Blog by Tag: Year 3

Happy Christmas from everyone in Year 3. Have a great holiday everyone!

Our finished boxes are all ready for our Christmas biscuits! Here are some of the finished products.

In DT, we have been practising cutting, scoring, folding and using templates. We’ve also investigated Christmas colour schemes and tried different fonts. Today we were able to use all these skills to make our Christmas packages for some tasty Christmas biscuits. We all had to really focus to make…

In DT we have been exploring different Christmas colour schemes and fonts for our packaging. Here are some of our designs. Next we will chose our favourite scheme and decorate our cardboard nets. Watch this space!

We are continuing our DT topic of packaging and today we practised the skills of careful cutting and folding.  We learnt to use scissors to score the card so that we could get a really good fold. We made 3D Christmas houses to help decorate our class Christmas tree!

Our new DT topic is packaging and today we brought in lots of different packaging and cardboard boxes to investigate. We opened up our boxes to look at the nets of the different 3D shapes. We were surprised that such big boxes were made from just one piece of cardboard! We tried really hard to…

Today was the day we have been planning and preparing for! We finally got to make our sandwiches following our own designs. We used a very wide variety of fillings and tried to create a healthy sandwich with different food groups (as we have been learning about in science). We got to use the…

We are getting ready to make our own sandwiches. Today we practised the skills of chopping, grating and spreading. We had bags of chopped cucumber, lettuce and grated carrot to take home with us. Tasty!

Soon we will be designing and making our own sandwiches so today we prepared by tasting different bread options and a variety of possible fillings. Lots of us tried some foods for the very first time. We didn’t all like everything but well done everyone for giving it a try!

In English we have been enjoying the traditional story - The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Today we imagined the scene in the town when the rats first arrived! 
 

Today Year 3 and 4 took part in our termly intrasports tournament. We braved the wind (and leaves) and had some exciting, closely fought games of benchball. Everyone joined in with enthusiasm and energy and it was great to see their teamwork and how supportive they were. Well done!

Today KS1&2 joined in Well-being Afternoon. In the Year 3 classroom we made friendship bracelets/braids using an ancient method which was used by the Vikings. We were really proud of our creations.