Year 3

Year 3’s inquiry this term has been all about how the discovery of new materials has changed lives throughout history. We have travelled from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, learning about what people’s lives were like during each period.

As we started delving deeper into our inquiry, the children embraced their inner cave man and wrote instructions for how to make Stone Age tools. They quickly realised that catching a mammoth would not have been as easy as it seems! They very much enjoyed reading Ug, a humorous take on life in the Stone Age, as well as our class reader, Stig of the Dump. In Science, the children investigated the characteristics of rocks and considered how Stone Age people would have used different rocks. The children also enjoyed recreating homes from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age out of plasticine so they could see how they changed.

In mid-November, we headed out to Lesnes Abbey Woods for our trip. After an exciting train ride, the children were able to handle Stone Age tools and had a go at making and testing their own tools.

The other half of the day was then spent digging for fossils in the fossil pit. The excitement was palpable as the children frantically dug, finding many shells and the odd shark’s tooth from the bottom of the former Blackheath Sea.

One group was particularly lucky as the recent rain had encouraged lots of fossils to the surface, resulting in a fossilised shark’s tooth bonanza.

The final project of the term was a colourful double page spread summing up everything they have learnt about our inquiry, which will be shared with parents on class dojo. We have been very impressed with their knowledge and I’m sure you will be too!