Year 3 have continued to work very hard this week. In English, we have started a new book called, ‘Fantastically great women who changed the world’ by Kate Pankhurst.

This week, we focussed on our first woman who changed the world called Rosa Parks, a black lady living in America. The children learnt all about how Rosa faced racism and segregation whilst growing up as a black child. We discovered that Rosa was arrested and fined for not giving up her seat on a bus for a white person and discussed how she fought for equality and civil rights for all black people. The children wrote all about Rosa’s life as part of our big write and we even had some children research another famous activist who fought for equal rights called Martin Luther King Jr. Below are Daisy’s, Amelia’s, Jordan’s and Lilly’s beautiful work demonstrating Year 3’s fantastic work ethic and motivation.

In History, we explored the Egyptian pyramids and discussed how they were built, why they were built, where they were built and who built them many years ago. We created our own fact pyramid to display our knowledge. Fleur, Matthew and Lilly clearly enjoyed this task!

On Thursday, the children thoroughly enjoyed our computing lesson all about coding and sequencing. The children had to sort code in order to give an angry bird instructions on how to work their way around a maze to capture a cheeky pig.

In RE, we have been looking at the liturgical year and focussed on ‘ordinary time’ of the Christian calendar. This week, we looked at a very special feast day which occurs during ordinary time, All Saints’ Feast Day. The children researched all about this special day and created wonderful posters.

Miss Walker and Mrs Patterson are amazed by Year 3’s hard work and high quality of work they have produced over the last six weeks and would like to thank all of the children and their families for their fantastic efforts and support.

In English this week, we completed our Iron Man story and wrote a newspaper article describing how the Iron Man defeats the space-bat-angel-dragon. The quality of work was absolutely fantastic! Here are a few examples below. We ended the week with an Iron Man quiz which the children loved!

In Maths, we have completed our Multiplication and Division topic. This week, we focussed on division and remainders and used diene blocks to help us with this concept.

In History, we continued learning all about the Egyptians. On Wednesday, we made an information poster explaining the importance of the River Nile during the Ancient Egyptian times for reasons such as transport, food and healthy soil to grow crops.

This Wednesday will be the start of Lent and the children have been thinking about their Lenten promise. This promise is lovely written by Harrison and Lilly.

This week, Year 3 have continued their focus on the Iron Man story by Ted Hughes. On Wednesday, the children wrote fantastic diary entries explaining a horrific beast (the space-bat-angel dragon) landed on earth and was threatening all life. In Chapter 4, we learnt that the main character, Hogarth, asks the Iron Man for help which he agrees to in the end. The children included many features of a diary entry such as first person, informal language, speech and time adverbials. Here are just some examples of the fantastic work Year 3 produced.

In Science this week, we have been exploring nutrition and learning about what we need in order to have a healthy and balanced diet. The children’s task this week was to understand what is in the food we eat. We can understand this more by looking at the nutritional information on the back of food products. The children looked at a range of food products and investigated how much carbohydrates, protein, fibre and other nutrition was in the food they were eating. We found this very interesting!

In History this week, we were learning all about the Ancient Egyptians and who they were. We then looked at a timeline showing events of ancient history that happened before the birth of Christ (BC). We then placed these in chronological order.

Well done Year 3 for another great week. Mrs Patterson and I are very proud as always. Have a lovely weekend! Miss Walker

Once again, Year 3 have been working exceptionally hard this week. Miss Walker, Mrs Patterson and parents are very proud! We kick started our week with a fun interactive quiz which tested our knowledge on our recent Geography topic ‘volcanoes and earthquakes’. We also created wonderful posters using key facts and information that we have learnt in the topic.

We are starting our new History topic all about ‘Ancient Egypt’. We started off by looking at the Ancient Egyptian language, hieroglyphics. We looked at the range of symbols and wrote our name in hieroglyphic.

In our English lessons, the children have continued to focus on ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. We all imagined to be the main character from the story, Hogarth, and wrote a formal letter of apology to the Iron Man apologising for trapping him in an enormous pit. Here are just a few examples but all of the letters were fantastic!

We also had a lovely, peaceful reflection in RE this week focussing on our new topic ‘journeys’. During this lesson, we looked back on our journey throughout 2020 and 2021 so far. The children wrote very thoughtful and heart-felt prayers which they read out during the liturgy.

Hope you have a lovely, relaxing weekend Year 3.

Year 3 have continued focussing on ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes in our English lessons. So far, we have read all the way up to Chapter 4 of the book and have loved every second of it!

Year 3 watched a fantastic clip of the Iron Man illustrator, Chris Mould, who taught us how to draw the Iron Man ourselves at home. I wish I could show all of the drawings but here are just some of the amazing work we created of the Iron Man stepping over the hill!

In Chapter Two we read about how the Iron Man was lured into a stupendous hole as the farmers were sick and tired of their machinery being eaten. Using this information, the children wrote instructions on how to successfully capture the Iron Man using the chapter for ideas.

Year 3 have also been studying earthquakes and volcanoes. The children have explored how volcanoes are formed over time and how they erupt. Some children even went above and beyond by making their very own volcano and making it explode using only washing up liquid, food colouring, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. Check out Daisy’s experiment on our Twitter page where you will see her amazing experiment and commentary! We were amazed to discover that in the week we have been learning about volcanoes, Mount Etna erupted on Tuesday evening!

We have also been learning about earthquakes and how they occur around the world particularly around the pacific ocean. We looked at ways of measuring the intensity of earthquakes, such as the mercalli scale, and put these in order of intensity on our worksheet. Well done Year 3!

Year 3 have had a fantastic week once again!

We started the week by learning all about the Jewish faith and designed our very own Torah mantle which is used to cover and protect the Torah scroll. We looked at the features of the mantle and noticed that the Star of David was often featured as well as expensive material and beautiful decoration.

In Science, we have been focussing on our topic all about ‘rocks’. The children in school and at home have been working extremely hard using Oak National Academy and have completed a range of lessons all about the formation of rocks and the rock cycle. We also studied how fossils are made and looked at real fossils – Mrs Patterson even brought in her very own fossil to show us all!

We have enjoyed recapping our knowledge of homophones in English, using our times-table knowledge in Maths and loved continuing to read our class book, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. The children have worked so hard and I thank everyone who have helped to support them at home and in school. Well done Year 3, keep up the fantastic work and effort!

The start of 2021 has been nothing but…interesting! However it has been wonderful to see the Year 3 children online who are at home taking part in our remote learning. We have also had some Year 3 children in school who have worked extremely hard and have blown me away by their positivity and enthusiasm. The children in school have been praying for their parents who are key workers and are reminded of how truly special they are. Thank you for the positive messages we have received from home – we really appreciate it! I am so very proud of all of the children who are at home and in school for their engagement in our remote lessons and for being so resilient. I would like to thank the families who have been supporting their children at home with their learning as well as working from home themselves – we know it can’t be easy but you’re doing a fantastic job! Well done to everyone who joined in with PE with Mr P on Wednesday. It was very fun and Mr P certainly worked us hard as my legs still feel like jelly! I look forward to our virtual lessons next week Year 3 and to see your lovely faces – keep smiling! Miss Walker x

What a jam packed week we have had! We kick started the week with our Christmas party which we all absolutely loved! We played classic party games like pass the parcel, corners, pin the nose on Rudolph, musical statues and musical bumps. We also loved completing Christmas activities and enjoyed our lovely Christmas party food! On Tuesday, we were delighted to visit Lanchester EP School and be part of the wonderful Winter Wonderland. We learnt all about amazing birds of prey, how to roast marshmallows, drank hot chocolate (and squirty cream!) and even visited Santa Claus at his grotto – what a treat! We also enjoyed our pantomine on Thursday – the children LOVE The Wizard of Oz! Well done Year 3 for a fantastic term. You have all worked very hard and Miss Walker and Mrs Patterson wish you all a lovely Christmas and a happy New Year.  

Year 3 kick started the week by taking part in their music performance as well as their Christmas dance in Church which were both fantastic! In English this week, Year 3 focussed on a well-known Christmas Advert from 2014 known as ‘ The First World War Truce’ which retold the story of Christmas Day in 1914, when opposing British and German soldiers emerged from their trenches to exchange gifts and play football. The children were mesmerised by the clip and even clapped at the end after their emotional watch. We then imagined being in Jim’s shoes (the British soldier featured in the video) and created a mood board to show how we would be feeling across different stages of that day in 1914 as well as what we could hear and what we did – the children did a fantastic job.

On Thursday, we all wore our jolly Christmas jumpers and loved wearing our Christmas hats (we also had the pleasure of seeing Mrs Patterson’s turkey hat!) whilst enjoying our wonderful Christmas lunch courtesy of All Saints’ kitchen staff – yum, yum, yum!

As it was the start of Advent last Sunday, Year 3 have been reflecting on their Advent promises and learning about the visitation, when Angel Gabriel visited Mary to tell her that she was going to have a baby boy called Jesus. The children then imagined what it would have been like to have been Mary and to be visited by an angel unexpectedly. Lots of children thought she would have been frightened at first but pleased that God had chosen her to have the son of God. Year 3 then wrote a diary entry from Mary’s perspective and they all did a fantastic job! I wish I could show all of the children’s work but here is just one example. We have also been busy practising our lovely Christmas dance (the children can’t wait to perform it!) and making our Christmas crafts this week. We have really enjoyed learning how to cross stitch and really appreciate Mrs Patterson’s help working with small groups to introduce the children to the method of cross stitching.