Year 3: Blog items
Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 5:29pm
Does anyone know what we call people who study rocks? Petrologists! So today, children in year three became a petrologist! (Petrologists study rocks while Geologists study the science of the Earth and its rocks). Children were put into groups to experiment. They had an acid test, (with vinegar) to see whether or not the rock ‘fizzed’. A water test to decide if the rocks were permeable (allowed water in) and a hardness test to see if they let off sediments (small particles). The results helped us decide as to whether the rocks were igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. Ask your children how rocks are made!
Date: 5th Nov 2019 @ 3:38pm
Children have been making Poppy art in preparation for our Remembrance day ceremony next week. Year three's objective was to make it stand out for effect. We used old newspaper articles printed in the time of the first and the second world war and cut them up to create the background. We then built a 3D poppy using tissue paper, paper shredding or different red materials to contrast. We will remember them.
Date: 4th Nov 2019 @ 8:04pm
Children in year three have been learning about the Stone Age and exactly how we find out about the past. In order to learn about human past, we have become Archaeologists. Excavation is the method that archaeologists use to extract out of the ground. The work is difficult and has to be detail-orientated since the archaeologist is destroying the very thing they are trying to study- and there are no ‘do-overs’. It is impossible for them to know exactly what is underground so they have to be very careful not to damage what’s underneath. Children have had a cookie, (the site) and needed to extract the chocolate chips (artefacts) to gain an understanding of how careful an Archeologist needs to work.
Date: 28th Oct 2019 @ 10:23pm
It was a great return to school, or should we say journey back in time, for our children. Our drivers for our non-core subjects this half-term are history, science and art. So, for our 'WOW' we combined the three to create our own costumes and to transform into Stone Age palaeontologists. The children have begun their next journey by digging for rocks and fossils! As well as a brief introduction into what we know as the beginning of man.
Date: 28th Oct 2019 @ 2:13pm
Autumn 2 Topic Overview 2019/20
Date: 28th Oct 2019 @ 2:12pm
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Date: 17th Oct 2019 @ 4:00pm
Every half term, children in Boundary will be learning about an area of Eco. Eco is short for ecological which means the relations of living organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. Year three's theme this half term was Climate Change. Children watched videos, played games and created a poster to demonstrate awareness of how we need to change the way we are to help our planet.
Date: 17th Oct 2019 @ 9:44am
Year 3 had a great time on No Pen Day, especially in Science! We have been learning all about magnetic forces and we used iron filings to create our own magnetic fields. We also had to work together to create our own magnetic maze, using rolled paper - a technique we have been looking at in our Design Technology lessons. It was interesting to see all the different designs. At the end of the lesson, we were able to show how the magnets don't need to be touching the magnetic object, in order to move it.
Date: 26th Sep 2019 @ 8:46pm
Children are currently on the journey to making their own photo frame. They are learning how to make products efficiently by selecting the right materials, refining their techniques and continually evaluating their progress. We needed to investigate how to make something stable and used pipe cleaners to create a free-standing, solid structure.
Date: 22nd Sep 2019 @ 7:50pm
Children have been leaning about our world, the continents and the North and the South poles. What better way to engage the children than to make a globe of our own out of plasticine. Children had to create the sphere in blue for the water. They then had to use a flattened map of the continents and mould the green plasticine into the correct shapes and add to the correct place on their sphere. Finally, we added a thinner white sheet on the top for the Artic and a thicker section at the bottom, for the Antarctic.
Bienvenue à la troisième année (Welcome to Year three)
Date: 19th Sep 2019 @ 9:19pm
Since the beginning of Year three, children have started to learn French. In lesson one, the children researched the country of France, the cities and monuments which make the country what it is. In week two, we dived further into the culture and the lifestyle of the people who live there and by week three we were learning some French words and phrases. Children have thoroughly enjoyed looking at Google Earth and walking through the streets of Paris, watching videos, singing French songs and playing 'Linguascope', an online interactive website where they can learn through playing games.
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 5:02pm
We had our first trip to the library at @thegrange. They have so much selection! Every child picked their own text to bring back to school to read in their down time.
Date: 12th Sep 2019 @ 9:23am
Children have been working hard this week on their place value skills. As this underpins all of maths, it is so important the children are aware of the value of each digit in a number. By using concrete items, doing various fluency challenges, children have used their understanding of number to solve one and two step problems.
Date: 5th Sep 2019 @ 9:33am
Welcome back to our children! We have returned to school at full force and jumped straight into learning about magnets! The children worked through a carousel of activities to explore magnetism at his finest. From making paperclip chain kites to sorting magnetic and non-magnetic items into their groups, the children loved their WOW!
Date: 3rd Sep 2019 @ 10:41am
Date: 3rd Sep 2019 @ 10:38am
Autumn 1 Topic Overview 2019/20
Date: 3rd Sep 2019 @ 10:34am
Date: 19th Jun 2019 @ 9:32pm
To introduce our Summer 2 topic, Full Steam Ahead, we were set a challenge to create a moving train. We used nets to make cubes and cuboids for the body of the train and created a simple axle for the moving wheels. We then had a race to see which train would travel the furthest. Josiah's and Bailey's trains were the winners in Fern class, they were so good they ran off the end of the track!
Date: 3rd Jul 2019 @ 9:18pm
On Monday, we took part in our annual Sports Day. We competed in events such as the obstacle race, the sprint race and the relay race. We worked together to gain points for our house teams. We had a great morning trying our best, cheering on our team mates and being active. Thank you to all our parents and carers who came to support us.
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...
Date: 3rd Jul 2019 @ 9:09pm
After discovering that Blackpool's first train station opened in 1846, we wanted to find out more about how Blackpool developed and where its visitors came from, so we became detectives. We used different pieces of historical evidence to try and answer three main questions; Why did people visit Blackpool after 1846?, Where did visitors to Blackpool come from? and What did people do in Blackpool in the 1890's?
We used historical evidence such as photographs, newspaper adverts, advertising posters and train timetables to answer these questions in groups. Blackpool has a fascinating history, what an interesting town we live in!
Date: 20th Jun 2019 @ 9:26am
This week, we have enjoyed learning all about why we pay tax! We had a visit from HMRC, who showed us why it is so important to pay tax and where our money goes. We were very surprised to learn about the history of Jaffa Cakes and how they caused so much controversy - cake or biscuit?
We also had the chance to take part in an activity and decide where our taxes should go. We had to choose between healthcare, education and the armed forces. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has a really tough job!
Date: 13th Jun 2019 @ 10:05am
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