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Year 3 News
- 07/02/25
Children's Mental Health Week
This week has been Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. ‘The more we can understand about ourselves, the more prepared we are to express our emotions and take on life’s ups and downs.’ Every day, the children have co...Read Full Story - 13/12/24
Christmas Lunch
On Thursday we came to school in our Christmas jumpers and outfits. Our kitchen team made us a delicious Christmas lunch which we all enjoyed. Thank you to the kitchen team!Read Full Story - 10/12/24
Computing
Year 3 have been helping each other to operate Scratch on laptops and on computers. They were able to use the paint tool to create characters and select the appropriate blocks to get the Sprite to move around the screen. Year 3 have been able to create stories using Scratch by selecting appropria...Read Full Story - 28/11/24
Hancock Museum
This week, Year 3 had a great visit to the Hancock Museum in Newcastle, where we explored exhibits linked to our history topic on Ancient Egypt and our science unit on animals, including humans. In the Egyptian gallery, we saw real mummies, ancient artefacts, and fascinating hieroglyphs, which helpe...Read Full Story - 27/11/24
Design and technology
This week, Year 3 have been hard at work, applying their skills in design and technology to create beautiful and tasty seasonal fruit and vegetable tarts. As part of their unit on food design, the children have explored the importance of using fresh ingredients and considered the nutritional benefit...Read Full Story - 20/11/24
Anti-Bullying Week
Last week, was anti-bullying week in school. All of our children focused on the theme "Choose Respect" which of course, is one of our school values. We explored the meaning of bullying and different scenarios where this can occur. This was alongside considering what respect is and how w...Read Full Story - 15/11/24
Children in Need
Today, everyone has been involved in raising money for Children in Need. The children had great fun laying out their money to create a giant Pudsey head! We raised an amazing £250.58 which has been sent to Children in Need. Well done everyone and thank you for your generosity...Read Full Story - 14/11/24
Music around the world
Year 3 has been considering how different music sounds around the world. This half-term they have been discovering how music sounds in India. As a class, they worked together to perform traditional Indian songs with voices and instruments.Read Full Story - 12/11/24
Odd Socks Day
As part of anti-bullying week, our whole school has participated in Odd Socks Day. We came to school today in odd socks as a way of celebrating differences and diversity across our school and community. We have read stories and had discussions about similarities and differences and have enjoyed...Read Full Story - 11/11/24
Remembrance
Today we demonstrated our school value of respect. We all made our own poppy and created a Remembrance garden. We all visited to have some time for reflection and think about the bravery of all those who have and still continue to keep us safe. Our Year 5 and 6 children also visited The Cenotaph...Read Full Story - 04/11/24
Investigating forces
Year 3 has started to investigate forces and magnets this half term. They have shown an understanding that forces can move an object and change an object's speed. During this lesson, the children planned an experiment and predicted what might happen when the car goes down the ramp on different t...Read Full Story