Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

Today we started our new geography topic - Wonders of the Rainforest!  We listened to the sound of a tropical rainforest and drew what we could hear or imagine. We then wrote down our ideas about rainforests and what we already know.  We are looking forward to learning lots…

We continued our exploration of nature today by doing a texture touching challenge of natural things in the school grounds. We used words like rough, silky, jagged, downy and serrated to describe the things we felt. We will use some of these words in our nature poems.

In English, we are reading the book "The Lost Words" which is full of poems about nature nouns like bluebells and conkers.  Today we investigated Dorrington Woods to find some nature nouns of our own.  Even on the walk there we were amazed by the way that plants and animals can thrive in really…

In Year 3 we have been writing our own stories based on the class reader, Stone Age Boy.  After showing them our Stone Age dance, we read our stories to the Year One children.  They seemed to really enjoy them!

We have been developing a dance based on our topic of the Stone Age.  Today we showed it to Mrs Boyle and the Y1 class.  They really enjoyed it and we hope you will too.

After learning about and investigating the power of air (pneumatics!), this week we finally planned and made our moving toys. We investigated different ways to use balloons, pipes and syringes to create movement and then came the challenging, fun and messy(!) part…we got to transform cardboard…

In DT we are investigating pneumatics as soon we will be making our own pneumatic moving models. Today we made paper rockets and used air power (from our lungs through a straw!) to propel the rockets forwards. We learnt that even a small amount of air can be very powerful…

Today we were really pleased to have Jonny and Abi from NISCU join our special outdoor assembly. This week they have been prayer walking between many of the different school in Morecambe and Lancaster, carrying a lantern to represent the light of Jesus.  They enjoyed our fantastic singing of The…

We are learning about capacity and volume in maths. Today we started this new topic with a practical session finding the capacity of lots of different containers. We used coloured water to make it easier to see. We estimated for each different container and our estimates got better as we went…

Here are all of our amazing pictures based on cave paintings!  We have written diary entries based on our book "Stone Age Boy".  We are also loving finding out more about Prehistoric Britain with some new non-fiction books. 

In Year 3 we are now learning about the Neolithic Stone Age (the New Stone Age) when farming was first used widely in Britain.  We have been learning about the amazing monument of Stonehenge and how it was made. We did a fact treasure hunt to find out as much as we could about it. It is incredible…

We are continuing our history topic, investigating the Stone Age, and this week made some pictures of cave art using ink washes to create the cave walls and charcoal/pastels with our own stencils to show the animals. We are really pleased with the results!