Iron Men, Square Numbers and Hockey Skills – Go Year 3!
Miss Cruickshank • November 28, 2025
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A creative and confident week full of maths, writing, science and sport for our hardworking Year 3 class.
TL;DR
- Continued reading The Iron Man with curiosity about the ending.
- Learned 2, 4 and 8 times tables and explored square numbers.
- Discovered what makes an animal a vertebrate.
- Practised hockey skills with Mr Marshall.
- Wrote suspense stories and extended learning at home.
This week in Tim Peake class we have been continuing to read The Iron Man. We are interested to know if The Iron Man saves the world.
In Maths, we have been learning the 2. 4 and 8 times tables. We then moved on to look at square numbers making these from multilink to help us ‘see’ the pattern. Some of us found the square numbers up to 20 X 20!
In science we have learnt about vertebrates and how these are animals with backbones. Next week we will learn about invertebrates.
Our hockey lessons continue and Mr Marshall is very impressed with our skills.
In English we have just finished writing a suspense story.
It has been so lovely to see many of the children continuing their learning at home, writing stories and practising the times tables.
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