This week, in Year 3, we had a virtual visit from a Science Out-reach Co-Ordinator from Durham University. Our visitor answered lots of our fantastic questions and taught us lots of interesting facts about fossils and rocks. We even watched some videos of active volcanoes erupting!
In Literacy this week, Year 3 worked in small groups to write and perform our own individual poems to the music of ‘What a wonderful world’ by Louis Armstrong. Our poems consisted of wonderful things in our lives. We focused on the following topics for our verses: special people in our lives, important moments and memories, examples of kindness and the environment and animals. As a class, we picked our favourite verse and discussed what we liked most about them. We are all very proud of our performances and our poems!
We had children in years 3, 4 and 5 take part in our Christmas bauble challenge. Check out some of the brilliant designs!
Take a look at the Books for Topics site for their December “Books We Love This Month”. This month’s recommendations are full of wonderful books linked to Christmas.
Link to Books for Topics Website
Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi
Once again, our children are fantastic! Here are our extremely successful results from the latest national Times Tables Rock Stars competition “England Rocks 2021”.
Harton Primary School is the 48th highest scoring school in England, out of 4,000+ schools!
Y4C is the 196th highest scoring class, out of 30,000+ classes!
Our highest scoring pupils were Jack S., Conner C. and Jessica M.
We are so immensely proud of everyone who took part!
Today, year 3 enjoyed investigating the effects of frictions on different surfaces. We tested how far a toy car would travel on the following surfaces: carpet, whiteboard and wood. We predicted that the car would travel the furthest on the whiteboard because it is a smooth surface and it would travel the least furthest on the carpet because it is a rough surface. Our predications were correct! We found that the car travelled the furthest (154cm) on the whiteboard because there was lesson friction. The toy car did not move at all for the carpet because there was a lot of friction! We are so excited for our next Science investigation.
Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi
In Year 3, we have been thoroughly enjoying our Thursday Tranquil Treehouse sessions. We have been learning lots about how our brain works. In addition to this, we have learnt many useful techniques to relax and calm ourselves down when we feel angry and stressed. Here is some of us enjoying some of our favourite yoga moves!
Recently, some of the children in year 3 took part in a litter pick. They explored our school surroundings to collect litter and make it a cleaner and safer environment. The children had so much fun and informed the rest of the class the importance of putting our litter in the bin. Check out our pictures to see how much fun we got up to with Toffee bear!
