On Wednesday, we started our new topic with a visit to Celtic Harmony Camp so we could experience Stone Age life. Throughout the day, the children tried out hunting and gathering, spear throwing, making an arrow head out of soap, den building and trading. The children (and adults!) had a fantastic time and learned so much.
During themed week, a Lost Thing appeared in Year 3! We based our learning on a book by Shaun Tan called ‘The Lost Thing’. Throughout the week, Year 3 created haiku poems, designed their own Lost Thing and wrote descriptions about the Lost World. As the illustration of the Lost World is quite surreal, we looked at art work by Salvador Dali and re-created his ‘Elephants’ painting with our own animal and colour choices.
To start our new topic ‘Shakes, Shocks and Hotspots’, we had a fun filled morning of earthquake and volcano based activities. This started with an ‘earthquake’ in the classroom! As a class, we created a fabulous piece of volcano art. We also tried to make different model building that would withstand a jelly earthquake – some were more successful than others! To finish, we learned a song all about volcanoes which helped us remember the parts and how they erupt. It was a great morning that we all really enjoyed.
To finish off our topic on Ruthless Romans, Year 3 have been busy making our own Roman money bags. We looked at some original Roman designs to come up with the criteria our bags would need to meet, then we designed our own drawstring bag. The children all sewed their own bags with some great needle control being shown and threaded the wool through the top. Now they are ready to keep the coins we designed nice and safe. A big thank you to the parent helpers who came in, the children really enjoyed working with you.
During Theme Week, Year 3 create some fabulous artwork. We used partner feedback to draw an eye, making small improvements each time. The end results were much more realistic than our starting points! Then we though about what we might see if we peered through the keyhole into the dens we discovered and drew this on the other side.
Over the past 2 weeks, Year 3 have been digging deeper into the properties of shapes. We have learned lots of new vocabulary and applied our knowledge in different situations. The children enjoyed challenges of making different right angles, sorting shapes and making shapes with specific properties on the geoboards.
Year 3 have done well getting used to all the new routines in Key Stage 2. We started as we mean to go on with our school awards - last week we won the attendance award and this week Henry the Hoover! We want to win the reading challenge too so keep trying to read at home as much as possible.
We have now completed ‘Boot Camp’ during which we revised skills already learned in Maths and Literacy. As part of our topic on ‘Ruthless Romans’ we studied Roman artefacts, thinking about which objects they may have come from and what they might have been used for. Some of these were more difficult to work out than others, for example an oil lamp which looked a lot like a large spoon!
The end of another year and what a year it has been!
Some of the highlights of our year have come from our Fantastic Finishes. From recreating a battle between the Romans and Celts, using dance to represent an erupting volcano and making our very own Stone Age cave, we have had lots of fun and have enjoyed our learning. We were particularly proud of our tunnel which we made for themed week and it now has pride of place in our school library for others to sit in and enjoy.
As the children get ready to leave year 3 and prepare for new adventures in Year 4, I would like to wish them all the very best of luck. I hope they all keep believing in themselves and continue to adopt a growth mindset to help them all reach their potential. It has been a pleaseure teaching them all and I thank the parents for all of their help and support over the year.
Have a fantastic summer everyone! See you in September!
A fun afternoon was had by all today as children in Year 3 celebrated this term's learning with their parents.
Year 3 have been busy learning how to use clay to create a range of different Stone Age artefacts.
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