Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

Today we had a fantastic Egyptian Workshop with Professor Tuesday. She taught us all about the different roles that people had, the different kingdoms of Ancient Egypt and, most excitingly, all about mummification. As you can see from out photos we all had a wonderful time and learnt…

Today we finished out Easter cards and wrote messages for our families inside. We are very proud of them!

Yesterday we went to The Museum of Lancaster to take part in a singing workshop with a class from our linked school in Preston, Sherwood Primary School.  We have sent and receive letters to our linked class and last week we met them on a Zoom call. We were really excited to meet them in REAL LIFE…

Today we had a very knowledgeable visitor - Professor Tuesday!  He told us all about life in Britain from the Stone Age to the present day.  We also had the chance to handle artefacts and to make an Iron Age burial barrow for a very rich and special Iron Age chief.  Can you spot her in the…

Our PE this week has been a bit different as we had a visit from ‘Go Velo’ and had the chance to develop our cycling skills. The rain stayed away and we had a great time showing lots of enthusiasm and resilience.

We are reading Stone Age Boy and today we acted out some of the scenes. As you see, we had lots of fun!!

We are learning about the role of archaeologists in our new history topic about prehistoric Britain. We found out that archaeologists often dig for clues about past civilisations. We decided to look for clues about the past by looking through the bins bags from the different classes in school. We…

Today we started our new topic which is the Stone Age to Iron Age in Britain. We created a timeline out of a toilet roll to show how incredibly long the period of prehistory (before written records) lasted. The Palaeolithic Stone Age period was by far the longest period we looked at. If each sheet…

We have been learning about how sedimentary rocks are formed. Today with Mrs Dowson in science we made food models to show the different layers found in sedimentary rocks. We really enjoyed tasting our creations at the end!

We are starting to learn about multiplication in maths and today we made arrays using different classroom objects to show the links between multiplication and repeated addition. It was good fun and we did lots of learning too! 
 

Happy Christmas from everyone in Year 3. Have a great holiday everyone!

Our finished boxes are all ready for our Christmas biscuits! Here are some of the finished products.