Year 3: Blog items
Date: 7th Feb 2020 @ 11:51am
Year three did a wonderful job for their year group assembly. We want to make an impact to our environment and what better way than inform the parents about our ECO BRICKS! These are the way we are able to reuse the non-recycling plastics and stop them going in to the oceans. Please see our Facebook page to find out how to make them! Thank you to all the parents for your continued support.
Date: 22nd Jan 2020 @ 9:52pm
Children have been learning about Christianity this half term. As part of the beliefs and values within the religion, children have been thinking about how God trusted the prophets and gave them a vocation. Using active listening skills and communication skills, children had to trust their partner to deliver them across the obstacle course safely. Children then read the story of Noah and acted out the screenplay, something they have been doing within their english lessons.
Date: 16th Jan 2020 @ 9:19am
Year three have began their computing journey. Children have been using Microsoft Chromebooks to learn how to use different programmes. We have been discussing key principle on how to type, log on and keep safe using the internet. Children have been learning how to hold their hands to type as well as what the different keys mean. For example- the space bar can give a space in-between words as well as stop a video, or pause a game.
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 11:16am
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 11:14am
Spring 1 Topic Overview 2019/2020
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 11:12am
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:13am
This half term, we are looking at Animals including Humans in Science. We will be concentrating on our insides and how important it is to eat a healthy, nutritious and balanced diet. For our WOW we used salt dough and mirrors to recreate our own teeth! This was a sticky but fun activity which helped us understand the different types of teeth and their jobs. We also looked at pictures of animal skeletons and using art straws to recreate them on black card. It was so much fun to look at all the different bones!
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 1:05pm
It was a little bit chilly but the rain held off as Year 3 began their journey to the Christmas Panto! KS2 had the wonderful opportunity to watch Blackpool Sixth Form in their interpretation of the Grinch at Christmas. Well done to all the students who took part! We had a fantastic time.
Date: 5th Dec 2019 @ 9:32am
Children have been concentrating on direct speech this week! Getting children up and active has helped them remember the order.
Inverted commas, talking talking talking, piece of punctuation, inverted commas - said person.
Ask your children to sing you the song!
Date: 21st Nov 2019 @ 9:24am
Our Year 3&4 Athletics team topped the table and took home gold and the plate shield at the latest Blackpool Schools Games Indoor Athletics Plate Finals.
Congratulations on your historic victory. CHAMPIONS !
Year 3&4 Indoor Athletics Competition
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 4:15pm
Our Year 3&4 Athletics team took part in the North Shore Blackpool Schools Athletics competition. Our team successfully qualified for the Plate Finals. Well done team.
Date: 9th Sep 2019 @ 2:57pm
It was a little bit chilly but the rain held off as Year 3 began their hike to Blackpool Zoo, bright and early! 'It's not far...keep going!' the teachers said. Finally, the children and staff arrived at the zoo and were ready for a fun filled day of learning. After a quick look at some animals, it was time for the educational workshop. Here, the children learnt so much new information including lots about diet and nutrition which links to Year 3's science topic this half-term. After a quick bite to eat, the adventure continued and the children visited all the different animals, finding out lots of interesting facts. As the day came to an end, the children had to find one last bit of energy for the walk home. We returned to school with some very tired children but a great day was had by all!
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
Date: 28th Oct 2019 @ 2:10pm
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.
