Y3- Farm trip and the bees!

We have had a brilliant trip to a sunny Maiden Castle farm.

Hazel spoke to us about the wheat and barley that they store and make in to animal feed. 

We went and saw the cows and saw them eating the food. It was really interesting to see the food and the different grains in it. 

After that we went to the pigs and fed them. Hazel fed the pigs some maze, this looks just look a sweetcorn cob but not delicious!

This morning we watched live footage at the Watercress farm of a beekeeper. It was fascinating to learn about the bees and what they make. Such as did you know that bees make royal jelly and feed up the Queen bee so that she is bigger. 

It was amazing to watch them on a live stream and learn about the importance of bees. 

Y3- Farming fortnight begins!

Today we launched our 'Farming fortnight'. I hope you all enjoyed seeing the tractor outside of school this morning! Over the next couple of weeks we will learn about local farming, visit Maiden Castle farm and focus on Harvest ready for our Harvest assembly next Friday. 

In Literacy we are still focusing on our Rainforest topic. Today the children started to write their own 'What am I?' piece of writing. They had to include key facts such as the type of animal they were, describing colour, movement and diet. We had some fantastic descriptions of animals pouncing and stalking their prey. 

In Maths we are still focusing on place value and in particular hundreds, tens and ones. Please do still go on mathletics. This should be updated now with some new challenges. Purplemash also has some fantastic resources on it. 

Just a reminder about the farm visit on Wednesday. Normal school jumpers but home trousers and wellingtons please.

At the end of the day we were visited by Twinkle the calf. The children tasted cheese and got to understand a little more about dairy cows. All of the children loved this visitor. We are very privileged to have such amazing, hard working farmers near and involved with our school so thank you!

Y3 Farm trip and information about Forest School

Next Wednesday afternoon is our farm trip. If any one would like to and is available to help we will be going in the afternoon this year. Please just let a member of staff know.

On Monday I will be on the Accelerated Reader training all afternoon so I’m afraid Forest School will not happen next week.

Mrs Thorpe

Y3- Windy trip to Maiden Castle!

We have had a fantastic day at Maiden Castle. I am extremely proud of all of Year 3 and how well they walked to Maiden Castle and handled the rather windy weather. They all got involved in the activities and were very polite. Well done! A huge thank you to our parent helpers this morning and to the South Dorset Ridgeway project that hosted the event.

We started our trip at the top of the hill where we were talking about boundaries. There were some amazing settlements that had been set up and some interesting boxes with different pieces of art work in.

Then we started to head down where we learnt about the defences at Maiden Castle and what a struggle it would have been in battle. 

After that we split in to groups and did a number of activities such as natural painting, 3D art work, Dance, flint demonstration, animal totems and finally we made badges. 

Y3 Our fantastic encounter with rainforest creatures!

Wow what a morning! Nick the Bugman came in and gave such an informative show about the creatures that live on the forest floor and below!

The children saw so many different bugs including stick insects, scorpions, snails, millipedes and tarantulas.

Can you believe that this creature on the left is actually a stick insect!

 The stick insects varied in size and colour. The boys were always the smaller of the species and were mainly a shade of brown.

 This bug was called the 'twin spot assassin'. We weren't allowed to touch this one as it had quite a pincer on it!

This was 'Sally' the bird eating spider! She was the slower of the two tarantulas today. I wonder if the children remember why they were not allowed to hold this one? The adults were brave though and had a hold.















Below area selection of photos from our morning. We will put the others on the screen in the classroom tomorrow.

(Mrs Thorpe isn't the biggest spider fan!) 

Y3- Maiden Castle trip on Wednesday.

I hope you have had a restful weekend and are ready for the week ahead! On Wednesday we are going to be spending the day at Maiden Castle. Hopefully you have all received the letter explaining everything. If anyone can support us for the day please can you let me know in the morning. It is going to be a action packed day.

Many thanks

Mrs Thorpe

Y3- Swimming information and some exciting adventures next week!

Thank you to everyone that made the parent information session this morning. We discussed what we will be learning about over the next term. 

We have many exciting things coming up! On Monday we have the 'Bugman' in with his rainforest creatures. On Wednesday we will be spending the day at Maiden Castle where we will be working with the South Dorset Ridgeway Project. It is an action packed day full of lots of exciting learning opportunities. You will receive a letter with all of the details tomorrow.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is swimming. If your child is walking to the swimming pool from school please bring them to school at 8.35am (please do stay with them until a Y3 adult is present). We will be leaving school at 8.40am. If you are meeting us at the swimming pool please meet us there at 8.50am, again please do stay with your child until we turn up. The girls will need to wear a one piece costume, boys trunks and please bring a hat. If you have goggles that would also be good. We have had a good talk about swimming with the children today and we know they will really enjoy it. Not only that it is so important that children learn this life safe saving skill. 

The Year 3 team