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Welcome to class 3A at Allerton CE Primary School in Leeds. Here, under the careful guidance of Mr Arnett, we will blog to the Big Wide World.

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Mr Arnett

Arts Fortnight – Room 17

The last two weeks have flown by during this Arts Fortnight. We started the week not having an idea about Room 17 yet the children and myself have all now bought into the idea and concept behind Room 17 – a place to express creativity within the community.

As part of this, the children have been directed by the word ‘Inspiration’ for the last two weeks. This has fed into the dance, inspiration artwork and also their graphic design work.

I gave the idea to the children of designing the branding of Room 17 for the school to show others that if we can design all of this branding then those others could also achieve this too (“You could be, someone special…”)

The children have produced remarkable work and have really blown me away with their efforts. They are a credit to themselves and this school.

Hopefully, they can inspire some of the others with their work as well.

Thank you all for coming and supporting the children – they (and we) appreciate it beyond words.

  • Mr Arnett

Crazy Continents!

This last week, we have been recapping our previous work from Y1 / 2 on continents and clearly the children have remembered quite a lot (which is a very good start!) They played various in class games such as ‘know more remember more’ and pop-up continents to make the learning more fun and engaging and by the end they could show me they were aware of the different continents.

We are now going onto our Volcano topic more this week however, please use these links to have your child consolidate and deepen their knowledge for Geography (also, they are very fun and educational too!).

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/geography/world/continent-oceans-game-1/

https://globle-game.com/

Murton Park

Despite some hiccups and illnesses (which seems to have been very much school wide!), the children had a great time at Murton Park.

When they arrived, they had a talk from their Stone Age leader and were shown artefacts and were told stories about the topic they have spent so long studying. They demonstrated great subject knowledge and enthusiasm and then went outside to step into the Stone Age!

They studied artefacts, did some cave painting, made pots, ground grain into flour, weaved wool and went hunting for boar and deer. Then they finally finished with the story Otzi the Iceman from the Bronze Age.

You can see for yourself on these photos. Many thanks to those parents who volunteered and came on the trip. Don’t know how I could have done it without you!

See for yourself with these photos and hopefully, your children can tell you all about it.

Hope the children are well, rest this weekend, recover and I look forward to seeing them back in class with their usual smiles on Monday morning.

Silent Debate

This week we have decided to introduce a new activity for the children in our class. ‘The Silent Debate’!

This is where a question is posed to the children in the center of their large piece of paper and they then comment around it by writing in pen silently. Then, they move to other tables and comment, build on or challenge the other children’s comments, often using other’s ideas to grow their own.

It is a wonderful activity and they enjoyed being able to use it to discuss the big question this half-term ‘What is mutual respect and how do you show it?’

Manipulatives in Maths

This week the children are coming to the end of their addition and subtraction topic in maths. They have been working really hard on this and at times have found it challenging. That is where the manipulatives come out.

These objects and counters are ‘concrete manipulatives’ that help the children understand the concept behind why you exchange 10 1’s for a ten, or 10 10’s for one hundred.

It can also be quite fun as you can see….

Cave Art

Last half term, the children were coming to the end of their Stone Age topic.

This being such an informative, fun and long topic the children had lots of room and scope to get creative and really live in the Stone Age (or thereabouts). To cap off our learning and journey, the children made some pretty large cave drawing pieces of their class animal (a sabretooth tiger is what they had chosen) and them made some actual cave art on cardboard that we used to turn Year 3 into a Paleolithic cave. This whole task was an exploration activity, so that they could get used to the materials we were using and get into the spirit.

Just take a look at some of the children and their work and you can see how much they enjoyed it.

Permeable rocks and a volcanic suprise

We have been continuing to be scientists by studying how some rocks are permeable and some are permeable. They first learned the distinction between permeable and porous and then figured out the difference between permeable and impermeable.

We conducted an experiment where the children submerged rocks in glasses of water and checked for air bubbles. If there were any bubbles then they would be permeable and if there were none then it would be impermeable.

After this, we learned about the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock. As a special suprise, I managed to get out some valuable rocks from my collection. This being a selection of rocks that were spurted out during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius back in 1944!

Rock and roll

In this lesson, we were looking at different kinds of rocks that we have in school, much to the fascination of the children of course. They were able to see that as opposed to being dull and grey that rocks can come in many different shapes and sizes.

After a thorough inspection and much boistrousness the children then were able to conduct a simple science experiment by comparing and contrasting various rocks that are in our collection.

This so inspired some of the children that they decided to bring their own rocks in later on in the week!