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 broken pottery and created Stone…
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 more pieces of work have been shared in classrooms across…
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.
Today, we had a visit from the Dogs Trust. We found out all about what the Dogs Trust do and how they help dogs in our area. We spoke about the dogs we have in our lives and how we look after them with care and love. We found out about dogs senses and how…
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 pupils. For this reason, it is imperative that the school hold a valid…
This week Year 3 went to our school forest for an afternoon of forest fun. We had to help Mrs Harrison find her cuddly toys who were hiding in the forest and then we built them a shelter to keep them dry and safe from the rain! After, we sat in the shelter and enjoyed…
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 using tape measures. We will be doing this again…
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 school day. We were surprised to see…
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.
