Year 3 - Miss Walters and Miss Redman
Welcome to our year 3 page where you can see what we've been up to in our learning.
National Mining Museum
On Thursday 27th April Y3 visited the National Mining Museum in Wakefield. We got to go on an underground tour and explore what it was like to mine coal in the Victorian times and in more modern times. We also visited the pit baths, winding engines, learnt about safety lamps and visited the pit ponies and horses. We all had an amazing day and learnt lots about mining.
After the Easter holidays, Y3 will be beginning their Mining topic. We will be learning all about how communities were built around the collieries, how the mines worked and we have an exciting trip to the National Coal Mining Museum planned where we will experience going down a real mine shaft!
Summer term overview
Egyptian Partake Day
On the 27th March, Y3 took part in an Egyptian Day run by Partake. During the day, the children had the opportunity to re-enact an Ancient Egyptian funeral. This included learning about the preparation of the body, the ceremony and customs. They also took part in two workshops where they experienced spice mixing for perfumes and handled artefacts.
Egyptian Day
After the Christmas holidays, Y3's new topic will be Ancient Egypt. We will be learning all about the pharaohs, ancient customs and comparing life in Ancient Egyptian times to our lives today. Please see the poster below for an overview of what we will be learning during the spring term.
Y3 Spring Learning Overview
After half a term learning about the Stone Age, we had a trip to Creswell Crags to learn all above the Stone Age people that settled there.
We had a fantastic day participating in so many different activities. We really enjoyed getting to explore a cave, play musical instruments, look at and talk about the different tools/ weapons they used and have a go at hunting. We got to throw a spear at bison. Quite a few of us were successful and caught the bison for lunch!
We worked as a team to build a shelter from wood and animal skin and fur and also observed how they would make fire before having a go at the technique ourselves.
We then learned all about different types of rocks and stone especially flint and iron pyrite (fools gold) which Stone Age people used to make fire. We learned that the caves are made from limestone and that a soft rock they used would be clay to help them mould weapons and tools.
Creswell Crags
Learning about the Stone Age - Becoming Archaeologists
Close Reading - New Vocabulary
Reasoning in Maths
R.E - Christian and Hindu creation stories
YEAR 3 2021-2022
Our Spring Term Learning.
Maths
As part of our active learning, we revisited 2D shapes by using lollipop sticks to create them and then listed their properties. We then worked collaboratively to match 3D shapes to their properties.
Times tables practice and division word problems.
PE
In PE, we learnt how to travel using apparatus in the hall. One of our challenges was to move between the different pieces of apparatus in different ways, including getting onto and off each piece.
RE
As part of our learning about Judaism, we learnt about Hanukkah - The Festival of Lights.
Spring Term Celebration of Learning
Our Autumn Term Learning.
Odd Socks Day
On Monday 15th November 2021, we all took part in Odd Socks Day, to mark the start of Anti-Bullying Week.
Class 1 pupils and their hand made shields!
Maths Classroom Activities
Early Man Classroom Activities
Creswell Crags Visit
