Blog by Tag: Year 3

On World Book Day, year 3 came to read to us. We really enjoyed having an older friend to read any book we chose. The children got on so well that we have invited them back.

Today Coach Scott came in to run a dodgeball tournament with us for the whole afternoon. We LOVE dodgeball so we were really excited! He was very pleased with how our skills developed from the beginning to the end of the afternoon. We were all proud of our progress whether or not we won. It was a…

We have been investigating which materials are magnetic and which materials are non-magnetic. 
We found out that materials that are magnetic are made from metal BUT not all metals are magnetic. 

What a morning of fun and learning we have had today with Professor Tuesday! We learnt all about the importance of the River Nile, the different kingdoms of Ancient Egypt, the different roles and jobs people had, how mummies were made and finally the importance of artefacts in history. Wow! Have a…

Happy Christmas from Year 3!

In art we have been learning about put graffiti art so we used these skills to create our calendars for 2024. We hope you like them!

In DT we have been developing our cutting, folding and fixing skills in order to make packaging for our Christmas biscuits. We also learnt about different colour schemes to develop a style for our ‘brand’ and used these colours to decorate our boxes. 
 

Today was the Year 3&4 Christmas party and we had a great time. We played some old favourites like musical statues and pass the parcel.  We also played some new games like Hoops. “You can’t eat Johnny Smartie” was a favourite again!

This afternoon, Year 2 and Year 3 had a great, interactive lesson from Niscu all about the Christmas story.

Today Coach Wilcock came in for our Dodgeball Christmas Party.  We played Christmas Tree Dodgeball, Hide the Present, Christmas Bauble and Santa’s Elves.  We listened to Christmas music as we played! We had lots of fun and learned how to play with good tactics and team…

In maths we are learning about multiplication and today we used objects in the classroom to make arrays (rectangular diagrams) to show multiplication. We wrote down the linked multiplication facts on our whiteboards. We were very creative with the objects we found!

This afternoon Mrs Dowson has been teaching the children about different types of rocks: sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous.  They used edible items to make the different types of rocks and  then drew real examples of each type.  They had lots of fun learning some quite tricky concepts and…