Class 3

A Showcase of work from from Class 3

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7 months ago
Posted on 09th Feb 2026 by

Learning to tell the time!

Class 3 are learning to tell the time. They have made clocks, learnt about Roman numerals and are now working on telling the time to 5 minute intervals. They are all working really hard!

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8 months ago
Posted on 27th Jan 2026 by

Art – Observational drawing in Class 3

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8 months ago
Posted on 27th Jan 2026 by

Art – Pencil skills in Class 3

Year 3 have been developing their pencil skills in art, learning some new techniques and creating shade, depth and texture.
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8 months ago
Posted on 17th Jan 2026 by

National Year of Reading 2026!

 

Hodnet School is excited to embrace the National Year of Reading in 2026.

 

What is the National Year of Reading?

The National Year of Reading is a UK wide campaign by the Department for Education and the National Literacy Trust. The campaign’s theme is ‘Go All In’ meaning read about things that really matter to you. Whether it’s sport, music, fashion so something else, if people ‘go all in’ on a topic, the hope is that they will enjoy what they are reading and do it more.

 

Why is this the National Year of Reading?

Studies have shown that reading is connected to lots of lifelong benefits, including wellbeing and confidence, and improving writing and conversation skills. Unfortunately, reading for pleasure among young people is at its lowest for 20 years. We need our young people to read in order to improve their own life chances, both in education and the workplace.

 

Is reading just about books?

Definitely not! The National Year of Reading is promoting all types of reading including comics, magazines, online blogs, e-readers, instruction manuals and audiobooks. The campaign wants everyone to read in a way that works for them.

 

What is happening during the National Year of Reading?

Throughout 2026, there will be lots of events across the UK. At Hodnet School, Mrs Bessant has created a calendar of events to ensure that we enjoy a reading event every month of 2026.

National Year of Reading Calendar

Our first event is ‘Reading Resolutions’ – allowing our children to set a reading goal for the year. This could be about trying a new format of reading or perhaps trying a new author or genre.

The Department for Education want children and families to read for at least 10 minutes every day and Hodnet School we want that for our children as well. How amazing would it be if we could all achieve that goal!

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8 months ago
Posted on 09th Jan 2026 by

School Closure 9th January – Class 3 suggested activities

The Manor House comprehension

Compare Numbers to 1000

TTRS Worksheet

 

Good morning Class 3,

Here are some activities to keep you busy today:

  • Maths homework – Multiples of 50 on sheet in your homework folder

Additional activities:

  • The Manor House comprehension (on paper given). You could also draw a picture showing what Lara could see as she entered the woods (with labels from the text)
  • Additional Maths activity – Compare Numbers to 1000 (on paper given)
  • Computing – Scratch – https://scratch.mit.edu/ (no login necessary). Click Create and work online. Change your sprite, change your background, use the motion blocks to make you sprite move around the stage.)
  • Reading practice ( you have your books and reading diaries)
  • TTRS Division 2 Practice 4s sheet and/or online practice (logins in reading diaries)

Mrs Williams

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10 months ago
Posted on 21st Nov 2025 by

Mrs Watts’ Flint-Knapping Visit

Mrs Watts and James came in to show us all of their stone age and iron age artefacts. They also showed us how the Stone Age people knapped flint. They used large pieces of flint and  deer antlers to chip parts off to make tools such as hide scrapers, arrowheads and axes.

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10 months ago
Posted on 14th Nov 2025 by

Dr Rogers’ visit – Rock and Fossils

Dr Steve Rogers came in to show us the amazing fossils he studies and talk to us about what and how we can learn from them. We loved looking at the ammonites and trilobites especially. He also showed us different rock samples and we asked questions from our Rocks science unit.

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12 months ago
Posted on 24th Sep 2025 by

Investigating What Plants Need to Live

We learned about what plants needed to live and what happens to plants if they don’t get those conditions. We worked in groups to design a fai test. Each plant was the same to start with then one was given no light, one was given no water, one was given no air and the other was given the wrong temperature (cold). We also had a control that had all of those conditions. We observed the plants over the following week.

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1 year ago
Posted on 16th May 2025 by

318 Belonging Framework reminder

There is now just a week to go until the official launch of The 3-18 Education Trust’s Belonging Framework! Watch the launch video here.

The Belonging Framework is designed to guide and support staff, parents/carers and external agencies to offer appropriate knowledge and tools which help students in our schools to feel valued and understood. This is something that school and Trust staff have been working on throughout this academic year, led by Sadie Howson our Trust Director of Safeguarding and SEND.

To celebrate the Belonging Framework the Trust has launched a Trust-wide competition to encourage our students to start thinking about what belonging means in their school.

Students from all schools have been invited to submit a creative response to the brief, with house points for all participants and an Amazon voucher for each school’s winning entry.

The deadline for entries is Friday 23rd May.

In our school we have shared the launch video in classes and started to think about what belonging means to us as classes and as a school. Children are encouraged to participate in the competition to share what belonging means to them, this could be in a variety of ways – a picture, words, poem, dance or a piece of art work. Get creative! We look forward to seeing your entries. 

We will be selecting a Belonging Ambassador for our school based on the competition entries. All schools will have Belonging Ambassadors, who will work as a team to support the essential sense of belonging within their schools.