passing and moving…
Year 3 West have been working on their passing and moving skills in netball, to create space and keep possession when a defender attacks.
Art…
Year 3 West have been experimenting with different types of pencils to create tone and texture.
light energy
In Science Year 3 West have been discovering light energy and where it comes from. We categorised different sources of light: natural, artificial and reflectors.
The number 100
Y3LP have explored the number 100. We know that 100 can be made from 10 tens and 100 ones.
Netball L2
Y3LP have completed their second lesson with a focus on passing and creating space. We played a range of mini games and applied the chest pass and pivot skills from our previous lesson to keep possession. [gallery type="rectangular"...
What is darkness?
Y3LP have explored the question what is darkness? We have learnt that darkness is the total absence of light and we have explored how we need light to see. We recreated darkness using a box with a peep hole to look in. When there was no light in the box we couldn't...
Why are some words special? Judaism
Y3LP have recapped our knowledge of the Jewish religion. We have learnt that the Torah is the Jewish holy book and we have explored two stories from this text. We listened to the stories of Jonah and Samuel and considered how these tales teach Jews about the big...
Hot Seating
Y3LP are continuing to explore our whole class text 'Amazing Grace'. We have used hot-seating to explore why Grace thinks boys have better parts in pantomimes and consider which role we think Grace would most like to play and why. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Biography – Early Life
Y3LP have created an early life paragraph for their biographies. We have told people when and where Louis Oasteur was born, what his family was like and what his childhood was like.
Cave Paintings
Y3LP have learnt about how people from the Stone Age used to communicate. We explored a range of cave paintings and discussed what we think they were telling us about the period. Then we created our own cave paintings and tribe symbols. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Drawing pencils
In art, Y3LP have explored a range of drawing pencils. We discussed the effects of each pencil as we explored hatching, cross-hatching and curved lines.
Computing…
Year 3 West have been touch typing numbers and learning how to use the shift key in Computing this afternoon.
Farewells in French…
Year 3 West have been learning greetings and farewells in French.
Ellipsis
In reading, Y3LP learnt about a new type of punctuation called an ellipsis. We marked the text to find examples of this punctuation mark and then completed our paired reading.
Number pairs to 10
Y3LP continued their learning on adding three addends by looking for number pairs to 10 to help us add the digits more efficiently.
Greetings and Farewells
Y3LP had their very first French lesson! We learnt a little bit about France before learning different ways to say hello and goodbye.
Research and note-making
Y3LP have worked hard to research Louis Pasteur and record some key facts about his life. We used search engines and note making strategies to gather information for our writing next week.
Types of communication
Y3LP continued their learning on emails by discussing different types of communication. We learnt that we can use verbal, non-verbal, written and digital communication. We then worked in groups to discuss different scenarios and decided which method which type of...