3H have made such brilliant progress across year 3. I have loved teaching them and seeing them grow and develop. On jump up day, they loved getting to know Miss Chadwick and had another fun day in Year 4. 3H have been an excellent class and are definitely ready for their next step up to Year 4.

See how they’ve grown!

3H had a wonderful Charlie and the chocolate factory day. They became Oompa Loompas and worked hard to help Mr Wonka by designing a pulley system for his factory. We started the day by giving ourselves Oompa Loompa names.

First, they used next to create 3D shapes to use as the basket to transport the sweets across different floors of Mr Wonka’s factory.

Next, they set to work on making their pulleys.

They had to collaborate to make their pulleys.

Here they are stood proudly next to their final creations.

Well done 3H on your hard work!

We are helping Mr Wonka to solve his dilemna.

A pulley solves a massive problem: it changes the direction of a force, making it much easier to lift heavy objects. Instead of pulling up against gravity (which hurts your back), you can pull down using your own body weight to help you. This will keep the Oompa Loompas safe while gaining their fitness back. It will also help move objects around the factory!

Here we are experimenting with using pulleys.

3H are very proud of Seren. She made it through to the grand final of the spelling bee!

Lots of children learnt so many of the spelling bee words. They are also very supportive and encouraging of Seren going into the final round!

3H had a lovely time visiting the synagogue today.

They listened to learnt from the members of the synagogue.

They learnt about bat mitzvah and bar mitzvah as well as weddings.

Then they looked at a Torah scroll and learnt about how it was written by hand.

After that, they went into the small synagogue to learn about sabbath.

We had a fantastic day learning all about this religion. We asked great questions and they were very impressed with all our knowledge about Judaism.

This week 3H have been discovering forces. They’ve explored how friction works and have put it to the test. They found the more bumpy a surface is, the more friction and so the more newtons it takes to move their shoe across it.

3H had so much fun today encouraging each other, cheering their team mates on and taking part in lots of different sport activities!

This week 3H have been exploring money practically. We spent time using coins and items with values on them to play as shop keepers. We had discussions linked to PSHE about money and how it is earned. They enjoyed switching roles from buying an item and counting out the correct value and then being the shopkeeper and checking the correct coins had been given.

3H are enjoying celebrating Mental Health week in lots of different ways this week. We took part in the Big Sing, read books about talking to others about our worries, enjoyed our class compliments and not to mention wore green! Take a look at our smiley faces 🙂

Year 3 enjoyed using their listening mats to explore the musician of the month. They explored how tempo and dynamics can change throughout a piece of music.