Year 3 Class News

Training day – Arty ideas !

Posted on Friday 24 October 2025 by Mr Wilks

We thought you’d enjoy hearing a little about what went on during our recent teacher training day! Part of the day was dedicated to developing our art knowledge and skills with our resident art teacher, Mrs Boulton.

Teachers got hands-on with paints, pastels and even soap! There was plenty of colour, laughter, and even a bit of friendly competition as we experimented with new techniques and ideas for upcoming art lessons.

The rest of the day focussed on other important areas too, including maths and inclusion. It was a full, productive day – and we left feeling ready and excited for the next half-term!

 

Half term basketball camps

Posted on Wednesday 22 October 2025 by Mrs Taylor

As a partner school of City of Leeds Basketball Club and one of our after-school club providers, we’re pleased to share details of their half term camps held locally at Allerton High School.

 

Living and Learning: Me and my money themed week

Posted on Wednesday 22 October 2025 by Mrs Taylor

After half term, it is our Me and My Money themed week (3-7 November). As part of the week, we are holding two events to raise money for our current school charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Penny trail
Each class will have a collecting jar and children are encouraged to bring in 1ps and 2ps throughout the week. A trail will be created using all the money brought in at the end of the week.
Hotshots sponsorship event
On Friday 7 November, we will be holding a Hotshots sponsorship event, led by PE Partner. This involves each child having three chances to score a goal and their fastest speed recorded. All children will receive a certificate with their fastest shot speed and medals will be awarded for the fastest boy and girl in each class. Your child will be bringing home a sponsorship form for this event and money raised should be added to School Gateway by Friday 14 November.
Thank you for your support with these events.

 

 

Geography walk

Posted on Tuesday 21 October 2025 by Miss Birch

Last week, during Geography, we planned a walk in our locality so that we could investigate what the land is used for. This week, we walked the walked!

Here are the types of land-use we saw:

  • residential – flats and houses
  • commercial – shops and restaurants
  • recreational – Moortown Park
  • transport – roads

We really enjoyed getting our steps in while being geographers! We stayed safe by wearing high-visibility jackets, walking in pairs and taking care when crossing the roads.

Geography – I can investigate land-use in my locality.

Posted on Tuesday 14 October 2025 by Miss Birch

This week, during Geography, we’ve planned a walk in our locality so that we can investigate what the land is used for.

There are five main types of land-use:

  • agriculture – land used for farming
  • residential – land used for housing
  • commercial – land used for businesses e.g. shops and restaurants
  • recreational – land used for recreational activities e.g. swimming pools and golf courses
  • transport – land used for roads, railways and airports

We used a map of Moortown to decide what route we’ll take. We thought about trying to create a loop and to try and pass as many different areas as possible. Have a look at what we decided on:

We’ll hopefully pass areas of residential, recreational and commercial land-use while walking along land used for transport! We’ll take pictures of each and label these in our books.

We look forward to showing you the pictures!

Junior Leadership Team

Posted on Tuesday 14 October 2025 by Miss Birch

Tomorrow, Year 3 will spend time discussing and planning their JLT speeches. Then on Thursday,  if they would like the opportunity to become a leader, they will deliver their speeches to the class.

What makes a great leader?

What can you do to help your class?

What strengths do you have?

Make your ideas realisitic!

Help at home by practising how your child can deliver their speech.

Top tips:

  • face the audience
  • project your voice
  • talk with prosody

Science: Jane Goodall

Posted on Friday 10 October 2025 by Miss Birch

Yesterday, Year 3 watched this Newsround clip about Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall is our featured scientist for our current biology topic: skeletons, movement and nutrition.

Sadly, Jane Goodall recently passed away. Year 3 had a discussion about her life and her achievements as a female scientist. She made amazing discoveries while she studies chimpanzees in the wild.

She links to our learning because we are studying animals including humans. We’ve classified and compared skeletons and we’ll be doing the same with animals diets too.

Help at home by researching more about Jane Goodall with your child. Here’s a useful link to get you started: https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/general-animals/jane-goodall-interview/

Living and Learning: protected characteristics

Posted on Thursday 09 October 2025 by Miss Birch

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been learning all about respect.

We’ve revisited what the protected characteristics are. These are characteristics that are protected by law to stop discrimination.

disability, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation

We’ve been usingthis useful mnemonic to help us remember: DRGRAMPSS.

As well as reminding ourselves what the protected characteristics are, we’ll be exploring themes around them such as…

  • Why are they protected?
  • What would society be like if they weren’t protected?
  • How do they link to the British Values?

We’ve had discussions about different scenarios where the characteristics aren’t being protected and see if we can identify the problem and the characteristic.

Help at home: Have a chat with your child about why we have protected characteristics and the importance of them. What could they do if they saw someone being discriminated against?

Visualising Podkin One-Ear

Posted on Wednesday 01 October 2025 by Miss Birch

During our Book Club session, we used one of Authorfy’s 10 minute challenges  to visualise a part of our class novel.

Our class novel is called Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood. It is the first of a series of eight books: https://www.goodreads.com/series/205224-the-five-realms

The class have been asking to read it whenever we have a spare moment!

We re-read the last pages of a chapter we finished and tried to visualise what we were hearing. Some of us did it from different perspectives and others even wanted to change how the chapter ended.

Visualising is a great activity to help understanding of a text. Help at home by visualising what you and your child have read at home.

National Poetry Day!

Posted on Wednesday 01 October 2025 by Miss Birch

It is National Poetry Day tomorrow and to celebrate, we have been reading and learning a poem to perform in an assembly tomorrow. National Poetry Day’s a chance for all of us to share in the pleasure of poetry.

This website tells you about the day and why it is celebrated: https://forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/

Our poem is Let No One Steal Your Dreams by Paul Cookson. This is same as the poem on their homework. Help at home by practising reading the poem.

The children have practised reading with prosody, projection and they’ve added actions too.

 

Moortown Primary School, Leeds
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