Y3 enjoyed a wonderful morning developing individual, pairs and team skipping skills with Chris Corcoran from ‘Skipping School’. The children had a great time, while enjoying lots of festive, Christmas songs. Thank you to our wonderful helpers for supporting the children throughout the morning and swinging plenty of skipping ropes!

After reading scripture from the prophet Isaiah, Year 3 have been working in drama groups to demonstrate how we should behave during Advent, as we prepare for Christmas. We explored and depicted giving alms to the homeless, looking after the elderly, praying regularly to talk to God, showing love in our friendship groups and showing understanding with our friends. All of the children collaborated and showed excellent oracy skills with their friends.

The young historians in Y3 took part in an oracy session, where they took sides and respectfully debated the advantages and disadvantages of living in each period in Prehistory ( considering the changes that had occurred). They came up with many logical arguments, that they bravely stood up to articulate with confidence to the 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 the question with the disciplinary knowledge they had developed from the debating lesson.

Y3 enjoyed a special festive visit to the Word where they were read some exciting Christmas stories. The children enjoyed changing their library books, seeing the magical Christmas decorations and finally reading their books back at school.

The children were perfectly behaved on our visit and are so enthusiastic to ‘make every day a reading day.’

Our young scientists in Y3 have been investigating how much fat various liquids and foods contain. They pressed each item against plain paper and once it had dried looked for translucent stains when the paper was held up to the light.

They discovered, like many predicted that foods like cake and margarine left greasy stains due to the fat content.  The children did really well working together and made sure they conducted fair tests.

Y3 have enjoyed exploring both 2D and  3D shape this week. The children have identified the number of faces, edges and vertices in 3D shapes and have also produced their own 3D shapes from a variety of nets. Meanwhile, the children showed excellent oracy skills as they asked questions to guess the shape in the bag!

This week Year 3 have been learning to read the time on analogue and digital clocks.  Time can be a tricky concept so it is important to practice each day when you are around a clock.  However,  if your lucky enough to have your own analogue watch you could practice as often as you like.

Our Y3 mini-archaeologists enjoyed a very interesting and fun Stone-Bronze Age event today!

We learned about the chronology of Prehistory and analysed an exciting range of ancient artefacts. Y3 constructed a skeleton and investigated what we could deduce from the bones. Our young historians also used clay to mould some creative Bronze Age pottery. Thank you to Paddy from Durham University for leading a brilliant day!

Y3 had a wonderful morning at the library where everyone chose a new book and listened to a fantastic story. We are so lucky to have such a fantastic library on our doorstep; while the children are already looking forward to going back!