Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

In science we are learning about shadows. Today we planned our own investigations to see what happens to the size of shadows when objects are nearer or further from the light source. We worked really well in our groups and pairs and did some really good scientific thinking!

Today Coach Lauren came into school to teach us skills linked to cricket. We had lots of fun aiming at the wickets and practising bowling. 
 

In art we have been learning about the artist Barbara Hepworth and how she made abstract sculptures to show her love of nature. We designed our own sculptures based on her piece The Family of Man and tried to use some of her style e.g. holes and lines. We even named our sculptures things such as…

On Thursday 14th March, ten children from Year 3 and 4 represented the school in a Korfball tournament at Moorside School. They had never before played the game but made fantastic improvements in the time and never stopped smiling (despite the cold and rainy weather!). Well done everyone - we were…

Over the last few weeks we have been designing and making different types of prints. We have used polystyrene blocks to make prints inspired by the death mask of Tutankhamun. We also made block prints (using draught excluder tape!) in the style of hieroglyphics. We are really proud of our…

Today we celebrated World Book Day by going on a book hunt! We had to find different book characters hidden around the school. There were 53 in total to find and recognise! Some were books we remembered from when we were younger. We loved seeing some of our favourite characters!

Today Coach Scott came in to run a dodgeball tournament with us for the whole afternoon. We LOVE dodgeball so we were really excited! He was very pleased with how our skills developed from the beginning to the end of the afternoon. We were all proud of our progress whether or not we won. It was a…

What a morning of fun and learning we have had today with Professor Tuesday! We learnt all about the importance of the River Nile, the different kingdoms of Ancient Egypt, the different roles and jobs people had, how mummies were made and finally the importance of artefacts in history. Wow! Have a…

Happy Christmas from Year 3!

In art we have been learning about put graffiti art so we used these skills to create our calendars for 2024. We hope you like them!

In DT we have been developing our cutting, folding and fixing skills in order to make packaging for our Christmas biscuits. We also learnt about different colour schemes to develop a style for our ‘brand’ and used these colours to decorate our boxes. 
 

Today was the Year 3&4 Christmas party and we had a great time. We played some old favourites like musical statues and pass the parcel.  We also played some new games like Hoops. “You can’t eat Johnny Smartie” was a favourite again!