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!

Reverend Sharron shared a message

Steel pans

Year 3 were lucky to get to see the Year 4’s perform the dances they have been working on this year. The video is of 5th last dance which year 3 then had the chance to learn themselves!

“Mutual respect is when you are kind to someone and they might be kind and respect you back. That could be respecting other people in school like if someone is different to you they might want to play a different game to you so you could show respect by playing their game and then the next day teaching them your game.”

Here we are creating our silent debates

3H had such an incredible day at Murton Park! We enjoyed living and working as people in the Stone Age would have.

We made Stone Age pottery and used sticks to add details. Stone Age people used pots to express themselves so each of our pots are unique to us.

We were archaeologists as we sketched some Stone Age items like tools and spears.

We also created a class cave painting!

We hunted wild boars, deer and bears! We had to be quiet and use hand signals to communicate with each other so we didn’t scare the animals away. We had a great time throwing our spears!

We wove wool to create fabric and ground grain to make flour.

We ended the day in a roundhouse, listening to a story around the fire.

Watch our story map actions to ‘The Canal’ our warning tale.