Year 3

The highlight of this week has, of course, been our trip. How lucky are we to live so near to the tennis championship ground? We started by using our map reading skills to follow the routes we had plotted to walk there, having a splendid time shuffling through the gorgeous Autumn leaves. On arrival we got special lanyards with tennis facts to share and then had a fascinating workshop on Wimbledon in Victorian times and learned how the championship came to develop from a few young people playing croquet to today’s world famous event.  We looked at pages from the 1901 census and were allotted characters (and, more importantly, hats) based on real people, to decide if the tournament would be beneficial to our lives and work and then voted on whether the event should stay or leave Wimbledon.  Luckily we allowed it to remain! We also got to dress up in the extraordinary early tennis outfits and tour the site, visiting the courts, behind the scenes and admire the famous trophies and press a lot of buttons in the museum.

Back at school we worked on fractions, equivalent fractions, tenths and decimals. We used empathy skills to write speech bubbles and diary entries for Gregory Cool, who's feeling a bit lost in Tobago and became reporters in Drama, interviewing talking animals at the zoo. We had fun learning about push and pull forces by conducting an experiment propelling toy cars with rubber bands and in PSHE we discussed the hazards we might meet in life and how to avoid danger. Taking the data we recorded on our walk around town last week, we created bar charts to show the human features in our area and thought about important local services by building magnificent towns out of paper and much Sellotape. 

Wrap up warmly this chilly weekend!

Mrs Spurgeon, Mrs Laudy and Mrs Smith