Year 3 News
Mrs E. Blenkinsop
Hi, I am Mrs Blenkinsop. Over the summer break I got married.
Welcome to Year 3, where we love to create amazing memories and learn lots of new things. Outside of school, I will often be found on my big, comfy sofa reading a book, walking my dog Duke, or at the gym. Moving into KS2 can be quite nerve-racking, so I am here to make that big jump with you. Let’s smash it!
- 15/09/23
15/09/2023
This week in class we have been asking ourselves: 'What is a seed?', 'What is a worldview?' and 'How do we partition numbers up to 100?' Next week we will be asking ourselves: 'How does a seed grow? and 'What is a religious worldvi...Read Full Story - 08/09/23
- 14/07/23
14/07/2023
In Year 1 this week we have been very courageous because we have been thinking about moving to Year 2 and getting ready for our Transition week next week. We have been very kind and curious at the same time because we have been very lucky to have a visitor in Y1 today. Alisdair Laird, who is he Prie...Read Full Story - 30/06/23
30/06/2023
In Y1 this week we have been courageous in building our bridges because it was tricky making a free-standing structure but we persevered. We have been curious about sports day and had a practise of the races doing a brilliant job especially with our listening skills and we have been kind by joining...Read Full Story - 23/06/23
23/06/2023
In Y1 we have been very curious about explorers and have learnt bout Ernest Shackleton who tried to reach the South Pole. Please ask your child where that is. We have been kind by thinking about what makes us different and how we should use kind words to anyone even if t hey look different to us and...Read Full Story - 16/06/23
16/06/2023
In Y1 this week we have been curious about fractions again and have learnt about quarters so that we can share our birthday cakes and pizzas evenly! We have been courageous in DT this week by not giving up when the activity was tricky. We learnt how to join a cylinder shape to a piece of card and we...Read Full Story - 09/06/23
09/06/2023
In Y1 this week we have been very curious about different jobs that we might do when we are older and have learnt about the job of a civil engineer who designs bridges and we tried to build some ourselves and discovered that if we folded paper into triangles like a fan, we made it stronger. We have...Read Full Story - 26/05/23
26/05/2023
In Y1 this week we were very courageous on our trip to Dalby as it was such a big adventure and we had an amazing time looking for clues and meeting Zog the dragon on our travels. We have also been very curious about what animals eat and we got to dissect (pretend) poo to find out if an animal was a...Read Full Story - 19/05/23
19/05/2023
In Y1 this week we have enjoyed lots of new learning and have been particularly curious about how to use clay and how to stick it together. We have made clay ties with animals from the Polar regions on. We have been courageous in PE by throwing a ball in the air and trying to clap as many as t...Read Full Story - 12/05/23
12/05/2023
In Y1 this week we have enjoyed lots of new learning and have been particularly curious about animals who live in the polar regions of the World. We have grouped animals who live in the Arctic and Antarctica ad learnt about the weather in these places. Ask your child what is special about the Arctic...Read Full Story - 28/04/23
28/04/2023
In Y1 this week we have been very kind by working together in groups and listening carefully to each other to complete a Science activity. In that Science activity we were curious about animals and how to group them and we did an amazing job of thinking about lots of different categories to sort the...Read Full Story - 21/04/23
21/04/2023
In Y1 we have been very kind to each other by helping and supporting with our work and by listening very carefully to Mrs Lawson who almost lost her voice this week! We have been very curious about our new topics for this term and thought about the questions we will be answering and we have been cou...Read Full Story