Welcome to class 3H at Allerton CE Primary School in Leeds. Here, under the careful guidance of Mrs Harbour, we will blog to the Big Wide World.
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Thank you to everyone who has completed the volcano project so brilliantly. It has been fantastic to see so many creative ways of making volcanoes as well as detailed and accurate labelling. Take a look at our volcanoes!
This week 3H have been looking after the hedgehog tunnel outside of our classroom. Take a look at the ACE Eco School blog to see what exciting thing happened this week!
https://ecoschool.aceprimary.uk/2025/04/02/hedgehog-spotting/
On Wednesday 26 March, 3H were given the responsibility of looking after a hedgehog tunnel. This is a tunnel with hedgehog food in the middle, natural ink around the food and blank paper at the ends. If a hedgehog (or any other small animal) enters the tunnel and eats the food it will leave footprints on the way out.
3H were allocated the task of checking the tunnel each morning, replacing the paper and making sure that there was food in the petri dish.
Each school day morning for a whole week they dutifully checked the tunnel …. but nothing!
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a fox found the tunnel very interesting and scavenged bits of hedgehog food that had been dropped around the tunnel.
And then, on Wednesday morning, our tunnel monitors found these:
When we checked the trail cams this morning we found these videos of the hedgehog:
Once the hedgehog had finished feasting it went along the hedgerow and through the hedgehog highway under the fence (also a fox / badger / magpie highway!)
Our hedgehog tunnel monitors were so excited this morning!
Last week 3H took part in Science Week. We looked at changes and adaptations.
Here they are matching the adaptations to the different animals and at the end they designed their own animal and explained its adaptations to help it survive.
They also took part in ‘animal yoga’ where they learnt about an animal’s adaption and then performed a yoga pose to represent the animal.
Daisy even brought in her own science experiment she made at home to show the class!
This morning, Year 3 had the pleasure of being joined by Dagur. A real Icelandic tour guide! Dagur was kind enough to give us his time to tell us all about Iceland. We had a chance to ask him questions about life, culture, tourism, geographical features in Iceland and much more. Dagur was very impressed with the questions we asked.
A few weeks ago, 3H had a fantastic morning full of drama, singing and acting!
We started by warming our bodies and voices up.
Reading the story and singing along
They listened to the and learnt more about the Lemminkainen story. Then, they acted out the story using props and songs. Take a look at some of the fantastic actors!
Watch our brilliant Lemminkainen story!
In the afternoon, they worked in groups to create a shadow play of the Lemminkainen story. Creating each of the characters, tracing them onto plastic and experimenting with how they look on the projection. Finally they sequenced the story and a write a script to go alongside.
Designing and creating their stories:
Take a look at our shadow plays:
It was wonderful to see so many children dressed up for World Book Day last week!
Thank you so much to all the adults who attended 3H’s arts fortnight performance. Take a look at video that was playing for lots of nice pictures!
3H have been so engrossed in their arts fortnight this week. It has been brilliant has been to see their creativity shine!
Continuous line drawings
They started off their warming up with some continuous line drawing of Icelandic landscapes
Tie dying fabric
Then they worked together to tie dye fabric.
Cold and warm colour palettes
They sectioned off an A3 piece of cartridge paper into 4 parts. Two opposite parts are cool colours and the other are warm. They then drew abstract shapes to represent this i.e. spiky lines for ice and smooth lines to represent lava flow.
Once this was done, they set to work using what they had learnt about cold and warm colours to add to their piece.
Take a look at some of the pieces with their first layer on.
They then used pencils, felt tips and oil pastels to add depth to their pieces.
Sketchbooks
They spent time creating a land of fire and ice page in their sketchbooks. They cut out textile art images and labelled them as well as drew cold and warm colour palettes.
Soundscapes
They worked together to compose soundscapes based on a video and backing track using graphic notation and choosing instruments based on their timbre.
Textile art
From there, they began to sew and stitch beads onto their colour palettes.
Tie dye
They spent all of Friday working so hard on adding texture to their tie dye. They explored different pieces of fabric and cut out designs, sewed them on and then stuffed some of them to create a relief.
Here are beginnings of some textile art work onto tie dye.
Of course, they have also been practicing their dance all week however we don’t want to spoil the surprise! We look forward to seeing you all next Friday to see all of their brilliant hard work.
This afternoon 3H finished off their art unit with some lovely arctic animal sketches.
