Week 8

In art this week, we designed our final pieces and then used charcoal and chalk pastels to create our captivating cave art. I'm sure you will agree that they look amazing! Please take a look at the PDF file to see them all.

In English we have been planning our Stone Age poems. We shared ideas as to how to transform 'The Sound Collector' by Roger McGough into Sounds of the Stone Age

In computing, we used the chrome books to create posters using Google Slides. We inserted text and images and used word art to make our title stand out. We combined our computing curriculum with our learning about friendship in citizenship and made beautiful posters explaining what friendship is all about.

In citizenship, we created kindness calendars for the holidays. We are hoping that each kind deed will spark another. 

We had a special PE slot this week. We had a go at some of the exercises necessary for diving run by some diving experts from the Sheffield Diving team. Your child will have brought home a leaflet with information about a free session. 
 

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Week 7

In English, we have started our new poetry unit. We began by listening to and performing Roger McGough's The Sound Collector. We then story mapped the poem to help us learn it off by heart. 

Week 6

It was national Poetry day last week and to celebrate this, we learned a poem by Michael Rosen called 'I was Born in the Stone Age.'

In PE we continued with the fundamentals of running, skipping, hopping and jumping. We practised landing with technique and control. 

Week 5

This week in history we have been archaeologists exploring an exciting Stone Age excavation site. We carefully dusted the artefacts and then discussed what they might have been, who might have used them and what period of the stone age they were from. 

This week was forest school!  We started with some mindfulness to help grow our focus. We looked at the clouds and imagined the different things we could see. 

We then did some cave art using pastels based on the cave of hands in Argentina.  

We also turned the forest school into a theatre and acted out the beginning of our current text, Stone Age Boy. 

In reading we compared The First Drawing and Cave baby. We looked at similarities and differences. 

In writing we had to correct Mrs Hall’s writing! She had made lots of mistakes so we helped her by editing her errors and using our shape coding to explain what she needs to make her writing make sense. 

In our second forest school session we did some science experiments to test how magnets always point north as well as learning how poles attract and repel. 

We showed some fantastic football skills today in PE.

Week 4

We have been discussing friendship in citizenship. We did some collaborative mirror drawing to practise skills of turn taking, listening and imagination. 

In History, we used what we had learned from our Stone Age day workshops to help us create timelines of the 3 major parts of the Stone Age and explain the changes that happened. 

In reading, we have been looking at the book, 24 Hours in the Stone Age. We looked at how words are connected in the text and worked together to find words with similar meaning or words that gave further explanation. 

In English we worked in teams to share ideas to describe the living room in the Borrowers. We took turns as creator, scribe and editor. 

In PE we practiced skills of sprinting and skipping. 

Week 3

What a fantastic day 'Stone Age Day' was. We learned so much and had a great time! We are all now Stone Age experts! Thank you to all the efforts made with costumes. The children looked amazing!
 

We started off in our cave classrooms grinding chalk to create Stone Age drawings for our cave walls. We then created our own shell necklaces. 

We then did different activities in the hall to help us ,earn how to hunt, gather and survive in the Palaeolithic era of the Stone Age.  

We then moved to the Mesolithic period where we learned how to join materials together to make spears and become more efficient hunters. 

Finally we travelled to the Neolithic period and learned about the first forms of farming. We built early shelters, used traditional cooking methods and had a go at milking the sheep.

In citizenship we worked together to create our ‘Class Agreement’. We thought about the values that we important to us as a class community and then made a promise to try and follow them by signing our names. 

In maths this week, we have been learning about flexible partitioning. We used Base10 and worked in partners to partition numbers. We then thought about other ways that we could 'split' the whole. 

Week 2

We also had a very exciting assembly with Mr Wallis and the Walkley Sorting Hat where the children found out which of our four houses (Porter, Rivelin, Loxley and Sheaf) they were in  

In English, we have been looking in detail at our class book, The Borrowers, and thinking about how Borrowers might use everyday objects to create useful household appliances. We have worked creatively and collaboratively to design and make 'Borrower' contraptions. 

In maths we have been using part part whole models and base 10 to partition numbers to 100. 

In art this week, we travelled back in time to the discovery of the prehistoric art of Lascaux cave. We imagined how it would feel to discover such an incredible sight and discussed how we thought the art might have been produced and which prehistoric animals were represented in the cave. We are looking forward to creating our own cave art over the next few weeks. 

In PE we have been practising our skipping skills. We practiced balancing and jumping and then put these together to work on skipping.

In History, we have been thinking about our own timelines, to help us to understand how time is measured . We thought about significant events in our lives and chronicled these. 

Week 1

Welcome to Year 3! What a fantastic first week the Borrowers have had. We started our year by reading The Day You Begin and talking about all the different emotions we might be feeling on the first day of school. We then drew self portraits and celebrated what makes us unique and individually amazing!