Year 3

Find out about what we will be learning in the coming half term.

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And some more of our favourites from the past two weeks.

In Year 3 this week we have been investigating how shadows change as the light source was moved away from the object creating the shadow. Fourteen of us thought that the shadow would get bigger and 9 thought that it would get smaller. Who do you think were right?

Here we are measuring and…

Some of us were lucky enough to be chosen to attend this year's Football Festival at the Cliff.

We had a fantastic day!

We won lots of matches and all the coaches were impressed with our sporting behaviour!

Mrs Garside and Mrs Glynn were very proud of us!

This afternoon, Year 3 have been busy creating Mirror Mazes to investigate whether we could change the direction of light, in order to hit a specific area. 

We were all proud of our efforts!

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Year 3 had a very busy day on Friday. We started by learning how to count, say the days of the week, months of the year and colours in Spanish. We used some songs to help us to remember. Ulysses helped us because he speaks Spanish at home. 

In the afternoon we prepared our ingredients for our…

We have been busy this afternoon planning for our Spanish Food Festival. First we had to research popular Spanish dishes. Next we decided which we would like to eat. Then we made a list of the ingredients we would need to make our chosen recipes. We needed to do lots of multiplications to provide…

In Year 3 we have been learning to write descriptions of contrasting settings.

 Mrs Haggett was so impressed with our use of well-chosen adjectives and adverbs and adverbials of time to show passing of time and dramatic moments.

Here is one for you to read. More to follow.

I settled…

Congratulations to all the children in Year 3 who were presented in Mass today to begin the Sacramental Programme. You read the bidding prayers beautifully and with great confidence and your behaviour, as ever, was excellent. Sister Monica was very impressed by how well you participated and sang!…

Congratulations to Alexandra and Ulysses for achieving Star of the Week this week for always following class rules. Well done!

In Science next week we will be building mirror mazes. We need shoe box sized boxes for our mazes so please look at home or ask your friends and family if they have any we could use.

Thanks,

Mrs Haggett

Today in Year 3 we have been tasting fruits produced in the Mediterranean. Our Learning Challenge this week was to find out which fruits and vegetables were grown in the Mediterranean. Since we passed the challenge Mrs Haggett bought us some of the fruits in to taste. We ranked them from most to…