In History, Year 3 researched how developments and inventions such as mirrors, poetry, carnyx, Celtic pattern, everyday objects, preserving meat, games, firedog, colourful cloth, potters wheel, rotary quern and brooches affected lives in the Iron Age. We worked in pairs to write the key information down and presented them to the class using our oracy skills. Well done Year 3!

Year 3 enjoyed their half term of rich experience trip to the library today. They listened to two Christmas stories read by Catherine, chose books to read over the next half term and then enjoyed some reading time in the library. Thank you to Catherine for reading the stories to us!

Thank you to Mr Richardson for a wonderful prayer space morning, last week. We enjoyed all of the different activities and reflected on personal experiences around Christmas and Advent!

Year 3 have been very busy designing, creating and evaluating our prehistoric pots. We then evaluated our peers’ work and gave them some points on ‘what went well’ and how their work would be ‘even better if’.

This morning, Year 3 had a surprise visit from an elf. The elf set us early work to use our oracy skills to discuss in groups what their name should be. We then debated what names we liked and why. We then voted which name we preferred. Year 3’s class elf is now named ‘Jingles.’ 

Year 3 had their Forest School session yesterday, and as part of their Prehistoric Pots topic, we spent the afternoon exploring clay. We looked at different joining techniques, and made our own ‘slip’ mixture to help join sections of clay together. We also looked at how we could begin to mould pot shapes with our thumbs, thinking about even thickness.

For No Pens Day, Year Three used our speaking and listening skills to discuss our thoughts in groups about a perplex picture that is linked to our KRP-Through the Ages and then recorded our thoughts on Seesaw.

We were then challenged by Mrs Smith to learn a Christmas song called ‘A child in a manger born’ using Makaton. We also learned a poem in groups by Roger McGough called ‘The sound collector and performed them to some of our parents/ carers for our Cool afternoon.

We are so proud of you, well done Year 3!

For our DT lesson, Year 3 planned and created tacos using different skills we have learned throughout our previous lessons. We planned what ingredients and toppings we would use to make our fillings for the taco shell. We then cut, chopped, stirred, grated and fried the ingredients to make our tasty tacos, which were an absolute hit! Well done year 3! 

Year 3 started their Pedestrian Training with Lori from the Road Safety Team today.

They learned about being safe when crossing the road, were introduced to the Green Cross Code and discussed what they would going to do on their practical sessions. A consent form has been sent home with each child which needs to be signed and returned to school by Tuesday 26th November 2024 at the latest.