Children started to explore questions with yes/no answers, and how these can be used to identify and compare objects. They then created their own yes/no questions, before using these to split a collection of objects into groups. 

Children developed their understanding of using questions with yes/no answers to group objects more than once. They learnt how to arrange objects into a tree structure and continued to think about which attributes the questions are related to. 

This year the theme for STEAM week is 'Change and Adapt'!

Changing and adapting plays a big part in science; you can find examples in every area of STEM*. Cities, towns and other areas where people live change and adapt as the world’s population grows, plants and animals change and adapt to their surroundings to survive. Technology has changed exponentially and adapted to our new, busier lives (or have we changed as technology has developed?). For example, phone technology has changed rotary home telephones to smartphones.

For STEAM Week, Year 3 are making a giant version of the famous board game

Battleships

For our maths lesson, we learnt about coordinates. It was important for us to know how to plot and use the coordinates grid as this is vital in Battleships!

In this special KS2 science Live Lesson during British Science Week, hosted by Grace Webb and Greg Foot, find out what it takes to become an astronaut.

British Astronaut Tim Peake, who himself spent 173 days living on the ISS will be our mission commander, setting curriculum-linked tasks for 7-11 year-olds to join in with throughout the lesson.

From understanding the effects of space on our bones to learning how astronauts manage food and hydration, your students will explore the challenges of living in space. By the end of the session, they will have completed an ‘astronaut training plan,’ preparing them for life in space and inspiring them to blast off into the world of science and space exploration.

In the now>press>play Experience, children put on wireless headphones and were plunged into the world of their topic. Immersed in sound, they become the main character in a story, meeting people, discovering places and solving problems, on an educational adventure they’ll never forget.

On a school trip to Pompeii, you fall down a well and go back in time to 79AD. Ash is falling from the sky and the people don’t realise Mount Vesuvius is about to erupt. Will you be able to save them? And will you ever get back to the present? 

In this Experience, the children learnt about:

• How the earth’s crust is broken up into tectonic plates which move

• How this can cause volcanic eruptions and earthquakes on plate boundaries

• The way in which communities prepare for and are affected by natural disasters.

Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding, where a single sheet of paper is folded to create different shapes, animals, and objects—without cutting or gluing.

The word "origami" comes from the Japanese words "ori" (to fold) and "kami" (paper).

Origami originated in Japan over 1,000 years ago, though paper folding existed in China and other cultures too.

Today, origami is used in education, science, and even space technology!

Today we designed and created our life size ships for our board game 'battleships'. 

We used a metre stick and masking tape to make the battleship coordinates and screen.

We then tested out our game to see if it functioned like the original game!

We discussed the strengths and weaknesses of our battleship game!

Our parents were invited in to see our vision being bought to life. They thoroughly enjoyed playing battleship and were super impressed with our creation!

We used the chromebooks to help us find secondary sources. We researched on google why animals have different diets and made a presentation of our findings.

Children continued to develop their understanding of ordering objects/images in a branching database structure. They learnt how to use an online database tool to arrange objects into a branching database, and created their own questions with yes/no answers. Children showed that their branching database works through testing. 

Learning Intention 

To understand the different types of abuse and that abuse is never a child’s fault. Success Criteria 

• I can explain the different types of abuse. 

• I know abuse is never a child’s fault.

 • I know I have the right to get help if I need it.

 • I know who to talk to if I need help. 

• I know the Childline number and how to access support.