Y3: Autumn 2

We're all looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday! 

Autumn 2 is always so full of excitement and inspirational learning. We have some brilliant learning experiences planned. 

We will be having PE on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Please can you make sure your child has a PE kit in school, there are a number of children without them and it is important to have them in school.

Forest Schools will still be on a Thursday pm, waterproofs are essential for this term.

Please can you bring the shields into school on Monday 7th November. We cannot store them in school before hand so please do not bring them in before the above date. We're really looking forward to seeing these and thank you in advance for all of the effort you have put into supporting your child to create them. The children will be using them in a mock battle and so they should be able to hold them in one arm. Please can we ask for no swords to accompany the shields. 

See you all on Tuesday! 

☆Mrs Thorpe, Mr MacBean, Mrs Hall, Mrs Hibberd and Miss Alston☆

Year 3: Ancient Technology Centre trip

 We've had a fantastic day at The Ancient Technology Centre. The children were all brilliant and listened and learnt lots! Thank you to Jen and Nada who supported us today with the different workshops. The children learnt how make cordage out of reed, how to weave on a loom and looked at artefacts from the bronze and iron age. It was a brilliant day. Thank you to all of the adults that supported our trip today.

Year 3- This week

This week we are delving into learning more facts about the Celts. We have been using our Historical research skills to research facts about the Celts. We are then going to use them to write a non chronological report. 

Today the children did the end of half term reading test on AR. This means that many children will come home tomorrow and tell you they have new numbers. If this doesn't get back to you then I will try and send a Marvellous me with the information in by the end of the week.

Just a reminder that it is our school trip to the Ancient Technology Centre on Thursday. Warm clothes with suitable shoes please and a packed lunch. 

Home learning last week was to design and make their shields. I understand that this is a bit labor intensive so we have allowed 3 weeks for this. Please do not bring them in before hand as we are limited on space to store them. 

Thank you, any questions please feel free to email me.

🍁Mrs Thorpe 🍁

A fantastic day learning about the bronze age!

 What an amazing day we have had outside learning about the bronze age. Thank you so much to Mark from the Ancient Wessex Network who made the day so interesting. Mark set up a number of activities and the children enjoyed digging for artefacts, cave painting, weaving, mosaics, pot making and tin casting. As with everything we do in Year 3, we spoke about what happens if we find things difficult or things do not go quite to plan. This was definitely the case when it came to the pot making (a few broke) and the tin casting which was very difficult and did not work for a lot of children. I have said we have some spare pots that the children can have tomorrow if they did not get to take one home today. 

Thank you to our parent volunteers for helping us today 😀

I'm now going to share lots of photos from our brilliant day.