Year 3 Visit Colchester Zoo!

 

On Tuesday, Year 3 had a wonderful day seeing all of the different animals at Colchester Zoo. 

First, the children had to decide within their groups which animals they would like to see and come up with the best route to take around the zoo. Then, we set off in our groups to find all of our favourite animals whilst learning lots of new and exciting facts along the way!

The children all got to have an up close and personal experience with the goats, and had the opportunity to feed and stroke them as they walked through the enclosure, this took resilience for some children, who had never experienced a large animal so close before. There was so much to do whilst at the zoo, including taking the zoo train into the lemur enclosure and feeding the parrots in the giant bird house! 

We finished the day with a lot of tired, but very happy children!

 My favourite part was being inside the tunnel and watching the sea lions - Loui, Ash Class

Seeing the elephants was amazing - Tommy, Cherry Class

Seeing the turtle was amazing - Success, Cedar Class

Year 3 Read Under a Tree

 

To enrich the children's learning experiences whilst at Broadford, Year 3 went outside this morning to complete our final enrichment task, which was to read under a tree. 

The children began their experience by listening to our class novel - You're a Bad Man Mr Gum, which was read to them by their class teacher, before taking time out to get comfortable, relax and read a book of their choice. Many of the children used their reciprocity skills to read along with their peers but others chose to take the time to read quietly alone.

I liked listening to the story outside, it was fun - Maya

My teacher used his story voice! - Noah

Listening to the story outside was nice, it was so quiet - Moyo

Year 4 Meet the Team

 

Time to meet the team!

If your child was in Ash Class they will now be in Willow Class with Ms Jennings.

 Ms Jennings is also the Year 4 Year Group leader.

If your child was in Cedar Class they will now be in Maple Class with Miss Bell.

If your child was in Cherry Class they will now be in Elm Class with Miss Brimmer.

Other adults that will be in Year 4 to help us are: 

Mrs Mayer, 

Miss Frost, 

Miss O' Connor

Mrs Aziz

We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to welcoming the children in September.

Year 3 Spellings W.B 07.07.25

 Please find below Year 3's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday.

	A	B	C
1	Continue	History	Come
2	Decide	Beautiful	By
3	History	Special	So
4	Increase	Exercise	Your
5	Important	Naughty	Love
6	Interest	Strange
7	Guard	Enough
8	Heard	Guard
9	Exercise	Heard
10	Naughty	Busy
11	Sentence
12	Separate
13	Strange
14	Strength
15	Suppose
16	Beautiful
17	Knowledge
18	Enough
19	Special
20	Calendar

Readers Theatre Fun in Year 3.

 

Readers' Theatre is a reading activity which involves reading a script aloud in a small group. This week in Year 3, the children have taken a script from their class novel - You are a Bad Man Mr Gum! The pupils worked in small groups to take turns to speak. They have applied their reciprocity skills to work alongside others and their resourcefulness skills to act imaginatively.

During this session, the children were concentrating on maintaining eye contact with their audience and displaying confidence when reading aloud.

The Year 3 staff have been blown away by the children's speaking skills, a huge well done to all of the children.

"We work as a team to rehearse the script. doing it with my friends makes it more fun!" - Hayden,  Cherry. 

"When reading you have to change your tone to make it interesting for the listeners." -  Ayra , Ash.

"I love readers theatre because we get to use our story voices." - Ronnie, Cedar. 

Year 3 spellings W.B 30.06.25

   Please find below Year 3's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday.

	A	B	C
1	secondary	equal	dress
2	minute	music	with
3	quarter	special	when
4	knowledge	actual	two
5	various	diary	where
6	music	length
7	complete	quarter
8	although	bicycle
9	address	minute
10	purpose	hour
11	characters
12	power
13	mischief
14	adventure
15	equal
16	question
17	island
18	arrive
19	peculiar
20	therefore