Year 3

This week, Year 3 have been planning a fair test to investigate how a car moves on different surfaces: a wooden table, the carpet and some gravel. We predicted that the car would need the greatest amount of force (a pull) to move on the gravel because it’s bumpy and would prevent the car from […]

Year 3 have been exploring Ancient Greek artefacts to discover more about this time period in history.

Class 1 have been creating self-portraits! First, we began by tracing a photograph of ourselves before drawing inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky to add strips of paper and stickers to create our background.

Year 3 have started their new Science topic: Forces and magnets, and today we begun by using toys to explore the different ways in which an object moves. After learning that a force is a pull, a push or a twist, we sorted our toys into a Venn diagram based on which force they used.

Thank you very much to all of the wonderful parents who came to the Year 3 information morning today. We know that some parents weren’t able to make it and so we have attached a copy of the presentation here. As mentioned this morning, we care deeply about your children, their learning and progress, and

After three exciting days of working with DT specialist Tony, we finally finished our linkage and lever mechanisms! After encountering some problems with the weight of the animals on top of our levers, some of the children decided to solve the problem by reinforcing their levers with additional pieces of card. Some of the children

As part of our Geography learning about volcanoes and earthquakes, Year 3 have been visiting the Natural History Museum to watch a volcanoes and earthquakes live show! First, as part of our Science learning about rocks and fossils, we wandered through the fossil gallery to see the ichthyosaur and plesiosaur, which was very exciting! We

Having explored the work of artist, Tony Cragg, Class 1 created their own sculpture categorised by colour. We also got an opportunity to play the memory game with our own playing cards!

Today, we worked with Tony to continue making our mechanisms. Using split pins to act as pivots, we assembled our levers and linkage to create our mechanism before attaching it to our backboard. Next, we used templates to draw our savannah animals before cutting them out and using hole punches to add eyes. On Thursday,

Year 3 have been busy preparing for Tony, our DT specialist teacher, to come in to create linkage and lever mechanisms based on our Literacy book, One Day on Our Blue Planet … in the Savannah. In preparation for Tony’s visit, we researched what linkage and lever mechanisms are and designed our own, including animals