Year 3: Blog items
Birds of Prey, by Miss Currie
Date: 19th Oct 2018 @ 11:45am
Wow! This morning was an amazing experience for Years 3 and 4. We not only learnt all about some wonderful birds of prey, but some lucky children also had the chance to hold them. Thanks Mike.
Birds of Prey, by Miss Higson
Date: 19th Oct 2018 @ 11:14am
Stonehenge Art, by Miss Currie
Date: 15th Oct 2018 @ 3:56pm
Today we completed the first step of our Stonehenge artwork. The children experimented with mixing the colours to make darker shades to fill the page.
Art Club Bookmarks, by Miss Currie
Date: 11th Oct 2018 @ 4:44pm
This week we made some emoji bookmarks.
Brain Break, by Miss Currie
Date: 8th Oct 2018 @ 3:07pm
3E enjoyed a 5 minute brain break this afternoon. It was well deserved due to all of the hard work that they had put in throughout the day.
Art Club, by Miss Currie
Date: 4th Oct 2018 @ 10:01pm
This week in LKS2 Art Club, the children were only given half of an image and they had to use their artistic drawing skills to create the missing half. The artwork turned out brilliantly as the children put so much effort in to ensuring that they were accurate.
Spanish Singing, by Miss Currie
Date: 3rd Oct 2018 @ 5:30pm
Since the beginning of term, we have been learning the Spanish alphabet with this catchy song. (I'm sure the adults at home have heard this one a couple of times.)
Black History Month, by Miss Currie
Date: 2nd Oct 2018 @ 2:39pm
Today, Year 3 researched into some famous black poets and singers as part of our Black History Month celebrations. We rehearsed a short song originally from the Krobo Tribe of Ghana called A Keelie.
Different rocks, by Miss Higson
Date: 1st Oct 2018 @ 11:56am
What is around us that would have helped in the Stone Age?, by Miss Higson
Date: 1st Oct 2018 @ 11:54am
The Fossil Man!, by Miss Higson
Date: 1st Oct 2018 @ 11:52am
Year 3 Visit Wagamamas in Manchester City Centre, by Miss Higson
Date: 26th Sep 2018 @ 2:06pm
This week, Year 3 went to Wagamamas in town to take part in a lot of really excitng activities. We weighed our own ingredients out which were then used to cook our food, we made smoothies and could choose our own healthy ingredients and we also had a food tasting session. We tried a lot of food we had never before. It was a lot of fun! Big thanks to Wagamamas for having us and to our parent helpers who joined us. We got the tram into town too. For some of us, it was our first time!
Have a look at the pictures...
Summer Fair!, by Miss Higson
Date: 16th Jul 2018 @ 1:01pm
RSPB Wild Challenge, by Miss Higson
Date: 29th Jun 2018 @ 4:47pm
Hi everyone,
Here is the link for the RSPB Wild Challenge that Sam told us about. Have a read and see if you can take part!
Miss Higson
Year 3 Homework 22.06.18, by Miss Higson
Date: 22nd Jun 2018 @ 12:56pm
Homework this week is to play some of the games below and to write a comment with your score. Don't forget to tell us which games you play as well. You will need to copy and paste the link into your web browser. Good luck!
Miss Higson and Miss Currie
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
Artist Visit, by Miss Currie
Date: 12th Jun 2018 @ 1:18pm
3C loved our morning with a local artist, Fay. We explored the work of Keith Haring and created our own pieces of art based on our class value from this. As our value is cooperation, we each created a small piece of work that is going to be
Thank you Fay!
Golden day - Biscuit decorating, by Miss Currie
Date: 18th May 2018 @ 2:20pm
During this afternoon, some of year 3 chose to decorate biscuits. They took some inspiration from the royal wedding tomorrow.
Art , by Miss Currie
Date: 18th May 2018 @ 11:02am
This week we have been looking at the artist Andy Warhol. The children have carefully chosen vibrant colours to fill in a part of some famous faces. Next week we will be completing these and creating our masterpieces.
The Royal Wedding, by Miss Higson
Date: 18th May 2018 @ 10:22am
We had so much fun yesterday celebrating the Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Thank you to all the kitchen staff who helped make the lunch possible!
Science - Magnetism, by Miss Currie
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 2:44pm
Today in Science, Y3 had a challenging question to solve - Are pennies magnetic?
The children came up with some excellent predictions;
- 'I think that only the shiny pennies will stick.' - Bisher
- 'I think that all of the pennies will stick to the magnet.' - Leo
- 'I think that only the clean pennies will be magnetic.' - Kaia
The children then worked in groups to discover if the pennies stuck to the magnets.They quickly found out that only some of the coins were magnetic. Some of the children's ideas why this happened were;
- 'Some of them are really old and they have lost their magnetism.' - Melissa
- 'Some of the darker coloured pennies were too old to stick.' - Ayaan
- 'I think that some of them are made out of different materials because they look different.' - Ameer
As a class, we decided that we should research further why some of the older coins didn't stick. We took a closer look at the pennies and noticed that they had dates on them so decided to record the results of which years were magnetic.
Together we compared our results and found out that the pennies started being magnetic in the year 1992. But why? After having a discussion as to why this could be, we did some research about why this was happened and found out that there are 3 types of magnetic materials - iron, nickel and cobalt - so we knew that the new pennies had to made out of one of those. After some more research, we found out that 1p coins were changed from bronze to copper-plated steel in 1992. How interesting!
We really enjoyed our science experiment and learnt lots about magnets and magnetic materials.
Outdoor P.E - Tennis, by Miss Currie
Date: 2nd May 2018 @ 1:39pm
This week in P.E, Y3 worked hard to balance and control a tennis ball. They first enjoyed a warm up, then the children competed in a team challenge. Well done everybody.
Statistics, by Miss Currie
Date: 30th Apr 2018 @ 12:52pm
This week 3C ventured outside during their maths lesson. After deciding on what two pieces of information they wanted to collect, they took the opportunity to go on to the playground to collect data needed to complete their Venn diagrams. Great work everybody.
Earth Day, by Mrs Grainger
Date: 24th Apr 2018 @ 12:15pm
On Sunday, it was Earth Day. It has been reported that plastic straws are going to be banned because there is too much plastic waste ending up in the sea. How are you reducing your plastic use in school and at home? For example; you might be reusing water bottles instead of throwing them away, using paper straws instead of plastic, using reusable plastic bags or bags for life or wrapping your packed lunch in tinfoil instead of clingfilm. We would love for you to let us know.
Roman Holiday Homework, by Miss Higson
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 1:39pm
WOW! Miss Currie and I were so impressed with the effort you put into your holiday homework. Look at all these pictures and see the hard work that went into your projects.
Damian Harvey came to visit!, by Miss Higson
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 1:36pm
Damian talked to us about becoming an author and how he works on his ideas to produce such fantastic stories. What did you like about his assembly and lesson?
