Year 3

We enjoyed exploring how shadows are formed.  We used transparent, translucent and opaque objects to investigate how light was blocked.

Year 3 enjoyed the Olympic Roadshow and the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports.

We were lucky enough to work with Mrs Vincent, who will be teaching us music this term. Mrs Vincent taught us about tempo, pulse and rhythm in addition to some new songs. We look forward to next week’s lesson.

Welcome to the final term of the academic year.  Here is an overview of what we will be learning about this term.

Year 3 Term 6 Overview

Here is a copy of the KIRFs for this term.

Year 3

If you have any questions, please ask one of the Year 3 team.

We enjoyed our PE lesson in the sunshine.  We participated in a carousel of activities including cricket, football, skipping and using our new active boards.

We were inspired by Shackleton’s expedition and created our own within our school.  We used our instructions to go on an expedition of the school grounds. Then we swapped instructions with another group. We had fun using the compass and following the instructions.

Our task was to create a road safety device to help children stay safe in the dark.  We programmed microbits to light up and flash.  We then made little pouches out of foam to hold the microbit.  Before making, we had to design the pouch and take measurements so that the microbit would be visible.

We have been learning about ballads.  We used actions to help us remember the chorus of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’.

We put a different amount of seeds in each pot to see if this impacts on growth.  In pot 1, we put 1 seed; pot  2 had 2 seeds; pot 3 had 4 seeds, and pot 4 had 8 seeds.  We kept everything else the same to make it a fair test.

At the end of term, we observed that the pots with 2 and 4 beans grew the best.  This was in contrast to many of our predictions.

The children have been labelling the parts of flowers and exploring their functions.  We also dissected the flowers and compared the parts.  We noticed that some plants have lots of petals, while others have brighter petals.  Some plants had thicker stems or different shaped leaves.

We investigated the function of the stem by using water and food colouring.  We observed overnight how the water is transported through absorption.  The stem of celery turned blue.  Unfortunately, the white flowers did not.