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Southern Europe Year 3

Welcome to the Southern  Europe Year 3 Class Page.  Here, you can find out about everything that we've been doing this term.

W/b 12/01/26

PE – Gymnastics

This week has been another busy week in Southern Europe! This half term, on Thursday mornings, we are going to the dance studio to do some gymnastics. Last week, we learned the importance of stretching, as this will help us to avoid injury when doing gymnastics. After our stretches, we started to learn about point balances and patch balances. We learned that a point balance is a balance on a small body part, like a foot or a hand. There are lots of different versions of these, for example, three-point balances have three small parts of your body on the ground, like two feet and one hand. We had a practice at lots of different types of point balances, and some patch balances, which are on a big body part, such as your back. Finally, we made a sequence with two-point balances and two patch balances with our partner!

This week, we moved on to looking at jumps. We learned that when we jump, we should land with our hands in front of us, our heads pointing forwards and our knees bent, feeling the tension in our muscles. We practiced this technique before moving on to some different types of jumps. We had a go at a straight jump, a star jump and a tuck jump. When we watched our partner do these jumps, we would give them feedback on what they could do differently to improve their jump. We so much fun and everyone worked really well together!

W/b 05/01/2026

Maths – Angles

After a lovely Christmas break, we have come back this week with renewed energy and had a great week in Southern Europe! In maths this week, we have been learning about different types of angles. On Monday, we used two pieces of card and a split pin to make some ‘angle checkers’, which we used throughout this week in our lessons. We also learned about three different types of angles; right angles, acute angles (smaller than a right angle) and obtuse angles (bigger than a right angle). We used our angle checkers to show these angles.

On Tuesday, we learned about different types of shapes, triangles and quadrilaterals. We learned that a triangle is a shape with three sides and three angles, while a quadrilateral is a four-sided shape with three sides. We drew some of these in our books and used our angle checkers to see what kind of angles these shapes had. On Wednesday, we learned that a right angle is also a quarter turn. We used our angle checkers to find right angles in the classroom and to navigate a treasure map!

Finally, on Thursday and Friday, we learned some more about quadrilaterals. We learned that a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles and two pairs of equal sides. We also learned that a square is a quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles.