Year 3

It's been a fantastic half term and we have loved watching the children grow and flourish even since Christmas. We ended with a cool "no pens" day, involving special show and tells and working in groups to plan the construction of the tallest possible tower from paper and guiding each other to complete tangrams. In the week we revisited time, looking at analogue and digital. 

Our new English book is taking us Into the Forest and we are recognising fairy tale elements to the story and are following clues to predict what will happen. We delved into our consciences to decide whether we would take the long way through the woods, as we were told to do,  or the shorter, possibly dangerous route. We made a "conscience alley" putting both sides of the argument to a lone traveller. Opinion was divided! We also used percussion instruments to recreate the sound of the storm in the book, and wrote a class "storm poem".  In Geography we found out about the inhospitable Antarctic, considering who spends time there doing research and wowed our friends with our own weather forecast presentations. We learned the differences between metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks and conducted experiments with chalk and river pebbles to study erosion and permeability. We finished off our Jewish topic with the New Year festival of Rosh Hashanah and thought about who we might say sorry to for something we regretted this year. 

It was Safer Internet Week and a police representative came to speak to us in assembly about being safe online and the safe use of passwords. In PSHE we looked at stereotypes and challenged our own ideas of what kind of person would do a particular job. It was lovely to chat to many of you at parents' evening and to welcome some of you to our display of this term's gorgeous artwork. 

Have a wonderful week of holiday. Spring is on its way!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Spurgeon, Mrs Laudy and Mrs Smith