Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic day at Temple Park, taking part in a Multi-Skills Challenge. There were several stations to experience which targeted skills such as throwing and catching, ball control, speed and agility, aiming at a target and teamwork.
Year 3 took part in a Diwali workshop. We learned all about the important gods and goddesses of the Hindu religion. Some of the children took part in a re-enactment of the story of Rama and Sita and enjoyed getting dressed up. We found out all about the festival of Diwali and had the chance to have our face painted and our hand stamped with a Rangoli pattern, just like Hindus do during the festival.
Science Council have had great fun this half term making pop and Mentos geysers, spooky cauldron mixtures, Halloween lights from milk bottles and experimenting with pencils being pierced through zip lock bags of water. It has been a fun half term that’s for sure.
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Wednesday 13th September. Staff and children were encouraged to wear yellow (because this was Roald Dahl’s favourite colour) and pay £1 for the Dahlicious charity. As well as finding out about Roald Dahl and his charity some of our lessons were linked to a Roald Dahl book.
One of the lessons was a competition. We read extracts from the BFG and then linked with this the children drew something in a jar, like the ones the BFG had, that they would like to see in a dream. We had great fun!
As part of their prehistoric art topic, the children in Year 3 have been up-scaling a drawing of an animal native to Britain using charcoal. We have been fascinated by cave paintings, which show how people lived in the Stone Age, and we wanted to create the texture of cave walls by breaking charcoal sticks and rubbing it all over our paper. We are really pleased with the results.
A group of 10 children from Year 3 were chosen to take part in the Golfways Skills Festival at Temple Park. For some children, this was the first time ever holding a golf club, but everyone had a fantastic time learning a new sporting skill. The children enjoyed the different challenges throughout and loved trying to beat their Personal Best Scores. Well done, Year 3!
This week Year 3 have been completing their Design and Technology project.
We constructed our castles out of 3D shapes and then decorated our castles in colours to reflect the person who would live in it.
Over the last couple of weeks children have been undertaking work in their RE lessons, focusing on the beliefs and practices of Christianity associated with Christmas. On Thursday 19th December 2019, children from each year group, shared their work with the rest of the school and gave an explanation as to what they had been learning about and why.
The following questions were answered in each year group:
Year 3: ‘How and why is Advent important over Christmas?’
Year 4 ‘Why do Christians call Jesus the light of the World?’
Year 5 ‘What are the themes of Christmas?’
Year 6 ‘What do the gospel stories tell us about the birth of Jesus?’
