Perfect Planning

 

Over the last week, Year 3 have been planning a local route, which forms part of the children's learning experiences whilst at Broadford Primary School.

The children have linked their learning to their Literacy lessons, using their reflectiveness skills to revise ideas and discuss what they know. They have demonstrated great reciprocity skills whilst working collaboratively and listening to others to check their walking routes.

Over the last two weeks,  the children have had the opportunity to walk the routes that they planned when they visit Harold Hill Library.

‘There were so many books, I wish I could take them all home!’ - Onyeka

"I liked how quiet it was at he library and so many books to chose from" - Hayden 

"We got to borrow a book from the library." - Edie

Terrific Transport!

 

This week, year 3 finished their Geography topic for the half term - Transportation! The children have worked hard over that past 6 weeks learning about different modes of transportation, what is meant by words such as 'congestion' and which modes of transport give off the most pollution. 

Our focus for this weeks lesson was the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transport. The children demonstrated their brilliant reciprocity skills as each table was given a different mode of transport to focus on as a group. They were then given 5 minutes to list all of the advantages and 5 minutes to list all of the disadvantages of their given mode. Once their brilliant ideas were on paper, the children had the chance to share them with their peers. 

Well done to year 3 for working so hard this half term! 

"ULEZ stands for ultra low emission zone!" - Tyler 

"Walking creates the least amount of pollution." - Athena

"walking is the best way to travel because it does not pollute the Earth." - Himanshi 

Year 3's Glorious Geography!

In Geography this term, we are learning all about Earthquakes and Volcanoes. We started by reactivating our knowledge and discussed what volcanos we have learnt about in year 3. The children were very keen to use their reflectiveness skills to reflect on their Literacy lessons and remembered Mount Vesuvius from our book, Escape from Pompeii. We then explored the features of Earth and the different layers that Earth is made up of. Excitingly, the children used play dough to create a 3D structure of Earth and labelled the different layers (core, mantle and crust). 

Then, we moved on to exploring the features of a volcano. The children looked at two different types of volcanoes, composite and shield volcanoes. We discussed tectonic plates and how they can cause volcanic eruptions. As their task, the children then labelled the different features of a volcano. 

'We also learnt about Mount Tambora!' - Ayaan 

'The core is at the centre.' - Georgia

'The crust is the part we can see!' - Sophie

Year 3's VR workshop!

 Year 3 enjoyed an amazing VR workshop today! 

In Geography, they have been learning all about Europe and in the VR workshop, they were able to travel around the world to see fascinating sights such as the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and the Great Wall of China! 

The children took it in turns to use the VR headset and then they answered questions about what they saw. They used their reflectiveness skills to reflect on what we have been learning about and answered questions such as 'What continent was the landmark in?' and 'What country was the landmark in?'. 

'I could see Central Park in New York!' - Lemar 

'I enjoyed seeing all of the different sights!' - Hope

'I could see the Eiffel Tower! It was amazing!' - Georgia 

Locating Landmarks!

 

Earlier this week, the Year 3 children had to use their very best  detective skills to locate different landmarks around the United Kingdom. 

The children worked in groups using different sources to find out information about landmarks all around the Country.

They then had to find interesting facts about the landmarks using their sources before presenting them to their peers.

What great reciprocity skills you all used this week, well done Year 3!

"The Angel of the North weighed 208 tonnes." - Gabi

"Big Ben is located in London." - Ayaan 

"Stonehenge is 5000 years old!" - Pragya 

Year 3's Wonderful Walk

 

On Wednesday, Year 3 went on our local walk around Harold Hill, looking for human and physical features to link with our Geography topic.

The children had to draw on their resourcefulness skills to find their way from the school, past all of the landmarks on their maps and back, all whilst ticking of any features that they saw on their route!

Despite the chilly weather, we all had a great time linking our learning to our local community.

Broadford Primary School is a human feature - Abdulkarim

We saw lots of human features in Harold Hill - Camila

The park could have both human and physical features - Zuriel 

Aldi is a human feature as humans have built it - Sahir

Year 3 Geography Walk Reminder

      We're going on a geography hunt!

As part of our Geography topic this half term, on the 30th March,  Year 3 will be going on a local walk around Harold Hill to locate and record physical and human features within our community.

The classes will be staggered and the times that they will leave the school are as follows:

Cedar - 9.30

Elm - 10.00

Cherry - 10.30

Could you please provide your child/ren with suitable clothing on the day. If it is raining the walk will still go ahead but your child/ren will require a raincoat and suitable footwear.

Thank you for your continued support

Year 3 Team

 

Year 4 Let's Navigate Trip - Photos available through the link!

Yesterday, year 4 took off from Broadford on their epic odyssey to explore the landmarks of London! The groups travelled by foot, bus, train, and tube to see many famous London buildings including Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, the Shard, Tower Bridge, City Hall, and Millennium Bridge.

The photos from Ash class can be found here, here, and here. Birch class's photos can be found here.

Both classes used their navigating skills to direct their groups successfully around the public transport of the capital, showing acute resourcefulness and maturity. All staff agreed that behaviour was impeccable as always from our year 4 students. Also, a special thank you must go to Ms Ayodola, Ms Porter, and Ms Sibanda for lending a helping hand on the day.

Have a well-earned rest, get those reading records signed, and come back ready for our last half term of year 4! :(

Miss you already,
Miss Daly, Mrs Stallard, Mr Nicol, and Mrs Spence

Volcanoes come alive in Year 3!

This week in year 3, the children were introduced to their new geography topic for the term: What makes the Earth angry? They looked at the components of a volcano and coloured in their own volcono, focussing on the magma inside its chamber and lava erupting out of the crater.

That was not all though! They were able to bring their volcanoes to life and see them as 3D images erupting in front of their eyes.

"It was so cool, we scanned the pictures of volcanoes that we had coloured in and we could make them erupt on the iPads!" Elliot, Sequoia

"I worked really well with my partner to make the volcanoes erupt on the iPad. I used reciprocity which is one of my learning powers!" Summer, Sequoia

"I found it weird seeing the drawing I had done basically come to life!" Bonnie, Hazel

An exciting start to your geography topic year 3 and I am sure you all looking forward to our trip to the Natural History Museum where we can learn even more about volcanoes!

Make sure to show your volcano coming to life to everyone at home!