Year 3 blog 12.09.25
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 3:17pm
All about Autumn and Harvest!
We’ve had another fun week in Year 3 this week. We have been focusing on our Harvest topic, learning about the importance of this time of year and expressing our gratitude/thankfulness. In preparation for our Harvest Service, we have also spent some time learning and singing some Harvest songs! The children sound incredible and they love a sing-a-long!
Autumn has also been a big focus this week. Together, we gathered ideas surrounding Autumn and built complex sentences to describe it. We used our 5 senses for inspiration and created a lovely piece of work. Some of our sentences include: ‘I can hear exploding fireworks in the night sky’ and ‘Under my nice warm bed, the night fades away from dark to a cool Autumn day.’
Linking to Harvest, our Science unit is all about plants. We have learned all about what plants need to grow, the 4 main parts of a flower and their functions, as well as how a seed grows into a flower. Our scientific vocabulary is most certainly expanding, understanding words such as nutrients and embryo (a baby plant). Next, we will look at germination. In preparation for this, we have started our first science experiment. We have sprinkled sunflower seeds onto wet paper towels in a shallow tray. We have been watering them every day so that we can experience germination first-hand!
Bringing our Autumn and Harvest theme all together is our new English unit called the Gardener. As part of the ‘experience’ for English, the children planted Daffodil bulbs into plant pots. Hopefully with all the correct conditions – water, light, warmth, air and nutrients, we can watch the plants grow!
In Maths, we are building upon our understanding of the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number. For example, in the number 346, we learned that 3 represents 300 or three hundreds, 4 represents 40 or four tens and 6 represents 6 or six ones. We have also been looking at partitioning numbers this way too! Using Dienes/base 10, the children have proved that numbers can be split flexibly. For example, 346 and can be split into 200, 100 and 46 as well as 300, 40 and 6. We came up with a huge variety of combinations – we are super mathematicians!
It was wonderful to see those who were able to attend our Welcome Meeting on Wednesday evening. To those who were unable to make it, you will find an information leaflet within your child’s bookbag. It includes our upcoming trips, homework days (the homework grid has been uploaded to our ‘Home Learning’ area) and other Y3 expectations. Home learning is set every Friday, to be completed for the following Wednesday. This week, the Maths homework is set on Doodle.
Have a great weekend everybody.
Miss Cook, Mrs Roberts and The Year Three Team