Year 3: Blog items
Year 3- Boundary's WW2 Museum!
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 2:47pm
Today we had our very own History Museum with artefacts from WW2. We explored these and read information to help us to answer our key question for the lesson 'How did Britain stand firm during WW2?' We found out that Britain were prapred with gas masks, evacuated children, rationed food, implemented the Home Guard, had bomb shelter and also put women to work in the factories.
Year 3 Desktop Publishing Invitations
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 11:52am
This week in Computing we used our Desktop publishing skills on Google Slides to create Royal Coronation Invitations. We were given specific information then we had to include but we needed to edit the content when we realised there had been a (deliberate) mistake! We changed the font style and colour, page orientation, included pictures and tried to make it look appealing to our intended guests. Here are a few examples of our work so far...
Date: 24th Apr 2023 @ 3:58pm
Today we were lucky enough to have a History visitor come to Year 3 and teach us all about World War 2. We learnt about the Blitz, evacuees, rationing and first aid. We also got to handle various artefacts.
Year 3 - Features of a Discussion Text
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:51pm
In Reading into Writing we have been looking at discussion text and pulling out the features. Today we focussed on rhetorical questions, emotive language and facts/statistics. We completed various activities in teams around the room. By doing this, we upleveled our emotive vocabulary, created a bank of useful rhetorical questions and defined the difference between fact and opinion.
Date: 20th Apr 2023 @ 2:45pm
In Science, we started our journey learning about plants. We went to our forest school area and had a hunt for plants. We discussed how these had changed since we were in Forest School in winter and why that might be. When we got back to class, we discussed and recapped from KS1 what plants need to grow. We then went on to planning our own experiement to test what would happen if we were to change the liquid given to a plant. Would this change the growth rate?
Year 3 Computing Creating Media
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 11:53am
Today we started our computing unit and discussed how images and text can work together to communicate meaning and messages. We looked at many different symbols and sorted the advantages and disadvantages of using text, images or both. We then went online on the Chromebooks. Having logged in successfully, we created a new Google Doc and changed the page orientation. Finally we started to add text and images to send a Happy Birthday or Happy New Year poster.
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 4:08pm
This half term Year Three have been looking at Yoga in our P.E lessons. We have focused on using our breathing and developing our confidence in poses. These have included the tree, cobra, cow, hero poses and many more. We have also put these poses together to make sequences with our sun salutations.
Year 3- George Frederick Handel
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 8:26am
In music, we explored the composer George Frederick Handel. We started by using black pen to mind map what we found out about him. We then listened to the piece Zadok the Priest. We added information about this in different colours and used our music mat to help. We then linked this to the upcoming coronation of King Charles and created our own coronation day chant.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 2:44pm
Year 3 were lucky enough to have a trip to the local high school, Aspire. We went to their labs and had a Science lesson based on light. We first of all learnt about white light and tried to create our own rainbow. We then used finger lights to create white light. We had such fun and can't wait for another visit.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 2:39pm
On Thursday all the children fully embraced a whole school art day. We focused on collages based on Blackpool. We had the theme of transport in Year 3. We started by looking at collage artists for inspiration, we spent time practising the skill and eventually moved on to create our end pieces.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 11:49am
Our pupil's make us proud everyday and as a school, we are proud of our community.
Two of our pupil's have been taking part in BBC Radio Lancashire's Community Connections. Groups from The Boathouse Youth and Blackpool Coastal Housing are making friends and memories together.
You can hear more about the work being done by listening here or visiting the Boat House Youth Facebook page https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f9szcp
Date: 29th Mar 2023 @ 11:56am
In RE our Question for the Year is 'Who should we follow?' and today we learned about who Sikhs follow, from Mrs. Kaur, a Sikh at our school. She told us about how Sikhs celebrate this festival of the new year called Vaisakhi and remember the Panj Pyare becoming Baptised into the Khalsa. We explained the 5 K's and how they were symbol and important to showing committment to faith. We talked about the special clothes that Sikhs wear for celebrations. We discussed the values that Sikhs live by and commitments that they show to other people and how everyone is equal. We recapped how the 11th Guru is the Guru Granth Sahib, which is a special book, that explains the teachings that Sikhs should live by.
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 11:21am
On Thursday all the children fully embraced a whole school art day. From Nursery to Year 6 you could hear the sound of paper being ripped and cut as the children created collages of different things you can find in their home town of Blackpool. From transport in Year 3 to famous landmarks in Year 5, from trees and flowers in Year 1 to collaged signs in Year 6. The children have created some superb pieces of artwork and these are all going to be displayed together to create a whole school mural.
Year 3- How are shadows formed?
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 4:20pm
In this lesson we looked at the question 'How are shadows formed?'. For our flashback we looked at what the words translucent, transparent and opaque meant. We identified and grouped objects into the different categories. We then went outside to form our inital ideas for how shadows are formed. We then tested a variety of different objects to see if there is a pattern for which objects made a shadow.
Key Stage Choir perform at Choir of the Year!
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 7:55am
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:16pm
After planning our investigation last week, Year 3 carried out an investigation on which materials are reflective. We made reflection testers and experimented to see if bubble wrap, DVDs, tinfoil, paper, card, clothing and plastic is reflective. The children then came up with conclusion in groups, as to which material we would use on a reflective strip on a bag.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:12pm
This week we were lucky to have a visit from Dan Worsley. We looked at the importance of drafting and how we should not give up on the first try. Then we were treated to a Dan Worsley original story, that the children found inspiring, hilarious and creative!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:10pm
The whole school were exciting to have a science day last week, exploring the wonders of space! Year 3 focused on the moon and explored the phases of the moon, how craters are formed and had an amazing time in The Wonderdome! We were so inspired to ask lots of questions and investigate the moon and space.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
In Music, we have been improving to the song 'You're a Shining Star' using the notes GABCD. We worked in beats of 5 and performed to the rest of the class. We worked hard to stay in time with the music.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 2:58pm
In DT, we have been exploring shell structures. We looked at a variety of existing shell structures and evaluated them based on their purpose, appearance and their strength.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 3:42pm
Today we celebrated World Book Day! The children dressed up as their favourite book character and celebrated their love of reading. We completed quizzes about books and designed our own book covers.
Shane Hegarty Author visits Boundary
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:48am
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:37am
Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 9:03am
Thanks to a generous donation by a parent, each child who took part in our School's Alive performance received a medal in recognition of their hard work, determination and overall brilliant performance!
Well done to everyone who took part and thank you to our parent donor for allowing us to give each child their own medal!
#schoolsalive #BoundaryBelieves
Year 3- Our Final Forest School Fun!
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 3:01pm
For our final forest school session, we had lots of fun outside in the mud. We learnt how to tie knots in order to build dens. We then made a fire and toasted marshmallows. They were yummy!
We also used our fire to warm up water and make hot vimto to warm us up. We can't wait for our next forest school fun in Summer!
