Year 3
Autumn Term 1
Topic: Land Before Time
6/9/24 Bible Art day. We created artwork linked to scripture from our school vision.
Year 3 created art work linked to Matthew 5:16.
We wrote on stars how we can let our light shine before others. ⭐️☀️💡
For the first 2 weeks back at school, every child in Year 3 has been swimming every morning. At Coppull Parish school we are lucky that during the summer holidays we have a swimming pool built on our playground. This means we are able to go swimming daily and ensure that by the time we leave primary school we can swim 25m.
Most of Year 3 have been able to swim 25m by the end of the first week!
Well done Year 3.
16/09/2024
This morning we had our first P.E lesson with Mrs Smith. Our unit is on Invasion games and we are learning how to play handball. We learnt about attacking, defending, passing and how to move into a space.
In science we have been sorting rocks based on their properties.
This afternoon, in our art lesson, we have been experimenting using different materials to make marks. We then had a go at using the materials to create big drawings of small objects in our classroom. 🧑🎨 🎨
23/09/2024
Our new school councillors for Year 3 are Willow and Jack E.
This afternoon, in our science lesson, we carried out an investigation to find out which type of rock would be most suitable for building a school path. 🪨
Autumn 2
Topic: Light It Up!
This week it is Spirituality Week. We are focussing on the religion of Hinduism. Year 3 have learnt about the Hindu god called Krishna and we have created a shrine to share with the whole school in assembly tomorrow. We have decorated the shrine with Chakra ‘prayer’ flags and created collage Rangoli tiles to go around the shrine. We have also learnt about Hindu festivals and celebrations and if they wanted to children were able to try on traditional Hindu celebration clothes.
Today we started our new science unit on Light. We learnt what the words light and dark mean and then investigated whether we need light to be able to see things. We put an object in a box and our parter had to look through a small hole to see if they could see the object, we then opened one of the box lids and our parter looked through the same hole again to see if they could see the object then. We found that we could only see the object when there was some light shining through the box.
This morning we have been learning what Onomatopoeia is and have written our own Bonfire Night poetry using Onomatopoeia.
We also made chocolate sparklers and will be writing a recipe explaining how to make the sparklers so other classes could try to make them.
We created art work for Rememberance Sunday.
In our Design Technology lessons we have designed and made gift boxes to carry a special gift for somebody at Christmas time. We had to measure out nets carefully to make sure our gift box was strong and secure to hold the gift inside.
Spring 1
Topic : Awesome Earth
We’ve had a great P.E lesson this afternoon. In our gymnastics unit we are focussing on holding a balance for at least 5 seconds and making balances interesting by using different body parts to balance on. Next week we will be using the apparatus to try to make our balances interesting by using different levels.🤸
In our design technology lessons we have been learning all about levers and linkages. We have created a volcano fact file with a lever system so that the volcano erupts lava and we can use another lever to push an ash cloud up above the volcano,
Our performance of ‘Gran Can You Rap?’ in the whole school Poetry Slam this morning. Year 3 were absolutely fantastic, thank you for all your help with costumes and props. 🎤 👵
Spring 2
The Rampaging Romans