Category Archives: Year 3

PCSO visits to Year 3

Our local PCSOs Robbie and Louise have been in class over the last two weeks to talk about the importance of safety. Year 3 were very enthusiastic in their discussions with Robbie about staying safe both online and in the community. He talked about the importance of crossing the road safely and reminded Year 3 of what to do if lost in a public place. Year 3 discovered that not all strangers are good strangers and that if lost they should speak to a police officer or PCSO.

When Louise visited, she talked further about staying safe online. She reminded Year 3 that lots of games, apps and websites have age restrictions for a good reasons – not all content is age appropriate and so to be careful about what they are looking at online.

Well done to the children of Year 3 for being official photographers too!

 

Creative week in Y3

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.

Stone Age fun in Year 3

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 🙂

comparing and grouping rocks based on their properties in Year 3

This half term our Science focus is on rocks. and this week Year 3 have been working on comparing and grouping together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.

Year 3 have been working scientifically by first making their own predictions about which rock from chalk, slate, sandstone, marble or granite would be the hardest. Everyone’s prediction ranked the rocks from softest to hardest. Then each group needed to work collaboratively to decide how to carry out a fair test  before having a go and then making observations.

Y3 Family Projects

Our topic is Tribal tales and is based around life in the Stone Age. For our family project, Year 3 have been asked to design and construct a settlement  . A settlement is a place where a community lives and would have usually been found close to a water source.

Year 3 have really enjoyed creating their projects and we hope our families did too! The attention to the smaller detail has been fantastic.

Have a look at our creations already in school and remember you still have time to make and bring in 🙂

Reading for Pleasure in Year 3

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?

Stone Age Boy in Year 3

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.

Year 3 Family learning project

 

Our next topic is called Tribal Tales and is based around life in the Stone Age. For this family project we would like to  design and construct a  settlement. A settlement is a place where a community lives.

Have a look at some of these web pages  to get more of an idea about life in the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/z33487h

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/z34djxs

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/explore/stone-age-guide-for-parents-and-teachers/

The Bronze Age is a time period when bronze replaced stone as the preferred material for making tools and weapons. This led to improvements in agriculture and brought with it changes in the way people live.

See the letter that came home for further information and possible ideas.

 

Year 3 visit St Martin in the Bullring Church

What a busy final week Year 3 have had to this term with a visit to St Martin in the Bullring church. After a walk to the train station,  a short train ride into the city centre and then another walk through the Bullring  we arrived! Christina the Famillies’ Missioner met us and showed us round the church.

Year 3 were astounded to hear the church was built in 1873 and is an example of gothic Victorian architecture, designed by Alfred Chatwin, from Birmingham, who also worked on the Houses of Parliament. But St Martin’s is much older than that. There has been a church on this site since  the year 1290!

 

Christina showed Year 3 the baptism font and told us more about how the ceremony is performed. Year 3 were able to share some of their RE learning with Christina. Although St Martin is a place or worship , it also holds a lot of history , from the original St Martin to events in the second world war.  There are many stained glass windows sharing stories from the Bible, from both the past and modern day . As we are fast approaching the Christian festival of Christmas, Year 3 were able to locate an Advent Crown, a Christmas tree with a bright star on the top and also a nearly life size Nativity scene where the manger lay empty, waiting for the baby Jesus.

Two members of Year 3 were invited to tie a purple ribbon onto the Advent tree and to also light a candle in the prayer chapel.

Who Was St Martin?
St Martin was a soldier. He was born in Hungary in 316 and never wanted to join the army but was obliged to by law. At the age of 18, he was posted to Amiens in France. One bitterly cold winter’s night he was riding through the city when he saw a half-naked beggar huddled against a wall. Martin was so moved by the sight that he cut his cloak with his sword and gave one half to the beggar.

That night he had a dream in which Christ appeared to him as the beggar and thanked Martin for clothing him. In response, the young soldier got baptised. Later he was to leave the army to become a soldier of Christ, eventually becoming Bishop of Tours in France. St Martin is remembered today for his service to the poor.

A huge thanks to Christina for her time and patience in giving Year 3 a tour and also answering many questions.

 

 

Well Being Week…What We Think.

Well Being Week Pupil Voice

Mikaeel Reception – ” All the teachers keep me safe.”

Eliora Reception – ” The cameras on the building help make sure we stay safe.”

Hafsah Year 1 – “We learnt that exercising makes you feel amazing.”

Kye Year 1 – “Exercising give us more energy to do things and keeps us fit.”

Amira Year 2 – “We learnt about being kind to make people feel happy.”

Amaan Year 2 – “I learnt that when you help people you help their feelings.”

Dante Year 3 – “I learnt that deep breathing helps us stay calm.”

Olivia Year 3 – “I learnt lots of ways to keep myself healthy.”

Isaiah Year 4 – “Meditating is a way of staying calm.”

Ayah Year 4 – “I learnt that if my well being is good I am relaxed.”

Codie Year 5 – ” Fake news can be called ‘Clip Bait’ and things like Green Screen and Photo Shop are used to make it.”

Carmen Year 5 – ” Fake news is very bad and is used to spread bad things, make money and to give people the wrong information.”

Shanti Year 6 –  “You should never send inappropriate images – it can ruin your life and others.”

Erica Year 6 – ” I enjoyed learning about how much sleep I should get every night. It was really nice to find this out.”