Year 3

The Year 3 team consists of three teachers – Miss Bowers, Miss Wong and Mr West – who are well-supported by Mrs Gardner, Miss Dean, Mrs Warr and Mrs Bazes. Mrs Davidson also regularly supports teaching in Year 3. The Year 3 team is directed by the lower hub assistant headteacher, Miss Bateman.

As we are a junior school, the Year 3 team endeavour to bridge the transition between key stages and schools smoothly in the autumn term by introducing the children to new structures for their learning, and building on the vital skills and knowledge gained in Key Stage 1. The team places much emphasis on the children becoming independent and self-motivated learners with a strong growth mindset, in order lay the foundations needed for the rest of their time at SEJ.

Our updated Year 3 long-term curriculum overview will follow shortly…

Year 3 updates

Welcome booklet

Please click here to access the ‘Welcome to Year 3’ booklet sent home at the start of the school year.

Project 1 information: Mighty Metals

Click here to view the intended learning journey of our Mighty Metals project.

Click here to view the knowledge organiser for our Mighty Metals project.

I enjoyed testing which materials were magnetic and which ones were not. Some materials, like on a tap, surprised me!

Harriet

Year 3 pupil

Mighty metals was fun. I really enjoyed testing my parachute and finding more about air resistance.

Rebecca B

Year 3 pupil

I loved creating and designing my own parachute. I found out it needed to be bigger and have less holes in it to work.

Ellouise

Year 3 pupil

Project 2 information: Rocks, Relics and Rumbles

Click here to view the intended learning journey of our Rocks, Relics and Rumbles project.

Click here to view the knowledge organiser for our Rocks, Relics and Rumbles project.

Click here to view the knowledge organiser for science unit about ‘Rocks and Soils’.

I liked it when it was earthquake day and I learnt that fossils were made out of sedimentary rocks. It was fun.

Mia K

Year 3 pupil

My favourite thing about the project was making fossils out of bread and sweets. I also learnt that the holes in pumice stone are made from the bubbles in lava.