Blog by Tag: Year 3

This morning, Year 3 walked to Williamson Park. It was very rainy but we persevered with the walk and made it. When we got there, we had a talk in The Butterfly House, learning about the rainforest habitat. We then got to handle a hissing cockroach, stroke a bearded dragon and have a skink sit on…

This afternoon, we were trying to work out how the pneumatics worked in a moving toy that Mr Manning showed us.

This morning, we walked around Dorrington Wood so that we could compare it to the rainforests we will be learning about this half term. 
 

We looked around for things we didn’t think we’d see in a rainforest.

This afternoon, we went out into the playground to do some composing.

We were finding fractions of amounts out on the playground this week. 
 

Today, Year 3 were designing packaging for the snozzcumber from BFG to make them more appealing.

Today, we have been learning about 3D nets as part of our DT work on packaging. 
 

In art have been looking at graffiti artists and how they often have a distinctive "tag" or autograph.  We designed out own and then created stencils from our designs.  Graffiti artists, such as Banksy, often use spray paints with stencils but we used sponging instead.  We then used a black…

This week we have been investigating whether all metals are magnetic. 
 

Today, we were looking for facts to help us find out why the river Nile was important to the Ancient Egyptians.

This afternoon, we have been experimenting with drawing. We have looked at artwork by William Morris to see how he uses colour and textures in his prints. The children were then asked to copy a photograph but they weren’t allowed to take their pencil off the page whilst drawing. It was very…

This afternoon, we started our printing topic in Art. We looked at artwork by William Morris, Richard Shimmel and Lisa Stubbs. We then used carbon paper to print pictures we had drawn onto our paper in repeating patterns.