The focus for Creative Werk has been the book Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks. This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of Dog, Magpie and Fox. Year identified the themes of friendship, jealousy and betrayal after reading and discussing.

Year 3 used the character of Fox as their inspiration fora range of art work over the week. From detailed pencil sketches, exploration of Pop Art and also tile printing.

As you can see the results are stunning.

What a busy week!! It started with researching Stonehenge and using watercolours and collage to create our own interpretations. Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. Stonehenge was built over many hundreds of years. Work began in the late Neolithic Age, around 3000 BC. Over the next thousand years, people made many changes to the monument. The last changes were made in the early Bronze Age, around 1500 BC. We may never know exactly why Stonehenge was built, but people probably gathered there for religious ceremonies.

Then on Thursday Year 3 took part in as Stone Age experience day with a focus on archaeology – looking at clues from the past to try and work out the story, taking part in a human timeline to see exactly how far back in the past the Stone Age was. Followed by working collaboratively in role as archaeologists to carefully dig and uncover artefacts in a pit. Each group were then able to classify and recod their findings and create a group museum with the artefact and information card.

During the afternoon session Year 3 were able to take part in everyday tasks from the Stone Age – weaving, making arrows, grinding corn and making their own bracelet.

Such a busy, hands on day which Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed 🙂

One of the favourite times of each week is when Year 3 have the opportunity to read for pleasure. This involves choosing just the right spot to curl up with a book of their choice. This can be fiction, non – fiction or poetry. Everything from chapter books, picture books, comics, and anything else.

As you can see Year 3  also enjoy a range of spaces from under a table, to sitting on the spinning chairs to lying on a blanket. I wonder where else Year 3 will find to enjoy reading? Maybe our new class reading cave?

Welcome back to Year 3! It has been a busy and productive start to the new term with lots of work around our new story Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura.

This text is the focus for our writing over the next few weeks where Year 3 will be writing their own portal tale – a story where the main character starts in an ordinary setting and ends up somewhere else with a problem to solve before they can return.

Stone Age Boy also supports our topic learning which is based around the Stone Age. |Year 3 have participated in role play, hot seating and freeze frames to help understand the events of the story. See if you can guess the emotions portrayed by some of our freeze frames where everyone was working in role.

What a busy week it has been! From the start of the week with our annual Christmas service at Aston Parish Church, rehearsals in enrichment for our show next week, Christmas dinners, party hats and place mat making. Year 3 managed to also make their own pop up card to celebrate this time of the year.  A it thank you to Mrs Austin-Smith and Mrs Akhtar who started the pop up process.

MIss Groom was very impressed with the levels on concentration shown in making the cards and how well the children worked together to help each other achieve. Keep a look out next week when they will be coming home