Our second week of school!

This week Woodpeckers have been working really hard in all of their learning. We started the week by carrying on with place value in maths. The Woodpeckers are becoming really confident with this and have been enjoying demonstrating their knowledge on the board in our lessons. 

We also started our topic, Through the Ages, looking at the Stone Age and the different eras within this. We have learnt about what life was like for people living in the Neolithic era and thought about questions we could ask to find out more about this time. 

On Thursday we made our Christmas cards! The children all created the most beautiful cards that exceeded my expectations! They all had so much fun creating these and we are looking forwards to seeing how they turn out. 

We are looking forward to carrying on with our Stone Age topic as start to write our diary entries and learn even more about the Stone Age! 

Our First Week in Year 3!

What a fantastic first week we have had in Year 3! We have been busy getting to know each other and taking part in lots of exciting team building activities, including a bridge building competition where we had to work together and put our teamwork skills to the test.

We have started our learning and are beginning to understand that being in Key Stage 2 is a big step up from Key Stage 1! We are learning to take more responsibility for our learning, challenge ourselves and persevere when things feel tricky.

Most importantly, we have had a brilliant week getting to know each other, making new friendships and building our Woodpecker class community. It has been wonderful to see everyone settling in, trying their best and showing such a positive attitude. It has been a great first week and we are so excited for all the learning and adventures still to come!

Campout

We finally got to hold our Year 3 camp out. We all had a great time!

Butser Ancient Farm

This week we had our school trip to Butser Ancient Farm. We had a great day and learning all about the Romans.

We started our day in an Iron Age roundhouse before becoming archaeologists. We then explored the Roman villa and learnt how they spun wool and made jewellery and mosaics.

Reading to Robins

This week we shared our library time with the Robins. It was lovely watching all the year 3’s reading and sharing books with them.

A visit from Year 5

As part of their English, Year 5 had written their own Greek Myths. They very kindly shared them with Year 3.

Golf

Today as part of sports week, we took part in golf!

Great Athlete

We had a fantastic Monday afternoon! We met Luke Delahunty and heard all about his journey to the Invictus Games. We also took part in very fun, fast paced circuits.

Money, money money!

In our modern world we now don’t often use physical money when shopping. In order for year 3 to get experience in using money we turned our classroom in to a shop. The woodpeckers had to make the amounts that they needed to buy various food items. We also added amounts together and worked out how much change we would need.

It's Celery Time!

In science this week, year 3 have been looking at the stems of plants and how water and nutrients are transported around using the xylem and the phloem. We placed celery into pots containing red water. After a few days we were able to see the xylem as they had been dyed red.

Miss Dore also discovered that a lot of her class love to eat celery!

Eruption Day!

After many weeks of hard work, eruption day finally arrived in Year 3!

Science Week

This week we have been celebrating Science Week. On Monday we had a visit from an inflatable planetarium. It was very exciting to go inside and learn all about our solar system.

Volcanoes - Stage 2

This week we were covering our volcanoes in paper mache.

Forces and Friction

We have been looking at forces in science. This week we used force meters to measure the force of friction on a shoe over different surfaces.

World Book Day

Year 3 took full advantage of the sun and read outside. It was lovely watching the children read out loud to each other and share their favourite books. They also had a go at matching the staff to their favourite books - it was quite tricky!

Stage 1

The time to build our volcanoes has finally arrived!

We started off by sticking the milk bottles to the cardboard. Then we scrunched up paper and stuck it around the milk bottle to give our volcanoes their shape.

Finding the right rock for the job.

Today Woodpeckers were tasked with finding the best rest to make a monument out of. They had four rocks to test: sandstone, chalk, marble and slate. They tested the hardness of the rocks by carrying out a scratch test and then checked the permeability of the rocks.

They decided that marble was the best rock to use when building a monument.

Marvellous Mud!

As part of our science and geography we have been looking at the different types of soil. We went out into the ditch and collected some soil to determine which kind we have at school.

Amazing Ammonites.

Year 3 have been exploring ammonites in art. We have looked carefully at light and dark, different colours and their patterns. This week we made some clay ammonites which we are going to use for printing.

Ready to Rock!

Woodpecker Class have kicked off the new term by diving head first into their new topic on volcanoes and rocks.

This week we explored lots of different rocks and used our powers of observation to find out if they were sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous.