Welcome to Year 3!
This page will be used to share important information with you as well as show you all the fun things we have been getting up to each half term!
Trips in Year 3
Autumn 1 (4th October 2024) - Butser Ancient Farm
- The expected cost of this trip (including coach travel, admission and workshops) is £26.
Spring 1 (4th February 2025 ) - Fishbourne Roman Palace
- The expected cost of this trip (including coach travel, admission and workshops) is £15.
Summer 2 2025 - Beach trip and Hotham park
- The trip will cost £5 but children will be dropped and collected by a parent/carer to the beach/Hotham park.
Active Maths Day!
We recently had an Active Maths Day where we took part in some fun activities in and outside of the classroom. We focussed on addition column method and time.
In pairs, one of us ran out of the classroom to collect a number and came back into the classroom to make it with Base 10. The other partner then ran to collect a second number and added their Base 10 to the first number. We then practised our written column method.
After lunch, we ran around the field solving time problems with our partner. We had to solve the answer to the first question before we could find the following question!
BOOK WEEK 2025!
This year's book week was very exciting as we had a real life author come to our school! Our theme was GRAPHIC NOVELS and the authors name is Steve Webb.
During his time at Bartons, he told us about his inspiration for his books, showed us how to draw some of the characters, helped us get inspiration to create our own characters and story and told us it takes him 8 months to write a graphic novel!!
We learnt a lot and we realised how challenging it is to write a graphic novel because you still need to have a good storyline as well as create speech that can tell the story AS WELL as be able to design/create the illustrations!
When Dr Knights visited Hazel class!
We had a visit from Dr Knights during our hot seat session in English this week, the children asked her many questions about her job and its positives and negatives.
Chinese New Year Dance Workshop
We worked closely with a professional dancer to create a small dance routine around the theme of Chinese new year. We performed movements which told the story of each animal, using only movements, no speaking, we told a beautiful story and the children all were engaged and loved it.
Fishbourne Roman Palace Trip!
Hazel class had an amazing time visiting Roman Fishbourne palace. We explored mosaics, we took part in various workshops related to Roman themes and discovered the in depth history through the museum.
Stone Age, Bronze Age & Iron Age
This half term we are going back in time to when mammoths walked the Earth and cavemen and women hunted and gathered their food!
We are going to learn all about this time period and have the exciting opportunity to visit Buster Farm for our school trip!
This terms science topic is light and shadows. Children love to look at shadows and this science experiment allowed them to discover how shadows are made outside and how they change as the day progresses. We started the experiment at 9:11am and we drew around our shadow and feet we captured this on our grid and through photos. We repeated the experiment 3 more times 10:45, 13:00 and 2:45 seeing how the shadows changed throughout the day. The experiment was really exciting and the children loved capturing their shadows. At one point the sun disappeared and appeared behind a cloud and we had to race to finish our shadow outline before it disappeared again. The children worked so hard and absolutely loved it.
STEM Week
We have had so much fun!
We had an F1 focus and we spent the week learning all about the job roles before we started creating our own F1 racing cars!
We designed our cars like real engineers, picked sponsors and team logos and followed instructions on how to build the car. Once the body was built we attached a motor so that it could move in its own.
We went into the hall to race the fastest cars against each other and each car was judged on 3 things: appearance, speed and strength.
We went head-to-head with the finalist cars from Year 4 and we took the win! Well done to Evelyn, Freddie & Natalie!
Creative Arts Week!
We were lucky to have an artist visit out school on inset day and teach our teachers some really cool things that can be done with just card and tape! Darrell Wakelam specialises in 3D sculptures using simple techniques and cheap, everyday materials, mainly scrap cardboard and paper. This makes the outcomes accessible and achievable for everyone.
This children had a great time learning the techniques and creating masks, turtles, body parts and large animal sculptures!
Paul Sturgess Visit
Paul Sturgess is an English former professional basketball player. At a height of 7 ft 7.26 in, he was measured as the tallest living person from the United Kingdom by Guinness World Records in November 2011. He was also the tallest college basketball player in the United States. We were lucky enough to have him visit our school and lead a basketball workshop with hazel class. the workshop was not only fun but incredibly motivational.
Alison Wright visit
We were incredibly lucky to be visited by Alison who spoke to Hazel class about living with a disability and the children asked some very mature questions. We felt that the work was vital in helping to shape Hazel class who will grow up with a positive attitude to difference and disability.
Rocks and Fossils
This term, amongst the Christmas play craziness, the children in Hazel class have been LOVING this terms topic. This week we put on our archaeologist/geologist and palaeontologist hats and started digging! We discovered a wide range of rocks, fossils, precious stones and minerals. The children have loved it and been utterly engaged the whole time.
1st week back to school...
BISCUIT EXPERIMENT!
This week we had so much fun getting to know our new teachers and doing a biscuit dunking experiment - we even got to do a taste test!
We talked about our favourite biscuits and collected data from the class in a tally chart before putting it into a bar chart.
We then got to try the yummy biscuits and rate them!
We dunked them to see which biscuit lasted the most amount of dunks!
We designed biscuit packaging and got to make some biscuits to take home and eat! Yum!