Year 3 (Class 10) - Languages - French Poems

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Members of class 10 visited class 1 this week to perform their French poems.

To prepare, we studied the original poem about two birds and learned all of the vocabulary needed. We then wrote our own version using our own animals and made our own puppets to help the audience understand what was…

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Languages

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Year 3 (Class 8) - P.E - Ice Skating

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Class 8 had an excellent time ice skating today. 

The children grew in confidence throughout the session.

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Physical Education

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Science - Human Teeth and Drinks

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In science we have been looking at human teeth and investigating what drinks cause the most damage to teeth.

Last week we set up our investigation putting chalk into 6 different liquids.

This week we recorded our observations.

We got some surprising results. 

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Science

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Year 3 (Class 10) - Design Technology - Making Feijoada

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In DT, we will be making feijoada which is the national dish of Brazil. 

We discovered that the only compulsory ingredient in feijoada is beans so we conducted market research to find out which other ingredients people would like. 

We will use this information next week when we are learning…

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Design Technology

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Design Technology - Vegetables

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In DT, we conducted some market research into what vegetables we like eating. 

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Design Technology

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Year 3 (Class 10) - Art - Dreamcatchers

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Class 10 worked really hard to create their dreamcatchers. We first researched the origin of dreamcatchers, and enjoyed learning about Amazonian tribes. We then practiced our weaving skills in preparation for making them.

We showed resilience when attaching beads and feathers.

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Art

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Science - Human Teeth

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In science we have started a new topic looking at human teeth. 

Today class 9 set up an experiment to test which drinks are most destructive to teeth and made predictions. 

We also used mirrors to look at our partners teeth and tested ourselves to see if we could name the different…

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Science

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Music - Chord Practice

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Today we practiced our C chord, A chord, F chord and G chord. We strummed rhythms for others to repeat. 

Then we practiced the different chords in pieces of music strumming in time. 

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Music

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Commando Joe's - Recycling

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Today we explored recycling to decide what we would use to design and make a raft strong enough to rescue our gorillas.

We worked in teams to share ideas and come up with a plan. We are looking forward to building it after half term!

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Commando Joe's

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Year 3 (Class 10) - English - Poetry

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Today we have been reading the poem I’m Walking with my Iguana by Brian Moses.

We listened to Brian Moses performing the poem and then had a go reading the poem ourselves. We talked about the rhythm, rhyme and repetition in the poem.  

Some of the class were brave enough to perform the poem…

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English

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Number Day - Captain Morgan Workshop

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We really enjoyed taking part in our pirate themed workshops with Captain Morgan.

We solved lots of puzzles to help him get home safely. 

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Maths

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Number Day - How many Jelly Beans?

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For number day, we all read 'How many jelly beans?'

Class 9 have been creating a survey and graphs to show our favourite flavour. 

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Maths

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