Year 3 Blog

 Year 3 have loved learning outside today pretending to be hunter gathers. They have been throwing aiming to knock fruit to the floor (beanbags at markers on the wall) and they have acted like hunters using spears (javelins) to hunt Woolley mammoths (hoola hoops).

Thanks to Mrs Anson children got the opportunity to cook on a fire - just like the Stone age people would have done.

Children decided hunting food like Stoneage people was much harder than they thought. 

What skills did Stoneage people need to hunt and gather?

Could you be a Stoneage child?

As a part of our DT project we designed and started making Stone Age jewellery. We started our lesson with discussion about materials used for making jeweller now. Then we explored what jewellery looked like during the Stone Age and what natural resource were used in those days. We compared Stone Age jewellery to what is worn nowadays. We then designed our very own Stone Age jewellery as well as labeling the resources that would have been used such as animal teeth, stones and shells. Today we used our designs to create beads for our necklaces and bracelets using air dry clay.

What a shining beacon and a brilliant example of excellence Ellis is in Year 4. In his own time he raised £446 for the Alzhemer's Society. He completed a memory walk in aid of his grandad Jeff. We are all very proud of you Ellis- well done. 

Year 3 enjoyed watching videos about DiwalI the Hindu festival of light. We compared this festival to the Christian festival Christmas and Hannukah that Jews celebrate. Children shared their ideas on how DiwalI is celebrated and then together wrote acrostic poems.

Happy Diwali