Year 3 Blog

There was a newspaper article earlier in the week that really made me smile.  It was about about a herd of wild Kashmiri Goats that usually live on the Great Orme in Llandudno, North Wales.  They sometimes climb down when the weather is too windy but, now that the streets are deserted, it seems that they have decided to move into the quiet seaside town! Click here to watch them in action!

I wonder where the goats are going and what they thought of the deserted streets. I wonder what they would say to each other and what adventures they would go on. I wonder if one of them is secretly ..

S U P E R G O A T

and is about to embark on a TOP SECRET MISSION

Let your imagination wander and, if you want, write a story about these adventuring goats or you could create your very own comic book

Free printable here

(or use a ruler, pencil and let your imagination run riot)

We love singing songs in Year Three as they put a smile on your face and help brighten your day.  Not only that but singing is a fantastic way to help cement knowledge into our brains. Some of our favourite times tables songs are linked here, here and here.
 

We also like to play bingo in…

Can you solve the above problem?

Why don't you create some of your own for your grown-ups to solve

Hello everyone!

I hope that you are all safe and well and enjoying spending quality time with your family. 

Do you remember the experiment that we did in our classroom where we found out if plants really do transport water around their body? We placed some white carnations in different jars…

Today  marks the anniversary of the Unity Brook disaster.  To mark the occasion we visited the graves of those who were buried in St Stephen's graveyard in the morning and then, in the afternoon, we took part in a moving service at the memorial which is close to where the disaster took…

This morning, the children took part in a whole school poetry recital.  We rehearsed and performed a poem called Mornings which is about a small child during the Industrial Revolution and her father who works in a local coal mine. The children were absolutely fantastic and recited the poem with…

Do you remember the Pringles cans that we collected? Well, we applied our scientific knowledge and understanding of light to transform them into kaleidoscopes.  We were very impressed with them!

Here we are in the computing suite designing and creating a robot. It was a lot harder than it looked because, once we had selected the various components needed, we had to manipulate their size and position until the robot was just right

As part of our maths week, we are learning about parallel lines and perpendicular lines as well as horizontal and vertical lines. We decided that a super way to learn about them was by creating an abstract piece of art in the style of Mondrian

Here we are at the start of our Maya workshop.  I wonder what we will find out?

Up until half term we will be having a rugby lesson outside on the school field.

Here we are having a computing lesson about coding. We are using a programme called Scratch.