Blog by Tag: Team Badgers

This week, we have started a new chapter of addition and subtraction in maths. We have been applying our knowledge of column addition from Year 2 to add a three digit number to tens with renaming. The children have practiced using a variety of methods for addition, including place value grids,…

Team Badgers are learning all about seasonal foods in England and why we import foods from other countries to our supermarkets. We explored a variety of different fruits and vegetables that can be grown in England during the spring, summer, autumn and winter and how the countries temperate climate…

In Team Badgers, the children have started to learn to play a new instrument- the ukulele! This week, we practiced all four strings G,C,E,A one at a time to the song 'My dog has fleas!'. We learned to remember the strings G,C,E,A by saying Good Children Eat Apples!

In Year Three, our new science topic is called Movement and Nutrition. This week, the children learned, and have started to use, an impressive range of scientific vocabulary! The children looked at vertebrates and invertebrates as well as some creatures with an endoskeleton and exoskeleton. They…

A warm welcome to Team Badgers!

We have had a wonderful first week back in Year 3. This week, the children have used their painting and cutting skills to create their own badgers for our classroom welcome display. The children have been reading about badgers and British wildlife and have been…

This week in our science in Team Badgers, we have been learning about the different parts of a plant and their function.  We learnt about the importance of each part and how it contributes to the healthy growth of the plant. We made posters to show our learning use real life plants!

Badgers have loved their STEM Day! The challenge was to create a marble run, but we didn't want the marble to move quickly - that's too easy! We hoped to slow it down! We discussed what may help slow down the marble on its way and what materials may help. The children planned their designs in…

In Badgers we have been celebrating British Science Week. We have been asking scientific questions abut shadows. We decided to investigated whether different materials produce the same shadows. We were so surprised to learn that this isn't the case! We were able to make dark, clear shadows using…

Team Badgers had a visit from the Packington Farm Education team today. The children have learned about the animals and how they are used to help us with our food. They have also learned all about arable farming as this links to our geography topic too. We were super lucky as Hetty the chicken…

Team Badgers are continuing to become fabulous at French! The children have been practising their numbers and we have used these in games of bingo in class as well as using them in other lessons.

The children were super impressed that when they were given a letter to read (all in French)…

In Team Badgers, our English unit this half-term has been based on the famous palaeontologist, Mary Anning! This was a fiction text but based on the true story of her life. We have practised using a greater range of adverbs for different cause, a wider range of conjunctions and lots of other…

This week in Geography, we have been learning about the biggest settlement type - cities. We learnt about the different facilities that a city has compared to other settlement types, such as airports and universities. We also learnt that most cities in the UK have a cathedral, but that isn't aways…