Year 3 Blog

Year 3 enjoyed an inspiring narrative writing session with author Adam Bushnell. The children planned their own versions of a story inspired by the lost city of Atlantis, ready to share at home.  

Year 3 took part in an exciting and educational Stone Age Day led by Kate from Historic Workshops. Pupils explored how early humans lived by examining replica hunting tools, animal bones, and other artefacts. They learned about survival skills, food gathering, and prehistoric art before creating their own cave drawings inspired by real Stone Age examples.

Year 3 learned about the rock cycle using Starburst sweets. We squashed the sweets together to show how granules and particles form sedimentary rocks in layers. Then we added pressure and heat to create metamorphic rocks. Finally, we created igneous rocks with larger crystals and air bubbles.    

Year 3 have been practising the violin for their music concert on Thursday 26th June in Horden. They have been rehearsing the music they will perform and have thoroughly enjoyed learning to play a musical instrument.

Year 3 have been enjoying their violin lessons recently as they have now moved on to using the bow. They have had a wonderful time playing new songs and learning new skills.

Year 3 have enjoyed lots of Christmas activities this week. We have had a fantastic Christmas party and Santa Dash. We also had a go at a Christmas quiz and wrote some letters to stop The Grinch from stealing Christmas. A wonderful time was had by all.

November 2024

It was Stone Age day today in Year 3. We arrived to find a visitor in our classroom who showed us what life was like in Stone Age times. We learnt how to use a bow and arrow so we could catch animals to eat. Cave paintings showed us what life was like. We tried to create our own cave …

Year 3 are making excellent progress in their weekly violin lessons with Mrs Sellars.

Today our Year 3 children had their first First Access Violin lesson with Mrs Sellers from Durham Music Service. It was a great success! They will continue their lessons every Thursday throughout the school year.

As part of our RE this half term, we have been exploring homes. The children in year 3 enjoyed creating their own homes and beginning to think more deeply about why being at home makes us happy – favourite food, toys and family were among the top 3 reasons!

Tonight was the first gardening club for year 3 and 4. It was a lovely afternoon. We were in our prayer garden, weeding, gathering up leaves, moving mini-beasts we came across to somewhere safe and planted daffodil and tulip bulbs in the pots. We finished by giving the pots a water and tidying up. By spring, we will see how …

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS We have some after school clubs on offer this half term. You can sign children up for these on our clubs page: Click Here

Today was the day we got wet, very wet !!! It was our first Summer Splash Run and Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed taking part. Thank goodness it was a warm day, we all had lots of fun .

Hoopstarz Fun We had a great start to our day in Y3 with Traci from Hoopstarz!  We’ve got some great new skill to practise using our OPAL equipment at breaktimes.  

Today, Y3 had a wonderful time storytelling using the coding program, Scratch. They had to choose  suitable backgrounds, select some sprites as characters and then add speech bubbles to tell the story. The challenge came when they things didn’t work how they wanted, they were using their skills and knowledge of the program to debug the code and find solutions …

From Summer 2021, the Department for Education made Relationships and Health Education (Primary) and Relationships Sex Education and Health Education compulsory in all schools. Parents cannot withdraw their children from this aspect of education. The programme we use focuses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. It also covers a wide range of topics relating to …

Year 3 walked over to Seaham Park Cricket Club this afternoon to take part in an afternoon of cricket fun. We split into groups and worked around the different stations which helped us develop the different skills needed in cricket. Luckily the sun was shining and we all had lots of fun.  

Year 3 really enjoyed working with Becky today and finding out how to play a game of Quidditch. We had all heard of this game from reading Harry Potter books. Thank goodness this game today did not involve us learning how to ride on a broomstick! We all had lots of fun and enjoyed learning the rules to a new …

Year 3 braved the weather on their visit to Castle Eden Dene. We were visiting the dene as part of our geography work on rivers. We spent some time looking at the different features of rivers and used our nets to see what creatures we could find. Due to weather warnings we completed our visit back at school where our …