Author: Richard Bolus
We have been learning about shadows and light this week. Using torches we have investigated how shadows are made and how we can change the size of shadows. We discovered that opaque objects do not allow light to pass through them and that some objects are transparent and translucent. Light travels in straight lines and light enters our eyes by
We used Scratch as an introduction to becoming computer programmers this week. We discussed the features of the program such as moving your sprite(the cat) around the screen and inputting directions to get the character to move. We also looked at adding changes to the stage- the area where the sprite moves. The children worked well in pairs and really
A level physics students visited Year 3 this week to talk all about rockets and how they work. We even got to make our own and blast them off into space ! ( on the playground!) The children had a great time learning all about the science behind how rockets work. As part of our partnership with The Ogden Trust,
As part of our Predator topic this term, Eclipse Falconry who are based at Ash End Farm came into our classes with a variety of animals including a tawny owl, harris hawk, ferret and a boa constrictor! The children found out a lot of key facts about each animal and their adaptations and asked Craig and Megan questions to learn
We have enjoyed tasting chocolate this week as part of our Scrumdiddlyumptious topic. We blind tasted different types of chocolate including a very bitter chocolate which had 74% cocoa. This was not the children’s favourite! year 3 voted on which type of chocolate they liked the taste of and we made a tally chart and a bar chart from our
We used ten frames in our maths work this week to help us when we were working out some tricky addition and subtraction sums. We found them a really useful tool using counters to represent numbers. We are now all addition wizards!
Year 3 have been busy this week making their own biscuits by reading and following instructions. We looked at the features of instructions and what we need to include when writing them. We then had great fun following our instructions to make our own tasty biscuits!
We had great fun guessing which fruit or vegetable was in the box! We had to use our senses to describe what we could feel. Is it spiky or soft? Smooth or rough? Squishy or rigid? We then produced some nonsense poetry and descriptive writing about fruit!