Friday 1st December

In Class 3 we have made our very own Advent calendar to help us countdown to Christmas. Each of the 25 (yes we got lucky with our numbers) children in Class 3 designed a numbered door to be opened on that day of Advent. Every child will get a chance to open a door at some point during the month and, instead of finding chocolate behind it, they will find a picture (possibly their own) of a member of Class 3. Below is a sneak peak at what the children can expect to see behind the doors.

Friday 24th November

Here are some great pictures of Class 3's gymnastics PE lesson from this week with Mr Knights. The children were very brave and sensible when using the equipment and I know for a fact that Mr Knights was very impressed with Class 3.  

Friday 16th November

Here are some more pictures of the fantastic pieces of home learning that Class 3 children have been bringing in. The effort they have put in has been amazing and they should all be very proud.

Friday 10th November

The first part of our English lesson on Wednesday involved us getting into groups and constructing a story out of ‘Norse myth pictures’. The illustrations from our ‘Norse Myths’ book were scanned and then printed off for us to rearrange into a sequence which we could then verbally turn into a story. We worked in groups of 5 and first had to all agree on what our story was, arranging the pictures so that they fitted with what we were saying. Once we had decided on our story and pictures, our job was then to present to the rest of the class what we had come up with, using the interactive whiteboard to help.

Friday 6th October

I thought I'd use this week's blog to pay tribute to the fantastic home learning that Class 3 have been bringing in. Whether you've made a long house, a collage, drawn a picture, done some Viking research, written a saga or play or presented your maths work beautifully, I'd just like to say you're doing a fantastic job and keep it coming.  

Friday 29th September

In our Science lesson this week we focused on recapping what we have learnt so far about rocks through a couple of quizzes. The first quiz we did was called last one standing and it involved the whole class playing as individuals. On the screen was a question and beneath each question there were two options separated by a line in between them. We also had a line going down the middle of our class made by metre sticks. The aim of the game was to stand on the side of the classroom matching the side of the answer to the question that you thought it was. If you were standing on the correct side when the answer was revealed you stayed standing, if you were on the incorrect side you sat down. The last people left standing were the winners.

The second quiz was ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – Rocks’. For this one the class split into 7 teams and choose their answers to the multiple choice questions, that were all about rocks, together. To reveal their answers each team wrote their choice on a whiteboard and held it aloft when requested to do so. Each team was rewarded a certain amount of money for each correct answer and the amount rose as the questions progressed with the final question being worth a million.

Friday 22nd September

This week in Science we were, once again, learning about rocks. First of all, we recapped last week’s lesson and reminded ourselves of the six rocks we learnt the names of (limestone, marble, slate, sandstone, granite and chalk). We then looked at a Power Point which explained that all natural rock can be categorised into one of three groups. One group of rocks is formed by magma bursting out from the Earth’s mantle, through a volcano, and cooling on the Earth’s crust (igneous rocks). Another group of rocks is formed through layers of dead creatures, eroding rocks and debris settling on the bottom of the sea and being squashed down by more layers (called layers of sediment) of the same things (sedimentary rocks). The final group of rocks is made when sedimentary and igneous rocks are fused together through intense heat and pressure (metamorphic rocks).After learning about the different types of rocks a rock can be, we wanted to find out what some of our six rocks we learnt the names of last week could be categorised as. To do this we carried out some tests. Test 1 explored the hardness of each rock and using lollipop sticks we sort to find out whether our rocks would crumble easy, like a sedimentary rock would do. Test 2 meant dropping water on our rocks to see if they were permeable (would let the water soak through). Igneous and metamorphic rocks are impermeable whereas sedimentary rocks are permeable. Test 3 involved dropping vinegar onto our rocks to see if the acid would make them fizz, like what would happen if you did this to some sedimentary rocks. After all our tests had been completed we regrouped as a class and discussed our results. The three rocks we tested today were granite, which we discovered is an igneous rock, slate, which we discovered is a metamorphic rock, and sandstone which we discovered is a sedimentary rock.