Year 3 have come back to school with an incredible attitude and an eagerness to learn. It's almost like they have never been away. They have transitioned back into The Chilton Way smoothly and shown that no matter what the obstacle, everyone in year 3 has the grit, determination and resilie...

English This week in English we have been writing descriptions of characters in our new book: Gorilla. We have learnt to describe the appearance, thoughts and feelings, personality and actions of a character. To do this we have been using adverbs, expanded noun phrases and powerful emotive langua...

English Year 3 have really excelled themselves this week! We have been reading The Tunnel by Anthony Browne and using it to help us create suspenseful writing. They have been using short, sharp sentences, rhetorical questions, emotive language and exclamations to create spooky...

Wow! What an incredible return to school. Year 3 have come back ready and raring to go. We have been so impressed with their enthusiasm and work ethic. English This term we will be reading a series of books by the author Anthony Browne. This week we read the wonderful: Into the Forest. We...

English This week we have been focusing on using powerful adjectives and adverbs in our descriptive writing. We have been describing some of the places Alice and her brother imagined they visited on The Green Ship, such as Egypt, Antarctica and the ancient ruins of Italy. We have also been d...

English This week we finished the story of 'The Prinicess and the White Bear King' We have been writing our own sequals based on the Troll Queen's revenge and really put our imagination to the test! We learnt how to use a range of time and place phrases to help move our story on and c...