Volcanic Activity in Year 3!

Volcanic Activity in Year 3!

Year 3’s Geography holiday homework challenge was to create a model volcano. We were so impressed with the imaginative creations that the children and families produced. The care and attention to detail was fabulous. Some children decided to make their volcanoes erupt...
Year 3’s daily 2 minute times table challenge.

Year 3’s daily 2 minute times table challenge.

In Year 3 we work hard to learn our times tables. We focus on learning one particular table at a time. Each morning we practise and then complete a 2 minute challenge in our challenge booklets. We try to beat the previous day’s score. New questions are gradually...
Rocks Field Work -Year 3

Rocks Field Work -Year 3

To conclude our Geography unit on Volcanoes and our Science work on Rocks, Year 3 conducted field work in the school grounds. We hunted for rocks and then marked where we had found them on an aerial map. After photographing them, we used magnifying glasses to look...
All That Jazz!

All That Jazz!

We have been learning about jazz music in our music lessons this term. We have learned that jazz is a lively type of music that uses special beats, improvisation and instruments like the saxophone and trumpet. We have found out about different jazz music including...
Moving Mechanisms

Moving Mechanisms

In our DT lessons this half term, we have been learning how to make different moving mechanisms. We looked at a range of pop-up books and different ways mechanisms can be used. We went on to learn how to make a lever, a concertina, a turning wheel and a pop-out...