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  • 22/01/26

    Rock Hunt - Geography

    To end our Geography topic on volcanoes, we went on a rock hunt around our school. We remembered the different types of rocks that we were taught in our Science lessons. We also discussed the difference between natural and man-made rocks. We used an ariel photograph of our school to mark where we...
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  • 12/11/25

    Maths - Making 3D Shapes

    We enjoyed making 3D shapes with Play-Dough today. We had to make sure we made flat faces for some and curved faces for others. The easiest was the sphere and the trickiest was the square based pyramid.
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  • 05/11/25

    Online Safety - Password Tumblers

    We have been learning about passwords. We know that there are lots of passwords that are easy to guess and we also know how important it is not to share our passwords. Today, we made these password jumblers that will create safer passwords for us in the future.
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  • 05/11/25

    Autumn Term Netball

    In our PE lessons last half term. We practised netball skills. We found out how to best beat an opponent, which passes are best to use and how to score points. It was tricky for us at first because we are so used to playing basketball and netball has different rules. We finished our unit of work wit...
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  • 06/05/25

    Parent Open Afternoon - Cushions

    We had a lovely afternoon last week when our fantastic grown ups came in to help us sew our cushion designs. We have been practising our skills in our DT lessons and we made some great designs. Our grown ups helped us to sew our designs together and add the decoration. It was a really lovely afterno...
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  • 17/03/25

    Multiplication in Y3

    We are now ready in Year 3 to multiply 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. We used place value counters to the correct number of sets so that we could find the answer. Eventually we will start using a written method but for now we are showing a greater understanding of the process.
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  • 29/01/25

    Floral Art

    We have been using our observational skills to look at the shapes in nature. Using pastels, we created different textured paper. We tore our paper into the shapes we needed to create this flower artwork. It was tricky to tear the shapes of the petals and we made careful choices when deciding wh...
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  • 22/01/25

    Maths - Place Value Investigation

    Today, we used place value counters to help us partition 3 digit numbers in lots of different ways. We split our counters into 3 different parts for our part whole models. After we recorded our parts we moved the counters to make different parts. And then we moved them again. We found lots of differ...
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  • 09/12/24

    Internet Safety - Passwords

    In PHSE, we have been learning about information that we do not share on the internet. We learnt that we must not share our passwords and how to make safer passwords. To create safer passwords, we made a password jumbler with different items that can create a unique password.
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  • 09/12/24

    3D Shapes

    In Year 3, we have been learning about 3D shapes. We have been practising making 3D shapes and this is pretty tricky with dough! After we made them, we talked about how many faces, edges and vertices they had.
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  • 09/12/24

    Caring for our Planet Week

    We have had a super week learning about how to care for our planet. We have made Earth crafts. We carried out a fabulous experiment to find our carbon footprint. We wrote persuasive letters about plastic pollution. Ask us how to care for our planet.
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  • 09/12/24

    Stone Age Axes

    We learnt about hunter gathers in our History lesson. We learnt how they had to make their own tools and weapons for hunting. These are our attempts at our own Stone Age axes.
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