Year 3: Blog items
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.
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.
