Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

Our PE this week has been a bit different as we had a visit from ‘Go Velo’ and had the chance to develop our cycling skills. The rain stayed away and we had a great time showing lots of enthusiasm and resilience.

We are reading Stone Age Boy and today we acted out some of the scenes. As you see, we had lots of fun!!

We are learning about the role of archaeologists in our new history topic about prehistoric Britain. We found out that archaeologists often dig for clues about past civilisations. We decided to look for clues about the past by looking through the bins bags from the different classes in school. We…

Today we started our new topic which is the Stone Age to Iron Age in Britain. We created a timeline out of a toilet roll to show how incredibly long the period of prehistory (before written records) lasted. The Palaeolithic Stone Age period was by far the longest period we looked at. If each sheet…

We have been learning about how sedimentary rocks are formed. Today with Mrs Dowson in science we made food models to show the different layers found in sedimentary rocks. We really enjoyed tasting our creations at the end!

We are starting to learn about multiplication in maths and today we made arrays using different classroom objects to show the links between multiplication and repeated addition. It was good fun and we did lots of learning too! 
 

Happy Christmas from everyone in Year 3. Have a great holiday everyone!

Our finished boxes are all ready for our Christmas biscuits! Here are some of the finished products.

In DT, we have been practising cutting, scoring, folding and using templates. We’ve also investigated Christmas colour schemes and tried different fonts. Today we were able to use all these skills to make our Christmas packages for some tasty Christmas biscuits. We all had to really focus to make…

In DT we have been exploring different Christmas colour schemes and fonts for our packaging. Here are some of our designs. Next we will chose our favourite scheme and decorate our cardboard nets. Watch this space!

We are continuing our DT topic of packaging and today we practised the skills of careful cutting and folding.  We learnt to use scissors to score the card so that we could get a really good fold. We made 3D Christmas houses to help decorate our class Christmas tree!

Our new DT topic is packaging and today we brought in lots of different packaging and cardboard boxes to investigate. We opened up our boxes to look at the nets of the different 3D shapes. We were surprised that such big boxes were made from just one piece of cardboard! We tried really hard to…