Year 3 Blog 2025/26

Continuing with our focus for this half-term, in the last few weeks Year 3 have concentrated on athletics both indoors and outdoors. The students have been participating in a wide range of athletic activities, developing their skills in throwing, jumping, and running. In the throwing events, they practised target throwing, chest push, javelin, and shot put, learning to apply correct technique and maintain control. During the jumping activities, students enjoyed taking part in the speed bounce and long jump, where they were encouraged to improve their coordination, balance, and power. As part of their field events, the children also took responsibility for marking and officiating the results within their own groups. This not only supported their understanding of how events are scored but also helped them develop fairness, accuracy, and teamwork. We incorporated a variety of relay races, including those using reverse boards. The week concluded with endurance running, where pupils show...

 PSHE this week was all about communities. We talked about what a community is and the different communities we might belong to. We then talked about how belonging to a community might make us feel and the benefits of belonging to a community. 

 In English this week we started learning about paragraphs. We looked at information from our book It starts with a seed and attempted to group similar information together as we learnt that paragraphs are sentences about the same subject, person or place. 

 This week in history we moved onto the Mesolithic period of the Stone Age looking at the Cheddar man the oldest skeleton in Britain. We discovered what historians can find out about the cheddar man from the evidence including what he looked like and how old he was. 

Year 3 revised numbers to 12.  We practiced saying numbers to 12 .We counted  animals and then  wrote the numbers next to the pictures on the sheet. 

 This half term in computing year 3 have been learning how to use canva and they are loving creating their own documents using the software. 

In history this half term we are learning about the Stone Age. We have learnt that the Stone Age is split into three parts: the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. We played a fantastic game of charades to learn about what Stone Age people did, before drawing our own picture of what the Stone Age was like. Finally we thought about whether we would like have lived in the Stone Age or not and gave reasons why or why not. A lot of children thought that they couldn’t live without the technology!