Year 3

In Zakynthos Class this week…. The children completed their amazing Big Write adventure story, in computing, they investigated the weather and designed a machine that will use data from sensors…

This week in Zakynthos … In English, the children focused on writing a short adventure extract. The children considered various features to aid their writing, such as describing their setting…

This week… In English, the children focused on the recent writing techniques through ‘slow writing’. This allowed the children the opportunity to focus on how to use the techniques to…

In Zakynthos Class this week….. In English, the children focused on using the ‘Rule of 3’ to write a setting description. They considered using an appositive to describe a character…

This week in Zakynthos … In English, the children focused on using various descriptive words to write a powerful description. They applied their five senses to describe different settings considering…

This week in Zakynthos class…. In English we started a new text called ‘The Explorer’. The children looked at the use of powerful phases, retrieved details from the text, inferred what…

This week we focused this on art and science. In art the children learnt how to darken or lighten colours when mixing paint, they experimented with different art mediums to…

This week… In maths, Year 3 focused on multiples of 4 and 8, dividing by 4 and 8 and the 4 and 8 times tables. In English, we began the…

This week in maths, we continued with the unit on multiplication and division. We focused on understanding the difference between sharing and grouping when dividing. We also looked at the…

In Zakynthos this week…… For Maths, we have focused on making links between the 3, 6 and 9 times-tables. The children used resources such as arrays and hundred squares, as…