We have had quite an eventful week this week in 3V! We started of the week with our remembrance service, which gave us time for reflection and to honour those that have given their lives to keep us safe.

Then, as it is was Anti bullying week, 3V donned their glasses and baseball caps to take part in a Rap Off against other classes in the school. They did a fantastic job with a very tricky song and really looked the part. On Tuesday the children were then showing off their odd socks to demonstrate that it is good to be different!

I would like to particularly highlight how hard 3V have been working in Maths this week. 3V have been using column addition and subtraction involving exchanges between the tens and hundreds column. They have shown amazing resilience and perseverance with what can be a tricky skill to master.

This week we have been spending time looking at the life of stone age people. We have been finding out about the changes that took place as the world moved from the Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic and, eventually, to the Neolithic. We have imagined what life was like in a tribe and compared the hunter-gather life to that of a farmer.

The children even had a go at threshing wheat to see just how hard a farmers life would have been.

We have ben exploring our story this week and have been creating an exciting story beginning with a cliff-hanger ending! We have started to plan our shared write and the children have been coming up with amazing ideas that we are now ready to develop.

We have been working as Scientists this week and have been analysing and categorising different types of rocks. We discovered that there are many types such as Quartz, Slate and Pyrite. We made careful observations and recorded the various similarities and differences.

We even inferred the reasons why Pyrite is referred to as Fool’s Gold….

We have well and truly got into our stride this week. We have been focussing on Collaborative Learning Behaviour this week… We have been exploring what it is to be a good learner and what makes us all part of an effective team.

3V have been investigating Place Value and looking at the many ways you can represent a single number… especially when that number has 3 digits!

We also made use of the last of the summer weather to get outside and explore natural creations in our RE session.

We have had a really successful return to school. 3V have settled in brilliantly and have helped Mr Verney find his way around a new school.

We have been doing lots of work on our class charter and have set out our expectations and joint rules. It is a big jump going from Year 2 to Year 3 and I have been really impressed with how resilient 3V have been.!

One particular thing that we enjoyed this week was tasting the delicious apples from our trees!

Just a reminder that PE is on Monday and all children should have received their reading records this week.