Year 3 News
Mrs E. Blenkinsop
Hi, I am Mrs Blenkinsop. Over the summer break I got married.
Welcome to Year 3, where we love to create amazing memories and learn lots of new things. Outside of school, I will often be found on my big, comfy sofa reading a book, walking my dog Duke, or at the gym. Moving into KS2 can be quite nerve-racking, so I am here to make that big jump with you. Let’s smash it!
- 20/12/24
20/12/2024
This week, we challenged ourselves to make a 3D Christmas card with a pop-up Christmas tree inside. It was tricky to measure and fold the paper correctly, however we did have some successful ones. In Forest school, we finally finished our Christmas tree decorations using different knots, such as: la...Read Full Story - 13/12/24
13/12/2024
This week, In Forest school we were finalising our knot-tying skills ready for next week to make our Christmas decorations. In Jigsaw, we were learning how to solve problems. We talked about how words can hurt, but also can be used positively. In PE, we had to work in partners to practise different...Read Full Story - 06/12/24
06/12/2024
This week, In Art, we began our key pieces: creating a cave-style painting. We used watercolour to create a flat wash then we used poster paint in spray bottles to recreate cave-style handprints. Tomorrow, we will use other media (charcoal and chalk pastels) to draw our extinct mammals. In French, w...Read Full Story - 29/11/24
29/11/2024
This week, in History, we were learning about the Palaeolithic times and how they lived in tents, using animal skin. They lived in tents because they were moving a lot. This is called a ‘nomadic lifestyle’. In Forest school, we’ve been learning different types of knots for an art p...Read Full Story - 22/11/24
22/11/2024
This week, in class, we had a special visitor come to see us on Monday. Dinostar! We got to see lots of different ecofacts, from dinosaur legs bones, a fossilised dinosaur egg and a T-Rex footprint. We also made our own fossils and fossil rubbings. In Computing, we were asking, “How can we ani...Read Full Story - 15/11/24
15/11/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “How do we say animals names in French?” We have learned a pig is un cochon and a cow is une vache. In Art, we asked, “what is mixed media?” We used charcoal and chalk pastels to create a cave-style drawing using earthy colours. In PE...Read Full Story - 08/11/24
08/11/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “When did the world began?” We learned that the Earth is around 5 billion years old. The first 3 periods of time in prehistoric Britain were: stone age, bronze age and iron age. During the stone age, we learned about three different eras: Palaeol...Read Full Story - 24/10/24
24/10/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “what features are needed in a non-chronological report?” We included: pronouns, subtitles, paragraphs, titles, commas for list, subordinating and co-ordinating conjunctions, all about the three different types of rocks we learned about in scienc...Read Full Story - 18/10/24
18/10/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “What are the physical and human features in our region?” We learned about 4 different types of settlements: city, town, village and a hamlet. We discovered that hamlets are even smaller than villages, with only a few human features, such as hous...Read Full Story - 11/10/24
11/10/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “How do we say colours in French?” Some of the colours we learned were, bleu (blue) violet (purple) and rouge (red). Yesterday, we had Mental Health Day. We watched a Lyfta lesson of a man called Slyvian and how he deals with being alone and tack...Read Full Story - 04/10/24
04/10/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “What does interfacing mean?” We added felt inside our boxes using PVA glue to help it keep its shape and make it more stiff. In Geography, we learned about OS maps and how there are different symbols, such as parking symbols, schools, buildings...Read Full Story - 27/09/24
27/09/2024
This week, in class, we have been asking, “How can we make a box out of fabric?” In DT, we used a card template to cut and fold to make a box, we pinned fabric to this, so we could cut around the shape and then we used PVA glue to stick it together. In Science, we were asking “Why...Read Full Story