This week our school nurse Maria has been into class to tell Year 3 more about healthy foods and healthy lunchboxes.
Each group had to work collaboratively to create their own lunchbox. They were very interesting with many groups including lots of chocolate, sweets and biscuits.
Then, Maria told us more about the Eatwell plate and each group repacked their lunchbox to reflect their new learning.
In year 3 the children have been exploring forces and magnets.
We have looked at what a force and magnet is and how we can demonstrate push and pull forces. the children worked collaboratively to build freeze frames showing push and pull forces in action. This was a fun activity for year 3 as the rest of the children had to guess which force it was. 
What a wonderful start to the new term for Year 3. This has been a very busy week getting to know each other and the teachers – Miss Groom & Miss Begum.
During our week we have spent lots of time learning our new routines as it seems everything has changed over the summer! From going upstairs, locating our lockers, a later break time and lunchtime, remembering to bring our own healthy snacks and walking very smartly and quietly around the school.
Year 3 have been discussing kindness and what it means to them. Some children wrote acrostic poems and others wrote prayers to express their understanding.
During this final week of the year, Year 3 have been working hard with their DT (Design Technology) lessons in order to explore, design and make their own board games.
Year 3 worked collaboratively to play a range of existing maths games to find out what made a good game and to generate ideas. Afterwards, most children worked with a partner to design and then make their games.
Year 3 then played their games with Year 4 who gave them feedback on what they enjoyed and how they could improve their games.
As part of this term’s topic ‘Flow’, Year 3 visited Beacon Park, Lichfield. We had a great day with Ruth the Ranger observing, sampling and measuring Lemonsley Brook. After meeting Ruth, we split into three groups and started our activities. Those of us with wellies on were allowed into the brook to help Miss Greene & Miss Groom measure the width and depth of the brook. We then had to measure the temperature of the water and the last part was the most fun. To measure how fast the brook was flowing we played the traditional game of Pooh Sticks with dog biscuits because they float and are also kind to the environment. Those without wellies timed them to see how fast the dog biscuits took to travel down river. We also measured how clean the water was, as this would tell us how well the plant would grow. The more circles we could see at the bottom of the container, the cleaner the water was.
Next, we went pond dipping with Ruth to take samples of the different creatures living in the brook. We managed to catch and observe a few creatures. This proves how clean the water is in Lemonsley Brook. We dragged a net in the water and then emptied our nets into a tray, we then used an identification chart to help us identify the things we had caught. It was great fun and really interested to see what lives below the surface of the water.
Miss Suwanpatra and her group looked at the trees along the river bank and identified them from our key. There were eight different trees alongside the river. Why not ask Year 3 to see if they can name them?
It has been Into Faith Week across St. Clement’s with every class focusing their learning on a specific faith or religion. Year 3 have been learning all about Hinduism.
Before writing non- chronological reports, Year 3 had to read and research the necessary information and create their own plan with sub headings.
On Thursday morning Year 3 welcomed their parents to support their learning in an art lesson. After finding out more about the Hinduism creation story, children worked to create their own images based on the animation.
During week 5 of this half term, Year 3 have been busy working to write their own Tales of Fear. Ideas have been readily flowing with fears ranging from spiders to crabs to bears. After planning, Year 3 orally shared their story with a friend who offered support by making sure the story followed the five parts of a tale of fear.
After writing, Year 3 spent time making their changes to punctuation, grammar and also spelling. Then it was time to think like an author by publishing their stories.
Pop into Year 3 and have a read 🙂
This half term our focus in Religious Education lessons is on Hinduism. Year 3’s big question is How can Brahman be everywhere and in everything?
This week Year 3 were privileged enough to receive a visit from Manisha, a practising Hindu. She shared a story abut how Ganesh got his elephant head and answered lots of questions about the religion in greater detail.
Year 3 then selected information from a range of sources to create a plan for their acrostic poems about Ganesh. By working collaboratively, Year 3 were able to discuss and improve their lines of poetry.
After completion of their poems, each pair spent time with their peers to assess each others work and offer suggestions for improvements. Then after rehearsing, each pair presented their poem to the rest of the class.
This week Year 3 have been developing their knowledge of great artists by exploring the still life work of Wilhelm Kalf, Georges Braque and Pieter Claesz .
With each still life image, Year 3 used a range of questions to structure their discussions.
With a final question of which image would you choose to have at home and why?
Year 3 then worked with charcoal in their sketch books to create still life sketches of peppers.
Have a look at some of the end results.
What an exciting start to the new term! Year 3 spent a day this week at Woodlands Adventure activity centre. Everyone had the opportunity to take part in archery, canoeing, zip wire and the assault course.
Year 3 demonstrated perseverance, resilience, collaboration whilst overcoming their fears, especially at the top of the zip wire tower The children were fantastic ambassadors for the Academy and can not wait to return.
‘It was the best day ever!’ Shaimaa
‘It was a fun day because we did things that we have never done before,’ Noor
‘I really enjoyed the assault course even though I did the splits on the net!’ Kaif
‘I really enjoyed it but it was a bit scary at the top of the zip wire,’ Carly
‘When I was on the zipline I could see everything at the adventure centre.’ Abdullah
‘I enjoyed archery because I felt like Robin Hood!’ Essam
‘When I saw how high the zipline tower was, I was scared. But after I just wanted to do it again,’ Aleesha