Year 3 Blog - Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 9:56am

Home Practice - Sumdog

Maths challenge - 2D shape

Spelling challenge - Week 5 spellings

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them.

forget           forgetting         forgotten           begin      beginning

beginner         prefer         preferred         gardening        gardener

limited         limiting          limitation         cleaning            cleaner

reader       reading         writer           writing             footballer

Counting – We have been choosing different numbers to count up in 10s (as noted in the blog last week). Can you do the same for counting in 5s? For example: 3, 8, 13, 18, 23...

Reading - Please try to read at least three times a week.

Please remember to bring book bags each day.

English

Our new book for this week was called 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth'. We discussed the features of instructions, found the features in a text, created a bank of adverbs and wrote our own set of instructions.

We also celebrated National Poetry Day. We wrote an acrostic poem about Autumn.

Maths

We made 2D shapes on geoboards which had certain requirements (such as: make a pentagon with one right-angle). We also recapped how to measure length using a ruler and how to convert centimetres into metres.

P.E.

We practised the front and back strokes, focusing on the correct arm movements.

R.E.

We compared four different saints of creation: St Mother Théodore Guérin, St Francis of Assisi, St Martin de Porres and St Kateri Tekakwitha.

Science

We practised contracting and relaxing our arm muscles.

History

We identified Neolithic tools.

Forest School

We remembered how to be safe around the fire. Mr Corbett lit the fire and we were invited to toast marshmallows.

Some of us had a go at lighting our own fire with the flint and steel.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Hannah

Super Learner: Cara

Superstar Writer (poet of the week): Seb

Bookworm: Lara

Marvellous Mathematician: Jessie

Special Mentions: Harry and Freya for confidently explaining their science experiment results. Joshua W for never giving up!