Using dienes to explore place value in Year 3
In Maths this week we started off by consolidating our place value of hundred, tens and ones, before moving on to using this knowledge to help us add and subtract....
In Maths this week we started off by consolidating our place value of hundred, tens and ones, before moving on to using this knowledge to help us add and subtract....
In our Science learning this half term we have been exploring materials. This week we were investigating the suitability of different materials for a rain coat. We thought about lots of different factors including whether the material was waterproof or not....
Our topic in Science is 'Everyday materials' and we have been using the skill of classifying and sorting. We looked at a range of objects and tried to sort them into groups based on their properties. For example we said that both tin foil and...
In PSHE, we have been learning about what it means to be a school citizen and the different roles and responsibilities of those who help us learn. We identified some of the roles e.g. teacher and wrote what we think their job description is and...
In Science we have been investigating the properties of solids, liquids and gases. We used raisins to make them 'dance' as the gas in the fizzy water made the solid move with the bubbles....
We have been writing our own Beowulf tale! We used our drama and narration skills to act out scenes from Beowulf and the Sea-hag. When we froze the narrator retold the story and the actors had to act out in response....
In History, we began our new topic based on The Vikings. To understand the importance of Viking longships, we played a detective hunt game. Here we used clues, coupled with the unique design to recreate our own longships....
Please bring in donations of dried and tinned food products as well as toiletries into school next week for the Christian Harvest festival. All donations will be going to the Holy Trinity Food Bank....
We made play dough people. We spoke about our facial features and decided to use different materials to create our faces. Our favourite part was squashing the eyes down deep into the play dough. ...
We had lots of fun exploring different animals in our messy tray filled with shredded paper....