Year 3

Welcome to Year 3

Our topic this year is ocean adventures, focussing this term on pirates.

In maths, we have been working hard on our place value knowledge. We have been using lots of different resources to help us represent numbers. These include using place value charts, counters and dienes. Recently, we have been using part-whole and bar models to present our work.

In English, we have been following the day-to-day activities of Jake Carpenter, a young boy who has joined a sailing ship. We have enjoyed pretending to be Jake and have completed an extract from his diary, predicting what he will experience and have learnt about life aboard a ship. We have just reached an exciting part when his ship has been taken over by pirates.

3BS have been learning to keep safe in the water by having weekly swimming lessons whilst 3LE have been creating a pirate dance based on the music from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Still to come, we will be researching and writing about Captain Blackbeard, exploring cam mechanisms and learning about famous ports pirates once visited.