Blog by Tag: Challenge

Year 3 have enjoyed testing a variety of materials with a torch and a reflection tester to see which ones are reflective. They then listed them in order of most reflective to least reflective.

Our new topic in Science is light and dark. We worked in groups to create a mind map of what we already know and what we would like to know about. We then grouped light sources and non light sources before putting our hands in a feely bag to guess what objects were in there. We soon learnt that it…

This week another fantastic range of achievements.

We heard about some boys who earned their scientist badge at Cubs, a performer badge a Brownies, red belts at karate, man of the match at football and success at swimming.

We were very respectful during the silence at 11am. We then learnt about the importance of Remembrance Day before making our beautiful poppies this afternoon.

It was fantastic to hear about all the children’s achievements outside school. They enjoyed sharing their certificates and telling me how they achieved them. 
 

The children chosen to represent the school by competing in the Sports Hall Athletic Heats, had a fantastic time competing against each other and together in lots of different events. These included both track and field events such as the standing long jump, the speed bounce, vertical jump and…

Some more terrific celebrations this week again. It was lovely to hear about your achievements in football, in swimming, Brownies,dance and success in being a history detective.

This half term in Computing, we have started our new unit ‘Introduction to Spreadsheets’. We also had to start by learning how to logon to our class Teams page to access the work we are going to be doing. We then looked at a blank spreadsheet, identifying the cells, rows and columns and then using…

This week, we have been learning about the illustrator of our class story Quentin Blake. We learnt that he starts with the facial expressions of his characters as getting this right is the most difficult part to do. In our sketch books, we tried drawing different faces to show different…

Well done to the children who shared their achievements with us in assembly today. It was lovely to hear about the brilliant things you have been doing. We heard about gymnastic triumphs, Brownies badges, a history quest, winning at games at a kids club on holiday and several boys told us about…

In maths, we have started our unit on area. Today, we were learning what area is and using sticky notes to make different shapes that had the same area.

It was lovely to hear about a range of achievements in assembly. The children were so proud to show us their awards and tell us about them.