Year 3
Mrs Gaukrodger and Mrs NoakesWelcome to Year 3
Celebrating Purim
Year 3 have been learning about different Jewish festivals in our RE lessons. To help us learn about the festival of Purim, we watched a video to find out the different ways Jewish children prepared for the celebration. Their preparations included choosing fancy dress...
Drama in Year 3!
Today, Year 3 had fun doing Drama in our English lesson. In preparation for our writing activity, we acted the story of Four Sticky Little Boys from Roald Dahl’s The Twits. We thought about how each character would move, think, behave and speak. Here we are showing...
Stone Age Art
In history we are learning about the Stone Age. We explored a range of photographs of Stone Age cave paintings and discussed the things that we could see and what they told us about people living in the Stone Age. We learned that during the Stone Age, people would...
Mehndi artist – Jyoti Chheda
Year 3 - Indian Art As part of our topic on Indian Art, Year 3 studied the work of Jyoti Chheda. We learnt how she uses henna to paint intricate mehndi patterns onto the skin, particularly for wedding ceremonies and festivals. We explored her style, themes and the use...
Councillor Visits Assembly
In assembly this week, the children were very lucky to have a visit from Councillor Joe Sowerby. He spoke to the children about his role as a councillor and shared with them how he campaigned to win votes in the election. The children will soon be holding their own...
Indian Art
In Year 3 this term we are learning about art from India. We started our topic by looking at a range of Indian art across history. We discussed what we liked and disliked, thinking about the formal elements of art: colour, tone, pattern, texture, line, composition,...
Reading Buddies
This term, our Key Stage 2 and 1 children have been paired up as reading buddies. Each Friday, the children will select a book to read with their buddy and enjoy. As you can see from the photos, it was wonderful to see our older and younger children reading together.
Numbers to 1,000
In maths we have been learning to represent numbers to 1,000 in different ways. We used base 10 equipment to make 3 digit numbers and used it to help us partition the numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.
Making shapes
The children in Year 3 have been exploring shapes. The children used geoboards to create 2D shapes discussing the sides and corners of a shape and how we can have shapes which are regular and irregular. The children then explored 3D shapes and looked at edges and...
World Music Day
The children thoroughly enjoyed sharing some of their favourite songs and dancing along to them with their friends. The children were able to share why a song was important and listen to other’s opinions sometimes on the same songs. We discussed how songs can come...
Creating Castle Structures.
The children in Year 3 have been designing and creating their own castles. The children learned about parts of a castle and why each part was useful to those inside the castle. The children designed a castle for their own person or character then created it using 3D...
Presenting using a PowerPoint
The children have been working hard in their computing lessons creating their own PowerPoints. They had to include some of their favourite things and then adapt them using features included in a PowerPoint document. The children were able to change the font size and...