Year 3: Blog items
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:03pm
In Science we recapped our learning on Rocks! We completed different activites to revisit our learning. We looked at the characteristics of metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks. We used key vocabulary to complete matching activities and a Cloze. Finally, we also explored the layers of soils.
Year Three- Dan Worsley workshop!
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 11:18am
Today the children in Year Three were visited by Dan Worsley, a fantastic local author! The children loved hearing Dan’s fantastic stories about an alien and an evil pirate! We then had a workshop in which we discussed how to describe characters and how to add detail about appearance and feelings. We then planned a piece about an evil pirate which we wrote in the afternoon!
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 11:03am
In Art, Year Three have started a new pathway of telling stories through Art. We have started looking at inspirational artists Quentin Blake and Inbal Leitner and created double page spread that included key facts, images and our own sketches! On our journey we are going to use these artists to inspire our artwork, we are going to use modelling clay to create our own creatures!
Year 3- Perfecting our balancing skills!
Date: 11th Jun 2024 @ 10:05am
In PE, we have started our gymnastics unit. We have started by looking at balancing. We used various body points to balance on. We looked at how we could use 2, 3, 4 and 5 points to create creative balances.
We then worked in pairs to have a balancing competition. Firstly, we created a balance and then our partners had to place cones over us. Using control and concentration, we had to remain as still as possible to keep our cones balanced!
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 3:00pm
In History, we looked at VE day. We studied various sources to see what VE day celebrations were really like and we looked at similarities and differences between the celebrations and discussed in teams whether they were reliable sources or not. We also looked at why VE day was not such a happy time for everyone!
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 4:21pm
In Maths, the children have been using practical resources to help support tell the time. The children have enjoyed finding o’clock, quarter past, quarter to, half past. The children have also told time in minutes, and counting in 5 minutes intervals.
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 4:15pm
The children in Year 3 have enjoyed going to Forest School in the sunshine! The children loved building dens using their rope skills. They also worked on practical skills such as using choppers and peelers to make flags. Some children enjoyed filling the ponds for the tadpoles.
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:43pm
In our History lesson we were exploring artefacts from World War Two. We were exploring their significance and discussed what they could teach us about how Britain stayed strong in the war. The children worked collaboratively and discussed which they considered to be the most important. They children used our ABC’s when sharing their ideas. We also explored what the artefacts could teach us about women in war, the home guard and schemes such as rationing.
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:39pm
Today we learnt about the different ways that seeds disperse. We did a carousel around the room completing different activities that included an experiment, a cloze passage, sorting activities and even popping balloons!
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:57pm
In PE, we have been developing our striking and fielding skills. We have finally been able to put these skills into practise and we have started to play a game of cricket.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 2:52pm
In History this week, the children explored a World War Two museum and discovered what we could learn from artefacts. We were focussing on the question of how Britain stayed strong during the war. The children learnt about the Home Guard, shelters, gas masks, evacuation and blackouts.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
For our No Pen Morning, we thought about how we could use our oracy skills to complete our Reading into Writing and Maths lessons. In Reading into Writing we were completing our GPS lesson focusing on subheadings. The children ordered a text based on subheadings, created their own headings and matched topics to the headings. In Maths, we looked at adding fractions. The children created a tarsia using our knowledge of adding numerators.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:45pm
Today we explored the parts of plants. We dissected the plants to examine the parts. We used magnifying glasses to take a closer look. We found roots, buds, flowers, leaves and stems. We then looked at the roles of these parts.
Year 3- To grow or not to grow? That is the question!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:55pm
In Year 3, we have started our new Science topic of plants today and spent the lesson planning an experiment. We were planning how liquids can affect plant growth. The children set up pots with seed in and will measure over time the growth rate. In time we will see how coke, water, plant food, juice or no liquid will make the plants grow!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we started out new topic of World War Two. The children began by understanding where it fit into history by exploring timelines and ordered key events. We then went on to explore the key events that led up to the war happening. After that we discussed how Britain tried to appease Germany and considered the for and against arguments for appeasement.
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 8:57am
After spending time exploring a variety of existing shell structures, looked at creating nets and CAD, it was finally time to make our final products. We made our very own Easter themes boxes to hold a chocolate surprise. We had to carefully use a hot glue gun and measure accurately to ensure that they folded together correctly. We also used moulds to create different chocolate shapes to go inside, proving our designs were fit for purpose!
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:36am
In RE, we looked at the Vaisakhi festival. We looked at traditional jewellery and clothing, learnt about the traditions of the festival and even got to try some traditional foods. We had a great time and enjoyed learning about a different culture.
Year 3- The Day the Dinosaurs visited Boundary!
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:24am
What a day we have had!
Year 3- Finding features in poems!
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun our new journey of poems. We have created a shared Success Criteria of the features and have identified features in a range of poems.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:48pm
In D.T we have been looking at making shell structures. We have been making shell structures as Easter gifts and have been using CAD to design our products.
Date: 11th Mar 2024 @ 1:01pm
We visited Aspire as part of our Light topic in Science. We looked at what white light is made up of and used a light box to try to create our own rainbows. We then learnt about the primary colours of light. We explored what happens when we shine these colours onto objects. Finally, we mixed the primary colours of light to create white light.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 12:56pm
Take a look at our amazong World Book Day costumes! We all dressed as our favourite characters today and shred our reasons for picking our characters. We joined a football quiz, joined in a great book Kahoot, read our reading books and finally we created our own story boards.
We were also lucky enough to have our very own book swap! We brought in a book that we had read and swapped it for one we were yet to explore!
What a brilliant day of books!
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 10:26am
As part of our DT unit, Shell Structures, we have looked at nets. We carouselled around the room completing a series of activites. These included usingmagnet shapes to make shell structures, deconstructing 3D shapes, cutting and folding nets and finally we made nets to replicate real life objects! We even linked it to History and made some historical landmarks!
Date: 28th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm
In music, Year 3 have been looking at playing, improvising and composing using the glockenspiels. The children planned out their compositions using beats and used the notes GABCD in their compositions.
