Year 3 (Class 8) - History - Black History Month
As part of Black History Month Class 8 discovered the inspiring story of Mary Seacole, a brave, caring nurse who helped soldiers during the Crimean War.
We learnt about her life, achievements and the important difference she made to others. Inspired by the pop art style of Andy Warhol, we…
Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - The Rock Cycle
Today we started looking at rocks. We learnt about the rock cycle using starburst as pretend sediments.
We made our own lava! Then we identified different rocks using a key and tested their properties.
We used magnifying glasses to look closely and a scratch test to test durability.
Year 3 (Class 8) - Computing - Tables in Microsoft Word
Today in computing we learned how to insert and populate a table in Microsoft word.
We gathered information about our classes favourite things to complete our table.
Year 3 (Class 7) - Science - Seed Dispersal
Class 7 have been classifying plant seeds. We first used our own criteria such as colour or plant type to help us understand what classifying means.
We then sorted the cards into how the seeds are dispersed. We quickly realised that many seeds can be dispersed in more than one way, such as…
Year 3 (Class 7) - Science - Grow your own Skills
Class 7 had a fantastic time planting with Cat. First, she taught us how to hold the tools safely.
Then we learned how to harvest, weed and plant. We even had a quiz at the end!
Year 3 (Class 8) - Computing - Word Processing Skills
Today we practiced some word processing skills.
We learned how to use the undo/redo buttons, how to change our fonts using bold, colours, italics and underlining and how to save our work.
We were really good at this!
Year 3 (Class 7) - P.E - Dodgeball
Class 7 enjoyed their game of dodgeball this week.
They are becoming better at aiming and dodging the ball.
Year 3 (Class 8) - Maths - 3 Digit Numbers
Today in maths we looked at 100,10 and 1 more and less than 3 digit numbers.
We used practical resources to help us if we needed to exchange when crossing the borders.
Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Amazing Bodies
This week we concluded our science unit, ‘animals including humans - our amazing bodies’, by learning about nutrition and food groups.
We used identifying and classifying to sort the foods into the different food groups. We discussed what nutrition each group provides the body and how they…
Year 3 (Class 8) - Design Technology - Money Containers
In our DT topic we have been looking at money containers.
Today we designed money containers for different purposes, Made mock designs out of paper and practiced our sewing skills ready for when we create our own purses and wallets.
Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Femurs
Today we investigated whether people with longer femurs could jump further. We made predictions, measured the femurs of everyone in our groups and then measured how far we could jump.
We made sure that we all jumped from the same spot and did the same kind of jump.
We found that some of…
Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Grow to School Update (2026)
Last week Xana from Grow to School came into year 3. We started off in class designing and making parachutes for eggs.
We went outside to test them and had some brilliant designs that worked well to protect our eggs.
We then went into our wildlife garden to harvest some of our lettuce we…