Year 3
Teachers
Year 3 teachers (ID 1209)
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Mrs N Boyns
Mrs N Boyns
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Mrs S Perrow-Smith
Mrs S Perrow-Smith
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Mr A Ward
Mr A Ward
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Miss L Nelles
Miss L Nelles
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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
