On Friday, we were incredibly lucky to take part in a virtual reality experience all about the Stone Age as well as volcanoes. We learnt about lots of things from the Palaeolithic Era to the Neolithic Era. We all really enjoyed the experience as it allowed us to become fully immersed in the Stone Age and have the rare experience of watching a volcano erupt! The experience will help support lots of different areas of our curriculum from Geography to History.

3H have had a fantastic morning full of drama, singing and acting!

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:

Wow! Year 3 have been so busy making their fantastic volcanoes over the half term.

Take a look at all the amazing volcanoes in 3H. We hope you can see the hardwork we have put into creating these and the special attention we paid to the lables ‘crater’ ‘vent’ ‘magma chamber’ ‘lava’.

3H have been persevering so much in their DT learning this half term. Making mittens for Ivan has led to lots of conversations about the learning journey they have been on. We talked about how it can feel to begin a learning journey, especially when it is as challenging as sewing can be. We shared about times we had each felt like we had been in the pit. Then we worked together to work out which learning behaviours would be best to help ourselves be resourceful and work out of the pit. Collaboration, Imitation and Perseverance were the three we identified as the most helpful. Finally, we reflected on how it feels to use our learning behaviours to get out of the pit. Feeling proud of ourselves was definitely something we all wanted to feel at the end of this learning journey.

Take a look at our learning line below:

Here is a close up of them developing their running stitch technique:

“We did it!” “I feel proud of myself!”

This half term we have LOVED reading Ice Palace by Robert Swindells.

Here’s what we have to say about it:

Ysabella – “My favourite part was when the owl came to Ivan and guided him.”

Luna- “In the story Ivan went through lots of challenges and didn’t give up because he wanted to find his brother.”

Daniel- “I liked it when Ivan saw Starjik for the first time.”

Olivia- “It was a good mystery.”

Wills- “Ice Palace makes you feel like you are inside the book.”

Year 3 thoroughly enjoy exploring countries of the world using their atlases. Take a look at them using what they know to work out what country it could be.

Once they have found it, we share facts about the countries culture, history and population. We are particularly interested in the volcanoes and aurora borealis that occur in Iceland, linking to our topic learning this half term. Here are a few interesting videos which help us to understand more about Iceland.

This week in Music we are learning about Sergei Prokofiev. The link below can help you to find out more about him!

Year 3 are enjoying using practical resources to explore their multiplication and division unit. They used resources to show division of a 2 digit number by a 1 with remainders. They made squares out of 4 to show divided by 4, triangles to show 3 and pentagons to show 5.

Take a look at them working in pairs:

This half term year 3 are writing a non-fiction report on an animal. We explored lots of different non-fictions books on a range of topics and by a variety of authors so that we can magpie some ideas for our own writing.

Here we are discussing the features like the title and subheading and spotting features like fronted adverbials.

What a fun, festive time! Year 3 and 4 invited their families to sing carols around the tree with them. Hot drinks, steel pan performances and Christmas carols were throughly enjoyed by all!

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Steel pans