Year 3

Mrs Gaukrodger and Mrs Noakes

Welcome to Year 3

 
Changes in our Local Area

Changes in our Local Area

In our geography unit, 'Are all settlements the same?' we have been learning what settlements are and how land is used in our local area. This week in geography, we have been exploring how land use has changed over time. Using OS maps from 1921, 1967 and the present...

Sports Day 2025

Sports Day 2025

A huge well done to the children in Year 1, 2 and 3 for participating in their Sports Day. The children worked so hard in all their races and showcased great enthusiasm and sportsmanship. Everyone had great fun and the winning house this year was Team Baltic! Thank...

Coding Micro:bits

Coding Micro:bits

In Design and Technology, Year 3’s design challenge this term is to create a piece of “Wearable Technology” that would help children stay safe. In Computing lessons we learnt to code Micro:bits to make l.e.d. lights flash, scroll and activate when buttons are pressed....

Year 3 Stay and Play

Year 3 Stay and Play

On Monday 30th June, Year 3 parents were invited to join us for an art and design lesson. We have been looking at “Plant Art” as part of our Sculpture unit and in this session we made clay flower bowls. It was lovely to see such a big turn out. Thanks to all who...

Countdown Cricket.

Countdown Cricket.

Today our amazing Year 3/4 cricket team were meant to be playing in a cricket competition alongside other Gateshead schools at Felling Cricket Club. Unfortunately, due to the weather forecast the event had to be cancelled. The team had worked extremely hard preparing...

Athletics Festival 2025

Athletics Festival 2025

On Friday 27th June, 23 children from Year 3,4,5 and 6 took part in the annual Gateshead Athletics Festival at Gateshead International Stadium along with 45 other schools. It was an extremely busy and exciting day for the team who took part in a range of track and...

World Music Week 2025

World Music Week 2025

Last week we celebrated 'World Music Week' in school. Throughout the week each class took part in some musical activities including listening and learning about different music around the world, making our own musical instruments out of recycled materials, creating...

Trouble With Monsters!

Trouble With Monsters!

Our new English text, Monsters - An owner's guide, tells us all we need to know about how to assemble and operate a monster from the Monstermatic Toy Company. Unfortunately, we were sent an email from a monster owner, telling us about the problems she has had with her...

Learning About the Muslim Naming Ceremony

Learning About the Muslim Naming Ceremony

In our RE lesson today, we have been finding out about the Muslim naming ceremony. The naming ceremony lasts for seven days and is called Tasmiyah. The ceremony allows the new baby to be accepted and protected by Allah. Parents take requests for names from family...

Finding Fractions in Maths

Finding Fractions in Maths

Today in maths, we explored how to find unit fractions of different amounts. A unit fractions is a fraction where the numerator is 1, such as 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4. We learned that to find a unit fraction of a number, we simply divide the total amount by the denominator....

Roman Songs

Roman Songs

We have loved our music lessons with Miss Christie this term. We have made great progress with learning chords on the ukulele and playing a range a different songs. We have also enjoyed singing songs about the Romans. We learned the lyrics to ‘Here Come the Romans’...