Blog Author: katie machin

This week in our weekly ukulele lesson, children in Team Badgers were practising playing 3 different chords within the same song.  This is really tricky and the children had to remember where to place their fingers each time.

This week in art, we have started to design our own Egyptian scrolls to give information about ourselves. We mind mapped lots of symbols and patterns from ancient Egyptian art and looked at how we could change them and adapt them to reflect our likes and interests.  We then investigated creating…

In Badgers this week, we are learning to recall and use the three times table. We learnt about how we can use known facts from the three times table to calculate other three times table facts by adding groups of 3 or subtracting groups of 3. 

In art this week, we have been looking at Egyptian art. We have focussed on identifying colours, themes, shapes and patterns from examples of ancient art.  We have created our own compositions in our art books, trying to experiment with what we have spotted.  We also tried to experiment with…

Today children in Year 3 started to learn about different types of forces. We learnt about push, pull and twist forces.  We had a go at some challenges and identified which type of force we were using. We labelled these on diagrams also. 

For the final cooking task of our Eating Seasonally topic, the children designed their own rainbow tart.  The tart could be fruit or vegetable based and had to include seasonal foods.  The children learnt all about the colours of different food and the benefits they have on our bodies. The…

This week in Science, we have been learning about the 7 nutrient groups. We have learnt what these 7 nutrient groups are and how they are beneficial for our bodies. We have also learnt about which foods fall into these groups. We now know why grown ups tell us to eat lots of fruit and vegetables,…

In Design and Technology this week, we made seasonal fruit crumble. This was linked to our previous lesson on seasonal fruit and vegetables. During the lesson, we worked in small groups to weigh the different ingredients to make the crumble topping. We had to make sure we weighed the ingredients…

As part of their Ancient Egyptian topic, children in Year 3 have taken part in an Egyptian workshop. During the day the children learnt lost of really interesting facts and information about the different rulers of Egypt, what Egyptians like to eat and how they worshipped different Gods. The…

This week in maths, we have been learning to use formal written methods for addition.  We have been practising column addition, where we have to rename 10 ones to 1 ten, which can be quite tricky. We made sure we were secure with the concept of renaming by using concrete materials so that we could…