Year 3

This week Year 3 Seahorses created their own fantasy towns. We thought carefully about what a town needs and where those places should be located. We worked in pairs to design our fantasy towns in our books and label the main places using a key. Then we set to work and created our fantasy towns…

This half term we have started our new topic, Urban Pioneers and exploring about light and dark.  The children have been finding out about a range of light sources and how the moon is not a light source.  They also explored how shadows are made.  Thankfully we managed to get a sunny day which was…

The children in year 3 Octopus have been working with shapes all week during their Maths Lessons.  We started looking at all the 3D shapes, and named their properties and their actual names.  By the end of the week the children were given cubes to make cuboids and they had to use different methods…

Year 3 performed their class assembly to the school and parents.  They told the story of St George, explaining who he was and what he had done.  The children acted out the Myth of St George of how he slayed a dragon to save the princess.  They all had a speaking part during the assembly and did…

As part of our enrichment activity this half term, Year 3 Seahorses will be taking part in Djembe drumming sessions! This week was our first session where we started to learn how to pick up and hold the drum. We experimented with the different sounds which the drum can make and started to learn…

Year 3 Seahorses have been looking at a variety of maps this week. We found out more about what a key is and why it is so important to have a key on a map. We looked at a variety of maps and interpreted the information from the key. We found out so many key facts!

We created our own maps…

Year 3 have started to look at graffiti and watched a video where an artist modelled how to graffiti your name. We decided to copy this and did so to our names! We had so much fun copying the technique! Our finished work has gone up in our classroom on our new topic display. We thought parents…

At the beginning of summer term we started off our new topic of Urban Pioneers with our memorable experience. We went on a walk of our local area specifically looking for examples of urban artwork. We saw that there were some examples of artwork created by artists which help to make the local area…

British Science Week – Science Week

This week Year 3 Seahorses have been participating in British Science Week! We focused on the theme of SPACE and looked at various aspects of this. For our Science project we looked at digital space. We have been finding out about food chains during our topic…

Miss Riaz promised she would share our climate change and Fairtrade posters and here they are! We created these posters by working together as a class. Our key phrase for our climate change poster was ‘human change not climate change’. We wanted to focus on ways in which our behaviour can help…

This half term the pupils in Year 3 Seahorses have been learning how to play the clarinet. Our lessons have focused on us putting together our clarinets and then learning how to play key notes. We are now able to play Hot Cross Buns and gathered in the hall on Thursday 17^th March to perform for…

On Friday 11^th March 2016 we spent the day learning all about Fairtrade. The morning started with our parents coming in to share a Fairtrade breakfast with us! It was nice to have a chocolate and banana muffin along with a cup of warm hot chocolate! Our parents joined us in class, where we had…