Welcome to Class 3
Our teachers for 2024/25 are Miss Mundy and Mrs Donson
Our teaching assistant is Miss Willetts
2024/25 Y3 Reading Spine
2024 -2025
Spring 2
Our topic in term 4 is ‘The UK’.
We will be learning which countries make up the UK, and finding out about their key geographical features.
Term 4 Science: Plants
This term we are being botanists and studying plants. We have asked lots of questions, including ‘What do plants need to survive?’, ‘How do plants reproduce?’ and ‘What is are the functions of different parts of a plant?’. We have also set up plant mazes to investigate phototropism and test if bean plants will grow towards light. They did!
Autumn 2
Our topic for Term 2 is The Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Please see our knowledge organiser and parent planner at the bottom of the page. This topic will also feed into Term 3’s topic: Historic Salisbury.
Our trip to Stonehenge
We spent the day exploring the local historic landmark and its significance in the Stone Age. We had a wonderful ‘Life in the Neolithic Era’ workshop that taught us all about the construction of Stonehenge and how Neolithic people survived the Stone Age. We had great fun experimenting with mini models to recreate the construction and spent time carefully considering how this impacted life in the Stone Age.
Salisbury Museum Trip
To further our knowledge of the Stone Age we visited the Salisbury Museum and attended a workshop called ‘Surviving the Stone Age’. We learnt about Stone Age animals that are now extinct and observed and handled some Stone Age artefacts. We asked lots of questions about living in the Stone Age and compared how it was different to the way we live now. Later in the day, we explored the Wessex Gallery and completed a scavenger hunt where we had to find information around the gallery and fill in our booklets.
Term 2 Science: Forces
We had an exciting start to our science topic this term. We spent an afternoon launching rockets on the playground and generating lots of questions to guide our science learning this term. We asked: What is a force? How does gravity work? How can birds fly? Why do magnets stick to things?
We then spent a lesson learning about gravity and experimenting with balance scales to make 1 Newton.
Autumn 1
In Term 1 we enjoyed using atlases in Geography. We identified famous mountain ranges, active volcanoes (including those in the Ring of Fire) and located where we are in relation to these.
We enjoyed learning about the different types of volcano (composite, cinder cone, shield) and the different stages of a volcano (active, dormant, extinct).
To kick start our ‘Volcanoes and Mountains’ Geography topic, we erupted our very own volcano and talked about what was happening.
Science workshop
We were lucky to have a workshop with the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust to launch our science and geography topics this term.
We had a fantastic afternoon learning about rocks, soil and fossils and we even made our own fossils to take home.
We explored the answers to questions such as ‘How are rocks made?’, ‘Why is soil important?’, ‘Why do we need worms?’, and ‘How are fossils formed?’.
