Year 3 Willow Blog
Stone Age Day
We had a visit from an archaeologist as part of our Stone Age topic. He spent the day with us in Year 3 and we had great fun taking part in lots of interesting activities. We excavated artefacts from sand trays, made clay pots, tried to piece together...
International Day of Peace
Thank you to all the children who completed their homework for International Day of Peace. We had some wonderful contributions and explanations of what children believe peace is and how it can be achieved across the world. Here are a few examples: Many...
Year 3 Cave Paintings
In Year 3, we are learning all about the Stone Age. We have been learning about prehistoric art and cave paintings. Today we created our own cave paintings.
We are going paperless!
In order to reduce the amount of paper usage in school, we are moving towards a completely paperless system for communicating with parents/carers. Information regarding clubs, trips, events etc will now be sent exclusively via ParentMail with no letters sent home with...
First week of Year 3
Welcome back to the new Emerald and Willow classes! We have had a fantastic week and all children have settled back into school well. We have been revisiting our school rules and sharing our interests. We have also been estimating and measuring parts of our bodies...
Edgmond Hall
Our completed Canopic Jars
Today we used acrylic paint to add detail to our canopic jars. We spent our time carefully adding colour to enhance or piece of work.
Our Own Shadow Obelisk
Today we have monitored how shadows change throughout the day. We have been learning about how ancient Egyptians used obelisks to tell the time. We have chosen our Obelisk and observed the changes from first thing in the morning to lunchtime and then at the end of our...
Canopic Jars
This afternoon, we looked at the Ancient Egyptian canopic jars. We discussed their importance and which jar contained which body organ and the significance of the jar lids. We then sketched our own jar lids and sculpted them in clay.
Egyptian Montage
We have been working hard using many different skills to create our Egyptian montage. We are very pleased with our final result. We sewed, tie dyed, stained and then combined it altogether.
Jackson Pollock Inspired Art
Jackson Pollock dripped paint onto large canvases on the floor. This way of painting was called action painting because Pollock would move very quickly across the painting, dribbling the paint in long, wobbly lines. Sometimes he threw the paint onto the canvas- and...
Ancient Egypt Textile Art
Today we have been creating different style effects with textiles before combining together to create a large piece of Year group art work. We have tie dyed, glued and wrapped, sewed and stained. Check back soon for the completed piece of work.
Mummification
In Year 3 we have been learning how the Ancient Egyptians mummified bodies. We learnt about the seven stages and found stage one the most gruesome. Hook up the nose, whisk around the brain and then extract via the nostrils. Open the side and extract the intestines,...
Watercolour Art
This week, we have been using watercolours to gain understanding of how to mix them and generate other colours and shades.
Shape work
Today in Maths, we have been focussing on 2D and 3D shapes. We classified them by their names, vertices, edges and angles. We then discussed and identified their properties. We then explored 3D shapes and related them to everyday objects that we use. We were surprised...
Money Maths
Today we have been learning about money. We explored the different coins and notes and then attempted to make monetary values. We had great fun creating the amounts. We were then set the challenge to use the least amount of coins for each value.
Egyptian English
Today we have enjoyed the book by Terry Deary, The Plot on the Pyramid. We then thought about all the different characters and described their relationships and characteristics.
Sandwell School Nurse Visit
This Afternoon we had a visit from the school nurses. We went into the hall and learnt about healthy eating. We learnt which foods were high in sugar, how to manage portion sizes and all about the different food groups and what a balanced plate should contain. After...
Growing crops in Egypt
Y3 have been investigating the best conditions for seeds and plant to germinate and grow in. We have tested the red land and black land that lie on either side of the River Nile. The black land gets flooded each year in September and gets covered in nutrient rich...
Y2/3 Residential
We're all very excited about visiting the Edgmond Hall residential centre for an overnight stay in July! Please find attached the PowerPoint from this week's meeting. Edgmond Hall Parents
Egyptian Cartouche
We have been learning about Egyptians writing. We used hieroglyphs to create our names on our own Cartouche.