Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Amazing Bodies

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Today we started our new topic ‘Amazing bodies’ We started by labelling all the body parts that we knew. 

Then we drew round each other and labelled any internal parts we thought we knew. 

Once we had discussed all the things we though we knew, we generated questions about what we wanted to…

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Art - Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip

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Class 9 had a fantastic time at Yorkshire Sculpture park. 

We built our own mini sculptures, saw some fantastic art work and worked in groups building our own giant sculptures that told a story. 

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Art

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Art - Giacometti Sculptures

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Class 9 have enjoyed using Modrock to sculpt their own people in the style of Giacometti.

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Tadpoles

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Our tadpoles have been going from strength to strength. 

They are beginning to develop legs with some already having back legs and front legs on the way. 

We can’t wait to see how many frogs we get before we release them back to the pond where they came from.

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Year 3 (Class 8) - English - Library Time

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We love our library time. We share our favourite bits of the books we’ve read and give recommendations. 

We sometimes keep the books we like so much and read together during the session. 

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English

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Magnets

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Today we investigated making our own magnets. 

We investigated the question: how long will our magnets stay magnetised for? 

We decided how to carry out our tests by discussing what we needed and how to record the results. 

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Maths - Capacity and Estimating

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Today we continued to look at capacity. 

We worked together to estimate and measure capacity of different containers. 

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Maths

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Year 3 (Class 7) - Art - Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip

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Class 7 had an amazing day at Yorkshire Sculpture Park!

We started the day by looking at different sculptures around the park and using these to make sketches in our sketchbooks.

In the afternoon we worked in groups to create our own sculptures from various materials.

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Art

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip

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Today class 8 had a fantastic day visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 

In the morning we had a guided tour around looking at some of the amazing sculptures. We did some sketching and even made our own sculptures out of clay. 

In the afternoon we worked in teams to create sculptures of…

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Science - Tadpoles

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We have some new visitors in our classroom! 

We will watch the tadpoles grow over the next few weeks and go through the different stages of metamorphosis until they turn into tiny frogs ready to be released back into the wild. 

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Maths - Capacity and Mass

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Today we started our new topic on mass and capacity. We got out lots of different types of scales and found different things to measure in the classroom. 

We made predictions about how much things would weigh and also how many of certain items would be equal to a specific weight. We weighed…

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Year 3 (Class 8) - Design Technology - Sandwich Making

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Year 3 enjoyed making their sandwiches today in DT!

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Design Technology

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