Year 3
Year 3
Thank you for viewing our class page. Here you will find information and photographs of what we have been learning in school.
Please remember to come to school organised making sure you bring your reading record signed by a parent or guardian daily. You will also need to bring a water bottle to school every day. Remember to name all of your belongings.
Our PE days will be Wednesdays and Fridays. Our uniform on these will be a red or white polo top/PE t-shirt as well as black or grey joggers/shorts and trainers. On Monday afternoons we will be swimming please bring your swimming costume, a towel and goggles. Remember earrings will need to be removed for PE and swimming.
Homework will be given on a Thursday and is to be returned by the following Tuesday. Spellings will be given on a Friday to learn by the following Friday. Reading and times tables should be completed daily.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Together we will continue to believe, achieve and succeed!
Our Learning
⛺️ �� �� �� �� �� Key Stage 2 enjoyed their outdoor learning day today. We enjoyed tasting s'mores, making bubble wands, completing a scavenger hunt, playing rounders, designing a tent flag and ending with water fun! Thank you to all parents who took the time to pitch and take down their tents, it made the day even better. ��
Skipping festival winners
Light and Dark
Drowning Prevention training at Berwick Sport and Leisure Centre
Pneumatic Toys
Shona from Asda delivered a workshop to remind us about keeping healthy. We learnt new games to help us exercise and keep fit. We blew some bubbles to help us control our breathing. We recapped the five food groups and the nutrients they provide. We then prepared and produced some delicious smoothies.
Using sentence strips to position adverbials
Lilidorei and Alnwick Gardens
Forces and Magnets
Geologist, Dr Ian Kille met us at Cocklawburn Beach to help us work scientifically, find fossils, identify rocks and travel back in time.
Alnwick Bee Keeping Association came and taught us facts about bees and pollination
Identifying parts of a flower
Open the book team assembly
Berwick Visitors Centre
Bike week
Landmark Walk
Mr Skippy taught us some new skipping skills
We set up a scientific enquiry to observe stem transportation
Tri-golf lesson with Regan
VE Day
Litter picking in the community
Class 3 identified plants in their school environment
We made dirt pudding to represent the layers of the earth
Ubuntu African Children's Choir
Programming with Scratch
Testing the permeability of rocks
Building fraction walls
In English we were apprentice tea tasters
Representing Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks
Sorting parts and wholes in maths
Prehistoric Art
Identifying the properties of rocks
Mrs Banagee taught us an RE lesson explaining the word 'Dharma'
Multi-Skills Festival Final
In science we have been learning about muscles. We now know they relax, contract and work in pairs. We created a model of an arm to show this process.
In Geography chose a state from the USA to research. We then produced a report to show our findings.
In PSHE we designed and taught our own games to show the importance of listening and teamwork
Our visit to the Hindu Mandir
We had a story performed to us by Gripping Yarns with the theme of anti-bullying
We took part in the Big Schools Birdwatch
Author Toby Glover read some of his books to us
We enjoyed a music lesson from May
We identified, labelled and measured the bones in our body
We completed a fair test answering the question 'Do people with longer femurs jump further?'
We made skeletons then identified and named the joints
Commando Joe's PE with Regan
Christmas Party
We enjoyed a live story read by Santa Claus himself
Making Christingles
Planting Saplings- Hazel, Hawthorne and Crabapple
Key Stage 2 enjoyed a movie and popcorn to celebrate their reading challenge success
Christmas themed Commando Joes with Regan
We enjoyed a snowball catapult workshop delivered by Beckie from Museums Northumberland
Sinbad Pantomime at the Maltings
Our Christmas Play- No Wraps like an Elf
Christmas Lunch
Santa Dash
�� Key Stage 2 had a fantastic time at Berwick Academy yesterday. They took part in the 'Race to the North Pole' challenge. They had to design, build, test and make changes to get their sleigh to reach the North Pole. ��
In maths we are learning to use arrays. We made our own arrays in class,
We interviewed Mrs Dickson to ask questions about the nutrition in our school lunches
Author James Nicol showed us his latest book 'Cloud Thief' he then delivered a writing workshop.
In Design and Technology we produced some delicious seasonal vegetable tarts.
Children in Need
Lowry Dance Workshop
Remembrance Day
Chance to Shine Cricket
In our computing lesson we learnt about the importance of creating secure passwords. We then created password generators to help us create strong passwords.
The circus is in town... Class 3 were introduced to their new class text this week 'Leon and the Place Between' They enjoyed using their senses to explore different parts of the circus. They tasted and smelled candy floss and popcorn. They heard the sounds of the circus and explored circus activities.
�� Key Stage 2 had some special visitors this week they introduced us to the book 'Faedom.' They were sent on behalf of the author of the book. They even left us some activities do to. ��♀️
Taekwondo
To celebrate our learning of Hindu Dharma so far, we learnt about the festival of Diwali. We listened to the story, danced to Hindu Dharma prayer music and created some fabulous Rangoli patterns.
In science we created actions to remind us what different nutrients do for our bodies
Nutrition Video 2
Nutrition Video 3
In our music lessons with Ms Ord we are learning to sing in a round. We can sing 'Have you seen the ghost of Tom?' In three parts.
In science we read food labels to find out nutritional values of different foods
In computing we made a human network map to show the journey of a file
