The Gods Anubis and Horus are at war and only Cleopatra can avoid disaster (with some help from Year 3)! Using their mathematical skills of division, the children were able to share out Cleopatra's treasure equally, even when Sobek the crocodile God joined the conflict.

Well done to everyone who completed the home learning challenge to design and build a boat, using household materials. Year 3 enjoyed a lovely morning in the sunshine, testing out the boats to find out if they floated! The quality of the designs was excellent and the boats looked amazing. Several of the designs featured extra features such as propellers, sails and cabins.

Local officers from the Lewisham police force visited St Mary's this week.

The children enjoyed petting the horses, having a ride on the motorcycle and looking inside the police car.

Every half-term, we focus on a different Problem Solving skill in Maths and this term we learned about Logical Reasoning. In worship, we worked as a team to solve equations using symbols and crack a secret code, linked to our Communication topic. Back in class, we solved these Sudoku style Maths problems, developing our resilience and teamwork.

Science - This term in Science Year 3 have been exploring states of matter, we have been looking at solids, liquids and gases. We carried out an investigation, looking at different materials and identifying the properties which made them either a solid or liquid.
Destination Reader- This term Year 3 started destination reader. They have really been enjoying destination reader and have already read a range of texts and have learnt to use a range of reading strategies such as clarifying, predicting, asking questions and summarising. We created freeze frames of different parts of the story we were reading. 

Year 3 had a big problem to solve - organising an order of chocolate pizzas! They worked systematically and used their addition skills in order to find all of the ways to balance the pizzas on the cross-shaped tray.

This month the school celebrated Black History month, this is an annual commemoration of the history, achievement and contributions of Black people in the UK. To kick off our celebrations, Year 3 participated in a drumming workshop, in which they learnt and played different rhythms on traditional drums from Guinea, West Africa.

This half-term in Maths Year 3 have been looking at place value. We have been learning that two digit numbers are made up of ones and tens and can be partitioned. Year 3 then went onto exploring different ways to partition two digit numbers.