Year 3 - Holly 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Holly Class Home Page

My name is Miss Bunney.

I enjoy seeing the children speaking with a loud and proud voice, putting their learning first and challenging themselves in many ways.

I have a passion for dance and other exercise classes, I love going for evening walks and travelling to spend time with family and friends on the weekends. 

Autumn term 2025 - Through the Ages:

Pantomime

On Thursday 11th December, we had a visit from a theatre company who performed the pantomime 'The Wizard of Oz'. The children enjoyed a really fun performace and got very involved. 

Christmas Around the World

On Wednesday 10th December, we learnt about how Christmas is celebrated in other countries. In Holly Class, we learnt about Chinese traditions, including gifting wrapped apples on Christmas Eve, decorating streets with lights and saying Shèngdàn Kuàilè (Merry Christmas in Chinese). The children produced some decorated apples, factfiles about Christmas in China and made cards with greetings inChinese. Enjoy their beautful creations!

History Squad Visit

We had a wonderful visit from the History Squad for our Stone Age Workshop on Monday 8th December. Holly Class took part in role play renacting Stone Age life; handled artefacts and had to determine real versus fakes based on clues from the past; became Hunter-Gatherers and even played traditional Stone Age ball games! They showed lots of consideration to our Historian visitor and so much enthusiasm through their questions, teamwork and acting. It was a fantastic morning, well done Holly Class.

Holly Class Spotlight W.C. 05/12/25

Holly Class are doing brilliantly this Autumn term. They’re challenging themselves with their learning across the curriculum and showing some beautiful creativity along the way.

In History, we are working ‘Through the Ages’ and pupils are now learning about advancements in the Iron Age. We are looking forward to a workshop on Monday 8^th December about the Stone Age, delivered in school by the History Squad!

In English, we have been working on our calligrams (shape poems). The pupils’ powerful language has been lovely to read, their poems were full of enthusiasm and kind language.

In Science, we have been conducting our own research projects related to animals and nutrition. I have learnt so many interesting facts from Holly Class!

In Art, the pupils have designed and created their own Bell Beaker style pots.

In Maths this half-term, pupils have been consolidating their knowledge of the 2’s, 4’s and 8 times tables and have displayed strong understanding in a variety of ways.

Holly Class’ Spanish skills are progressing beautifully. Pupils recently took part in a quiz about animals and colours and did very well.

I am so proud of how Holly Class are doing. They are putting so much effort into their learning and I can’t wait to see how they continue to shine in Year 3!

Blue Cross Animal Charity Talk

On Friday 14th November, we received a talk from Blue Cross the animal charity. Kerry taught us about what Blue Cross do as a charity and what animals need to be happy and healthy. Holly Class had so much knowledge about animals and asked some thoughtful questions about animal welfare.

Children in Need 2025

Children in Need! On Friday 14th November, we celebrated Children in Need in Holly Class by wearing our cosy pyjamas to school. 

Anti-Bullying Week

On Monday 11th November, we started our Anti-Bullying Week activities. Pupils wore odd socks to show they stand up for anti-bullying.

SCARF Visitor

Well done to all of Holly Class for making a super start to Year 3. We have been working so hard across the curriculum. Recently, we have been learning about Skara Brae in History, programming in Computing and developing our reasoning skills in PSHE. We have had a visitor from SCARF who helped us to learn how to connect with others. 

Footballer Assembly

In our recent assembly, we were lucky enough to be visited by Carl Baker, a footballer who played for various well-knwon teams. He is a retired footballer, but is now training to be a referee. he would be the first professional footballer to also be a professional referee by the end of his training.

In the Through the Ages project, your child will learn about three different periods of British prehistory: the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. They will discover terminology relating to time and sequence dates to make a timeline. They explore the changes to people, homes and lifestyle throughout the different periods and investigate examples of prehistoric settlements, monuments, burials and artefacts in detail. They will also study how technology improved over time, including how the discovery of different metals changed the way that people lived.

Please see our Curriculum Newsletter below for more information on the other topics that we will teaching over the course of this term.

Our Class Reader will be: Ug- Boy Genius of The Stone Age

Click the link and sign in to practise your times tables. Become a rock legend! https://play.ttrockstars.com/?_gl=1*1koujn3*_ga*Mjk3MzU0NjE1LjE3MjkwMTUyNjg.*_ga_FYSNH92ZJH*MTcyOTAxNTI2Ny4xLjAuMTcyOTAxNTI2Ny4wLjAuMA.. 

Spellings (to be tested 02.12.25- words with the prefix 'mis-'):

mistake, mislead, misbehave, misspell, misplace, misread, mistrust, misunderstanding, misuse, mislaid

Holly Class Reminders:

Holly class PE day is Tuesday. PE kit should be worn to school on this day. 

Children should have a named water bottle and a coat in school. 

Home Learning:

Home learning will be uploaded each week in the 'files' section at the bottom of this page. There will be three colours to choose from. Your child will be given a colour every Thursday. The colour will be found in the margin of their home learning book. Select and complete the colour your child has been set.

Homework will be handed out on Thursday to be completed and returned by the following Tuesday. 

How to Support Your Child's Learning:

-Practise your child's spellings with them.

-Read (preferably daily) with your child. Try and encourage them to read a range of genre of books and authors. Here are a couple of useful lists of recommended books for Year 3 children:

https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks2-school-pupils/year-3/ 

-Practise times tables with your child. Little and often is often the best way with times tables. Purple Mash is an excellent resource which has lots of times table activities on. Here are a few good websites with games that your child can play whilst also practising their times tables:

Each child has login details for www.timestables.co.uk where they can explore and practise the timestables.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/arithmetic

-Support your child in completing their weekly maths and English/topic homework which (starting from W/C 8th September) will be handed out on a Thursday to be completed and handed in by Tuesday.