This morning 3H began talking about moving up into Year 4. We all shared a highlight of Year 3, something we’ve enjoyed so far this year. We also then shared how we were feeling about moving from Year 3 into Year 4.

We were lucky enough to be joined by some Year 4’s themselves so we took the chance to interview them. We talked all about the topics covered in year 4 and what you learn in Year 4. We asked the year 4’s what they have enjoyed so far and their highlights from this year. It was exciting to hear all about what is instore for us next year and to reflect on what an amazing year we have had this year.

Thank you Year 4’s!

This afternoon 3H enjoyed sketching the plants we have outside our classroom. They enjoyed identifying the different parts of the plant and talking about their purposes. We were lucky enough to see two butterflies ‘dancing’ around us as we sketched.

3H have been learning all about what life was like in the Victorian Era. They worked together to create Venn diagrams showing how life was in the Victorian times in terms of housing, food, work and education. Their wildstyle relationships have developed so much since the start of the year. It is lovely to see them working so well together.

3H had a fantastic time at the WOWbarn today! We heard from some of the people who had helped build the barn and explored some of the artists who running the workshop today.

We started off by creating our own designs to represent some words.

Next, we created two banners as a whole class using ink.

Lastly, we had the fantastic experience of drilling! We each got use a drill to insert screws and then use string to create a design.

Click here to watch videos of the drilling!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6cWxwh7WffesrKCw5vX1ir9OYJvTJqud

3H spent the morning exploring the Seven Arches Aqueduct in Scotland woods.

We enjoyed sketching the scenery, noticing the sounds and nature around us as we worked. We zoomed in to sketch specific plants and explore our science topic plants in more detail.

We explored different natural materials and had a go at making our own pieces of art with them. Here are some of our creations!

A great morning exploring all together!

3H have spent the morning exploring how blood is pumped round their bodies. They used dance to represent the de oxygenated and oxygenated blood being pumped from the heart and flowing through valves. Their creative thinking is being challenged as they investigate differing qualities, heights and movements.

Click the buttons to watch their morning performances!

This afternoon, 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.

We found out that there are no trains in Iceland! He was very impressed with the questions we asked. He even shared a story about witnessing a volcanic eruption!

Thank you so much Dagur for your time and expertise!

Today 3H have been dancing all day! We’ve had a great opportunity to ‘show off’ our wildstyle skills by working in pairs, trios and even groups of 4 and 5. We have been continuing to learn all about our bodies as we dance.

We hope you enjoy watching some of the dances we created.

We have also been sharing our thoughts on each of the dances and commenting on what movements, transitions or formation we liked. “I liked how they cooperated.”

In these videos our dances are showing the red blood cells moving oxygen all around our bodies.

What fantastic costumes we had in 3H!

We started off our World Book Day with a book quiz in our houses. A surprise visit from the white witch disrupted us she demanded Aslan’s capture. So we created a game plan to save Aslan!

We of course had to get a photo in the wardrobe and by Mr Tumnus’ lamp.

Happy World Book Day everyone. We hope you enjoy the book vocuchers!

3H spent the day being ACE Artists. What fantastic artists they all are! They showed great creativity as well as resilience when creating their Icelandic colour palette today.

We spent the first part of the morning using a variety of materials to create colour palettes of cold and warm colours.

We used watercolour, coloured pencils, oil pastel, chalk and wax crayons.

Then, we created an Iceland colour palette using watercolours and added our choice of medium to add details like volcanoes, mountains, glaciers and the aurora borealis. Our final detail was sewing a cold or warm colour stitch into our palette as the finishing touch.