3CL

Welcome to our class webpage where you can find out about our amazing learning journey. You will find information about our activities, examples of our work and comments from us! Please visit often to see our learning journey develop. 

Useful Class Information

We have indoor PE on a Monday and outdoor PE on a Thursday - please ensure PE kits are in school for these days. 

The Reading Challenge for this term is 12 reads. Please help your child to achieve this by reading with them regularly at home and filling in their reading challenge bookmarks. 

From Hayley (Abi's Mum)

"Just had a browse around this website and I am very impressed. I really like the fact that each class have their own page too. Great class photo!!!
Cant wait to see what this year will bring. Abi seems so happy so far!!!"

Term 6

This term we are doing a science enquiry, looking at what plants need in order to survive and be healthy. We will be looking at the different parts of a plant and their functions. This will involve us planting our own sunflowers and each class will collectively plant a vegetable and observe what happens as it grows.

Alongside this enquiry, in English, we will be reading the Spiderwick Chronicles and focusing on writing instructions, recounts and a narrative.

How are Shadows Formed?

At the end of Week 6, we had a one day enquiry looking at how shadows are formed. We came up with some shared explanations as a class and then made our own characters and scenes to create our own shadow puppet show. Below are some pictures of the shows.

Science Bar Charts

As part of our science enquiry, we looked at data based on the growth of sunflowers and radishes. This helped us to link science and maths and combine all of our knowledge to answer questions based on the data. We then created our own bar charts using the radish data. 

"It was amazing to see the roots when we took the sunflowers out of their little pots!"

"Our plants were getting so tall that they were beginning to bend over."

"If we forget to water them, they get really dry and look like they are dying."

Class assembly

For our class assembly we thought about our School Values of Friendship, Perseverance, Trust, Honesty and Respect. We shared some of our work around each value including poems, instructions and stories. We are looking forward to exploring this term's value of Responsibility. 

Thank you to all our parents and carers who came to watch our assembly.

Term 5

Our enquiry: Where will your adventure take you?

This term our enquiry is based on the story 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.' This is a tale about a toy rabbit who goes on adventure with his owner, but soon becomes lost and he encounters a range of different changes and characters throughout the story. We will be immersing ourselves into this story and as our challenge will be writing our own adventure stories based on the structure of Edward Tulane.

"We really enjoyed using the chalk to create a picture of Edward's dream." Abi, Ruby and Jacob

"My favourite part of the book was when Abilene found Edward." Harry

"I liked it when Lawrence rescued Edward from the sea." Theo

"My favourite part of the story was when Edward found his owner at the end." Chanelle

RE Enquiry: How can Brahman be everywhere in everything?

In week 6, we learnt about how although we are one person, we have different roles in life. First of all we looked at the different roles we have in life such as, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, brownies, scouts, friends, cousins and students. We then applied this thinking to the Hindu religion where they believe their God, Brahman, is so powerful that it has many different roles and can be viewed in many different forms.

Our Challenge

In order to answer our enquiry question, we have been working extremely hard in the lead up to write our own adventure stories. Finally our hard work has payed off and we have all completed the challenge with some of the best work we have ever written!

Below are some snippets of the fantastic writing that has been happening in 3RC.

Honesty

As this term's value is honesty, we have been thinking about what it means to be honest and how to treat others when we are following this. 

In collective worship, we played some card games that involved us having to tell the truth to our friends. The games were called 'Go Fish' and 'Happy Families.' We had so much fun playing them!

Comparing Fractions

We spent one morning in Week 4 comparing unit fractions. We did this practically and used 2l bottles (the whole) and water (the parts) to show which fractions were bigger or smaller. It gave us a really clear picture of the size of each of the fractions - it was great fun!

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

As part of our enquiry, we have done lots of work around the book that we are reading. In the book, Edward, a china rabbit, ends up getting separated from his owner and going on an adventure.

We sketched our own image of the dump that Edward came across on his journey. This was to help us write a setting description about the dump.

Spring Poetry Enquiry

During our first week back after Easter, in English we are concentrating on learning a range of poetic devices, which will lead up to writing our own spring time poems. This will also carry through into our afternoons, where we will produce a range of spring time art work using a variety of different mediums. 

Onomatopoeia Trees

To link in with our spring poetry, we thought of lots of onomatopoeia words. We wrote them onto leaves and them stuck blossom onto our trees. 

Here are some of our trees:

On the first day of Term 5 we had Anti-Bullying Day. We looked at the different types of bullying and we made a whole school definition of what bullying actually is. We also discussed what we can do to stop it from happening and how we should report it if it does. We designed our own Stop Bullying posters and at the end of the day we shared these with our parents.

Term 4

Our enquiry: Where does food come from?

This term we will be looking at where food comes from. This will involve us exploring all of the different ways food is produced or grown and how the food gets to the tables we eat from! Throughout the enquiry, we will also be looking at different countries in the world and where these are in relation to where we live, whilst looking at what foods are grown in those countries.

In order to end our enquiry and to answer the enquiry question, our challenge was to make a video presentation to present the information that we have learned this term. We had to do this independently within groups. This involved us planning together and then producing any props/pictures or posters that we thought would be useful to explain what we have learned.

We worked extremely hard on these and were all able to answer the enquiry question. Below is an example of our presentations.

During collective worship in week 4, we learned about 'The Golden Rule.' This is something that lots of different religions believe and it is to treat others as you would want to  be treated yourself.

In class we discussed what we thought this means and why it is important. We then took part in some role plays-firstly showing how we might not treat others how we would want to be treated ourselves and then we edited these to show the Golden Rule.

Below is an example of us following the Golden Rule.

Red Nose Day 2015

We had a great day dressing up as secret agents, superheroes or making our faces 'funny for money'! During the day we had a joke telling assembly which was great!

Below are some of our costumes.

World Book Day

On Thursday 5th March we celebrated World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite book characters, listened to extracts from the teachers' favourite books, shared a book with children from another year group and made our own bookmarks.

"I enjoyed being Harry Potter for the day," said Theo.

"My favourite part of the day was making my own bookmark," said May.

Chinese Culture Day

Term 3

Our enquiry: What did the Ancient Egyptians believe?

Throughout this exciting enquiry we will be studying the Ancient Egyptians and learning about how they lived their lives and what they believed. We will research different parts of Ancient Egypt and create a variety of artefacts that will be displayed in our class museum at the end of the enquiry.  

Class museum

We invited our parents in during open afternoon to share the work that we have been doing. We particularly enjoyed sharing our work about Ancient Egypt.

Clay Artefacts

After learning so many different facts about Ancient Egypt, we have had a go at making our own artefacts from clay. Below are some of our models of canopic jars, pyramids and mummies.

Maths

Throughout the term we have been learning a new approach to our Maths. In week 5 we began to use the bar method to solve problems involving addition and subtraction. We worked with our learning partners to secure our understanding of the method by practising on the tables! Have a look below at some of our calculations.

Mummification Instructions

As part of our Egyptian topic we learnt about the mummification process and why it was so important to the Egyptians. We also did lots of work on how to write a great set of instructions. So to show off all of our new learning we wrote a set of instructions about the mummification process. Here are some examples.

Hieroglyphics

In week 3, we looked at the language the Egyptians used. It is called hieroglyphics and it is made up of lots of pictures. We then wrote our own names in Cartouches, as the pharaohs would have done in Ancient Egyptian times. 

Can you work out who's names they are? 

Sand art

During art we researched ideas for an Egyptian landscape. We thought about how we could create a textured affect in an Egyptian style. We decided to use sand and paint to create our textured Egyptian landscapes.

 

Term 2

Our enquiry: Where is your place between?

This term our enquiry will be based around the story of Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister. In the story the main character, Leon, goes on an imaginary adventure full of mystery and wonder! For their challenge, the children will be writing their own adventure story set in an imaginary world. 

Our enquiry: What do the decorations on a Christmas tree represent?

For our special Christmas enquiry we learnt about the true meaning of the decorations on the Christmas tree. We designed our own Christmas trees and created decorations for them. For each decoration we wrote an explanation explaining what it represents with relation to the true Christmas story.

Weeks 5-7

'I really enjoyed making my characters move' Bailey.

'I know two different poles of the magnets attracts and if used this to make my characters move' Emily.

'I enjoyed drawing and colouring my scene and characters' Harriet.

Raising money for 'Save the Children'

Our finished stories!

We published our stories and created front covers to complete our enquiry challenge of producing our own story book of our place between.

Our place between settings.

We used our imaginations we created collage settings for our stories.

Weeks 1-4

In Week 3, after finishing reading 'Leon and the Place Between', we looked at what was happening at different parts of the story and how this affected Leon's thoughts and feelings.

We created some freeze frames and talked about the feelings involved.

As Leon climbed the golden ladder, he felt excited because he was the chosen one and he was going to see real magic.

When Leon stepped into the box, he was shocked and afraid because there was no floor and he fell down and down.

Leon landed safely on the carpet so he felt relieved but he was still scared and he didn't want to open his eyes and see where he was.

Our class assembly

We prepared and performed our class assembly on 'friendship'. We shared our ideas about what makes a good friend, our friendship poems, our friendship recipes and roles plays.

'I enjoyed our class assembly because I shared my recipe and I think we spoke loud and clear' Ruby.

'I enjoyed getting people to get ready for praying' Jacob.

'I think our assembly was really good because we learnt a lot about friendship' Harry.

At the end of week 1 we launched our new enquiry with a circus day! We all dressed up as different characters from the circus and had lots of fun learning about circus life and skills.

Outdoor maths.

We took our maths learning outside to learn about direction and rotation. We also took this opportunity to identify right angles around the school and use chalk to draw shapes with right angle in them on the playground.

I really enjoyed the Year 6 activities, especially when we had to follow a map to look for facts on the playground.

I loved playing conkers but I didn't manage to smash any!!

I really enjoyed Mr. Evan's assembly. He looked great in his uniform.

Term 1

Weeks 5-8

Our enquiry: What is important to me?

During our 'What is Important to me?' enquiry we researched different communities and what is important to each of these communities. We explored what is important to a Christain and used this to reflect upon what is important to ourselves.

Our enquiry: How we move and grow?

Throughout this enquiry we have been investigating how we move and grow. We have learnt about the three main functions of the skeleton and how muscles help us to move. We also looked at how food helps us to grow and what types of food we need to eat to be healthy.

It was very tricky making our own skeletons and working out which bone goes where.

I found it really interesting finding out about the different food groups and how much we should eat. I definately need to eat more vegetables!

The trip to Aust was great fun. Ed was really nice and we found lots of interesting fossils.

I really enjoyed making our own sedimentary rocks. We got very messy making the salt dough and then we added different materials to make the layers.

It was interesting to now that Theco used to live here.

Salt dough

During our work on rocks, we investigated how different types of rocks are formed. We looked at sedimentary rocks and how these are made up from different layers. In Week 6, we made our own salt dough and then used different materials, such as sand and gravel to create different textures. Once we had decided on the best materials we made our own sedimentary rocks by making different textured layers of salt dough.

Freeze Framing

In Week 5, we created freeze frames of the dinosaur scenes from our book 'The Pebble in my Pocket'.

To kick start our enquiry "What is Theco?", we went on a school trip to a local beach in Aust. We were greeted by a man called Ed who told us some amazing facts about dinosaurs that once lived in Bristol! We scoured the beach for fossils (once Ed had told us what to look for) and we were lucky enough to bring our own fossil home!

Check out some photos of us on our fantastic day out.

Weeks 1-4

I really enjoyed the story Leon and Bob. I particularly liked the ending because Leon got a real friend called Bob, so he didn't need his imaginary friend any more.

I enjoyed sketching my friend in class. We got to use the sketching pencils and we spent a lot of time looking closely at our friend's faces.

I liked doing the painting activity. We used a wash to create a background scene and then, when it was dry, we added detail using felt tip pens. We created a scene of us playing with our new friend.

I had great fun drawing my bedroom and putting lots of things in it that gave people clues about what I like to do. I even put in things that I'm not allowed to have in my bedroom, like my dirty football boots and my bike!

The whole school have been taking part in Science Week, where we have been conducting lots of different experiments that have been teaching us a whole range of scientific skills and concepts.

On our first day we carried out some experiments creating sound, using straws and a blowing technique and using plastic cups, string and some special rosin.

Rocking Parrots.

We cut out parrot shapes from card and then balanced them on the end of a pencil. When we pushed them gently, the parrots rocked backwards and forwards. We used Blu-tac to add weight to the tail and investigated how this affected the amount of times the parrot rocked.

Hunting for Mini-beasts.

We went out into the school grounds to see what mini-beasts we could find. We found lots of different types and took them back to the classroom for a better look.

Big Ears.

We thought about different animals that had big ears and the reasons for this. We then made our own 'big ears'. We took them outside and tried them out, comparing how far away we could hear Mrs. Lowrie, with and without our 'big ears'. We also talked about how the bigger the ear the more sound vibrations they can catch.

Play-Doh

We made our own Play-Doh using flour, salt, water, vinegar, vegetable oil and food colouring. We then used the mini-beasts that we found as inspiration for our models. 

Slime!

We used cornflour and water to make our very own slime. We got very messy doing this but it was great fun. The slime that we made behaved in a very strange manner. If we squeezed or pressed it, it acted like a solid and went hard, but if we lifted it up, it ran out of our fingers like a liquid...very strange!

Making Telephones.

We used plastic cups and string to make our own telephones! We discussed how sound travels and how the volume of the sound can be affected by the different lengths of string.

Making Panpipes.

We used different length straws to make our own panpipes. We discussed how the different length of the straws affected the pitch of the sound created.

Marble Track!

We designed and made a marble track to see which one would carry a marble for the longest time. We thought about how the gradient of the track affected the speed that the marble travelled.

Static Electricity.

We rubbed a balloon on our hair to create static energy, which we then used to make an empty coke can move. This was a difficult challenge which left us with crazy hair!

Chopstick Challenge!

We used chopsticks to move jelly cubes from one plate to another. This was a tricky task! We then added oil to our jelly to see how it affected our ability to pick up the jelly with our chopsticks. It became a very tricky task with the jelly slipping all over the place! We discussed how the oil had affected the surface of the jelly and the chopsticks and how this had impacted on the amount of friction created.

Strongest Bridge Challenge!

We had the challenge to design the strongest bridge using only card and Sellotape. We thought about what structures would create a strong bridge. 

Marshmallow Challenge!

With the help of some of our parents, we challenged ourselves to build the tallest tower using only spaghetti and marshmallows! We had lots of fun and got very sticky! The tallest tower in our class was 78cm!

Celebrating Science Week.

We wanted to share some of our work from Science Week, so we got together with the other Year 3 classes to produce this amazing display!

On the Ning Nang Nong!

As part of the school poetry days we have been looking at 'On the Ning Nang Nong' by Spike Milligan. We explored performing the poem, imagined and created our own interpretations of the 'Ning Nang Nong' and also described our own pictures using thoughtful adjectives. 

Look below at our amazing art work and descriptions.