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 happy to become part of The Willows’ family. It’s been lovely to meet lots of you and I am 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 three wonderful assistants, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. Heaney and Mrs. Noble. On Wednesday mornings, Miss Mallinson will be teaching Music and Mrs. Spacey will be teaching French. 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!
Now that we are allowed to have assemblies together again, we have restarted our Star Award Assembly on Friday morning. This is a very special assembly where Mrs. Burdett tells us how amazing one of our friends has been this week – our parents are even allowed to come! Well done to all of our recent Star Award winners.
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 – I set homework every Friday on 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.
Year 3’s Latest News
Year 3 – Hunter-Gatherers!
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 had to be hunter-gatherers in order to survive. In teams, we thought about what...
Year 3 Stanley Park Trip
On Wednesday 29th June, Year 3 spent an amazing day at Stanley Park and the Outdoor Revolution climbing, low ropes and caving facilities. After a brief coach trip to Stanley Park, the children were quickly fitted with harnesses and helmets to tackle one of two...
Golden Mile Spring Competition Winners!
At The Willows, we try to provide lots of opportunities for our children to be active and achieve the recommended 1 hour of physical activity every day - one way we achieve this is by running in our Golden Mile competition. After 8 long weeks of running during active...
Year 3 – Blue Moose Dance
During the topic of Roman Britain in year 3 we had the Blue Moose Dance Academy come in and take a series of dance sessions while linking this in with our topic of Roman Britain. Over the weeks, we introduced new elements of dance to eventually have a whole class...
Year 3 – World Book Day 2022
The whole school celebrated World Book Day by coming into school dressed as a book character. It was fantastic to see all the children in their costumes, sharing with each other different books and stories. The children had a brilliant day taking part in lots of...
Festive Reading Challenge
At The Willows, we strive to provide opportunities for our children to engage in reading activities and actively read for pleasure. During this festive season, we would like to set you a reading challenge that shows how fun and creative reading can be. You need to...
Brass, String & Woodwind Christmas Concert
Tuesday 14th December saw all of our musicians join their families in the school hall to celebrate their musical talents and progress. Throughout the pandemic we have been incredibly keen to continue our music lessons in one way or another. Our peripetetic music...
Inter-House Dodgeball Competition Results
A big well done to all of our pupils across school who participated in our first inter-house competition of the year, playing dodgeball. Pupils from each year group competed against their peers from the other house teams in our dodgeball tournament. Each classes...
Spring Term Golden Mile Challenge
After the success of our first term's Golden Mile whole-school competition, I am excited to announce the start of a new competition for the Spring Term. At The Willows, we are passionate about encouraging children to live a healthy, active lifestyle and our Golden...
Year 3 and 4 Quidditch Club
This half term, Year 3 and 4 children have been invited to take part in Quidditch Club, after school on a Monday evening. Quidditch is a fast paced, multi-skilled sport which is probably best described as a mixture between dodgeball and handball. The children have...
Year 3 Star
We are all so proud of Victoria and the wonderful work she has been doing outside of school. Victoria decided she wanted to try to raise money to donate to charities who work with homeless people. She collected money from family, did odd jobs at home, sorted and...
Year 3 Stonehenge
We have enjoyed finding out all about Stonehenge. Did you know that work on Stonehenge started around 5,000 years ago but it took over 1,000 years to build, in four long stages? Archaeologists beiieve that the final changes were made around 1,500BC, in the early...
Year 3 – Baptism
When we are baptised we become a member of the Church’s family. Year 3 have been learning about the promises made for us at Baptism by our parents and our Godparents. We really enjoyed visiting church where Fr Andrew helped us find out about the structure of the Rite...
Whole School Mass
It was so wonderful to be able to go to church together again and celebrate Mass as a school family. For some of the children this was the first time that they have been able to go inside our beautiful chuch and witness how awe inspiring it is. We loved being able to...
New KS2 Equipment
Keeping our children active and healthy is a significant priority for us at The Willows. One of the ways that we do this is to continually invest in equipment and resources to keep our children engaged in being active. Over recent years we have installed willow...
Year 3 – Healthy Heads
Over the past few weeks we've loved welcoming Jane into school to deliver the Healthy Heads programme. As the name suggests, the programme aims to help the children understand their mental health more particular given the stressful times we have all been through...
Go Green for CAFOD!
This autumn, leading up to the COP26 climate talks in November, CAFOD are asking us to ‘Go Green’ by taking on a climate-related fundraising challenge. In school, we spent the day reducing the amount of energy we use - turning of lights, using less water etc. We also...
Our School Orchestra
We just had to share this piece of Latest News with everyone! We are so incredibly proud of our School Orchestra. Music and the performing arts have taken a massive hit over the past two years as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Mrs. Barnett has been passionate...
Climbing Wall
As a reward for our children's continued hard work and perseverance through such difficult times and also for their incredible efforts running the Golden Mile, we arranged for a mobile climbing wall to visit school on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th May 2021. Over the...
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross The Stations of the Cross are a 14-step Catholic devotion that commemorates Jesus Christ's last day on Earth as a man. Walking with Jesus through the last hours of his life is one way of explaining the tradition of praying the Stations of the...
Ash Wednesday Mass
Ash Wednesday Mass On Wednesday 17th February, our children would normally gather together to celebrate Ash Wednesday. Fr. Andrew would lead us as we process around the hall offering our Lenten Promises. Given that Ash Wednesday falls during our half term, the...
Christmas Card Competition
Congratulations to Alice who won the school wide Christmas Card Competition. Each year, throughout the school we hold a competition to see who can design the most creative Christmas card. Each class then submit their designs and a winner is chosen for each class....
Recycling!
Here at The Willows, we’ve taken our recycling to the next level. Every class now has two recycling bins: a paper and cardboard bin and a general waste bin. In the Key Stage communal areas, we have a paper and cardboard bin and a plastic waste bin. Every child now has...
