Summer Term

In 3SO we are reading....

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.

In 3G we are reading...

Tomasz loves playing for United... but he isn't so keen on Ryan, the team captain - and bully. Ryan is always picking on him and making him feel bad. 

Other Reading...

In music we are preparing to perform a song called Plastic. It shares an important message about single use plastics and the damage they do to our environment - especially the ocean.

As part of this learning we looked at different ways people may share messages like thins including through a story.

Here is a story we listened to as part of this learning

In English we have been exploring non-chronological reports! Here are some examples of the reports and reviews we have been reading in class.

This Summer we have looked at a range of articles in both our science and history learning. These have helped us to deepen our understanding of the subjects we have been looking at. Some examples are given below.

Spring Term

This term 3SO are reading...

This term 3G are reading...

In English year 3 are reading...

Autumn Term

Previously year 3 were reading...

Joe, Beth and Frannie take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget!

Find out how they escape from the Land of Dreams.

And what goes wrong in the Land of Topsy-Turvy.

And who drives the runaway train in the Land of Do-As-You-Please...

Year 3 are reading Fantastic Mr Fox in English.

Mr Fox is a clever fox but the farmers are out to get him. Find out if Mr Fox manages to escape their evil clutches or is he just a little too late?

During the Autumn Term, Year 3 will be reading Stig of the Dump by Clive King.

The Diary of a Killer Cat

By Anne Fine

The hilarious confessions of a ferocious feline.

Poor Ellie is horrified when her cat, Tuffy, drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. Before long, another apparent victim arrives through the cat-door.

Can softhearted Ellie get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends up in even deeper trouble?

Especially when Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about?

Chock-a-block with lighthearted illustrations, readers experience a deliciously sharp and funny view of the world through a cat's eyes

Other books we have read this term...

Dinosaurs and all that rubbish

by Michael Foreman

They're stomping and stamping all over the place. Children will love finding out how the dinosaurs are trying to save planet earth from pollution.

I'll Take you to Mrs Cole

By Michael Foreman

A touching story about a young boy who overcomes his fear of a neighbour and her family and makes many new friends.

The Day I Swapped my Dad for two Goldfish

By Neil Gaiman

What is you wanted your best friends two goldfish so much you would swap anything for them, even your dad?

A hilarious adventure trailing a brother and sister as they desperately seek to find their dad who, it turns out, had been swapped bot just once but many times over. Where on earth could he be and where will this unique and wonderfully funny story end?

Throughout Autumn and Spring...

We have also been reading...

Through out this term we have also read a range of other texts for different lessons.

In Geography, we read fact files about the River Thames to improve our knowledge of where we live.

We have looked at different poems in English and read At the end of School Assembly by Simon Pitt and Ghoul School Rules by Sue Cowling. We then looked at Where Teachers Keep their Pets by Paul Cookson and finally we read We Lost our Teacher to the Sea by David Harmer