Year 3

Neil, from Big Science, came into school to share a fantastic workshop with us about the chemistry behind our skeletons. We loved taking part in the experiments and learning more about the importance of calcium to our bones.

In our Computing lessons, we have been learning about Fake News and how we can't necessarily trust everything we see and access online. We completed a quiz to help us understand the differences between a fact and an opinion.

We started our ukulele lessons in music today. We were very excited to learn the names of the parts of the instrument and we even had a try at playing a song. We're really looking forward to seeing how we progress over the half term.

What an array of talent on display this afternoon! One of the children in our class suggested a class talent show as the perfect way to...

Cooking and Nutrition: eating seasonally. We were learning about safe techniques with cutting and peeling today. Then we all had a turn.

We started a new text in our English lesson, 'Cloud Tea Monkeys'. We taste tested lots of herbal tea and used our senses and descriptive...

To finish our 'Light' topic in science, we created our own shadow theatre by making opaque shapes that would block the rays of light to...

As an end to our 'Judaism' topic in RE, we interviewed Mrs Van Der Velde to find out more about the synagogue and the parts of her faith...

We had a fantastic start to our new science topic, 'Light'. We created our own light boxes to help us investigate how light travels. We...

Prehistoric Art: sketching British animals using charcoal.

We became archaeologists this morning as an introduction to our new English unit based on historical fiction. We used our inference...

French and Design Technology on a Wednedsay make for a fun filled day! We started painting our paper plates for our pneumatic toys. In...

We loved out team games session with the PE service on Monday. We worked hard to demonstrate out team building skills, focus and...

In our RE lessons, we looked at the Introductory Rite of Mass. We created short films to explain what was happening and why. We have been...

As part of our work on The Pied Piper, we have created adverts for a rat catcher. We worked in teams and presented our adverts to the class!

Year 3 enjoyed a trip to the Great North Museum to explore the Ancient Egyptian artefacts in their amazing gallery. We enjoyed using the...

We enjoyed our Science workshop all about Rocks and Soils. We made our own igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks our of chocolate to...

Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic trip to Scotswood Gardens this week. We foraged for our own foliage and used this to create some beautiful...

We have been really enjoying our English lessons, based around the book 'Flotsam' by David Weisner-so much so we keep begging Mrs Morris...