3 December 2021

Year 3 worked hard to spot features of persuasive texts

Year 3 worked hard today in English as they had to spot the features of persuasive texts. I think they all want to go to Alton Towers now!!!

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1 December 2021

Our new English unit in Year 3

Year 3 are busy with their new English unit on persuasive texts. We have read a model text and learnt the new non fiction shapes that will help us to write our own. We then had an experience day lesson to learn all about Skara Brae - a Stone Age settlement.

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27 November 2021

Year 3 love Friday afternoons!

Year 3 love Friday afternoons!!!

Computing is always a hit and today we creating a digital storyboard using Storyboard that.  In Music, we enjoyed learning a new song, as well as all our usual singing activities, improvisation activities and playing the glockenspiels.

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23 November 2021

Year 3 - Stone Age workshop

What an amazing afternoon we had in Year 3 as we went on a journey back to the Stone Age! We started off by making a human timeline to learn about the different Stone Age times. We then learn what we would have needed to have done to survive. It was tricky to get those eggs of the terror birds and…

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16 November 2021

Year 3 - Stone Age Cave Art

Year 3 are loving learning about the Stone Age and this afternoon had a go at some cave painting, as if they were in the Stone Age.

 

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10 November 2021

Year 3 - Poppy Art inspired by Georgia O'Keefe

Year 3 discussed the reasons why we wear poppies and then created their own representations of poppies, inspired by the flower art of Georgia OKeefe. These will be made into a wreath to be placed in our Victory Garden.

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8 November 2021

Stone Age Life - English Experience Day in Year 3

Year 3 loved their experience day lesson to find more about life in the Stone Age. Handling flint ✅, freeze framing Stone Age jobs ✅ and flint knapping to make an arrowhead ( using soap!!) 

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5 November 2021

Year 3 - The Gunpowder Plot

Year 3 enjoyed finding out all about the Gunpowder Plot. At first we looked at a range of sources to see what we could find out. We then used these to help piece together the events of what happened in the run up to the 5th November 1605. We then sequenced the events and wrote our own…

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2 November 2021

Year 3 Halloween Disco

Spooky goings on in Year 3 as they enjoyed dressing up for Halloween Day. They loved their Halloween disco. Such a great effort with all the costumes.

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1 November 2021

ArtsMark Day in Year 3

What a wonderful morning in Year 3 on our ArtsMark Day. We looked at the artist, Umberto Boccioni, and then worked in his style to create a fireworks picture.

First we had to make a collage of fireworks pictures and then draw our picture.

We then painted our drawings using watercolours.…

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22 October 2021

Loving our first French Day in Year 3

Year 3 loved their first French day and worked so hard to learn words in French. We learnt to count to 10, say hello and goodbye, classroom instructions and how to answer, How are you ?, in French. We enjoyed games, songs and even writing in French.

 

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16 October 2021

Whole Class Reading in Year 3

Year 3 are enjoying their Whole Class Reading based on The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.
Today we read more of the story and read the description of the house of flowers that the wolves built. We then had to use our prediction and inference skills to draw what we thought the house…

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