Year 3 - Middle Unit

Our Year 3 students are working hard as they put the final touches on their Life Cycle Narratives. After weeks of planning, drafting, and developing their ideas, students are now revising and editing to fine-tune their writing. They have shown wonderful creativity, and we are looking forward to celebrating their polished, published stories very soon.

This week, we also launched an exciting new unit on poetry. Students have begun exploring the different moods poems can create and are learning how poets use devices such as rhyme, rhythm, and imagery to bring their poems to life.

In Maths, students have been building their confidence with division problems by exploring a variety of strategies. They have also worked with fact families to strengthen their understanding of the connection between multiplication and division. It has been wonderful to see students becoming more flexible and confident problem-solvers.

3D Life Cycle Project – Clarification

We have received a few questions from parents regarding the 3D Life Cycle Project. The project overview stated that the animal of the students’ choosing needed to go through metamorphosis. However, if your child’s chosen animal does not go through a physical change (for example, egg → tadpole → frog), this is absolutely fine.

Many students have chosen to base their project on the animal they studied in literacy, which is a great way to make connections between learning areas and also makes the project more manageable. We look forward to seeing the inventiveness and effort that students put into showcasing their chosen life cycles.

Year 3 Teachers

Nathan Spilsted (3NS), Mark Condon (3MC), Zoe Sutherland/Iain Sparrey (3SS)