Croeso i Flwyddyn Tri

Teacher: Mrs Sulway 

P.E. days - Monday and Wednesday (please come to school in P.E. kit)

Forest School - Friday afternoon, alternate weeks (Wk1)

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Class update

Spring 2025

10.3.25 - 21.3.25 

Prynhawn da, it is so lovely to see that Spring has come and the sun is shining. This marks the end of the Spring Bulb project. In October last year, the children planted a daffodil and crocus bulb and have been monitoring the daily temperature and rainfall ever since. It was so lovely to return after half term and see the flowers start to bloom. The children have been looking after their bulbs and noting down the date and height of when each flower appears. As you can imagine this has involved lots of quality real - life numeracy skills. The data has also been used within their own maths lessons to create pie and bar charts using J2E. The flowers will be sent home to blossom in the children’s garden. As part of British Science Week, the children had so much fun investigating this year’s theme, Change and Adapt. The children experienced exploding bags and bottles with lots of awe and wonder. Together with their experiments, they also set up their own pollution catchers around different areas of the school and made predictions using quality explanations. The class then decided they would like to make their own pollution catchers to explore the amount of pollution in the air at home. In Literacy the children have begun looking at Welsh Myths, our focus this week has been the story of Branwen. The children have enjoyed listening to the story and used a conscious alley to explore the perspectives from the different characters. Here, the children stood as a tunnel and each child took the role of a character. As they went through the tunnel the other children asked a range of questions to deepen their understanding of the characters thoughts and feelings.  

  

17-21.2.25 & 3-7.3.25 

Prynhawn da, over the last few weeks we have explored a variety of engaging topics and activities that have fostered creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration amongst the children. In numeracy, we delved into the concept of symmetry. We engaged in activities that allowed the children to create their own symmetrical designs, reinforcing their understanding through hands-on practice. The class explored the data collection information gathered during the Spring Bulb project and have used this to create pie/bar charts using their amazing DCF skills on the HWB. This week we have had very exciting news, linked to our bulb project as some of the crocus bulbs have started to bloom. The children will be using their observation skills to measure the flowers and continue to monitor the temperature and rainfall. In our art sessions, we experimented with charcoal to create stunning landscape drawings. Children learned various techniques such as shading and blending, which helped them capture the beauty of the mountains of Trellech. In literacy we have investigated Kenning poetry and discovered the unique structure of this poetic form and explored various examples. They participated in engaging activities by using their thesaurus skills to uplevel words and generate their own inventive Kennings to describe the Welsh Dragon. The poems were fantastic and were a big part of our other activities used to participate in the Eisteddfod. We all thoroughly enjoyed the Eisteddfod, and the children were a fantastic audience and showed encouragement and celebration for all those involved. I was very proud of the class for this!

3.2.25-14.2.25 

Prynhawn da, we have had such a busy two weeks in Year 3 and have achieved lots of amazing things. The children worked so hard to develop their sewing skills and complete their quilt class project.  The children's finished product has been fantastic. We look forward to all the pieces coming together and using it in the class cwtch during reading time. In maths the children have been developing their reasoning skills by finding the important information and identifying the steps needed to achieve the answer. This is a very tricky area of maths, and I was so impressed with their perseverance and positive attitude towards the problems. The children have also used perimeter to plan a party of Leon from our class text and have developed rapid recall of their times tables. In literacy the children have explored different features of persuasive writing and used their numeracy skills to compare a leaflet and website of the same attraction using a Venn diagram. The children furthered their numeracy skills by creating an emotion chart of Leon’s feelings in the class text. In topic the children have investigated and discussed the artwork of Kyffin Williams and will create their own versions in preparation for the upcoming Eisteddfod.  

20.1.25-31.1.25  

Prynhawn da, Year 3 have enjoyed another productive two week’s building on their skills and independence in learning. In particular by beginning their swimming sessions, here the children were fantastic when representing the school and all listened well to the safety instructions and ways to develop their swimming styles.  In Numeracy the children have recapped the rapid recall of multiplication skills by completing problem solving tasks. In addition, the children have planned a party using their perimeter skills linked to the class text ‘Leon and the Place Between’, This included measuring cake boxes, creating invitations and planning the party area by drawing the perimeters of a variety of shapes. The children enjoyed the tasks and worked extremely hard in teams to communicate their ideas and listen to others. To continue the theme the children investigated the features of discussion texts and then planned their own based on whether Leon (from the class text) should go through the magic curtain. The children then participated in a debate using quality opinions and reasons why. I was so impressed with their oracy skills and developed confidence. Da iawn Year 3! In their topic activities, the children investigated organs within the body and where they are located, this led to lots of interesting discussions indeed! 

6.1.25-17.1.25  

Blwyddyn Newydd Da! It has been so lovely to see the children back and share all their exciting news. Although it was a chilly start to the term, the children took this wonderful opportunity to take the lead by planning the activities. The children wanted to explore where in the school grounds would the ice melt the quickest, #seize the season. They combined their ideas to come up with group names and planned their investigations. They decided how they would monitor the results and discussed their predictions giving superb reasons why. This was a fantastic pupil led task that brought together a range of skills for the children to thrive in lots of areas of learning. In literacy the children have begun their new text, Leon and the place between. This is a fantastic text full of possibilities which I know Year 3 will embrace into their future learning. We have also investigated the use of prepositions in the text and the children have then used these amazingly well in their own writing. Our focus in maths has been exploring sequences of patterns using shapes and numbers. The children have also used their reasoning skills to find the important information in word problems and apply their mathematical skills. Our new topic is called Cŵl Cymru. As part of the topic the children will explore a range of Welsh artists and musicians. We look forward to sharing all our ideas over the next few weeks. 

Autumn 2024

25.11.24-6.12.24

Prynhawn da, Dosbarth 3 have had such a busy two weeks developing a range of skills throughout the curriculum. In maths, the children have been using practical equipment to develop their multiplication skills and draw HTO tables to complete addition and subtraction problems using 3 – digit numbers. It has been lovely to see the children grow in confidence in their jotting skills and apply these to everyday tasks, such as budgeting for the prices of Christmas decorations in preparation for Enterprise Week. The children have also enjoyed exploring the outdoors and have made habitats in the Forest School area and prepared for Christmas by using natural materials to create the most amazing Advent candle wreaths.  To continue with our topic, the children have developed their DCF skills and have researched landmarks that are important to them in their own villages. The children will use the images to create a flip book of their special places in Wales.  It has been a very interesting two weeks in our Literacy tasks, as the mystery visitor continues to be an enigma. This week the children were left a suitcase containing lots of exciting clues, an old weighing scales, Cawl recipe, diary extract and tickets to board a ship.  The children discussed their findings within groups and analysed the evidence.  

11.11.24-22.11.24

Prynhawn da. We have had such a fantastic two weeks filled with lots of practical learning and investigations. The children have continued to develop their place value jotting skills by exploring addition and subtraction using 3-digit numbers and fractional values in shapes and numbers. Following pupil voice feedback, the children wanted to use their fraction skills to make pizzas. The class therefore had an amazing afternoon using fractions and number skills to weigh out the ingredients to make the pizza dough. Working in groups the children used amazing cutting skills to chop the healthy toppings and divide them between each other. It was so lovely to have the opportunity to seize the season and incorporate the unexpected snow in Year 3’s learning too. The children investigated shapes by catching snowflakes and discussing what they could see and how each snowflake was unique. As part of our topic, “Love where we live” the children sculpted Trellech village out of snow and used problem solving skills to make igloos. There was lots of excitement in Year 3, as one day we returned from breaktime to find someone has been in the class and it was now a scene for a police investigation. The children worked in groups to find clues and come up with a suspect list. This will continue next week, and we look forward to finding the mystery visitor and sharing it with you.

21.10.24-8.11.24 

Prynhawn da. The first half term has certainly flown by with lots of fun and super learning. The children have continued to develop their place value number skills by linking different concepts together using ‘If I know, then I know’ explanation skills. Here, the children are using known strategies and number facts to develop their mental maths skills. The children have also explored co–ordinates and used this within their outdoor PE sessions and literacy tasks when planning their story. To aid their ideas, children created their own rooms for the 13 Story Treehouse. There were so many amazing ideas such as fountains, slides and much more.  Using their imaginative characters the children have planned and written fantastic short stories with lots of quality language and a variety of sentence starters.  In preparation for their stories the children recorded a news bulletin describing the events within the story. I was so impressed how the children not only planned and wrote their bulletin but then went onto record, edit and import the videos into iMovies.  We are extremely excited to be part of this year's Spring Bulb Project which is led by Cardiff Museum. Each child within the class has planted a crocus and a daffodil bulb to be cared for throughout the coming months until they bloom in Spring. The class has been given a calendar to note down the temperature and the rainfall each day. Once the data is gathered this will be submitted to the museum who will use the information to explore climate change in Wales. We are delighted to be involved in the project as it is so important to our environment.   

23.9.24-4.10.24 

Prynhawn da. We have had a fantastic two weeks in Year 3 and have continued to explore our class text, 13 Storey Treehouse. In literacy, the children have investigated the features of a newspaper and used post it notes to explain their findings. Following the task the children presented confidently to everyone, on what they had found and why it was an important feature within the newspaper. Using the text as inspiration the children have combined animals to make their own magical creature. The children have planned their own newspaper report based on their imaginative character. The character will then be used over the next few weeks to develop the children’s story writing skills. In maths the children have explored number patterns and place value using the number square. They have used number jumps to find the pattern and then continue the sequence, the children enjoyed this so much they then challenged their friends by creating their own sequences of number. As part of the topic, Year 3 have looked at an old map of Trellech and designed their own version of the Trellech Coat of Arms. These were amazing and a lot of time and detail was added to create such a fantastic design. The children then worked in small groups to combine their ideas and create a coat of arms using Adobe Express. This was their first time using Adobe and I was very impressed with how well the children followed the instructions and completed the task successfully.  

2.9.24-20.9.24 

Year 3 have had a fantastic return to school since the summer holidays and have come back with lots of enthusiasm and news, which has been lovely to share. During the first week the children completed handwriting and art for the Usk Show. Everyone produced superb pieces of work! This term the class will explore the topic ‘Love where you live’. The children have begun the topic by creating their own planning ideas, asking questions concerning what they would like to discover about Trellech and beyond. All their amazing questions will become an integral part of the learning moving forward. The children have investigated various maps, locating South Wales and the counties within their locality. During Commando Joe sessions, the children will follow an American journalist called Nellie Bly, who's travelled around the globe leading investigations and undercover reporting. Therefore, this week the children have used their problem solving and mapping skills to create a world map using a range of sports equipment. Year 3 has become extremely engaged in our new text, 13 Storey Treehouse. We have read the first three chapters, and the children have compared the main characters using a Venn diagram to sort adjectives.  The children have also been using their ICT skills to complete computer-based assessments. Here the children showed perseverance, and all completed the tasks feeling very proud of themselves. I am also very proud of their efforts too, da iawn Year 3!