Staying Safe – PSHE

In PSHE we have discussed ways of keeping safe at home, in school and when out and about.

A Special Visitor

We had a very special visitor in school on party day, every class had the opportunity to visit the grotto and they left with some gifts.

Geography trip to the University

Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic geography trip to the University of Liverpool. We learnt about different rocks and we looked at volcanos. During the session we enjoyed dressing up in lab coats and performing an experiment. ?

Music

In music this week Class 3 practiced a song called “Amani Utupe”. We enjoyed it very much!

Magnets & Forces

Year 3 have been looking at magnets and forces this term. We looked at how magnets attract and repel. Using our knowledge of magnets we have made a moving maze game. We had lots of fun!!

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day class 3 looked at the book “Buster the Bully” by Maisha Oso. The book is about a fish that picks on and bullies other little fish. He then goes out to sea and gets bullied by a shark and killer whale. The book gives both perspectives of being the bully and bullied. We discussed what it feels like to be bullied.

Music

Class three enjoyed using the Glockenspiel. We had lots of fun learning this new song.

Making mechanisms

In DT class 3 made mechanisms using paper and pins. We looked at different movements. We have enjoyed making mechanisms very much!

Friction

Class 3 has been looking at friction in science this week. We explored how different surfaces have an effect on friction. Using toy cars we measured the distance they travelled on different surfaces.

Light

In science we looked at light and investigated different sources of light. We discussed how shadows are formed and what makes a good shadow. We enjoyed going outside and drawing around our shadows?

DT

In DT we enjoyed making our monsters.

World Book Day??

Class three have enjoyed world book day! It has been so fun and interesting seeing and hearing about each others costumes and favourite books?

Science Day!???‍??

For science day we had a special visit from Mr Stanley. We enjoyed watching Mr Stanley perform lots of different exciting experiments. We learned lots of new things about solids, liquids and gasses and much more!

Shadows?

In science today we created different shadows and we looked at what happens when we move a light source to and away from an object.

Trip to Mold???????

For geography, class 3 explored Mold in Wales. We used our map reading skills to help us walk up loggerheads. We had a great day!

Diversity Day!

For Diversity day class 3 read the book “Talking is not my thing” which is about a autistic girl who uses non verbal communication to communicate. We explored different ways we can communicate and what ways we can help.

Recognising reflective materials

Class 3 looked at how light reflects on different objects and materials.

Gymnastics Success

Well done to these two girls in Class 3 who have been working incredibly hard in gymnastics! ?‍♂️ Look at all those medals ?

Walk along Hope street

Class 3 enjoyed walking along Hope Street looking and taking pictures of different architecture.

Music

A wonderful music lesson with class 3 using different body parts to make sounds.

Science

In science today class 3 looked at transparent, translucent and opaque materials.

Online safety

Great work on online safety class three!

Art

Class 3 have been working super hard designing and making their buildings.

Parts of a Flower

Class 3 have been busy dissecting flowers and labelling the different parts!

Class 3 Micro:bit

Class 3 had the opportunity to explore a Micro:bit this morning. Children looked at the basics of how a Micro:bit works and how we can use block coding to create programs. Children then focused on how we can use LEDs to display different animations creating a rock, paper, scissors game. We then created a reaction game using variables, inputs and loops.

Flowers in science

Class 3 used their knowledge of parts of a flowering plant to make flowers.

Egypt trip to the Museum

Class three enjoyed a trip to the museum for their Egyptian topic. We mummified a mummy and looked at all the tools used in the process.

Drawing and labelling diagrams

During todays lesson, class 3 looked at cut up apples. We looked to see if we could identify the different parts of the plant. We found the anther, remains of stamens the stigma and the leaf.

Barnstondale residential

After arriving safely, the children began building shelters in the woods!

Rock climbing

The groups enjoyed rock climbing and abseiling this afternoon – a great demonstration of bravery, skills and resilience!

Archery

Excellent target skills this afternoon, taking careful aim for the bullseye!

Free time!

After a fun afternoon of activities, the children enjoyed some of the play equipment in Barnstondale.

Breakfast time!

After a good night’s sleep on their first night, the children enjoyed a lovely breakfast in preparation for another day of activities!

Woodlands teamwork

The children worked really well together to complete the canon run and then supported each other in a rope walk!

River crossing

Another example of teamwork this morning as this group completed a harnessed river crossing!!

Obstacle run

These children enjoyed navigating this tricky obstacle course!

Shooting range

The children practised their shooting skills this afternoon, using a rifle to aim at a target.

Evening campfire

A lovely end to another day at our Barnstondale residential, a campfire with marshmallows, songs and stories!

Goodbye Barnstondale!

Thank you to everybody at Barnstondale who made our residential such a memorable time!

Pollination

The children demonstrated how flowers are pollinated.

iSing practice!

Class three have been working very hard practicing their songs for iSing?

R.E

We identified what objects a Christian house and a non Christian house would have.

Bags

For DT we looked at a selection of bags inside and outside looking at the fabrics and the functions of each bag. We discussed why we liked or disliked each bag.

Tennis day out!

Class three enjoyed lots of activities at the wavetree tennis centre.

Sewing

For DT we practiced threading needles and looking at different types of stitches.

Pollination

Class 3 worked very hard recalling the process of pollination and demonstrated the process using puppets.

Water Safety

Thank you to our visitors teaching us the importance of staying safe in and around water. We learnt techniques how to keep ourselves safe and what to do if we see anyone in need of help.

Sewing

We continued to practice the running stitch and also practiced the running back stitch.

iSing

Class 3 had a wonderful time singing on stage at iSing today. We had fantastic singing from the children and had so much fun !! 🎤🎶

Beatles

For music we have been looking at the Beatles.

Spanish

This morning in Spanish we are talking about fruits and which ones we like and don’t like. We have learnt new verbs and conjunctions.

Paper spinners

Today we timed how long it takes spinners made from card and paper to fall the ground.

Michael Rosen Event

Class 3 enjoyed a trip to The Florrie on Friday to take part in poetry activities and to listen to Michael Rosen talk and recite some poetry. We took part in a workshop to create our own animal poems, played poetry games and listened to a man called George reading his favourite poems. We had a brilliant time and loved hearing some of our favourite poems including Chocolate Cake and No Breathing in Class!

Michael Rosen book signing!

Paper Rockets

Today we made paper rockets and measured the distance they traveled using meter rulers.

Diversity Day!

In class 3 we read ‘Two Monsters’ which is about two monsters who live on opposite sides of the mountain. They see different things and don’t communicate. We learnt how they stopped fighting and got along.

Year 3 Computing

Today Class 3 has been exploring using Apple pencils to create a digital piece of Artwork of a portrait of themselves. Children took a photo of their face and cropped it down to the left-hand side of their face, children then used procreate to recreate the right-hand side.

Industrial sounds

In class we listened to sounds on an industrial site.We also learnt about different rhythms and beats.

Partitioning numbers to 100

Using a dice we generated a two digit number and then showed this in tens and ones.

Music

Today we used rhythm sticks to practice rhythmic patterns and movements .

Science

In class we sorted the rocks in groups of sizes ,textures ,shape and colour.Then we went outside on the yard and had a look at where we can find different types of rock.

Three little birds by Bob Marley….

We spoke about Bob Marleys song and sang it together in class .

Let’s play!!!!

Guess the the parts of the body in Spanish.

Medicine

In class three we discussed in a group why we take medicine and who we take it from.

Amazing singing class three!

We used different instruments in rhythm to a song in music.

Which monster am I????

We guessed what monster matched the correct description in Spanish .

NSPCC

Speak out stay safe!

We watched the class assembly and discussed important issues.

Understanding fossilisation

In class we watched a clip about the famous scientist Mary Anning .

Our family

Today we learnt about the names of people in a family in Spanish .

Staying safe online.

We discussed the rules we need to follow to stay safe online.

Understanding the risks of using emails.

We used cybergames.com to find out about hackers and malicious emails.

Who is god?

I can consider what god looks like.

What we cannot see.

We thought about air inside a balloon. If it’s not visible how do we know it’s there?

Class 3- Introduction to Scratch

This morning Class 3 has been introduced to the coding website Scratch. Children built on their knowledge from Scratch Jr to create their own coding program. Children explored how to add and create Sprites and backgrounds as well as creating code to get their Sprites to move and change costume.

Bread tasting

Today in class we tried four different types of bread.

Diversity day.

Rosa parks

Practicing our Christmas songs.

Beautiful vocals in class 3 today during music.
Good job!

Making our own sandwiches

In D.T we made sandwiches using different types of fillings.

Class 3 Scratch

Class 3 have continued to look at programming using Scratch. Today we focused on two features movements and speech. We started off by making a program looking at how we can use different blocks from the event section to get a Sprite to move, we used the Green flag, when sprite pressed and space key pressed features. After that we looked at how we can use the wait and speech feature to get two sprites to tell a knock knock joke.

Christmas rehearsal

Warming up our vocals ready to practice our Christmas songs for the performance.

Objetos de la clase

Today in class we learned about different objects we use in class in Spanish.

Let’s play!

Today we played a game of “I went to the shop” using the words we have learnt in Spanish.

African dancing

Some amazing dance moves in class 3 today during P.E.

Locating mountains

We used an atlas to locate the highest peaks around the world

Tenzing Norgay

Finding facts about Mount Everest and Tenzing Norgay.

Our skeleton

Today we learnt about all the different bones in our body.

Hata (Heart Chakra)

In yoga today we talked about things we love to do.

Our skeleton

Today we made our own skeleton using paper straws and glue.We included all the bones we have been learning in class.

Christmas performance

We have been practicing our songs for our Christmas performance.A big well done to class 3 for doing so well. Mrs Casey and Miss Ghazali wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Class 3 meeting Santa clause.

We met Santa and told him what we have on our wish list.

Dancing in a sequence to 16 beats .

In P:E today in groups we made up our own dance moves using 16 beats.We then performed this to the rest of the class.