Year 3 have been busy this week designing and creating a cushion. They thought carefully about the different sewing techniques they wanted to use while designing. When creating their cushions, the children could apply their sewing skills from last year and develop the skill of cross stitch and applique.  All the cushions are fantastic, and the children can't wait to bring them home!

This week in Literacy, we have started our new text type, which is newspaper reports. We have linked our knowledge of volcanoes from geography in order to begin to write a report based on the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. We enjoyed spending one of the lessons reading different newspaper reports and identifying the different features. We ended the week by designing and making a cake for Comic Relief. We thought carefully about the design and worked together as a class to 'ice' and decorate our fake cake. 

Year 3 have been working hard to build their Roman houses over the past few weeks. They have had to make different 3D shapes, link them together to form their house shape and have started to add in key features and decorations. Pear and Cherry class have also worked collaboratively to design a garden of dreams. Each member of the group had to share what they wanted within the garden and together plan out where everything would go.

In Science this week, we have been using magnets to investigate whether items in the classroom magnetic or not. We planned, made and evaluated our own pneumatic toys during our DT day.  We have also been on two terrific trips - to see Peter Pan at the Panto and sing carols in the church. 

It has been a very busy week in Year 3! We started the week by reflecting on the importance of Remembrance Day and we each created our own poppy. We have also been thinking kindness and how we can show this to others. We wrote a kindness note to someone special and watched an interesting online lesson on respect.

In History, Year 3 have been learning all about the mysteries of Stonehenge. There are lots of reasons that archaeologists think it might have been built, such as: a healing place or an ancient calendar. Why not ask us what we think it was used for. We even built our own replicas of Stonehenge out of items found around the classroom.