Year 3: Blog items
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.
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 2:58pm
In PE, we have been visited by the Royal Ballet school. We learnt how to do a reverence and how to move around the space. The children enjoyed listening to the live music and performing in front of others.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 8:53am
In Science, Year 3 have looked at investigating forces and looking at friction in action. The children did a range of activities to see how friction worked and what happened when they rubbed their hands together.
Year 3- Perfecting programming!
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 8:41am
In Computing, Year 3 have been looking at using the program ‘Scratch’. We looked at how the blocks moved the sprite and when we looked inside the program we throught about how we could improve it.
Year 3- Exploring explanation texts!
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 4:08pm
This week we have started our new Reading into Writing journey looking at explanation text. We identified and located features in a range of texts and thought about which we may use when writing our own.
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 4:04pm
Today we started our DT journey. This half term we will be designing, making and evaluating our own pillows. We started the journey by taking inspiration from others. We looked at a variety of pillows and evaluated them based on their purpose, fabric, design and decorations.
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 4:41pm
Over the last few weeks the children in Year 3 have been attending Little Big Book Club. We have watched an interview from authors, made our own books, created a recipe for a book and shared and discussed what we have enjoyed. The children and parents have thoroughly enjoyed this process and have learnt ways to talk about and appreciate books.
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 7:53am
Last week we had our Heritage Day and learnt about our local area. In Year 3 we learnt about Fisherman’s Friend and how Doreen Lofthouse had a huge impact on ours and neighbouring towns. We learnt about the Lofthouse family, the history of the throat sweets and even tried some!
Year 3- Brilliant branching database!
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 8:28am
In Computing we have started learning about branching databases. We have looked at catogorising questions into ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions. The children uses software to explore and build their own branching databases.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 8:21am
In Maths we have been looking at Shapes. In this lesson we looked at making and drawing regular polygons. We thought about the sides and vertices when making these shapes.
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 3:00pm
This week we have started gymnastics in our P.E sessions, and looked at balances. We identified patches and point on our body that we can spin and balance on. The children created sequences looking at changing our heights and varying our spins.
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:52pm
In Year Three, we have joined the ‘Little Big Book Club’ scheme in which children were given 5 amazing books from ‘Amazing facts every 7-year-old needs to know’ and ‘Einstein the Penguin’. We looked at how children and parents could read together and develop a shared love for reading!
Year 3- Stop the Block Mad Science!
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:39pm
We had a special visit from a mad scientist, Inquisitive Indie, who came to speak to us about what we put down the toilet! We found out that by putting things we shouldn't down the toilet that we are clogging up the drains. Inquisitive Indie showed us how this happens through some exciting Science experiments, we even got to use dry ice! We found out that we should only flush the 3 P's (ask us what they are!) and we all got our own toilet roll to take home.
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 2:34pm
Today we recapped out learning on forces by doing a carousel of activities around the room. We looked at how much force was needed to make an object move, we tested if bigger magnets were strong, if magnets worked underwater, we sorted push and pull forces and finally we used magnets to complete a maze.
Year 3 explore how water is transported in a plant!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:53am
In Science we investigated how water is trasported through plants. We had flowers, cups, celary, food colouring and water. These were placed on the children's desk and they were to decide how to use these resources to show water being transported. We placed the flowers in cups of water and food colouring. Through the next 24 hours, we observed the flowers change colour. The leaves, inside the stem, the buds and the petals all started to dye.
Year 3- Forest School Fun Part 2
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:48am
Week 2 of Froest School was a blast! We started by looking at the ponds and we noticed that they were drying up and that our tadpoles were in need of rescuing. Some of us dedicated our time to filling the pond back up and we loved to see the tadpoles swimming again. We also used tools to shave twigs and then used natural resources to dye them. Finally, we used shovels to get ready to plant our own courgettes.
Year 3- Creating our compositions !
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:55am
This lesson in Music, Year Three looked at composing along to the song ‘He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands”. The children moved from using the pulse to create music to moving notes onto a stave.
Year 3- Forest School fun returns!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:51am
This week the children of Year 3 went back to our forest school. The children enjoyed the opportunity to get back to nature and observe how the area had changed through the session. We really loved looking at the tadpoles and even spotted a few frogs!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:48am
In this lesson we focused on the different parts of a plant. The children took apart plants to see parts such as the stem, roots, root hairs, petals, flowers and buds.
Date: 16th May 2023 @ 11:43am
In our topic of Stop Motion animation we created short films from still pictures. We used onion skinning techniques to know where our previous picture were so that our changes were small. We made sure not to include our own hair/fingers in the photos to ensure consistency in the finished clip. Some people even added sound (planes and trains) to our animations. We were inspired by our Science of Growth and the WW2 topic using steam trains and fighter planes to create our animations.
