Due to the wild weather, Year 3 stayed inside this week for their Forest School session, but we carried on learning about our native birds. We looked at plumage in particular, then the children made drawings and created origami bird snappers. They tried to represent the colours realistically and p
This half term, the Year 3 children have been focusing on composition in music. They created simple tunes on the glockenspiel that included up to four different notes. The aim was to compose a tune and repeat it at least three times accurately, keeping a steady pulse. The children edited and improve
Each week, three children from Year 1-6 will be selected by their teachers to have a very special award: Hot Chocolate with Mr Malik. These children will have constantly been trying their best, been respectful, polite and friendly, helped others and produced work to the highest standard they can.
This half term, the boys and girls in Year 3 have been developing their basketball skills and learning about what makes a great basketball player. They have played a range of games allowing them to progress from learning how to control the ball to passing and dribbling with accuracy. To finish, Year
In Art, Year 3 have been experimenting with mixing paint. By adding white and black to primary colours, they produced their own colour strips of different tints and shades. The boys and girls moved on to explore tertiary colours with blue and yellow paint, to mix different tones of green. Using a ra
Today the boys and girls were transported back to the Stone Age with Dr Jo. During the workshop, they explored cave painting and handled artefacts. The children enjoyed learning about life during this time and played a hunter gatherer game to find out about the sources of food available. Year 3 have
During computing, Year 3 have been learning how to use spreadsheets. The children began by collecting their own data about their favourite fruit and created a table using a spreadsheet program. The boys and girls generated pie charts and bar graphs using the data and were able to answer question
Taking opportunities to focus on our personal and social development is such an important aspect of growing up. Today Year 3 enjoyed time learning about different ways of communicating. The focus was on non-verbal methods of sharing information, the many ways this can be done and why we may need t
In maths, the boys and girls have been learning how to use arrays to multiply. Today, they were challenged with finding related facts and then completing the fact families. They really enjoyed using the place value counters to support their learning. UNICEF Article 6: We all have the right to live a
After reading The Stone Age Boy, Year 3 have been putting themselves in the character’s shoes and imagining what it would be like in the stone age camp. Today, the boys and girls used their senses to describe what they could see, hear, feel and smell. They generated their own adventurous vocabulary
