Year 3

On Monday 7^th March 2016 Year 3 joined in with the whole-school theme of World Climate Week. Pupils arrived in the morning to clue cards laid out on their tables and were asked to guess what day we were celebrating. We enjoyed an assembly by the Eco-Team which started to give us an overview of…

This week in our English lessons we have been creating our own fairy tale characters. Over the past few weeks we have been reading a variety of fairy tales including The Three Little Pigs, The Princess and the Pea and Hansel and Gretel. We analysed the types of good and bad characters we have been…

Our topic has focused on thinking about different kinds of predator. We enjoyed seeing the birds of prey so much during our memorable experience that we decided to create our own 3D models to display in our classroom. We carefully observed pictures of different owls and selected the owl we liked…

This week the children have been doing work around the theme of Science, espically space. In English, the chidlren have watched a short animation on Johnny delivering a parcel to outer space and they had to write speech for Johnny.  They will complete their English by imagining they are Johnny in…

On Friday 11th March, the children learnt about the importance of Fair trade.  Their first activity was to find where certain fair trade produce came from and then to cover the area on a world map with that produce.  The children used coffee, cocoa powder, sugar, tea leaves and raisins. The end…

I may look a little scared but it was a very large bird of prey!!  Our topic, Predators was kick started last week with a visit from a variety birds of prey.  The children listened and asked questions to find put about the different types of owls.  There were barn owls, tawny owls and even a…

On the 3^rd of March 2016 Boarshaw Primary School transformed into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Year 3 Seahorses couldn’t wait to join in the celebrations on this day to celebrate the amazing Harry Potter books by JK Rowling. We arrived in the morning at Platform 9 ¾ with our…

This week we have been using different apps on our iPads to create different kinds of posters. We looked at how simple posters give us key information and have clear images. We worked in pairs to choose a predator and to think about its prey. We used Google images and saved the images and then…

Year 3 Seahorses made some amazing posters this week using an app on the iPads. We have been learning about predators and what makes them so vicious and deadly. We researched key facts about our favourite predator and then created these amazing WANTED posters! We worked in pairs to think carefully…

What a fabulous World Book Day! The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  They entered school today at platform 9 and 3/4'S and were met by Harry potter (cardboard cut out I'm afraid).  Each child was placed into a house and they had to earn house points all day.  The winning house will be…

The children in Year 3 Octopus were given a challenge!  They had to program the Beebots to move from one object to another.  They could use a left and right turn, forward or backward.  They had a great fun and had to use their knowledge of algorithms as well as estimation.  The children had to…

Here are some more photographs from our visit.