Year 3
Class Saint: St John Bosco
Class Teacher: Mrs. R. Tsai
October 2026
Our Year 3 class have settled back into the new school year routine incredibly and are well underway with their learning across all subjects. This half term they have enjoyed exploring creatures from The Black Hat story where the children were able to create their own animals and complete a big write using descriptive writing, rhyming words and alliteration. In math we have been focusing on place value (hundreds, tens and ones) and performing daily arithmetic tough 10 sums which the children have enjoyed the challenge of each morning. Our religious studies have tied in nicely with our class Catholic Social Teaching principal of Stewardship and how we can care for the world God has created for us linking to the unit for this term of Creation and Covenant. The children have had great discussion about the importance of God’s world and how he wants us to live in it and treat not just each other but earth itself with care and kindness. We even made sloths to hang in our classroom as this is our class animal that represents Stewardship! Art has seen the children explore the illustrations of Quentin Blake – they have had the opportunity to sketch their own characters and have started to develop these into 3D sculptures first with tin foil and finally with air dry clay.
In particular this half term the children have enjoyed our Science lessons where we have been learning about the skeleton, joint and muscles in the human body. We have looked at real x-rays from when my son broke his leg and saw how over the weeks the bones repaired themselves, performed an experiment where we made predictions and compared if having longer legs allows you to jump further, and made our own muscle models. We also looked at how animals can be vertebrates (have a backbone and a skeleton) or invertebrates (have no backbone but can have an exoskeleton) – the snake led to an interesting discussion of how can it be so wiggly yet have a skeleton!
Well done Year 3 on a fabulous start to this school year! You are all trying your best as per our class motto and I am proud of all your learning this half term.
