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Year 3 investigated- Which building has the least damage after an Earthquake?
They predicted and carried out a fair test to find out which building design was the best design.
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As part of children's learning about Earthquakes in Geography children found out about how Earthquakes happe.
In Design Technology children planned and designed an earthquake proof building.
Dear Year 3,
Welcome back and Happy New Year! We hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas break and are ready for our new topic. We have some exciting activities planned for this half term, based around our topic – What makes Earth angry? In this topic we will be expanding our geographical knowledge and learning about volcanos, earthquakes and tsunami. We will design and build models of earthquake proof buildings. In Science we will continue exploring formation of rocks, fossils and soil.
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We have given children in Year 3 a range of different certificates this week to show the variety of skills Year 3 are learning including Vocabulary Ninja, Sports' Award, Mathematics award and Super Science award. Well done to those children.
Attendance awards have also been awarded for fabulous 100% attendance especially special to receive.
Over the holidays why not take part in the Winter Mini Challenge?
All you have to do is read at least 3 books between Wednesday 1st December and Sunday 16th January. Once you've read a book, add it to your website profile at summerreadingchallenge.org.uk and review it. Add 3 books (or more) to complete the Mini Winter challenge and become a Wild World Hero!
There's a brand new certificate and a limited edition virtual badge which can be won.
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Year 3 & Year 4 Christmas party - lots of dancing, pass the parcel and musical statues enjoyed by Year 3.
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Year 3 enjoyed festive Christmas dinner and Santa Dash around the playground.
A big congratulations to this week's merit winners and Good to be Green raffle winners. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations to our dancers for competing in the Tameside Urban Extreme Competition. You had superb moves!
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Today, we started our lesson with exploring four examples of world famous rock sculptures. We also learnt about Andy Goldsworthy and we looked at examples of his work. Then, we created our own rock balancing sculptures.
