Holy Family Catholic Primary School
Welcome to our Year 3 Class Page!
Our class teacher is Mrs Birch
We are also supported by Miss Charlesworth and Mr Keating. Mrs Merdani teaches us on a Wednesday afternoon.
Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday.
April 2025
Geography - Identifying Yorkshire, Devonshire and Aberdeenshire on a map
Today, we spent time looking at OS maps and working out the different symbols on a key. We then worked in pairs to identify and find three locations with the UK on a digital map on the iPads. We looked at which areas were North of Leeds and which were South.
Wednesday 18th December French - Christmas in France
Today in French, Year 3 had lots of fun doing Christmas activities. We learnt a Christmas song to perform and created our own festive bookmarks. Year 3 enjoyed learning lots about Christmas in France.
A visit to Santa’s Grotto
Computing- IMotion
In ICT, this term we are learning about creating media. We have talked about the job of an animator and started to think about planning our creations. We created our story boards showing the characters and settings that we included in our stop-frame animation.
20/11/2024 French - Colours, Elmer Story
In French lessons this term, we are learning about colours. Today, we practised saying colours in French making our 'colour sentences' and produced a song in the tune of Frère Jacques. We love singing song in French.
19/11/24 RE- The Annunciation
In RE, we read the story of the Annunciation together and discussed Mary’s reaction and response to Gods call. The children worked in pairs to role play Mary’s encounter with Angel Gabriel.
13/11/24 Computing - Creating Media
In computing, the children in year 3 have been having lots of fun. They have been using techniques to create a stop-frame animation. This will help us to apply these skills to create a story- base animation using the tablets.
11/11/2024- French- Remembrance day in France
In today’s lesson, we learnt that in France, the First World War was fought in Northern France on fields where beautiful wild flowers like poppies and cornflowers grew, “ Le Bleuet, et le coquelicot”.We also learnt that Remembrance Day is a national day in France and schools are closed.
17/10/24 D-side Dave
In Year 3, D side Dave came to visit year 3. We spoke all about how to stay safe online. The children looked at the importance of staying safe online and what to do to stay safe. Year 3 love when D side Dave comes to year 3!
15/10/24 French - J’apprends le français!
In French we have been learning about finding France on the map as well as familiarising ourselves with Francophone countries on a world map too.
During this topic, we have also started to perform simple conversation using key greetings, ask and answer questions 'How are you?' and 'What is your name?' in French.
In todays lesson, we had so much fun making practising what we have learned so far.
We love learning French!
6.10.24 - Religious Education
In RE, we have been learning about 'The Christian Family'. As part of this topic, we have been discussing what a Baptism is and why it is so important. We looked at the symbolism used at a Baptism and today, the children made posters in groups to share everything they had learnt in our unit so far.
1.10.24 - Science
Today, we went on a hunt around our outdoor areas to observe what different types of soil were there. We learnt about how soil is the effect of weathering and how this links to our topic of Rocks. We really enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to zoom in at the different samples of soil we took.
9.9.24 - History
We have been learning about 'The Stone Age' in our history lessons. We started our topic by learning what the word 'prehistory' means and we made a human timeline to help us with our chronological understanding.
3.9.24 - Science
We have been learning about Rocks in science. To help us understand the different types of rocks, we used Starburst sweets to represent how they are formed. Sedimentary rocks were shown by layering the Starbursts and compacting them, we then heated them up in our hands to show the effects of how igneous rocks are created. We then carefully melted the Starbursts to show the impact heat had on the formation and how metamorphic rocks are created.
