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.
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.
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!