Year 3
Mrs Gaukrodger and Mrs NoakesWelcome to Year 3
Roman Songs
We have loved our music lessons with Miss Christie this term. We have made great progress with learning chords on the ukulele and playing a range a different songs. We have also enjoyed singing songs about the Romans. We learned the lyrics to ‘Here Come the Romans’...
Acrylic Starry Night Paintings
In Art, Year 3 have been learning about the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh. We then explored his paintings, looking at his techniques for creating colour, shape, texture and movement. After experimenting with acrylic paints, we used his work “Starry Night” as an...
Constructing Castles
We are really proud of our finished castle designs. In DT, we have learned the use and names of different features of a castle. We then designed our castles to meet the design criteria of being strong and stable, having a flag and including at least one 3D shape we...
Bugs ‘n’ Stuff Workshop
We loved having Guy from Bugs n' Stuff come to visit us in school during our Science Week. Every class had the opportunity to look, touch and hold a wide variety of creatures - a giant millipede, cockroaches, a gecko and a python to name just a few! We saw how a...
Investigating the size and shape of shadows.
Today Year 3 investigated shadows. We drew around our shadows on the playground at 9.30am, 12.00pm and 2.15pm. Before each session, we predicted what they would look like and afterwards we discussed our results. We learned that the length, width and position of the...
Science Week – The Story of Earth Assembly
As part of our Science week activities, Reece from the Street Scientists team , who is a student at Newcastle University, came into school and shared an assembly with our children in Years 1 - 6 about the story of Earth. He showed the children, using ropes, the...
Gateshead Dance Festival
A huge well done to Year 3 who performed their dance ‘Make That Change’ at The Gateshead Dance Festival at The Glasshouse. We were a bit shocked to find we were first up to perform, but that didn’t stop our amazing class of dancers from producing a fabulous...
Year 3 World Book Day
Year 3 celebrated World Book Day 2025 by wearing pyjamas, sharing our favourite books and enjoying a drink and a snack. We also joined a funny online author talk with thousands of other KS2 children around the UK. Bestselling children’s author, Pamela Butchart...
Quicksticks Hockey
This afternoon, some children from Year 3 and Year 4 were invited to take part in the SSP’s Quicksticks hockey tournament at Lord Lawson. They formed two teams and played three matches each within their groups. We had some great goals scored and some incredible...
Year 3 Maths Investigation
Solving correspondence problems systematically Today Year 3 learnt how to solve problems systematically. One of our lovely children pretended to be a snowman and we had to work out all of the combinations of hats and scarves that he could wear. We used a logical order...
Year 3 Poetry
Overheard on a Saltmarsh by Harold Munro (1917) Year 3 have explored a haunting, mysterious poem this half term. Overheard on a Saltmarsh is a conversation between a nymph and a goblin. We read, analysed and performed the poem, then wrote critical reviews to explain...
Problem Solving
In maths, we have been using multiplication and division facts to solve word problems. We knew that Susie Snake had between 10 and 30 eggs and that when she counted them in fives, she had 2 left over and when she counted then in fours, she had 3 left over. We learned...