Creative cushions- skills practice
Year 3 Jemison began their DT topic this term with a skills lesson on four different types of stitch. We then had to evaluate which stitch would work best for us, the running stitch, back stitch, whipstitch or blanket stitch. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Birkwood Choir
https://vimeo.com/1210140710/370515a88f?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci On Monday 13th July our school choir shared the songs they have been learning in after school club with their parents and carers. We are extremely proud of their hard work and cannot wait to see...
What the river is….
Viewpoints and reasons…
Year 3 Obama looked at viewpoints and reasons as to why some people do believe in God and why some do not believe in God.
Year 3 visit Magna
What a day we had at Magna! We started the day off with a fascinating magnets workshop to consolidate our learning from school. Then we had a wonderful day exploring the fire, earth, air and water pavilions. From water cycles to fire tornados we investigated it all!
Joann Fletcher’s Cleopatra Exhibition
As part of our learning about Ancient Egypt, Y3 Jemison had the rare opportunity to visit world famous archaeologist Joann Fletcher's Cleopatra Exhibition at Experience Barnsley in Barnsley Town Hall. We explored ancient artefacts from Joann's discoveries and brought...
Quadrilaterals and parallelograms
To gain a greater understanding of irregular polygons, Year 3 Jemison have been working together to create quadrilaterals and parallelograms from smaller triangles. We know that a parallelogram is a 4 sided shape with two sets of parallel sides... [gallery...
Y3 Jemison have been learning all about the parts of the water cycle and how rivers contribute to evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Over the next two weeks we will observe our mini water cycles from our window sills. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Year 3MJ- Rounders
Introduce overarm throwing. We know how to throw a ball accurately, with power over distance and understand it's purpose in a game of rounders ... Applying overarm and underarm throwing. Year 3 Jemison played a...
Year 3 – Maths – Polygons
Year 3 Obama have been making compound shapes by joining two polygons together in different ways.
Year 3 – Striking and Fielding – Rounders
Year 3 Obama have focused on using overarm throws. They have been developing their understanding of how to throw a ball accurately, with power over distance and understand the purpose of throwing in a game. ...
Year 3 – Games – Striking and Field – Rounders
Year 3 Obama focused on the concepts batting and fielding. They worked on developing an understanding of the purpose of each team.
Year 3MJ- Introduction to rounders
Year 3 Jemison have been introduced to the concept of batting and fielding and worked as a team to throw and catch the ball effectively, when working as a team.
significant people of faith…
In RE, year 3 Obama focused on the question 'what can be learnt from the lives of significant people of faith?' They looked at the life of Mohandas Gandhi and how his life experiences have helped people in faith today. [gallery type="rectangular"...
The tides
We have learnt all about the tides. We know that there is a high tide and a low tide and we know what each of these look like at the coast. We looked at pictures and labelled them as either showing a high tide or a low tide. [gallery type="rectangular"...
The Life of Gandhi
Year 3 Jemison have been learning about the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the values he stood for. Through discussion and role play and reflection, the children explored how Gandhi challenged injustice peacefully and how the inspires Hindus to live a life of kindness and...
Adding text and image badges to a micro:bit
Year 3 Jemison have programmed their algorithm to show a text or image badge on the LED screens . They also used the repeat function to set a pattern to our designs.
If all the world were paper…
Year 3 Obama loved learning this poem. They spent lots of time understanding the poem and the language choices made by the author.