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!

Ash- Star Writer! 05.01.18

In Ash class, our star writer for this week is Charlie Marshall!

Charlie has shared his fantastic ideas about whether zoos should be banned with the class. He has produced some amazing writing with his partner (Jessica) this week using 3rd person and present tense. Charlie has also shown his reflectiveness skills by carefully planning his work.

Well done Charlie, you are a super star! Keep up the excellent work!

I can't wait to read more of your writing, Miss Daly :)

Year 4 - Learning Challenge

Year 4 - Curriculum Newsletter

Year 4's Spellings W/C 02.01.18

Please find below Year 4's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise every night so that they are prepared for their test on Friday.

Miss Daly and Mr Nicol :)

Year 3's Learning Challenge - Spring 1

We are delighted to provide you with the Year 3 Learning Challenge for this half of the Spring Term.

This learning challenge, among other things, gives the children the opportunity to explore their new scientific topic in more detail by learning all about a significant scientist in the field of “light” (Sir Isaac Newton). It is entirely up to your child whether they select the poem, significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to be ambitious and to deepen their learning as much as possible. 

Although the Learning Challenge is entirely optional, and is in addition to the daily expectation of 15 minutes’ reading, 15 minutes’ times tables rehearsal and 15 minutes’ spellings practice, we have found that a large proportion of children have voluntarily taken up the challenge and have gained a great deal from it. We would therefore greatly appreciate your encouragement to participate. The children will receive a special Learning Challenge certificate at the end of the half term on completion of a project that shows a significant level of effort and challenge undertaken.

Should you have any problems regarding this, or any other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support, and look forward to working with you this academic year.

Year 3 topics this half term:

Science – Light

Topic - Volcanoes & Earthquakes

Literacy – Science Fiction

Year 3's Spellings W/C 01.01.18

Happy New Year from the Year 3 team! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Please find below Year 3's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise every night so that they are prepared for their test on Friday.