On this page you will find all the News from Years 3.
Year 3 have had an exciting week this week! We enjoyed our amazing CSI Easter Workshop where we got to investigate fingerprints and evidence bags to discover the crime scene linked to the Easter Story. We also enjoyed making our Easter Bonnets and parading these around the school on Thursday.
This week Year 3 have loved learning about Easter this week in RE. We looked at what happened during Palm Sunday and were able to confidently sequence the events of the Easter story.
This week we have been busy starting to write our travel guides in English - when we are done you will definitely want to visit Cairo! In Science we have been looking and light and shadow, and we investigated making shadows using an opaque material. We made puppets and saw how their shadows worked.
This week we have been looking at the human features in North Africa. We loved using Google Earth to explore the human features of both North Africa and compare them to the UK.
This week in Science we have been learning about how light is reflected. We looked at the different angles that it can be reflected and how water causes refraction. We investigated what happens to the image of a pencil when it is placed inside a glass of water.
This week we have been acting out the route which the River Nile follows. We followed its journey through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt.
The children have really enjoyed playing the ukulele this half term and have been learning to play 'Smoke on the Water'. We have learnt the names of the different strings on the ukulele.
This week Year 3 have worked incredibly hard producing their non-chronological reports about Ancient Egypt. They have included all of the features needed in a report and have added images to match their subheadings. Well done Year 3!
This week in Year 3, we have been learning about Howard Carter and his discovery of Tutankhamun. We created news reports to explain why Howard Carter is famous, why his discovery was so important and we debated whether or not he should have been given a reward.
This week Year 3 have loved looking at Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics in art. We created our 'paper' to look like papyrus paper ready to add our own hieroglyphics next week.
We have been very excited to start our new topic this half term on Ancient Egypt. We have been looking at the jobs that existed. The children then played charades where they acted out different jobs and the class had to work out which one it was.