Year 3 Blog

This term we will be learning how to use different techniques  and media when drawing. To start our topic, we began talking about primary colours and how together, these make the secondary colours. Once we mixed primary colours to make secondary colours, we mixed the colours again to make tertiary colours. We made some very colourful colour wheels.  

On Friday we had our first violin lesson. We had a lot of fun and can already point to parts of the violin and make play the g chord. I’m sure we will have some budding violinists.  

This term our topic is, ‘Is the UK the same everywhere?’ Today we used our map reading skills to locate mountains and rivers in the UK. We found them using an  atlas, then plotted them onto our own UK maps.          

Gail from skipping school came in as part of our active week this week. She worked with all classes and trained some of our KS2 children to be playground leaders. Our skills are absolutely amazing!

Year 3 had a lovely day at the Oriental Museum. The trip completed our Egyptian topic off perfectly. Rachael kept us very busy. During the morning, we became explorers and had to investigate what we thought ancient artefacts were made from, where they were used and what the object was. We then went on an Egyptian quest in the Egyptian …

We have successfully achieved the second stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award. We are now Silver: Rights Aware.