Under Our Feet!

24th April 2023jpowell

Today we looked at the different layers of the Earth. We model made our own Earth to show all of the layers.  We first made the inner core which we now know is the hottest layer of the earth reaching over 5000 degrees C! We used play dough to then layer the outer core, mantle, and earth’s crust before adding on earth and water. We then compared the layers of the Earth to a peach. We looked at the inside of a peach and imagined the peach’s stone was the Earth’s core, the surrounding soft bit of the peach is like the Earth’s mantle filled with Magna and finally the skin is like the Earth’s crust.

Week 5- History Club

20th April 2023L Moore

This week in History club we have been learning about the Iron Age. The children remembered many facts from their Iron Age topic earlier this year and they were able to talk about what life would have been like in Iron Age Britain. We then made our very own roundhouses!

Can people with longer femurs jump further?

19th April 2023C Whitehead
To end our topic ‘Animals including Humans’ Year 3 undertook an investigation to see how the human skeleton supports movement. The femur is the longest, strongest and heaviest bone in your body. We began to wonder… can people with longer femurs jump further?
To start our investigation we had to think carefully about how we would keep the test fair. We measured each person’s femur accurately and then measured how far they jumped. Once we had carefully recorded our results we came back inside to analyse them. We found that people with longer femurs do not always jump further!

Reader of the Month- March 2023

17th April 2023P Mullea

Well done to all of our Reader’s of the Month for March.

The children have impressed their teachers with their excellent effort in Reading and have made amazing progress and improvements.

A special mention to….

Stephen in Y3 who has improved his AR scores and now has an average of 93% in his quizzes.

Imogen from Y5 who has impressed her teacher with her wonderful attitude to reading by choosing challenging texts and pushing herself.

Lydia in Y2 for her perserverance in reading, she has made fantastic progress and her speedy reading has improved greatly this month!

Week 4- History Club

31st March 2023L Moore

This week in history club we continued to learn about the Ancient Egyptians. We painted the scarab beetles we made last week. We then made our own peg mummies and decorated a sarcophagus.

Human and Physical Features of the UK

31st March 2023jpowell

Today we learnt about physical and human features of the UK. Mrs Powell showed us many different photos and we sorted them into human and physical features.

 

We used a physical map to find physical features of the UK such as: Lake Windermere, The River Tyne, Ben Nevis and Mount Snowdon. We then moved onto using a digital map on our iPads to locate human features around the UK.

 

Y3 Seasonal Salads

31st March 2023jpowell

Y3 created our own seasonal salads.

Our teachers told us to wash our hands to kill any bacteria whilst they cleaned our tables with disinfectant spray to prepare our cooking spaces.

We then looked at all of the seasonal salad items that we had to choose from. We carefully used the knives to chop all of our ingredients before placing them into bowls in the middle of our tables to choose what we would like in our salads. It felt like we were at a salad bar!

We choose our lettuce first, then moved along the vegetables to pick what seasonal items we wanted to include – some of us had a little taste along the way to check we liked it before adding it to our salad!

We then added our cheese or meat selection before carefully squeezing a dash of lemon, lime or orange onto it to give it a little zing!

We can’t wait to eat them for our tea this evening!

A fantastic effort cooking Y3!

Equivalent Fractions Y3

31st March 2023jpowell

This week Y3 have been working hard to find unit and non-unit fractions of amounts. Today we moved on to look at equivalent fractions. Mrs Powell gave us a fraction then we used fraction tiles to find equivalent fractions.

 

 

Week 3 – History Club

23rd March 2023L Moore

This week we talked about the Ancient Egyptians and the amazing discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. We turned our friends into Egyptian mummies and then made our Scarab beetles using clay.

Year 3 History Club- Week 2

9th March 2023L Moore

This week in our History club we learned about the site of Stonehenge. We talked about when and how it was built. We shared our ideas about the purpose of the monument suggesting it may have been used for feasts, gatherings, a fort or a clock. We then made our very own Stonehenge!