Year 3: Blog items
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 12:56pm
Take a look at our amazong World Book Day costumes! We all dressed as our favourite characters today and shred our reasons for picking our characters. We joined a football quiz, joined in a great book Kahoot, read our reading books and finally we created our own story boards.
We were also lucky enough to have our very own book swap! We brought in a book that we had read and swapped it for one we were yet to explore!
What a brilliant day of books!
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 10:26am
As part of our DT unit, Shell Structures, we have looked at nets. We carouselled around the room completing a series of activites. These included usingmagnet shapes to make shell structures, deconstructing 3D shapes, cutting and folding nets and finally we made nets to replicate real life objects! We even linked it to History and made some historical landmarks!
Date: 28th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm
In music, Year 3 have been looking at playing, improvising and composing using the glockenspiels. The children planned out their compositions using beats and used the notes GABCD in their compositions.
Date: 27th Feb 2024 @ 12:01pm
Last half term, the children in Year 3 explored healthy and varied diets. We designed and created wraps and pittas thinking about colour, taste and if it had a selection from the eat well guide.
Date: 27th Feb 2024 @ 11:58am
Before half term, the children explore their RSE learning. The children explored different body types, the importance of personal space and different types of families.
Date: 27th Feb 2024 @ 11:51am
In our first lesson on light we explored what light was and what darkness is. We discoverd that darkness was the absence of light. We also learnt that light travels in straight lines. Finally, we explored what light sources are and which were natural and manmade.
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we began to explore the features of a fable. The children used the success criteria made in previous lessons to identify a range of features.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 1:37pm
This lesson focused on what we could learn from evidence left behind in the Iron Age. The children carefully labelled key evidence and discussed what we could learn from it.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 1:29pm
Today we started our DT journey based on cooking. We will be creating our own wraps/pittas. We started the day by focusing on what it meant to have a healthy balanced diet and created a presentation. We then taste tested a variety of foods. Finally, we designd our wraps/pittas ready to make next week! Keep your eyes peeled for our final products!
Year 3- Final Forest School fun!
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 8:49am
Last week saw Year 3 take on the final forest school session of Winter! The children enjoyed using their skills to build shelters and to build and cook on a fire! We enjoyed the tasty treat of popcorn!
Year 3- The Mystery of Stonehenge!
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 8:56am
In History this week, we investigated Stonehenge. We looked into why it is so difficult to know why Stonehenge was made. In groups we used our oracy skills to discuss 4 different theories around Stonehenge. Using our previous knowledge on The Stone Age, we discussed if we thought these theories were plausible and which we felt was most likely.
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 10:47am
Year 3 got to experience Travelling by Tuba, an interactive musical trip through the year ! The children loved looking at all the different instruments and hearing the amazing music!
Year 3- Forest School Fun Part 2!
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 3:30pm
Today we created a fire and made our own hand warmers by heating rocks. We also used moss, leaves and twigs to make our own bird nests. Due to the cold weather, we found that our pond was frozen. We experiemented to find gthe best way to break the ice. We are looking forward to our final session next week!
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 8:57am
To introduce the children to our new R.E topic the children visited St Mark’s Church. We learnt all about disciples and how people show they are disciples to God and Jesus today.
Year 3- Forest School Fun is Back!
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 2:49pm
Today we had our first forest school session. We created our own celebration and made crowns, sang songs and drank warm apple juice. We explored the outdoors and planned our next two sessions. We can't wait!
Year 3's Festive Celebrations!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 2:05pm
Year 3 enjoyed spending time together celebrating christmas and how hard we have worked over the last term. We played some fun festive games, danced with our friends, had some sweet treats and most exciting of all we had a visit from the main man... SANTA CLAUSE!
What a great end to the Autumn term!
Year 3- Studying the Stone Age!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:58pm
Year 3 started their learning about The Stone Age to Iron Age. We began this journey by creating a timeline of key events in our lives, including histgorical events we have previously studied. We then added the Stone Age into this to compare where in History it came. We then used artefacts to answer the question 'Was the Stone age man simply a hunter and gatherer?' We discovered that from artefacts found they were much more than this!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:58pm
After learning about the Christmas story Year 3 created pictures representing the birth of Jesus.
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:54pm
In Reading into Writing we have been looking at shape poems. From our learning of alliteration, similes and metaphors we then applied this to create a bank of phrases and words linking to our christmas theme.
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:44pm
This half term we have been working with the medium of charcoal. After practising a variety of skills and looking at artists such as Laura McKendry, we created our final pieces.
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 9:49am
Today we had our Christmas jumper day in school. We all looked fabulous! We also enjoyed a christmas dinner with our friends. It was great fun pulling the crackers and telling the jokes.
Year 3- Mastering multiplication !
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:28am
In Year 3, we have been looking at multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1- digit number (no exchange). The children used place value charts, base ten and counters to visually see the multiplication.
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 3:34pm
Today in Year 3 we looked at enterprise. We looked at what it meant to have a budget, what a profit was and what it meant to have a loss. We then started to think about our own enterprise for the school fair. We calculated what we had spent to buy the stock we needed and then decided on a price so that we could make a profit. Our maths skills came in very handy! Finally, we make our reindeer hot chocolates ready to sell and raise money for school.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 3:01pm
This half term the children have been learning the phonetics of French. They have recapped the numbers to 10, days of the week, the months and colours.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 2:53pm
Year 3 have been looking at a range of styles of music and this week explored the artist Grazyna Bacewicz’s who hid seecret messages in her music during the Second World War! It was A musical message of hope, with the Morse code for ‘V’, symbolising victory, (dot dot dot dash) beaten out on the timpani during the piece. The children composed their own pieces usinfg the percussion trolley using morse code.
