Year 3: Blog items
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.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 1:02pm
Year 3 had a visit to our very own library, The Attic! We all picked a book that we wanted to read and found a comfy spot to enjoy some relaxing reading time. We then had a chat about what books we had picked, why we picked them and what they were about. We can't wait to go back and keep improving our reading skills.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 3:00pm
The children explored the skill of chiaroscuro in art which means 'light- dark'. We looked at how to use charcoal to create shadows and then used rubbers and chalk to create highlights. We will sue these skills in our fianl piece.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 3:00pm
This week, Year 3 have explored Fossils and how they are formed. We did a mixture of activities such as sorting, becoming a paleontologist, making fossils and looking closely at the texture, shapes and colours of the fossils.
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 2:52pm
This week Year 3 had our Together Time in which children work with their adults to see what they could teach them about Climate Zones. We started with a match up activity and then used our digital literacy skills to create a slide on a climate zone- including location, temperature and precipitation.
Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 12:04pm
Today we wore our spits and stripes in order to raise money for Children in Need. We had great fun in assemble dancing to the YMCA!
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 2:46pm
In Science, the children have been exploring the process of Sedimentary rocks forming into Metamorphic rocks. Normally, this process would take millions of years however we sped this process us by using chocolate! The children enjoyed creating the sediments, then applying heat and pressure to form their own metamorphic rock!
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 2:09pm
For anti-bullying day we wore odd socks to show that we celebrate differences. In Year 3 we focused on being an upstander not a bystander. We looked at what this meant and the ten steps we could take to achieve this. At the end of the lesson, we made a pledge on how we could be more of a upstander.
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 8:25am
In Science, Year 3 have been looking at rocks. We looked at a range of rocks to identify the characteristics of Metamorphic, Igneous and Sedimentary rocks. We sorted them into groups and identifies similarities and differences between them.
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 8:49am
We reflected on Remembrance day in year 3 by making poppies to plant in our remembrance garden. On Friday we had our service and reflected on past and present conflict.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 9:05am
In preparation for Remembrance Day over the weekend, we have been busy doing an art activitiy to make poppy art. We have spoken about why we celebrate Remembrance Day and practise a new medium using clay in art. Year 3 created the background of our clay art using charcoal. We have also been looking at some famous Remembrance poems and some children have used their best handwriting to rewrite them.
Year 3- What makes a role model?
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:58pm
In R.E we have been looking what makes a good role model. We thought about who our role models are at school, home, clubs or in the wider world. After this, we discussed what qualities or characteristics role models demonstrate.
Year 3- Take a look at our pillows!
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:55pm
We finally finished our pillows! We took time and care in firstly creating the degin on out pillows and attaching decorations. We then had to stuff and sew the pillows. Once we finished we evialuated them based on their appearence, joining techniques and their purpose.
Year 3 Welcome their parents to The Royal Ballet
Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 7:48am
This week was our last week dancing with The Royal Ballet School. To celebrate the success we have had over the last 6 weeks, we invited parents in to watch what we have been learning. It was a great turn out and we appreciate the support from our friends and family! We showcased our spotting, skipping, sautes, reverence and finally a routine we had put together linking to our Science topic on Forces.
Date: 18th Oct 2023 @ 4:05pm
This week Year Three listened to the song ‘ Lets work it out together’ again and discussed creating a composition that goes along with it. We used YUMU and looked at note length and varying it throughout our pieces.
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 11:49am
We have held our first Spelling Bee of the year and what a wonderful event it was! 4 children in each year group represented their house and were given three words to spell from over a list of 30 possible words. Every child showed courage and determination when it came to spelling their words. It was a very close contest, with Chepstow winning overall with 15 out of 15. We are very proud of all the children who represented their house and are looking forward to the next one.
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 8:12am
On Tuesday Year 3 took part in ‘Take 10’. This was provided by the National Literacy Trust and Susie Dent talked about her latest book and her love for words! The children were then guided into taking 10 to read their books.
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 10:22am
This morning the children participated in a whole school spelling bee. The children represented their houses and went head to head in front of the whole school. Well done to Elliott, Chelsea, Advait and Rehaanvir who were excellent going up for Year 3!
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:07am
In this lesson Year 3 looked at completing a fair test experiment that we had planned the week before. We investigated how friction changed on different surfaces then we measured and recorded our results. We had to use the measuring skills that we had learnt in Maths to support in carrying out the test accurately.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 9:05am
In computing we have been doing programming and we have been learning how to use Scratch. This week we focused on creating an algorithm to make our sprite draw. We first of all explored an existing algorithm and identified how it worked. We then created our own and made our individual sprites draw.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 3:42pm
This week we started our work on Black History Month. We focused on Ruby Bridges and the struggles she faced in life. We spent the afternoon creating work based on her. Keep a look out for the diary entries we will be writing based on the experiences of Ruby Bridges.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 8:22am
Last week the children went to the Globe Theatre in Blackpool to watch a Royal Ballet demonstration. The children enjoyed watching the older students dance and were impressed by the strength of the dancers!
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 3:06pm
In DT, we have been learning about the practical skill of sewing. We thought about how to thread a needle and thread. In the lesson we mastered running stitch and back stitch.
