Welcome to Year 3

Croeso i Flwyddyn 3

Teacher: Mr Beynon and Mrs Webb

PPA: Mrs Anderson

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Jones

General Information

FRUIT (Ffrwyth)

Every morning, the children may buy a healthy snack for 20p or £1 for the week. The Year 6 children wash and sell the fruit and count our earnings. We use any profit to buy some special extras for the children in their lessons.

WATER BOTTLES (Poteli Dwr) 

We are trying to reduce the number of bottles we throw away so are

encouraging the children to bring a water bottle to school or buy a Greenway one for £1.50, available from the school office. They may fill it at the fresh water fountain. They can keep this in class and re hydrate throughout the day.

PE (Ymarfer Corff)

Thursday and Friday (Dydd Iau a Dydd Mercher)

We will have PE on a Thursday and Friday afternoon. We will either be indoors or outdoors depending on the weather. Can children please wear shorts, t-shirt and bring trainers or other suitable shoes.

During the colder months, can children please bring warmer clothes (joggers/jumper) for when we go outside.

SPELLINGS AND HOME READING (Sillafu a Darllen)

Reading- Learners will get to choose a reading book from the school library and take it home to read on a Monday. If they finish their reading book in the week they can bring it back in on Friday to choose a new book.

Spellings- Learners will also take home spellings on a Monday. The will often be High Frequency words or words linked to our context and learning. Please help your child learn their spellings.

Summer Term- Blue Planet

This term we are looking at Blue Planet. We’ll be diving into the wonders of the world’s oceans—exploring marine creatures, their habitats, and the different layers that make up the ocean environment. Using AI, we’ll bring imagination to life by creating our own sea creatures and designing unique aquariums. Then, with the help of technology, we’ll produce eye-catching leaflets to showcase our creations. In the second half of the term, our focus will shift to sea pollution, as we investigate its impact on ocean life and explore ways we can help protect our planet’s incredible marine animals. What a great last term in Year 3!

Spring Term 2025- Exploration and Discovery

This term we will be looking at Exploration and Discovery. We will be discovering who the Egyptians were and what they discovered, the life of a Pirate and their explorations, famous explorers and the countries they discovered as well as the ultimate explorer- Neil Armstrong. We will also get the opportunity to explore our own environment by discovering what minibeasts and animals we have in our school surrondings. It promises to be an exciting term!

Autumn Term- Globe Trotting

This term we will be travelling all over the world in our topic of "Globe Trotting". We will be learning about the continents, oceans, different languages  and comparing different countries to Wales.

Pupil Voice will lead the learning and the children have already come up with some exciting ideas about what they want to learn and experience!

Keep an eye on this page to see the fantastic learning the class will be doing.

In literacy we have been looking at the story of the world's most famous bear- Paddington!

We did a character description about him as part of our Hot Write and wrote instructions on how to make a Marmalade Sandwich. The children did a great job of making the sandwiches, writing the instructions and tasting them. It is fair to say the children don't like Marmalade sandwiches as much as Paddington does!

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2023-24

BLYWYDDYN 3

Teacher: Mrs Herring-Jones

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hayes, Mrs Camilleri and Mrs Dossa

PPA: Mrs Anderson

Reminders

FRUIT / Ffrwyth

Every morning, the children may buy a healthy snack for 20p or £1 for the week. The Year 6 children wash and sell the fruit and count our earnings. We use any profit to buy some special extras for the children in their lessons.

WATER BOTTLES/ Poteli Dwr 

We are trying to reduce the number of bottles we throw away so are

encouraging the children to bring a water bottle to school or buy a Greenway one for £1.50, available from the school office. They may fill it at the fresh water fountain. They can keep this in class and re hydrate throughout the day.

PE Ymarfer Corff

Wednesday and Friday

Autumn Term - Tymor yr Hydref

OUR TOPIC THIS TERM

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

PUPIL VOICE

We love that we get to decide and have a say in the things that we learn, we worked together to come up with lots of ideas. Look at all the ideas we have!

Our Hot Write this week is an 'informal letter'. Baboon is working hard on the moon, but he misses his mum on Earth, he decided to write a letter to her...

Part of our Oracy build up...    We were very creative learners this week!

We had a fantastic time at Techniquest exploring all the wonderful way things work!

We had a lovely walk around Cardiff Bay and looked at famous landmarks which made us very proud to be welsh!

We ordered fruits from around the world, we couldn't believe where all our fruit had come from. We ordered asda delivery to out school. It is important to keep passwords private when ordering online!

We made our fruit kebabs and then wrote up the recipe in our HOT WRITE!

We learnt all about the welsh xmas traditions in the TED THE BEAR WORKSHOP!

We loved exploring St Fagans, what a beautiful place!

We love doing our missions!

Calculation Station - building a pyramid, using times tables to make the different layers.

Creation Station - landmark sunsets.

Investigation Station - Using beebots to create different algorithms, travelling from one landmark to the other.

Communication Station - Using VR goggles to describe famous landmarks.

Mae Blwyddyn 3 yn cael eu gwers Darllen Grwp yn y Gymraeg pythefnosol. Maen nhw'n darllen yn dda iawn.

Year 3 are having their fortnightly Welsh Guided Group Reading lesson. They read very well.