Class of 2021

Year 3 were delighted to welcome both Jana’s mum and Maha’s mum into their class today. The mums gave us a presentation about the 5 Pillars of Islam - the rules which are central to the Muslim faith. Jana and Maha were also very happy to share their faith. The rest of the class then had the…

In English we are reading the wonderful book, ‘The Street Beneath My Feet’ by Charlotte Guillain and writing our own explanation text about what can be found underground.  We have learnt about insects, burrowing animals, different types of rocks and mineral, the sewers (yuck!) and beautiful rock…

Coach Lauren came to school to do some cricket coaching today. We had a lovely time in the sunshine and she was amazed at how hard we could hit the ball!

In DT, we are learning about the power of air (pneumatics). Soon we will be designing and making our own moving toy so we were investigating how best to create movement. We tried using syringes, tubing and balloons. There were different methods and now we need to think about the best method for…

Yesterday Y3 took advantage of the good weather and took our maths lesson outside. We estimated and measured the capacity and volume of various containers. By accurately measuring the capacity of the cup we used to fill the other containers; we were able to work out the actual capacity of larger…

In science today we made careful observational drawings of plants, flowers and trees. We also took close up photographs. We were amazed at how much there was to see in our school gardens. We also realised how much we often don’t notice because we don’t look very closely!

What a great afternoon we have had at the Y3/4 netball tournament. All the children played amazingly well and they showed true determination and perseverance, especially in the hot weather! They represented Scotforth superbly, we are really proud of them all.
 

Our new topic in DT is pneumatics (air power). We made paper rockets and propelled them forwards by blowing (really hard!) today. We have a competition to see whose was the most aerodynamic and effective!

This week in Year 3, it's been all about the Egyptologist, Howard Carter, and his amazing discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.  We have a surprise visit from "Howard Carter" (AKA Mrs Redmayne!) yesterday and found out all about his life and what happened in 1922 when he found a tomb in the Valley of…

This afternoon we found out what some of the major organs in our body do and what we can do to help them  function at their best. We discovered that they work together as a team. When one doesn't work properly this can impact the efficiency of the others.

We also worked together in teams to…

Today we had a great drama workshop. We learnt a poem about a budgie in a cage and made up some actions to go with it. Some of us were brave enough to perform the poem in front of everyone else!

We had a fantastic history day today learning about the Ancient Egyptians. All morning we had a workshop with Professor Tuesday, who is an expert in Egyptology. She told us about the importance of the River Nile, some of her favourite pharaohs, the timeline of Ancient Egypt and, of course, all…