Welcome to Year 3
Welcome to Spring Term in Year 3!
Miss Jackson will be teaching on Mondays and Tuesdays, and Miss Christie will be teaching on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; Mrs McDonald and Mrs Pullan will be our teaching assistants.
On this page, you should find everything you need to know - our Meet the Teacher Information Evening presentation, curriculum map, knowledge organisers and weekly blog are a full of information but please contact us should there be anything else you need.
Year 3 Class Blog
Christmas Jumper Day!
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On Thursday, we all enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch as a school, as well as wearing our Christmas jumpers. Thank you for all the donations parents have made to the ‘Save the Children’ charity.
Exploring pneumatics
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We also started our DT project this week and this half term we are focusing on mechanisms using pneumatics. This was a fantastic lesson as the children were all fascinated by what is meant by pneumatics. We explored three different types as a class, which then helped them each decide which mechanism they would use to design and create a toy for a year one child for Christmas. The children had some amazing ideas and we are looking forward to creating them next week.
Shadow Investigators
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In science this week, we carried out a scientific investigation based on shadows. The focus of our scientific enquiry was based on comparison and fair testing. We wanted to find out what happens to a shadow when a light source is close to an opaque object and when it is further away. We found out as a class that a shadow is larger when the light source is closer to the object. The children all worked brilliantly in groups, using fantastic measuring skills and ensuring their testing was fair.
Snow!
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The children loved exploring the snow on Thursday and admiring the stunning environment that greeted us!
Reflective materials
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We have been investigating what reflection is as well as exploring which materials are reflective. We gave each material a score out of 5 and then ranked them in order from most reflective to the least. Foil was the most reflective with black card being the least.
