Year 3

2019 - 2020

Faces in places: ART

This morning we ventured outside for some fresh air and enjoyed using giant eyes to find faces in every day objects. We used our imaginations and shared many laughs with each other (especially when making the noises we thought they would make). This was a great way to share love and creativity in our day.

Portraits- Faces in different places

We had great fun this week completing the Sport Relief Minster Mile and obstacle course.

Across the school we have discussed how easy it is for germs to spread and the importance of washing our hands.

We have been practising performance poetry this week trying to follow our steps to success - tone, volume, expression, actions and pace. Here are our performances.

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Green Class have had an absolutely fantastic World Book Day! We had a brilliant range of costumes, from the beautiful swan in The Ugly Duckling to a collection of Harry Potters. We have been writing book reviews, illustrating a poem and rehearsing our class poem.

World Book Day 2020

Year 3 had an exciting day making volcanoes to end our topic of Tremors. The children worked hard in pairs to make their paper mache volcanoes. They carefully measured their acid (vinegar) and alkali (bicarbonate of soda) ready to mix together to make their chemical reactions to represent the eruptions. We discussed how this reaction was like a pyroclastic flow from a volcano.

Volcano Day- End of Term 3

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Stop-motion animation

Year 3 have been working hard on producing a stop-motion animation that is based on our topic, Tremors. The children worked in groups to design and animate paper to show an earthquake or a volcano erupting.

Volcano Eruption

An Earthquake

Volcano Eruption

An Earthquake

Volcano Eruption

Volcanoes

Volcano Eruption

An Earthquake

Volcano Eruption

Term 3 - Tremors

Gold book writing in Scarlet Class.

All of the children were quiet and engaged trying to apply all of the skills that they have learnt.

We were exploring soil using senses and found out that it was made up of organic matter and broken up rocks.

KungFu tables - celebrating success and personal achievement

STEM Day - How sturdy is your house?

The children were challenged to build an earthquake proof structure. In groups they designed a structure using their newly learnt knowledge of cross-bracing and base isolation. Then we made and tested our structures to see who could withstand a 10 second earthquake.

We took part in the RSBP bird watch this week and linked our learning with data collection in bars. We made a bar chart outside to show the number of birds that we saw.

Group problem solving in Maths.

The weather didn't put us off this week from doing our sport. We practiced our Hockey skills indoors.

Tremors

As an introduction to our topic this term, we were geologists and went on a rock hunt.

Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed learning about the new 'StopMotion' animation app and lots of children were inspired to take their learning home and share it with family and friends. We hope to share videos soon.

Year 3 have had great fun making hand hero puppets this week! They have practised their stitching skills and used glue guns. It was lovely to see their creativity shine.

Week beginning Monday 11^th November

Today was the start of Anti-bullying week and also Remembrance. We celebrated both of these in assembly. Then, in the classroom we practised and revised multiplying and dividing by 3.

Term 2

Week beginning Monday 4^th November

In Science we are investigating magnetic forces this term. We started by finding things that are magnetic around the classroom.

Keep up the KungFu work!

Week beginning Monday 14^th October

We have come to an end of our Graffiti topic! The children have thoroughly enjoyed their learning over this term. We explored our surroundings searching for areas in Minster that were appropriate for graffiti and those that were not. We discussed lots of positives and negatives over the term. From our trip around the village we used pictures to create backgrounds for our graffiti art to be displayed on.

Week beginning Monday 7^th October

Science - What would we do without light?

Due to the weather this our sports lesson was in the hall. We played a new game from the Paralympics which enhanced our listening skills too realising that anything is possible.

Week beginning Monday 30^th September

Year 3 have been busy preparing art for the Minster Art show for all to enjoy. The children used observational skills, recreated sketches and used techniques of Vicent Van Gogh to create a painting.

RE – we discussed things that we could change and things that we couldn’t change. The children understood that change starts with them.

Week beginning Monday 16^th September

Year 3 joined KS1 and enjoyed harvest festival at Minster church sharing songs and work created by them with both parents and children.

Over this week we have been and will continue to explore place value and secure our knowledge of number using a range of different techniques.

Week beginning Monday 2^nd September

Christian Values are now Christian Foundations. This week we have revisited our foundations to revise and remember there meaning. Creation, Justice, Love, Peace and Forgiveness