These last few weeks, the children have been working very hard at becoming ACE Geographers. They have been thoroughly enjoying the lessons and trying out various activities by using their noticing skills. Next week, they will be starting to look at the formation of volcanoes which is always a very exciting topic!

This is something that the children will no doubt not only be excitied for, but engaged with for their volcano project that they are completing at home.

Feel free to send in some photos of your child completing their project as Mr Cosgrove, Mrs Harbour and I are excitied to see them!

As there has not been some posts in a while, they have accrued, therefore there will be two posts today and two more next week.

Good Morning! After some (albeit frustrating) difficulties getting the pictures sorted, they are finally here! I can now upload them to the blog for all to see.

Two weeks ago, we went on the annual trip to Murton Park and it went down a treat with the children. This is always a very memorable trip and the current Year 4’s still talk about it even now. This was a great way to both start the new year for the children and also to cap off our previous Stone Age to Iron Age topic.

Just look at some of the photos and you can see just how much the children are enjoying the time and the wealth of the activities that they completed. This is something the children will be talking about for years to come.

Please take a look at some of the volcanoes that we have received in Year 3, it has felt like The Ring of Fire in the year group.

As Geography lead, it was extremely hard to pick a winner out of the lot. I can see all of the hours around the kitchen table, time with Mum and Dad. Trips out to get the resources and time spent researching books and online in order to know what to lable and to see other volcano models.

Im quite frankly stunned at the level of dedication that has been put into these models. I will post the images of the winner and the explanation as to why also. For now, enjoy the models in school:

The other week, we looked at the different covenants and promises a person can make between themselves and God in our RE lessons. One prime example of a covenant between a person and God is the christian wedding service where two people make lifelong promises to each other under the eyes of God.

As we are a little young for a real marraige ceremony, we instead had dragon and princess marry each other instead. After reciting the marraige vows, we then tried to spot all of the times someone makes a promise.

The children really enjoyed the task and it made the lesson much more enjoyable for them.

This week in 3A, we have been looking at the primary muscle groups and how they help the body to function. The children have even been holding different body positions to get a real life feel about how these muscles work in their own body, including how they work with each other.

Take a look at the photos of the children testing out their own muscles, I’m sure they will tell you all about it when they get home!

Recently in Year 3, the chidren have completed their diary entry on Noah’s ark. Imagining the enormity of the task that he had to complete and how he must have felt being asked to complete this task.

We have produced some impressive diary entries, but nor before acting out the story of Noah in class with some freeze frames!

This allowed the children to show us what they knew and if they could remember the sequence.

Safe to say, they had a good bit of fun doing it.

Last week at the school was a very important week. It was anti-bullying week for us and the children spent a good bit of time going through what bullying is and what we can do to stop this from happening.

After speaking about what the children can do and who they can speak to, we then took to the playground for some activism and protest against bullying. Especially with a focus on diff-ability!

After a hiatus, we are back! Stronger than ever!

This week, for our first week back, we looked at the Bronze Age and how that was different to the Stone Age that we have studied in the previous term.

Now, in 3A, we are not all about simple and boring history lessons. Oh no! Instead, we decided to get out some artefacts and look at them ourselves.

We were able to take a look at a real-life Neolithic polished stone axe, and compare this with a real Bronze Age axe.

After being able to see the differences between the Bronze Age and Stone Age, the children were then able to talk about this and complete their work.

What a great start to the topic for this half-term. They have their science lesson tomorrow!

As someone who is food orientated, I find myself being very enthusiastic about these kind of lessons.

However this was a lesson with an important purpose.

Bread, as an invention, marked a huge advance in our species. We were able to take two things (water and flour) which alone we cannot survive on. But then made it in to bread and with that, our species evolved, grew in intelligence and flourished.

Much like the children hav eflourished today. They have not just learned why bread is important in the Stone Age and to humans. They have learned an invaluable and wonderful life skill today. To make bread for themselves, from flour and water, to a warm, fresh loaf. They (and myself included) have been so satisfied by this and they should be overwhelmed with pride at their creation, as I am at them.

This week in 3A, we have all gone a little fossil crazy!

Despite only learning about rock formations and soil types so far, the children have really gotten their teeth into the fossils topic and are fascinated by them, with many bringing in fossils from home.

The cherry on the cake this week was from Celia who brought in fossil sample from a scientist ancestor in the family, including a starfish and a piece of lava. This really gripped the children and has managed to really draw them into our science topic.

I would also like to issue a reminder that next week is Arts Fortnight and will be a little different from the normal school curriculum. There may also be messy days where they will need to come in non-school uniform, but I will warn you al about them beforehand!