Creating Space Animations 🚀

In Computing, Year 3 have been learning how to use Scratch to develop their coding skills. We used code blocks to create our own space-themed animations, bringing our characters to life and exploring how sequences of instructions can make things move on screen. 

Exploring Place Value with Base 10 🔢

In Maths, Year 3 have been developing their understanding of place value by exploring three-digit numbers. We used Base 10 equipment to represent numbers and identify the value of each digit in the hundreds, tens and ones columns. This hands-on approach helped us to build our confidence in recognising and partitioning numbers.

Exploring a Balanced Diet 🥦⚡

In Science, Year 3 have been learning about balanced diets and the different nutrients our bodies need to stay healthy and give us energy.

We took our learning outside for an exciting activity! Working in teams, we searched for information sheets hidden around the outdoor area. Each sheet told us about something our bodies need and why it is important. We then worked together to collect the information and build our understanding of how the different parts of a balanced diet help our bodies to grow, stay healthy and have energy.

Iron Age Trade ⚒️

In History, Year 3 have been learning about the importance of trade during the Iron Age. To help us understand why people traded goods, we played a card game where we had to collect all the items we would need to survive.

The game encouraged us to think about which resources different communities had and why they might need to trade or barter with others to get the goods they needed. We had lots of fun while developing our understanding of how important trade was to Iron Age communities!

Exploring bones and Muscles🦴💪

In Science, Year 3 have been learning about the human body, including how our bones, joints and muscles work together to help us move.

We created our own moving hands to model how muscles work. The straws represented bones, the gaps between the straws represented joints and the string represented muscles. By pulling the string, we could make our hands open and close, helping us to see how muscles work with our bones and joints to create movement.

 

Cave Drawings – Stone Age Art!🎨

In Art, the children explored how Stone Age people created cave paintings. They transformed the space underneath their tables into their very own caves, using a lamp to represent the fire that would have provided light for Stone Age people.

Using charcoal, the children created their own cave drawings, inspired by the animals, people and symbols that Stone Age people may have painted. It was a fun and immersive way to explore prehistoric art while experiencing what it might have been like to create artwork inside a dark cave! 

 

Year 3 have started their new English book, The Stone Age Boy!📖

We have been exploring the story through drama, bringing the characters and events to life. The children used role-play, facial expressions and body language to explore different scenes and think carefully about how the characters might be feeling.

It was fantastic to see everyone getting involved, using their imaginations and working together to step into the Stone Age world!