Class 3

Today we sketched some natural items we found in our school grounds. We used a variety of techniques we have learnt this half term including hatching, cross hatching, stippling and shading.

We enjoyed reading and writing Limericks as part of our World Book Day activities.

Can you guess which characters we have dressed up as?

In maths we have been learning how to convert millimetres, centimetres and metres. Today, we measured the height of each child in Class 3 and converted metres into centimetres and compared our heights.

Today we have been learning about the diet of the Anglo-Saxons. We learnt that they hunted for and grew their own food. We also learnt that sugar cane had not yet reached Europe, so they used honey and dried fruit to sweeten their food. We made honey shortbread - it was delicious!

Today we enjoyed talking to Reverend Neale. We asked him lots of questions about his role in the church and about his day-to-day roles. Thank you for taking the time to visit us!

We had a fantastic time taking part in our TSSMAT dodgeball tournement today. We all tried our hardest and worked brilliantly with our teams. Thank you to Mr Challinor for organising the event - we can't wait for the next one!

This week have learnt about electrical circuits in our science lesson. We identified the key components needed to make a simple circuit and worked in teams to create a circuit to light a bulb / lamp. We used some brilliant scientific vocabulary and used our scientific enquiry skills to support our…

In English, we have been learning about the key features of journalistic writing. We did lots of research on the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 and then used our knowledge of journalistic writing to write our own newspaper reports. We are so pleased with how they turned out!

What a fantastic carol service! We really enjoyed singing all of the songs and sharing our knowledge of WWI and the Christmas truce with you.