Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

We have been looking at place value in maths and how 100 is made up of 10 tens. We had lots of fun showing this by using lots of objects from our classroom!

One of the skills we have been practising as we start Year 3 is cutting carefully using scissors. We tried cutting lots of different shaped lines and then used templates to draw and cut shapes. We then worked in pairs to make collages. It was lots of fun and helped us to get neater and more…

We have been thinking about what helps us to learn well. One thing we thought about was the importance of teamwork and so today we had a team challenge. Each table group had to create the longest paper chains they could from just two large pieces of coloured paper. The teamwork was…

Today Steve from Life Education came to teach us about our amazing brains. We also thought about how to make sensible decisions and how to be good friends. We loved meeting Harold the Giraffe again!

We are learning about graffiti art this half-term and today we made our own graffiti art names. We created a 3-D effect by adding shading and tried to choose bright, contrasting colours. We are really proud of our pictures and hope you like them too!

Congratulations to all of the children across the school who achieved their black Karate Reading band this year for fantastic reading at home.  Today they had a treat morning! We played on the parachute, did a book trail, a book quiz and finally we enjoyed ice-cream in the sun! It was lovely…

Today we enjoyed getting out into the sun to measure the capacity of different containers. We estimated and then used our measuring jugs to see how much water each container could hold. Our estimates got better as we went along!

Today we had a great time playing wheelchair basketball!

Today we learnt about the dangers of deforestation and made posters about how to look after the natural resources of the world.  We made the most of the hot weather and enjoyed working outside in the shade.

We continued our sporting activity today by playing Crown Green Bowling with Coach Dan.  We had a fun and exciting time practising our accuracy in the sun and managed to aim our bowls well enough to sink Coach (Pirate!) Dan's "ships" - just in time...

We celebrated the opening of the football World Cup today by finding out about some of the different countries that are taking place. We used atlases and found where the different countries were located around the world.

Today we made our pneumatic DT models that we have been planning over the last few weeks. We are really proud with how they turned out.