Year 3
Welcome to our Year 3 class page
Miss Young is our class teacher in Year 3
Mrs Dinsdale and Mrs Bowen work as TAs in Year 3
Summer Term curriculum information
Sponsored Walk 2021!!!
We had a great time on our 5K walk this week.
Science enrichment week
It's been all about flight this week. We have planned our own experiments, making changes to our zoomers and testing how far they fly. We wrote scientific questions, made predictions, carry out our experiments and recorded our results and then makde conclusions based on what we had found out.
Orienteering!
We have been having a go at orienteering. We used maps of the school to help us find letters and used this to help work out the names of different countries.
Maths Enrichment Week
During maths enrichment week, Year 3 looked at mathematical thinking in Ancient Greek times. We looked at the Greek number system (see if you can work out what each of our numbers says) and we learnt about Pythagoras's sacred consecutive numbers, making patterns with 1+2+3+4 and doing our own investigations with consecutive numbers.
Spring term planning and curriculum letter
Outdoor Learning
We have been taking lots of opportunities to learn outside! Have a look at some of the work we have done:
We used objects in our environment to write word problems and bar models
We made Iron Age hill forts using the features we had learnt about:
We used our knowledge of shapes and angles to draw pictures
History Enrichment Week
As part of black history month, Year 3 have been learning about the influence of black culture on our music and movement.
We focussed on how people have used dance and music to come together and express themselves, even through times of adversity.
Here are some of the things we have learnt:
Juba dance:
Juba dance started in the plantations. Slaves were banned from having instruments, so the slaves improvised by using clapping and stamping to create rhythms with their bodies. They created complex dances together.
This style of dance heavily influenced what we now know as tap dancing!
We worked together to create our own rhythms using clapping and stamping.
Jazz
We listen to jazz music and learnt about improvisation. We thought about how the music made us feel and what it made us think of. We created pieces of art work based on a piece of music by Fats Waller.
Soul Train
We learnt about the TV show 'Soul Train' and how it was the first to show predominately black performers.
We talked about how 'Soul Train' was about expressing yourself in a time of judgement in the world.
We made our own soul train, encouraging each other and supporting each other to express ourselves through dance.
This week year 3 have tested rocks for permeability and made their own cave painting using hand stencils and blown paint.
