Year 3 are beginnng to learn about telling the time on both analogue and digital clocks. To become more confident with the concept of time children will try and keep readng the clocks and watches around them each day. Great work Y3!

The young historians in Y3 took part in an oracy session, where they challenged the misconception that early man were mere hunter-gatherers who were solely interested in consuming food. During the debate, we discovered how cave men had a great passion for producing painting; so much so that they cleverly made their pigments from charcoal and colourful minerals. They also had beliefs in the animal Gods and loved their families that they organised respectful burials showing their emotional side; very much like modern day humans.

Well done to the children who bravely stood up to articulate their arguments to a respectful group. They listened, understood and then responded to the view of their fellow historians.

It proved to be a great session, where the children not only thought like historians but also spoke like ones too. They then went on to write a response to their enquiry question with the disciplinary knowledge they had developed from the debating lesson.

Year 3 enjoyed a wonderful visit to our local library this morning. The children enjoyed an interesting story, before designing a creative card connected to the exciting tale. Afterwards, the children keenly browsed the array of books before selecting a favourite they could read back at school. All of the children enjoyed their visit and showed lots of respect to the staff and other library users. Well done Year 3 – let’s make every day a reading day.

Year 3 have shown a lot of courage and are already adapting to life in the juniors very positively – well done everyone!

Last week Y3 were presented with their Orienteering certificates after their brilliant teamwork and problem solving skills helped them to navigate around Marine Park recently.

I look forward to presenting more certificates and medals on Tuesday for recent events.

We have many keen artists in Y3 and they have really enjoyed their Patterns in Nature unit. The inspiration has been the brilliant Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art Nouveau era (1890’s to the eve of World War One). The children have explored using a wide range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, tone, line and shape. They have especially loved painting with watercolours to control tone in their pantings. They have produced some wonderful art that they should all be proud of- well done everyone!