Well done Year 3 we’ve arrived at half term and what a lovely week it’s been to finish on!

This week we’ve been celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme was 'This is my place' and was all about our children recognising that a sense of belonging is vital for their wellbeing. One of the lovely activities we did in Year 3 was to create a ‘map’ of places, groups, people and things that make us feel we belong.

In Maths, we’ve been learning about right angles and how to use a right-angle checker to help us recognise them in 2D shapes.  After half-term we’ll be learning about perpendicular and parallel lines and their differences as well as practising our x4 tables. 

In English, we’ve been reading a new book by Georgina Stevens called ‘Stella and the seagull’ for our new topic on persuasive writing.  We’ve discussed the character of Stella and how upset she is about her pet seagull becoming ill after eating plastic it found on the local beach.  After half-term we’ll be learning when to use rhetorical questions and imperative verbs effectively in persuasive speeches.

Finally, in History we’ve been investigating why the Roman army was so successful and this was the week we could use the fantastic scutums (shields) and gladiuses (swords) we’d made to practise Roman drills.  We re-enacted a defensive and then an attacking formation called the Testudo and the Wedge that made the army such a formidable force. Our shields looked very impressive as we stood in formation!

Congratulations to our Stars of the week and to our Learner too.

We hope you have a lovely and restful half-term break and we look forward to seeing you in Spring 2.

Best wishes

Mrs Howard, Miss Cicero and Mrs Mills