Year 3 blog

January 2023

Super shields in Year 3!
Published 27/01/23, by Geraldine Sentance
This week in D&T, we have been planning the design and construction of our awesome Roman inspired shields. We practised different joins using cardboard, including tabs, flange, tie and an l brace. We then discussed our design criteria including m
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Let's talk soil
Published 20/01/23, by Geraldine Sentance
This term, our topic for Science in Rocks and Soils. Last week, the children observed different types of soils and described them using scientific vocabulary. This week, we were looking at the permeability of soils and tested three different typ
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Dancing into 2023
Published 16/01/23, by Jenny Bail
Year 3 have now started an exciting dance lesson every week as part of their PE curriculum. The lesson is being taught by a professional dance teacher, who will teach them a full routine by the end of the term linked to our topic 'Up Pompei'.

To get us started, this week, we learnt a few moves to a well known pop song by Meghan Trainor, to get ourselves comfortable with dancing. We REALLY enjoyed it and we even had the chance to do some freestyle moves - some of us have some brilliant moves on the dance floor!

We can't wait for our next lesson...

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