Another week has sped by in Year 3 and we’re fast approaching the end of our first term.  We celebrated the start of Advent with a lovely Assembly on Monday morning.  Father John led our Advent Assembly and Year 6 decorated our Christmas tree with Mrs Moseley’s support. The first candle on our Advent Wreath was lit and the class teachers read the Christmas story and talked about the significance of the colours used to decorate the tree.

In Maths, we’ve continued with our work on developing strategies to help us with our mental subtraction and have used regrouping to help us to subtract ones from 2 and 3-digit numbers. We’ll be moving onto more formal methods of addition and subtraction next. In English, we’re studying a range of different fables to help us write our own.  Last week we read ‘The Koala Who Could’ and ‘The Lion Inside’ both by Rachel Bright and this week we read and described the setting of another by the same author called ‘The Squirrels Who Squabbled’. We’ve created expanded noun phrases and next week we’ll be writing our own setting for a fable.

In RE, we’ve been using our Oracy skills to discuss the order of the Mass with a focus on the Liturgy of the Word as well as writing a letter to a friend who’s not been to a Mass describing what happens.

In Geography, we've continued with our topic on Volcanoes by using our Oracy skills again to decide whether we could live near a volcano. We decided that there are both good and bad points and the vote was split.  Finally, in Science, we are investigating Forces and Magnets and this week we investigated activities that involve either pull or push forces as well as a combination of both.

Many congratulations to our Learner and Stars of the Week. Have a lovely restful weekend and we’ll see you back in school on Monday.

Best wishes

Mrs Howard, Miss Cicero and Mrs Mills