Year 3

Term 1 Summary:

Welcome to Term 1 in Year 3! The children have had a great start to the year and settled well into KS2. Our topic this term has been ‘What lurks beneath our feet?’ and has had a Geography focus looking at the Earth’s layers and how volcanoes and mountains are formed. Linked to this, the children thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘The street beneath our feet’ to take a deeper look at what lies beneath the Earth’s crust. The children also created their own layers of the Earth using play dough.

The children have also been able to link their Geography knowledge they have built up this term to their writing and they have written some fantastic newspaper reports about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii. The children have loved learning about this volcanic eruption, which clear to see in their reports.

In Science, we have been looking at forces and magnets and investigated how strong magnetic forces can be. We have also learnt about pneumatic systems in DT and the children have designed and made their own egg box muncher/monster incorporating a moving part using a pneumatic system. The children loved doing this and designed and created some amazing monsters!

We have also began learning some French and sign language and the children have really enjoyed this and surpassed my expectations on how quickly they have been able to pick up both new languages. Well done to such a fantastic start to the year!

PE days

Dawlish: Thursday        Teignmouth: Thursday            Exeter: Friday

Instagram Pages

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Dawlish – same as last year

Teignmouth – even_swindon_teignmouth_24_25

Exeter – even_swindon_exeter24_25