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 we have planted some new trees. They are five Hazels, five Rowans and five Crab Apples. Pupils from year 3 and 4 are pictured here. Hopefully the trees will be taller than them by the time they move into secondary school!
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.
3H have been the class with the best attendance in the year group! We had a fantastic reward for this. We were lucky enough to have west end in schools teach us a dance based on Alice in Wonderland.
We worked so brilliantly in our teams and have created a fantastic dance all together. Our teamwork and creativity meant we could create and tell a story with just our bodies
In 3H we have spent quite a few weeks working on our relationships (wildstyle) and exploring how to work well together in pairs, trios and bigger groups. I can tell that this hard work has paid off as we were able to work amazingly together.
Well done 3H! You are fantastic!
This afternoon 3H had the fantastic experience of visiting the local library.
We listened to a story called my pet potato and then shared our own ideas for what we might do if we have a pet potato ourselves.
After, we explored the library ourselves and chose books to read with our friends. We even borrowed some books for the classroom. Our class librarian will be in charge of making sure we keep them safe and rerun them in time.
3H spent the morning exploring Leminkainen’s story. We heard the story, sang the songs and began to act it out. We were fantastic actors! Retelling the story and acting out each part brought the story to life.
In the afternoon, we explored how to create shadow puppets and use a projector. We used paper, pencil, plastic and pens to create the characters, objects and scenery at different parts of the story.
We worked collaboratively in small groups to create, direct and narrate a section of the story. We wrote a script together and retold the story using our shadow puppets.
During the process we discussed the shadows created using the language opaque, transparent and translucent.
Lastly, we performed our part of the story in our small groups to the class. Here are a few snapshots of our work.
This morning, 3H were exploring dividing by 3, 4 and 5. We spent time collaborating using practical equipment. We had opportunities to demonstrate some of our mathematical talk and reasoning.
^ Working pairs to divide by 4 using sticks and squares.
^ Working pairs to divide by 3 using sticks and triangles.
^ Using our equipment to access our work independently.
