Year 3

Summer Term 2

Here is an overview of our exciting learning experiences for the second half of the Summer Term.  Amongst lots of other fun activities, we are  looking forward to our workshop with Bollywood Belles where we will learn all about Indian dancing, 

'Souper' instruction writing

In English, we have produced an excellent set of instructions for the soup that we made. 

Soup  Making

In Design and Technology, we learnt all about seasonality and how different foods are grown and produced.  In groups, we then made soup and learnt the correct techniques for using knives safely.

Stone Age Tools

We had lots of fun making cave tools in the forest school.

Summer Term

Welcome to the summer term.  In Year 3 for the first half term we are excited to be learning all about the Stone Age.  Here is a brief overview of the main curriculum content for this half term.

Art

In Art, we studied and sketched Tutankhamun's death mask.  Then using mod roc we created our own death mask.

Howard Carter's Diary discovering Tutankhamun

In topic, we loved learning all about the discovery of Tutankhamun.  For our English writing, we put ourselves in Howard Carter's shoes and published diary entries about the exciting discovery.

 Egyptian Topic Day

Professor McGinty and his amazing time travelling machine came to visit us this half term. He brought  some incredible artefacts for us to handle including a cat mummy, papyrus, a sarcophagus, scarab beetles and canopic jars. We also made Saboob — an Egyptian flat bread, papyrus and clay shabti dolls. We all looked wonderful in our Egyptian costumes.

Spring 2

Spring  2 continues with our exciting topic of Ancient Egypt.  We are really looking forward to our topic day with Professor McGinty and our sharing assembly the week after.  Please find our songs for the assembly below for your children to practise.

 Egyptian Topic Day

In maths we used our problem solving skills to make pyramids and tried to spot and predict patterns. We learned that Egyptians wrote on hieroglyphs and had a go at writing our own names. For fun we used our teamwork skills to make the best mummy using toilet roll! In the afternoon we were archaeologist, digging up Ancient Egyptian artefacts and making deductions abut what they might be.  We also used our art and observation skills to make collars in the style of those worn by wealthy Ancient Egyptians.  

Spring Term

This term we are starting with an exciting topic day to kick off our new topic 'Ancient Egyptians'. Below is a weekly break down of the main subjects we will be covering.  We appreciate your continued support with reading, spellings and homework as this is really beneficial to your child's progress. Watch this space for updates and photos as we travel back to the Ancient Egyptians.

WWF Biscuit Sale Success.

For part of our Rainforest topic we have had lots of fun raising funds for the World Wildlife Fund! We worked in groups to make and decorate animal biscuits and sold them after school. We raised £174 and have adopted a leopard and panda, which we are looking forward to hearing all about soon.

 Autumn Term 2 Overview

Here is a brief overview for the second half of the Autumn Term.  We are continuing to learn about the rainforest and have lots of exciting projects for the children, including raising money for the WWF and making pneumatic animals in D & T.  In addition to this we will be starting our Taking Care Project in PSHE  and continuing to work on team games and ball skills within  PE which links with our School Value of the term, Team Work. 

Brandon Marsh Trip 

We had a fantastic day today at Brandon Marsh in the sunshine. We took part in pond dipping, bird watching, mini beast hunting and learnt all about food chains. All the children thoroughly enjoyed it and behaved impeccably and were great ambassadors for Bridgetown Primary School.  We are looking forward to seeing their homework where they will create posters to promote Brandon Marsh. 

Assembly Song Words 

Here are the songs for our harvest assembly.  Please listen to them and practise as often as you can. 

Welcome to the year 3 page.

During the Autumn term our topic is The Rainforest. Here is a brief overview of the topics that we will be covering throughout the first half term. 

In addition to the above, we will also be covering ball skills in PE, believing and belonging unit in PSHE, and learning all about Festivals and Harvest through RE. 

We are really looking forward to our school trip to Brandon Marsh on Thursday 4th October and sharing our Harvest Assembly on Friday 19th October.