a hoop without breaking the circle and playing 'chicken run' where children worked in...
Year 3 Forces
Year 3 have been learning about simple forces – pushes and pulls. We push and pull objects to do many different things. When we push or pull objects we can move the object, change the shape of the object or make the object change direction. We push and pull objects...
Year 3 Creation
In RE, Year 3 reminded themselves of the story of Creation form the book of Genesis and in groups created dances using movements for each of the days in the story. Year 3 enjoyed reminding themselves of the story of Creation from Genesis. In groups, they created...
Year 3 – Advent
Year three led prayers to mark to beginning of Advent. They reminded everyone how important this time of waiting is and how import it is to find room in our hearts for Jesus as we prepare for His coming at Christmas. We lit the first candle on our beautiful Advent...
Year 3 – Outdoor Learning Day!
On Thursday 28th March, the whole school celebrated our Willows' Outdoor Learning Day. Activities, games and challenges were organised by teachers and specialist external providers to ensure that the children could learn outside, ALL DAY! Thankfully the weather held...
Year 3 – Volcanoes and Earthquakes!
The children enjoyed creating their own volcano dances to help them remember the difference between active, dormant and extinct volcanoes! They also enjoyed getting outside and using the mats to show how the earth's tectonic plates move and cause earthquakes!