Cross Gates
Primary School
Aspire, Learn, Succeed
Welcome to Year 3!
Our Year 3 teacher is Miss Jackson. We are supported by Miss Tran.
We are looking forward to completing lots of exciting learning this year. If you require any support or have any questions please do not hesitate to come and find us.
Our class author is Adrian Edmondson, we are Edmondson class. We are currently basing our English lessons around his books. We are really enjoying reading them together as a class.
Some of our favourite books so far...
Key notices:
PE: Monday and Tuesday.
Homework:
Autumn 1
A lovely way to finish the half term... making suncatchers in the style of cobwebs! We had a fantastic time and are ready for a well deserved break!
RE
We split into two teams and made two chants/ poems each to describe the summer and winter solstice!
Maths- Column Addition and Subtraction
We tried our first attempt at Column Addition and Subtraction today in Maths! We focused on accurate presentation and making sure we had one digit per box!
Guided Reading
In Guided Reading, we have been improving our fluency and prosody skills using our class book Tilly and the Time Machine! We have enjoyed reading aloud to our partner and even taking risk and reading aloud in front of the rest of the class.
RE
In our RE lesson today we were learning about ancient stories relating to the sun and how these link to religious events and festivals. We looked at sun dials and after making our own discussed how light and dark make us feel. We then researched all about ancient Gods.
PE
Action shots from today's PE Lesson with Mr K!
Geography- Exploring our Locality
Earlier on in the week, Year 3 went on their local walk all around Cross Gates! We enjoyed planning our route and then using our checklists to tick off all the physical features and key landmarks which we saw.
Science- Making Muscles!
In our science lessons we have been learning all about the human body, in particular, muscles! We learnt that the human body has over 600 muscles. We made our own model example to show how our arms bend and muscles stretch and move.
Northern Ballet Workshop
We really enjoyed our workshop with Northern Ballet yesterday! We enjoyed using our imagination and expression.
Science
We made our own skeletons today before labelling them with the correct scientific terms!
Maths- Adding 10s and 1s to a 3 digit number
Geography- Mapping
We made maps of our local area in Geography- we even added a key for the symbols we created!
RE
We continued our learning about Diwali and made our own Diva Lamps! We cannot wait to paint them when they are dry next week!
Drama
We had a fantastic time in this weeks drama lesson, we created our own human time machine and then created still images from the book Tilly and the Time Machine!
Raffle Ticket inspired Maths
We used raffle tickets to consolidate our understanding of partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and ones!
RE
In our RE lesson, we explored how light is important to Sikhs during Bandi Chhor Divas. We listened to the story of Guru Hargobind and made tassles for the cloak after we listened carefully.
RE- Traditional Dancing!
We learnt all about Diwali today in RE, we ended the lesson by performing some traditional dances.
PE- Hockey
We had a great time playing Hockey and learning all the key skills in PE today. We showed our competitive side and enjoyed cheering each other on!
Our first superstar Gold Book this year! An amazing drawing of an eye! Well done
Art
We have started the year with lots of Art in preparation for drawing our own self portraits! We paid close attention and used the right pencils to ensure detailed shading and accuracy.