On this page you will find all the News from Years 3.
It has been lovely to welcome everyone back this week for a focused, full week of learning! We have particularly enjoyed setting up our Science experiment about how water is transported through a plant - the children are excitedly observing the plants waiting for them to change colour!
What a busy final week of term! We have written some amazing nonsense poems and the children have worked really hard all week! In Forest School they made an Easter tree which has brightened up our corridor. One highlight was definitely completing the Easter Egg Hunt and meeting the Easter Bunny!
This week we have revisited our D.T and started to consider how programming can be used to enhance new products! The children very excitedly started to work on this and showed great resilience. They also had a brilliant Tuesday morning engaging in 'Personal Bests'. The children had a fantastic time and it was lovely to see them all supporting each other.
This week in Year 3 we have been really focusing on our reading skills and unpicking vocabulary in different texts, it is always exciting to be able to use the chromebooks to help us with this and to share our ideas with others. We started fractions in Maths and the resilience and positive approach the children has shown has been fantastic!
This week the children have been working exceptionally hard to finish all of their booklets, we are very proud of their effort and determination throughout these. In Forest School, the children were very able to test out their rafts to see if they floated and were very excited to see the results! We finished our travel guides on Egypt in English this week as a star write and we definitely have some very persuasive students in the year group.
This week we have enjoyed seeing how water plays tricks with the light when we put pencils in a glass! We also started to plan out our instructional videos for Computing - the ideas so far are brilliant and us teachers are excited to learn many new things from the children!
Year 3 loved their Egyptian Day and looked amazing in their costumes. Mr Egypt took us on a journey fromm 3000BC to 31BC. We looked at where Egypt was, looked at different tombs in Egypt and participated in an Egyptian dance. In the afternoon we were able to hold different artefacts and 'mummified' our friends!
This week the children all really enjoyed researching artefacts from ancient Egypt. We looked at their uses and what we can learn about Egyptian society from them. We looked at the pyramids, Egyptian art on papyrus paper, jewellery, Canopic jars and sarcophaguses. We discussed how they were made and their purposes.
This week Year 3 have particularly enjoyed learning about the mummification process in Ancient Egypt. We looked at why the Egyptians believed that it was important to preserve bodies and how they did it. We learnt that the whole process would take around 70 days. Afterwards, we acted out the process in groups.
