Y3 have had a fantastic day reading lots of our favourite books and engaging in lots of fun book day activities! Take a look at our superb costumes of our favourite book characters!
In Geography this half term we are looking at the UK in detail specifically building on on map work knowledge.
In this week’s lesson we looked at the countries the UK is made up from and then looked at which cities are part of those countries.
We used a map compass to find out which direction each of the cities were in on the map – We knew that the Newcastle was up North on the Map because we live in the North East. We knew London would be at the bottom on the map because we knew it was ‘down South’. We found it really interesting finding our way from one city to another using Google Maps and the atlas map to check our directions were correct!
This week in Art, year 3 focused on mixing warm and cold colours. We discovered that red, yellow and blue colours are our primary colours and can not be made by mixing other colours. We focused on the artist Piet Mondrain, an artist who regularly used primary colours within his art work. We then created a Mondrain inspired painting- they were fabulous!
After this, we then created our own colour wheels. We learnt that secondary colours are made my mixing together primary colours. Take a look at our colour wheels- our secondary colours sit halfway between the two primary colours it is mixed from.
This month we were very excited to be able to celebrate our Reader’s of the month on World Book Day! The children have been chosen because of their fantastic achievements in Reading at school and at home.
Well done everyone, we are so proud of you!
Y1A- Emilia Carr
Y1S- Oliver Lee
Y1B- Leo Bonhomme
Y2P- Charlie Snailham
Y2L- Daniel Hall
Y2M- Lucas Taylor
Y3S- Charlotte Henderson
Y3W- Lilly Storey
Y3D- Mya Fennel
Y4E- Amelie Iddon
Y4C- Maizie Wann
Y4B- Abbey Nichols
Y5F- Zofia Bean
Y5W- Miley Twigg
Y5L- Alfie Pitt
Y6F- Caitlin Young
Y6A- Ellie May Jopling
Y6D- Tommy Lewis
Year 3 have had so much fun making their own animations. We used a technique called onion skinning to help us make small changes between the frames. It took lots of skill! We had to ensure our background and frame shot did not change while moving our characters a very small amount each time. We worked very carefully to produce a stop frame animation that showed consistency and they were fantastic!
This week, we had a special visitor from Beamish who came into Year 3 to tell us all about the artist Norman Cornish. Norman Cornish was a miner from Spennymoor as well as an artist. We focused on Normal Cornish because Beamish are building a new 1950’s town and Norman’s studio will be part of that. This year will mark the hundredth anniversary of Norman’s birth. In the session, we looked closely at his artwork and then had our own turn at sketching and shading observational drawings. We learnt many new artistic skills such as cross hatching to help add more textures to our drawings. At the end of the session, we looked and handled many artefacts from Beamish such as the miners lamps. We thoroughly enjoyed the session and are looking forward to our upcoming to trip to Beamish where we will get the chance to visit the pit village, 1950 Front Street and carry out some sketching on locations similar to those in Norman Cornish’s sketches.
Meet our ‘Readers of the Month’ for January. The children have been chosen for their amazing efforts with reading in school. Reading is such an important part of our curriculum and we know the children love reading, sharing books and celebrating their achievements. We are so proud of you all!
1A Hunter Telfer
1S Leon Mills
1B Belle Russell
2P Liam Woodrow
2L Ben Chisolm
2M Adam Ivanov
3S Jacob Vacher
3W Charlie Heslop
3D Derek Flynn
4E Jaycob Hudson
4C Remmi Spiller
4B Max Cockburn
5F James McCourt
5W Maratha Finnegan
5L Maxwell Marley
6F Maizie Railton
6A Molly Brown
6D Lily Davies
Congratulations, we hope you enjoy reading your new books at home.
Books for Topics have been on a mission to dig out the best books to look forward to!
Their team has been taking a look at some of the new middle-grade titles (ages 8-12) coming up this term. They’ve picked out ten top recommendations to watch out for from January to April 2022.
Read more about the upcoming titles here:
https://www.booksfortopics.com/post/ones-to-watch-new-children-s-fiction-for-spring-2022?utm_campaign=ad04492b-376e-4497-ba4e-2b21063cb20b&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=0ce497f5-ca26-4099-9bd1-4bb5a674585a
We were thrilled to have ‘That History Bloke’ visit us to help us learn more about the Romans. Richard taught us what life would be like in the Roman period and in the Roman Army. We had to march like Roman soldiers and follow the instructions in Latin!
We looked handled some artefacts from those times and made deductions about what we thought they could have been used for! We learnt lots of new facts about the Romans.
Our final task was to write on name in Latin using ink. It was trickier than using our pencils but we all did amazing!
We have been learning about light in Year 3. This week we experimented with transparent, translucent and opaque materials to see if the light from a torch would pass through them or block the light. We then created our own windows using different materials and displayed them on our window to see when the sun shines on them if the light will travel through or be blocked. Take a look at our classroom windows to see our work!
