Year 3 Blogs

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

Investigating Light

This term, in Y3, the pupils are investigating light. In lesson one, they have discovered that light is needed to see and dark is the absence of light. They sorted through a variety of pictures to decide which were light sources. They were intrigued to discover that a window and the moon are NOT examples of light sources.

In lesson two, they explored which surfaces reflected light the best. Why don't you ask them what they discovered?

In lesson three, they explored mirrors. They looked at themselves in a plain mirror and closely studied their reflection. Then, they looked at their reflections in a spoon (which acts as a convex and concave mirror) and found out that, when they looked at one side of the spoon, their reflection was upside down!

After looking at an image of an ambulance with its writing back to front, they practised mirror writing so that their name looked the right way around in a mirror.

In future lessons, we will be exploring how shadows are made and investigating how they change.

Posted: 30 Nov, 2023

Investigating forces

Y3 have been investigating forces. We have explored how far paper aeroplanes will fly and how quicky balls fall when thrown high into the air. We have also learnt about magnets, learning that they are not a contact force and that they can both attract and repel.

Posted: 16 Oct, 2023 (View More images)

Art: Pointillism

In art, we are learning about pointillism. This uses dots to produce works of art and was first created by Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. Using cotton buds to make the dots, we have also been experimenting with ready mixed paint and

Posted: 29 Sep, 2023

Y3 First week back - Ready week:

What a great week we have had showing we are ready for Y3! One of our tasks was making our mark at the start of the year. After listening to the story 'The Dot' by Peter H. Reynolds, we chose one colour to create our own individual dot. Some of us got messy and used paints or soft pastels. Even though we wore aprons, we still managed to cover ourselves in it! What fun we had! The dots will eventually be added to a whole team display. Keep an eye on the blog and we'll add it as soon as we can.

Posted: 8 Sep, 2023