Year 3 - Weekly Updates

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In English this week, we wrote a story based on ‘The house that once was’. The house in the story was empty. We decided that the people that used to live in the house were now shipwrecked on an island. We wrote a story telling the owner's story. The children came out with lots of different ways they could have been shipwrecked. There were sea monsters, angry sharks and violent storms. All of the stories were great to read.

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In English this week, we wrote a setting description to support our story writing next week. We started with a grammar focus and looked at challenging ourselves with our vocabulary in expanded noun phrases. Then we moved onto looking at fronted adverbials. Towards the end of the week, we planned and wrote a setting description. I was so impressed with the vocabulary and word choices the children were able to come up with.

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In English this week, we have been looking at poetry. We looked at the different features of poetry and how they had been used in a number of poems. We then had a go at writing our own. At the end of the week, we looked at story structure and used it to plan our own stories. 

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In English this week, we have started looking at a new text called ‘A house that once was’. We wrote diary entries as if we were one of the characters that discovered the ‘house that once was’. We thought about how we would feel if we discovered the house. I was really impressed with their writing this week! By the end of the week, we started studying poems ready for our next piece of writing. We looked at the different features of poetry and tried to find them within poems.

It has been lovely to have the children break after their Christmas Holidays. They have been so focussed and ready to learn this week!

I can’t believe we have completed a term of year 3 already!
We have had a fun final week before Christmas!
We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

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In English this week, we finished looking at riddles and we all had a go at writing our own riddles. Some of the riddles are up in the library to see if other children can solve them. Towards the end of the week, we have been looking at instructional writing. We looked at how to use imperative verbs (bossy verbs) to make sure our instructions are clear. Next week, we are going to write instructions for ‘How to Dig Up and Preserve a Dinosaur’. We watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20su_vqPZx4 and had a go at ‘digging up’ our own dinosaurs.

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Thank you to those who came to our fossil workshop this week. The children loved making fossils and sharing their science learning with you all.

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In English this week, we continued looking at ‘The pebble in my pocket’. We all wrote an explanation text, explaining how the pebble starts as an erupting volcano and ends up in our pockets. Towards the end of the week, we started looking at the vocabulary that we will encounter in our next book, ‘A book of bones’. We created a glossary to help support us with our learning next week.

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Firstly, I would like to say well done to Deer Class and their efforts in this week’s ‘England Rocks’ TTRS competition. They were placed 15th out of 370 primary schools in Hampshire and 2269th out of 28,411 classes in the whole of England which included both primary and secondary schools.