Blog by Tag: Year 3

We are preparing to make our own sandwiches and today we have been tasting some different breads and fillings that we might use. We have used lots of different adjectives to describe the taste, the smell, the appearance, and the texture of the fillings.lots of us tried new flavours!

Our new DT topic is all about sandwiches!  We are going to be designing and making our own sandwiches but today we were finding out about the history of the sandwich and also surveying which sandwiches we enjoy as a class. 
 

We are learning all about the continents and oceans of the world, and starting to recognise some of the countries in each continent. Today we looked at some countries on the Equator, on the Arctic Circle and on the Antarctic Circle. We used atlases and found out that there are NO countries on the…

In PE, we have been learning some playground games from the past. Today we played Queenie where we had to throw a ball over our head and the others had to catch and hide it behind their backs. We were very good at hiding the ball!

We have been learning about Banksy, the famous, but anonymous, graffiti artist. We found out that often he uses a stencil to spray paint his images at night. He also has a tag or signature which he sometimes adds to his artwork. Today we designed and cut out tags for our own initials. We used…

We have been busy learning about ones, tens and hundreds. Today we made 100 using as many different ways as possible. We had to show that 100 was 10 groups of 10. Look how creative we were in the pictures below! Next we’re looking at 1,000… 

We have started the year by making graffiti art based on our names! We used bright contrasting colours and a black and white patterned background to make our names pop out! The classroom is looking bright already!

The amazing Rock Kidz came in to spread the important message of bullying. We spoke about what bullying is and what it means. 

Today Steve and Harold from Life Education came to speak to us about our body and especially our brain.  We learnt what an incredible part of our body it is. We learn how we can help our brain to calm down and also how we can use our brain to solve problems. We loved meeting Harold the giraffe…

Well done Year 3 for your first KS2 Sports!  There was loads of resilience, perseverance and of course endurance on show! 

What a great morning we had for the KS2 Sports!  There was loads of resilience, perseverance and of course endurance on show!  It was lovely to see how supportive and encouraging the children were of each other.  Well done everyone - we were really proud of you.  The winners and runners up of the…

We have been working all this half-term on the different parts of our rainforest collages and finally we have put them all together!  We are really proud of our final pictures and hope you like them too!