W/b 29.09.25
Poetry Week
This Thursday, 2nd October, was National Poetry Day. To celebrate this, we had a full week of studying, writing and enjoying different poems and different types of poetry. On Monday, we studied a really funny poem called ‘Word Play’ by Michaela Morgan. We loved this poem because it played with some words and mixed them up in funny ways, like “Is a butterfly a fly, made out of butter?” We then used this as inspiration to create our own poems!
On Tuesday, we had a poetry workshop online where a poet called Tom Roberts showed us the process he uses to write poems and talked about remembrance and helped us to think about what remembrance means for us. On Wednesday, we learned a poem called ‘Skateboarding’ by Joseph Coelho. This poem described, very vividly, the feeling of going skateboarding with one of your friends with descriptive language. Then, we thought about fun times that we had played and used some of the techniques we learned from Joseph Coelho to write our own poems.
On Thursday, we warmed up with some nice games to get us thinking about play and gave us a chance to play with words, like a question game and word association games. Then, we learned about the AABB rhyme scheme and how it can work. We used this to help us write our own poems based on what we can hear in the classroom, on the yard and, using our imagination, outside of school. Finally, on Friday, we took the poem that we liked most from this week, either one that we wrote or studied, and performed it for each other.
What a great week we have had celebrating poetry!
W/b 22/09/25
English – Elf Road
We have just finished our first big write in English, and it was a very exciting story to start the year with! A few weeks ago, Mr Robinson got an email from Mr Hamilton showing a little portal in school, but when we went to see it, it had disappeared! We talked about where it could have lead and who could have used it. We had so many ideas and were so fascinated, that we decided to start learning about portals, which we did through a portal story called Elf Road.
This was a story about a boy called Billy, who found a door when walking one day which lead him to a magical land. We learned the text really well and came up with actions to help us to remember it. Then, we looked at some of the different techniques that were used, like commas in a list, similes and comparatives. Then, we started to come up with our own ideas for portal stories. Over the past week, we have been using these ideas to write our own stories, including all of the techniques that we learned through studying the Elf Road text. We have been to all sorts of magical lands and seen lots of different kinds of creatures!
W/b 15/09/25
Guided Reading
It has been another busy week in Year 3. We have done all of our usual job, but we have also had music workshop come in and do a fantastic workshop on songs from films! This week, we have also continued to study our guided reading book, The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Minnie Grey. This story has lots of great visuals and has been so much fun to read!
It is based off the nursery rhyme ‘Hey, Diddle Diddle’. In this story, the Dish and Spoon hear their song and decide to run away with each other, going on lots of exciting adventures and putting on shows for lots of people to see. Eventually, they fall on some hard times and spend lots of time apart, before reuniting at the end. This week, we have finished reading the story and talked about all the questions we still had and what we thought happened after the end of the story.
We have had a fantastic time learning about this story so far and we cannot wait to see where it goes next!
W/b 01/09/25
First Week in Year 3
Wow, what a start to Year 3 this week has been! It is always a big jump moving to the next year group, but the children have been fantastic in getting settled into a new classroom, with new teachers and we are so proud of all of them! We have spent time this week talking about what we would like and what we would not like to happen in our classroom, designing our dream classroom and our nightmare classroom.
In Geography, our learning has been centred around the name of our class, Southern Europe. First, we learned about some of the countries and used our Atlases to place them on a map so we knew where all of the countries were. Then, we learned about the capital cities and had a chance to draw the flags of each of these countries. Finally, on Friday, we did some food tasting where we could try some different foods from different Southern European countries! We tried:
We have all had a great time getting to know each other this week and I am sure this is going to be a fantastic year in Year 3!