Year 3
Year 3 teachers (ID 1209)
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Mrs S Perrow-Smith
Mrs S Perrow-Smith
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Mrs A Babcock
Mrs A Babcock
Computing
Up, up and away - into space, no less! That's where Y3's Computing has taken us this term. This is all because we've used the song 'Space Oddity' as our focus to create our very own stop-frame animations. Before we created the masterpieces you can see on Riverside's Flickr pages, we had to learn HOW to design our animations. First of all, we went back to Victorian times, and made flick-books - each page having a slightly different change to our drawings. We loved designing these: we giggled lots and couldn't believe how easy it was to create motion with still pictures! We then moved on to using iPads and the app 'Stop Motion' to take frames for our films. During the process of clicking away with every different movement, we edited, if we found we had made a mistake. Sharing our animations made us feel valued as we entertained our audience and they applauded our efforts! We're hoping to use this skill again in Y3 to bring other learning to life!
Click on the link to view our efforts!
Posted 29th Nov, 2024
Playscripts
This term, our Literacy learning has been inviting out our inner drama kings and queens as we've been learning all about 'Playscripts'. The playscript we've been reading and acting out involves a scenario that many of us have experienced: making new friends and how this can be a struggle for some us, so much so, we end up telling lies and then not knowing how to stop! Through our acting, we've been able to understand how certain characters feel in tricky situations and how we all have to battle with our inner conscience! Soon, we'll be writing the next scene for this play, where we get to decide how the little girl who has been telling lies decides to keep her new 'friends'.
Posted 15th Nov, 2024
Pointillism
Year 3's art project for the autumn term has been all about 'Pointillism', a technique of painting that only uses dots to create masterpieces! Famous artists who used this style of painting included Georges Seurat and Paul Signac who we learned about before trying it ourselves. As you can see it might seem like an 'easy' technique to use but it's not: it required us to be very patient and resilient if we wanted to create images which looked like the objects we chose. We did lots of practice to start with - colour mixing (without actually mixing paint) by using overlapping dots (points), creating tone by spacing out points to create lighter shades and making dots come closer for darker shades as well as using white and black to our primary colours. We also experimented with different utensils to see which gave us more control over the 'points' we made: we preferred the end of the paintbrush - not the bristle end! You can see from our faces how proud we are of our efforts - why don't you give it a try!
Posted 18th Oct, 2024
Geography
Our Geography learning has flown us across the world to New Zealand, Haiti and Chile so far, this term. Thankfully, we've not been able to focus on where we live because we don't experience earthquakes! After looking at the damage and destruction caused in 2011 to Christchurch in New Zealand, learnt that New Zealand has experienced many earthquakes over the years because it lies on boundaries of 2 tectonic plates! Another fact we were rather flabbergasted by was that earthquakes with a higher magnitude on the Richter Scale don't always cause the most damage! The destruction caused by an earthquake often depends on where it happens and how rich/poor the country is. For example, Haiti is not a rich country so the buildings are more easily damaged, and the people do not always get trained how to deal with an earthquake.
Posted 4th Oct, 2024
Riverside Ready
Year 3 have hit KS2 with a BANG—there’s no stopping us! Once we’d completed our Riverside Ready week, we got stuck in with Visual Maths, making 3-digit numbers with our concrete materials before drawing our column tools ‘perfectly’!
To bring out our dramatic—more confident—sides, we’ve been learning about ‘Ballads’ in our music lessons, which might explain why you’ve heard us singing ‘Space Oddity’ over and over again, and thinking about how characters in stories show their emotions through facial expressions and body language, learning phrases such as 'so relieved' and 'dark, depressing frown' to add description.
Forces have been the focus for Science so far: throwing balls of different shapes and sizes as well as crafting our own paper aeroplanes to sail through air, in order to learn about gravity and air resistance.
All-in-all, an exciting start to life in Year 3.
Posted 20th Sept, 2024
Sculptures
After our successful trip to the Eden Project in Cornwall, in January, where we saw the huge sculpture, The Seed' by Peter Randall-Page, we have been inspired to create our own mini clay sculptures. First we sketched natural items such as pine cones, sunflower heads and lotus heads. Then we learnt the different ways we could manipulate clay such as rolling and marking, before we designed and made our own sculptures.
In maths, we have been investigating2D and 3D shapes. We have discovered that angles are related to turns. Whilst learning about 3D shapes, we used different modelling materials to make our own cubes, cuboids, cones, triangular prisms, squared based pyramids. We looked carefully at the shapes of the faces and counted how many there were as well as counting the number of edges and vertices.
Posted 20th May, 2024
World Book Day
We've had a busy few days with World Book day as well as our usual lessons. It was great fun dressing up as our favourite book characters.
In Maths, we have been continuing to work our way up the subtraction pathway and learning to solve two-step word problems.
In R.E. we are exploring what Christians think is good about Good Friday. In our last lesson, we retrieved what he had learnt about the Last Supper before listening to what happened next in the Garden of Gethsemane. To help us understand the feelings of Jesus and Judas, we acted out this part of the Easter Story then used hot seating to ask the main characters how they felt about the events of Maundy Thursday.
In French, we have been learning colours and shapes. We used this knowledge when we worked with a partner, asking them in French to cut out different shapes in particular colours. Take a look at what we produced.
Posted 11 Mar , 2024
Pentatonic Scales
During this term, year 3 have been learning about PENTATONIC SCALES. After listening to a story about the Chinese New Year, we leant that Chinese music uses five notes. This is known as a pentatonic melody. We have been practising on glockenspiels using pentatonic scales. Take a look on Flickr to see how we did
Posted 26th Feb, 2024
Y3 Eden Project Trip
Y3 have recently visited the Eden Project in Cornwall to learn about plants. Whilst we were there, we sketched the plants that we saw and were amazed at the size of some of them in the rainforest biome.
Back at school, we are now using our sketches as inspiration for our latest art project on Matisse and printing. Having drawn different shapes for the leaves, we are now learning the technique or printing with polystyrene tiles and how much pressure to put on the tile when drawing our design. It's tricky but we have been showing great resilience.
Posted 24th Jan, 2024
Outdoor P.E Session
Computing
