Welcome to our Year 3 class page!
Summer Term - Week 11
Dosbarth 3 have continued to embrace and enjoy their learning this week. We relished our second rugby session with the coach from the Dragons squad! He took us through our paces and showed us the key elements of tag rugby. Earlier in the week, we explored light using the Lego Spike kits and then used our practical skills to create our own telephones while we explored sound. In maths, we have been consolidating our understanding of column subtraction, and finally, we have started to retell the story of Snow White in Italian! Another busy week!
Summer Term - Week 9
We are so proud of the efforts, support and perseverance the children in Dosbarth 3 all showed on Wednesday afternoon during Sports Day. There were challenges faced, courage shown and real determination to do their best from everyone. Well done to all of Year 3, but especially Ty Melyn for their wonderful win! On top of this, the children have been continuing to explore erosion and how it shapes the coastline of Wales, improving how they tell the time, linked to the analogue clock and begun to plan their non-fiction explanation texts. We have also talked about the importance of sleep, especially after their busy week including swimming, cricket and Sports Day!
Summer Term - Week 8
This week has enable Dosbarth Tri to bring together their knowledge, understanding and practical skills to design, create and test their own rockets. This gave them the opportunity to apply their learning from within their Science work over the past term, connecting together their understanding of forces and air resistance to ensure their rockets were streamlined and effective after launch. Children showed collaboration and problem solving throughout the day and enjoyed testing their designs using 'rocket fuel'! As well as becoming engineers and scientists, the children have been exploring the impact of tides on our coasts, improving their swimming skills and exploring capacity.
Summer Term - Week 7
What a busy week Blwyddyn 3 have had! This week has been a week of firsts and new experiences for them, including their first swimming lesson, their first Newport Dragons rugby session and applying their sewing skills to their Space themed pouch. The children have shown resilience, collaboration and perseverance across all learning and have also shown their keenness and pleasure at achieving and improving. As well as this, the children have explored how the Moon influences tides on Earth, the different layers of the Earth and investigated angles all around us. Overall, a very busy week!
Summer Term - Week 6
We are extremely proud of Dosbarth 3 this week, they organised, planned and ran their Parent Engagement event independently, showcasing their learning to parents and family members with maturity. It was wonderful to be able to share their experiences and memories from the year so far with people from home. Da iawn! As well as preparing for our event, the children have been comparing, adding and subtracting fractions this week, continuing with their sewing and practicing their different stitches and they have begun to consider why we have different seasons in our year.
Summer Term - Week 5
Another busy week for Dosbarth 3, we have been looking at different ways to develop description and thinking about how to add detail to our story writing, including through personification. In Maths, we have continued to build on our understanding of fractions and Geometry, using our thinking skills to investigate and explore 3D shapes and their nets. Our preparations for next week's Parent Engagement event are well under way as we plan what and how we would like to share our learning with people from home. Finally, we have begun designing our space pouch for our sewing project.
Summer Term - Week 4
This week has seen Dosbarth 3 embrace collaborative learning across many areas of the curriculum. They have been working together to think about connections between Earth, the Moon and the Sun, collaborating through peer assessment and communicating with each other using emails. As well as this, we have been developing a deeper understanding of fractions, exploring roles in the Church and extending our vocabulary for 'Ble est ti?'
Sumer Term - Week 3
The Planets arrived in Dosbarth 3 this week! Using our developing knowledge and understanding of our Solar System, we worked collaboratively to walk the orbits and compare year lengths depending on a planet's position. We also answered the question "Could the Solar System exist without gravity?" Based on "The Lost Stars" we have started to think about our own ideas for losing tales, considering what could be lost and the impact it would have on those around them. In Maths, we have developed our knowledge and understanding of addition using both horizontal and vertical methods. We have continued our shape work creating 3D models of platonic solids using straws and pipe cleaners and identifying the polygons that make them. We were creative with needles and thread this week too when we started learning how to sew.
Summer Term - Week 2
Dosbarth 3 have become researchers and investigators this week. They have been using their reading and research skills to find out information connected to what people believed about space in the past and why. They have used 3D shapes in everyday packaging to explore the properties of 3D shapes and they have begun to immerse themselves in our new story 'The Lost Stars'. We have used percussion instruments to create shimmers and melodies and we have been developing our skills of throwing across athletics and cricket.
Summer Term - Week 1
A creative and curious start back to the summer term in Blwyddyn 3 this week. The children have been immersed in our learning connected to our new topic, including responding and reflecting to the music of Hans Zimmer, learning about the solar system and considering the important skills needed to be part of the Artemis 2 crew. We have also been using problem solving skills in maths, exploring 2D shapes and writing our own humorous poetry. A great start to the new term, bedigedig pawb!
Spring Term - Week 4
This week Blwyddyn 3 have been developing their justification skills, thinking carefully in maths and other areas of their learning about the why? In maths, the children have also been exploring and identifying 2D shapes, thinking about their properties and how to describe them. Literacy has seen us begin to write our own 'Change Tales', ensuring we have plenty of description and use the 'Power of Three' to describe. In science, we have explored different biomes of our word and in humanities, we have been understanding differences, how we re different from others and how people across Wales share and learn from their differences.
Spring Term - Week 3
Blwyddyn 3 have continued to build on and progress with their 'Brilliantly Different, Wonderfully Connected' learning this week. They have embedded the model text, inspired by the book 'We're All Wonders' by R.J. Palacio; using this to then allow them to innovate and plan their own Change Tale. The children have explored features of Wales, deepening their understanding of the term 'culture' and what it means to be Welsh. We have also begun to plan our Eisteddfod artwork, inspired by the Madhubani art style from India. Finally, the children have been linking their learning from 'gwisgo' last week to 'bwyta' this week, through Welsh games and conversation.
Spring Term - Week 2
Dosbarth 3 have enjoyed some new opportunities and experiences this week, including being hooked into their new literacy story 'We're All Wonders' and their first brass music lesson, as part of the Gwent Music First Experiences Project, which they thoroughly enjoyed. Throughout the week, the children have been embedding their understanding of expanded addition, including through the use of money and they have been developing a clearer understanding of map reading, Wales and her important features. They have also begun to learn about the religion of Hinduism and considered the question of 'Why I can't live on the moon?'.
Spring Term - Week 1
The children in Year 3 have settled back into the new term and our new learning with gusto! They have embraced our new topic 'Brilliantly Different, Wonderfully Connected' and have enjoyed the learning opportunities this has given them. We have begun by exploring the word 'Community', thinking about what this means and how we are linked together within our own community. In Expressive Arts, we have started to explore the features of the 'Madhubani' art style, using colour, line and pattern. Science has enabled us to begin identifying differences between living and non-living things, sorting and organising them according to a criterion and in our literacy, we have been using adjectives to create our own expressive performance poetry, before performing them to each other.
Autumn Term - Week 5
Dosbarth Tri have made us extremely proud this week, from developing independence when carrying out science investigations to singing acapella in Church at the Harvest celebration, they are given their all and tried their best at every opportunity. This week, they have been exploring character's emotions and how they change as a story develops, they have explored partitioning and smile addition in maths and begun investigating forces in our everyday lives. They have also been developing themselves as well rounded global citizens through participating in an RE workshop from ICE Wales and a Fairtrade assembly.
Autumn Term - Week 4
This week has seen Dosbarth Tri immerse themselves in life onboard the SS Great Britain, following our visit on Tuesday. The children have though about the importance of understanding facts and opinions when recalling information, they have considered the differences experienced by children on board the SS Great Britain and decided whether life on board was fair or unfair. In maths, we have been rounding to the nearest 10 and ordering numbers and today we have had fun learning some French greetings and conversation for Languages Day.
Autumn Term - Week 3
This week has seen the children in Dosbarth 3 gain in confidence and rise to challenges. They have shown that they are keen to persevere to problem solve and explore things in greater depth. We have seen this when reading our new model text in literacy, 'The Matchbox Diary' where we have considering meaning behind the different items in the story and discussing different emotions and memories connected to them. In maths, we have been ordering and comparing numbers and we all really enjoyed problem solving using the Nrich website. We have also been preparing for our visit to the SS Great Britain next week, thinking about life on board the SS Great Britain and why she was so unique for her time.
Autumn Term - Week 2
This week in Dosbarth 3, we have been striving to show our independence and resilience when working on new learning and facing new challenges. We have been investigating the 100 square and exploring how we can use it to support our understanding of bridging. In Literacy, we have been collaborating to generate rhyming words then using these to write effective limerick poetry. We have used colour mixing skills in Expressive Arts to create all the colours in the colour wheel, using only red, yellow and blue and finally, we have shown super supportiveness when logging in independently to Hwb and beginning to design posters on Adobe Express.
Autumn Term - Week 1
What a wonderful start to the new school year in Dosbarth Tri! We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the children and celebrating our first week together. We have hit the ground running, with a selection of different art, craft and handwriting activities ready for Usk Show. We have used our Place Value understanding in an imaginative and fun way to create pictures and we have begun our creative writing journey by writing 10 sentence stories. Finally, we have been practising our multiplication knowledge and working on some collaborative STEM challenges. We are really proud of the way the children have adapted to and settled into Year 3 so quickly, da iawn!