Image of Year 3 Benchball
28 November 2022

Year 3 Benchball

It is great to have Mr Edwards back for our PE lessons. Today, we learnt how to play benchball. It was great fun and we certainly improved as the lesson went on. Roll on PE next week.

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Image of Year 3 - Creating storyboards in Computing
24 November 2022

Year 3 - Creating storyboards in Computing

Year 3 are enjoying their Computing lessons and are learning to create their own storyboard using Storyboard That. 

 

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Image of Year 3 - What a busy week!
18 November 2022

Year 3 - What a busy week!

It has been such a busy week in Year 3 with so much learning across the curriculum. 

History - learning about Skara Brae

Science - learning about how rocks are formed ( with an experiment using chocolate to help us!)

Computing - Make storyboards

English - writing out own story based on…

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Image of Anti-Bullying week in Year 3
14 November 2022

Anti-Bullying week in Year 3

Year 3 enjoyed a live lesson from the BBC to help them understand more about what bullying is, what an ally is and how to deal with tricky feelings and ways to be kinder. They enjoyed different activities during the session including writing on an outline of a hand who they could turn to if they…

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Image of Military style PE in Year 3
10 November 2022

Military style PE in Year 3

Year 3 enjoyed a military style PE lesson as part of World War 2 week. The children worked on some stamina activities, practised their press ups and pull ups and their marching. The lesson finished with a game to work on their army crawling!

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Image of Year 3 - Forest School - Rationing
9 November 2022

Year 3 - Forest School - Rationing

Year 3 enjoyed a Forest School session today to learn all about rationing during World War 2. They then enjoying tasting a scone which would have been made with items that were rationed.

 

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Image of Year 3 - WW2 Visitor
7 November 2022

Year 3 - WW2 Visitor

Well what a way to start our World War 2 week by learning all about the roles of a Medical officer and learnt about the equipment that a soldier would have had to carry. We then tried on some uniform and explored different equipment. 

We also got to explore 2 World War 2 ambulances ( one…

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Image of Year 3 - Stone Age Houses
2 November 2022

Year 3 - Stone Age Houses

Year 3 are loving learning about the Stone Age and today they were fascinated to view 3D models of a Palaeolithic and Mesolithic camp. It really helped to understand what homes were like in these periods.

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Image of Year 3 Computing - Comic Creation
18 October 2022

Year 3 Computing - Comic Creation

Year 3 really enjoyed learning how to create a comic strip, using the Make Belief Comix website. They learnt how to add backgrounds, characters and how to add speech bubbles.

 

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10 October 2022

Year 3 Bronze Age to Iron Age at Herd Farm

During their afternoon visit to Herd Farm, Year 3 learn about the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

Roundhouses

A highlight of our visit was certainly finding out about how roundhouses were built and getting to visit 2 different roundhouses designs. We couldn't believe that some were big enough…

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Image of Year 3 Stone Age at Herd Farm
10 October 2022

Year 3 Stone Age at Herd Farm

An action-packed day as Year 3 found out about life in the Stone Age.

A human timeline

The day started by creating human timeline to help us realise just how long ago the Stone Age was and that Pre-History makes up most of our History. We learnt about hunter gatherers and had a look at what…

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Image of Exploring magnets in Year 3
5 October 2022

Exploring magnets in Year 3

Hands on science in Year 3 as the children began their magnet investigations. They had to predict whether the poles of a magnet would attract or repel. Such fascination as they tested their results!

 

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