Year 3

Year 3 enjoyed retelling a French Christmas story today about how Father Christmas gets dressed for delivering presents on Christmas Eve.

KS2 had a brilliant party day 🎉🕺💃 Lots of dancing, laughter and celebrating with friends made it a day to remember! What a fantastic way to enjoy time together 🥳✨

We enjoyed a trip to the Great North Museum to celebrate the end of our Ancient Egyptians topic. We became gallery explorers and enjoyed looking for lots of different types of artefacts as well as pyramid building and exploring the book of the dead further.

We worked on patch and point balances in our gymnastics lesson today. We tried to control our balance by tightening our muscles and focusing on maintaining our shape. We put our balance skills to the test using the apparatus.

This morning, we began our new English unit of work based around Roald Dahl's 'The BFG'. We look closely at character description and setting and then adapted and improved sentences using different word classes. This afternoon, we enjoyed 'tinkering' with Scratch this afternoon as a way to re-familiarise ourselves with the software before we explore it further in our programming unit of work.

We have been exploring Ancient Egyptian art work this week. We created texture to imitate the papyrus paper the Egyptians would have used and studied patterns, colours and shapes closely to create an inspiration board to use throughout our topic.

We have loved creating our own fantasy narratives based on Angela McAllister's fantastic book, 'Leon and the Place Between'. We used interesting vocabulary and sentence structures to transport our reader into a world of magic and wonder and really enjoyed immersing ourselves in the writing experience!

Year 3 took part in the BBC Live Lesson as part of Anti Bullying Week. We became Secret Agents and worked hard to earn golden tokens by completing tasks based around this year's Anti-Bullying Alliance theme of 'Power For Good'.

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...