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Year 3 - Whitebeam Class
17th - 22nd July. Our final week in Whitebeam and Year 3. We have filled the week with fun and games. We watched the House football final; well done all Whitebeamers that took part! We also enjoyed the Staff V Year 6 football match (in the rain!). It has been an absolute pleasure to teach you all this year, you have all been amazing! Have a fantastic summer and I will see you in September! Thank you for our wonderful gifts and cards. You are all very kind and will be missed.
Have you ever looked at the blue and white plates and wondered what the story is that inspired the design? We know! We read the Willow Pattern story and drew our own patterns on paper plates using the original as a guide.
PTA reward day!! We decided to have a movie afternoon and non-uniform day for our reward for winning the PTA competition ‘Grow a Tenner’. We started off with a quiz and then watched the Minions movie and filled up on popcorn and chocolate and strawberry milk...yum! Thank you PTA!
11th - 15th July. we kicked off the week by making our final DT project...a moving toy. We learnt about cams and levers and how they are used to move parts of a model. We designed our own toy and cut out the egg shaped cams to glue together with a handle to make our moving part move up and down.
We celebrated our amazing Rocks and Fossils projects this week by giving out certificates to everyone. The children also voted for their favourite two projects and the winners received special certificates and prizes. Congratulations Ferne for coming 1st, Ben 2nd and Luke 3rd. Great effort everyone!
4th - 8th July. We have tennis superstars in Whitebeam! Ferne won the Year 3 girls competition while Ben won the boys. Luke was a very proud runner up. Well done everyone that took park!
We had an amazing afternoon with Dean Jones, from Glorifico, this week. Dean brought lots of drumming instruments and we spent the afternoon making beats and drumming along to music. We thank the PTA for this as they gave each class some money to spend on a treat....and what a treat it was!
We had our Step Up afternoon this week, where we became Year 4 for a while! We spent time in our new classroom with Miss Johnston to get a feel for how Year 4 will be. We really loved it (although we will be really sad to leave Mrs Haines and Mrs Pippard! 😉).
In Maths, we created maps and wrote directions for Bee Bot to follow. It helped us with practising our right angles that we have been learning about in Maths. We all managed to get Bee Bot to the correct place!
In Geography, we wrote weather reports as part of our Brazil topic. We enjoyed sharing them with the rest of class as though we were real weather reporters!
27th - 1st July. Science projects! When we asked for the children to complete a project at home for their Summer homework on rocks and soils, I did not expect the absolutely amazing amount of hard work and research that went into them! Every single member of Whitebeam have completed an incredible project and I am super proud of each and every one of them for their hard work. We have presented our projects to each other and have voted for our favourites. Well done everyone!
It was the Summer Fair this week! The PTA set each class a challenge to make as much money as they could using £10. We made fudge and coconut ice to sell at the fair...we made £243! Thank you to all our lovely parents that bought some and to the lovely girls that helped to sell it at the fair.
We were looking at past tense words this week; we played a great game to practise!
We looked at the Year 4 Egyptian projects this week...they were all brilliant! We are going to start thinking about our project for when we are in Year 4!
27th - 1st July. We had a brilliant experience in the Science Dome this week. We learnt about Light and shadows.
We started our Brazil topic in Geography this week by looking at Brazil on a map and finding out which countries share a border.
We have done some experiments in Science this week to find out about properties of different rocks. It was interesting to see the rocks that float!
We had the Talent Show this afternoon...Clara won!! Everyone so was amazing; we are a talented bunch! Well done Mollie and Julie as well for entering.
13th - 17th June. We started off this week with a great performing arts workshop on The Lion King. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and worked really hard.
It was Sports Day this week! Everyone took part and did amazingly well, especially as it was so hot! Well done and thank you to the parents/grandparents/other family members that took part!
We all took part in making peppermint creams this week and making Father’s Day cards. It was very hard to stir the peppermint cream mixture in the end!
We enjoyed playing different sports this week to celebrate Global Games Day.
7th - 10th June. We hope everyone had a lovely half term and Jubilee celebrations! This week we enjoyed a visit from the Carnivals in Somerset Promotion Project. We learnt all about carnivals in Somerset and dressed up in carnival costumes. It was a great day; we are now ready to start our Brazil topic in Geography. Perhaps a school trip to the Rio carnival would be good?!
23rd - 27th May. It’s Jubilee Week! We have celebrated all week by linking the Jubilee and learning about Queen Elizabeth in our work. We have learnt lots about her! We answered questions about the Queen’s early life and coronation, we collected data for tally and bar charts about how many children have been born into the Royal Family and have created a timeline of royal events that took place during the 1980s as that was the decade that Year 3 studied on our Jubilee Day. In Dance, we danced to 80s pop legend Aha! We have made bunting to decorate the classroom and crowns to parade and to wear whilst we sang ‘God Save the Queen’, we have made beautiful butterfly brooches and swirly pin wheels. We have also made red, white and blue bracelets and created our own works of art in the style of Andy Warhol and his pop art that was popular during the late 80s. We spent some time watching the Coronation in 1953 and looked at what children got up to in the 80s. Some of us have never seen a tape player or music tape! The Mayor of Yeovil even came to visit us! We had a lovely Jubilee lunch with some of us enjoying a special menu created by the Kitchen Staff. To end our Jubilee Day, we finished the afternoon with a tea party, listened to 80s music and ate cake that the Kitchen staff made for us and drank tea...we remembered the golden rule and put up our pinkies for drinking tea! Everyone looked amazing in their red, white and blue clothes! We also have been given a lovely Jubilee mug each to take home. We will remember this day and the importance of this celebration for many years to come.
16th - 20th May. The 18th was our school trip! We visited the Somerset Earth Science Centre and Moon’s Hill Quarry in Stoke St Michael. We took part in different workshops about fossils and testing rocks to find out their properties and names, as well as actually being lucky enough to visit the quarry itself. The quarry was so loud! We had to wear hard hats, safety goggles and high-vis jackets. We watched trucks tipping their load into the crusher and watched as it all came out the other end. Some had to go back in again as the rocks were still too big! We learnt that the trucks are weighed as they go in and come out again to see how much their load weighs. We also watched as the trucks go to collect the rock they want for their company. The shovel scoops up piles of rock and tips it onto the back of the truck, the driver then toots his horn to let the truck driver know that his truck is full! Another highlight of the day was spotting a pair of Peregrine Falcons as they flew overhead towards their nest on the edge of the quarry.
Ruby, Iris and Clara headed off to Westfield School for the Masterchef final this week. Unfortunately they didn’t win, but they did ever so well and should be really proud of themselves! Their bakes looked and smelt amazing!
We have written letters to Bishop Michael, who will take up the post as the new Bishop of Bath and Wells in September. We hope he will find time to visit our amazing school when he is settled in his new role!
9th - 13th May. Congratulations Ruby, Iris and Clara who have won a space in the Masterchef Jubilee final! Ruby and Iris worked together and were crowned the class winner. The final will be held at Westfield School
In Science, we have been continuing to look at shadows and light. This week, we tried to make shadows bigger and smaller by moving the light source closer to the object and further away.
In Maths, we looked again at fractions. We spent some time ordering fractions with the same denominator. We also looked at equal fractions and learnt that the bigger the numerator, the bigger the fraction and the bigger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
2nd - 6th May. We held a cross country race today! We had to run around the field and the playground...it was a very warm day but everyone did really well. Congratulations to Iris who came 1st and Julie who came 2nd in the Year 3 girls race and Liam, who came 3rd in the boys race.
We have been learning about light and shadows in Science this half term. This week we used torches to create shadows and experimented with different types of materials to block the light to see how good the shadows were. We also used mirrors to see if we could see over a chair when we sat by it on the floor, like a periscope! We learnt that the light is reflected off the top mirror to the bottom mirror so we could see what was there.
25th - 29th April. In Maths this week we have been collecting data by counting the number of different plants and flowers on the field. We previously collected this data in the Spring term so it was interesting to see the two sets of results to compare.
We have spent time this week learning about shadows and how they are made. We went outside into the sun and made different shadows on the playground. We even tried to make letters of the alphabet shadows!
4 - 8th April. We had our Easter service where we shared the Easter story as well as poems and prayers. Our readers were amazing! We also said Goodbye to Reverend Ruth who is leaving us. It was very sad but we thank Ruth for all she has done for us. We also said Goodbye to Miss Mulvey who has finished her teaching placement in Year 3. She will be back though so it was just a goodbye for now! Miss Mulvey has been fantastic in our class and although she will be back in school, we’ll miss her in Whitebeam.
Congratulations Ruby for winning the ‘Design a cake’ competition!
Congratulations to all those who returned their Easter money bags!
We have been so busy this week with all of our Easter activities! We have made wreaths, cards nests with yummy chocolate eggs and boxes to put them in. We hope you loved your Easter cards!
28th - 2nd April. We had a great to start this week! The PTA organised for Marie from Animals2U Southwest to visit with some of her amazing animals! We met 7 year old Alexis, a corn snake, followed by a giant stick insect! We then laughed as Horatio, a ferret, was tucked inside Marie’s jacket and then came to smell our feet! Blue and Venus are Crested Geckos; they felt really soft and jumped onto some of our class members!
We have practised our cutting skills this week and made palm leaves to remind us about how Jesus walked into Jerusalem on a donkey. People waved palm branches to welcome him.
We enjoyed making photo frames using lolly sticks as part of our DT topic this week. We researched different frames and their stands and then designed and made our own.
We had a bit of snow today!!
21st - 25th March. We kicked off the week with a visit from Revered Ruth to talk to us about Holy Communion. Ruth brought us some Communion wafers for us to try!
We welcomed One Day Creative in to talk and teach us about the origins of the Muslim festival of Eid. We will be learning more about this topic next term as part of our RE curriculum. We listened to stories and did lots of role play activities.
We enjoyed making our wonderful Mums Mother’s Day cards! Thank you for all you...you have wonderful children!
14th - 18th March. Science Week! We have had so much fun with our mini experiments this week, we have learned so much! Here are the experiments we have done...can you explain how they work?
This is our new reading castle! We are aiming to climb the beanstalk and reach the castle by reading 3 times a week at home.
Geography this week saw us out in the sun, mapping out different countries and working out where they are in relation to other countries.
In Maths we have been learning about calendars and days of the week, months of this year and the number of days, weeks and months in a year.
7th - 11th March. Miss Mulvey helped us to make dragons this week. We have written a non-chronological report about our dragon as well.
We have been enjoying our coding lessons with Miss Roy this term.
It was time to disco! It has been so long since we have had a disco so it was great to get our dancing shoes out again! Congratulations Adam who was voted the best dancer in Year 3 by Mrs Mann!
28th Feb - 4th March. It was World Book Day this week! We had so much fun dressed as our favourite book character. We spent time on lovely activities and we even had a visit from Year 6 who listened to us read.
We have had the Book Fair this week. There were so many amazing books to choose from! We raised a lot of money for books for the school, thank you to everyone who bought a book! If you still have a book token, remember you can use it until the 27th March.
We celebrated Mardi Gras this week by colouring and making masks.
Yeovil Town Football Club have been with us again for our PE, we have been practising lots of different skills.
Friday 18th February Here are the activities for today; I have also set up a Teams call over on our Whitebeam Team if you'd like to join. Have a lovely half term!!
14th - 18th February. Meet our new Librarians for Whitebeam; Ruby and Iris! They are in charge of putting the cushions out ready for silent reading as well as putting the books away and tidying the bookshelf.
We have been learning about 2D shapes in Maths. We built shapes using straws which was tricky, but it helped us to understand how many edges and faces different shapes have.
Our play, ‘Puss in Boots’, was absolutely amazing! Thank you SO much to all wonderful parents for sorting costumes, practising songs and helping us to learn our lines. Thank you also to our amazing PTA for serving tea and coffee afterwards!
7th - 11th February. We have been learning about Time in Maths! Sometimes it is really tricky so lots of practise at home is really helpful!
The 8th of February was ‘Safer Internet Day’. We looked at different activities about how to keep ourselves safe when we are online. Year 6 came and did a quiz for us, it was lots of fun!
Our Science topic this term is ‘Plant Life’. We checked our cress that we planted last week...it has grown so much! We also investigated how water is taken through plants. We put flowers into water with food colouring and predicted what we thought would happen. Some of us thought that the flowers would die because they can’t drink water with food colouring in. Some of us predicted that the flowers would change colour. Do you know what actually happened?
A huge ‘Thank you’ to our amazing PTA for treating us all to a delicious ice cream!
Congratulations Iris for winning the Team Point cup on behalf of Fiennes! Iris won for being a great team player and working so hard.
As part of our Mental Health Week work, we painted wooden circles to remind us of our feelings. Miss Roy put the circles together from all classes to make a lovely ‘Feelings Tree’ for the school grounds.
Congratulations Clara for coming 1st in the ‘Design a Football Boot’ competition! Harry came 3rd!
31st Jan - 4th Feb It was Mental Health Week this week. We have been learning about how to keep ourselves calm and safe. The theme was ‘Growing Together’ so we planted sunflower seeds to nurture and grow.
It was Number Day today! As we have been working so hard in Maths, we thought we would set a challenge for Year 6. They did really well, but it did make them think!
Well done Iris and Ruby for amazing results at the cross country!
In Science, we have been learning how plants grow. We have planted some cress seeds to see how well they grow.
This week we have been learning about Venn and Carroll Diagrams in Maths. We have been sorting all kinds of things...children’s names, sports, animals to name a few.
24th January 2022 - 28th January 2022. This week we have been learning how to draw and use pictograms, tally charts and bar charts. We collected data by looking at how many different plants we could find outside and then put the results into a tally chart which we then transferred onto a bar chart. To finish the week off, we answered questions using our data.
We have YTFC in for our PE sessions at the moment. Today we practised our passing skills!
17th - 21st January 2022 this week we have been learning how to read scales and weigh different objects. We felt how heavy different weights are (g and kg) and compared them to objects which we then weighed. We finished that off by putting our results into a table.
It was World Religion Day this week. We talked about the importance of having respect for other people’s faith and how everybody is entitled to their own beliefs. We did some writing and drew an image to help remind us that everyone is equal and loved by their God.
We also looked at how to use dictionaries this week. We looked up different words and found their definitions.
5th January 2022 - 14th January 2022 Welcome back and Happy New Year! This week we have been thinking about our amazing world and all the beautiful colours that God has given us in our natural world. We went outside and found as many natural, colourful things as we could. We drew all the things we find amazing on a palette and thought about why we love them so much.
We enjoyed an ‘Engineering Fairy Tales’ workshop today! We had to work in teams to create a free standing tower out of paper and had to create an escape route for Rapunzel to escape from her tower! We ended with a lovely certificate each to remember our morning.
Week 14...it’s Christmas Week! One of the most special activities to do at Christmas is make Christingles. The children loved making them (and enjoyed eating the sweets!)
We have been so busy this week with all of our Christmas activities!
Christmas lunch!! It was so tasty and we enjoyed pulling our crackers!
We visited St James Church today for our cheer ice, led by Reverend Ruth. All the children spoke wonderfully well. They did us very proud.
What a surprise! We all received a letter from Father Christmas today!
We enjoyed a Christmas party today to end our Autumn Term with a bang! We’ve all worked so hard that it was nice to do some dancing to celebrate! We played Pass the Parcel as well. Each layer of paper had a question or action that we had to do; it was lots of fun!
To end our wonderful Christmas week, we had a visit from Father Christmas who gave us some fabulous gifts for wet and rainy days.
Week 13. We have been busy making French Christmas cards...Joyeux Noel!
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Pantomime...Thank you PTA for allowing us to have this very special day!
Week 12. We started off the week with a letter from Father Christmas! Mrs Claus also gave us a bottle of special dust to help us work really hard!
In Geography we looked at interesting maps that showed us what Yeovil looks like now, in the 1950s and the 1890s. We found lots of changes in the land use.
We have had fun in PE this week. We spent time brushing up on our passing skills and played some games where one person had to try and intercept the ball as it was being passed.
Week 11 We love French! We also love singing in French! This is our ‘Hello’ song!
We have been looking at the story of Little Red Riding Hood this week. In groups, we each had a section and put actions to it to help us remember the story.
We learnt about QR codes in Computing this week! Do you know when the first QR code was introduced?
Week 10. We have been thinking about different types of packaging in DT and started to design our own Christmas box. They are going to look amazing!
It was Odd Socks Day this week to mark the start of Anti Bullying Week. We talked about spreading kindness and celebrating what makes us unique.
We finished off the week by dressing up for Children in Need. We raised lots of money help children all across the UK; thank you for your generous donations!
Week 9 In Science this week we have been learning about friction. We carried out an investigation to see which surface created more friction by rolling a car down a variety of different surfaces and then measured how far the car travelled. We used: tin foil, wax paper, plain board, sand paper, carpet and Lino. Can you predict which created the least amount of friction to send the car travelling the furthest?
We visited Reverend Ruth at St James Church this week. Ruth taught us about baptism by leading us through a Baptism service...Mila was a great volunteer and had the sign of the cross on her forehead and even pretended to have the blessed water put onto her head!
In our PE session this week we designed our own activity to help us with our throwing and catching skills. We all had a go at each other’s activities...it was great fun!
Autumn 2nd Half Week 8. We kicked off the second half of the Autumn Term learning about pushing and pulling forces in Science. We demonstrate an action and the class tried to guess if it was a pushing or pulling force.
In Dance we have been learning the Cha Cha Cha!
Well done Arianna for winning Miss Roy’s raffle ticket treat!
Week 7. School trip week! We visited Dorset Museum where we learnt more about the Romans to end our Roman topic in History. We even visited a Roman townhouse! It was amazing to see the structure and learn about how they lived!
We have been learning about conjunctions and using them in sentences. We played a great game where we scored points for using different conjunctions in a sentence. Can you use any in a sentence?
We spent some time learning about Black History Month and people that did and do amazing things.
Week 6. We have been busy learning about Roman Gods this week. We picked one to research using the iPads.
Playtime fun!
Practising our throwing and aiming skills in PE!
Hello Yellow! We enjoyed wearing yellow to school and thinking about mental health and how to keep ourselves happy and safe.
Well done, Mollie, for being very brave and reading a poem in our Harvest festival this year! Thank you to all our wonderful parents for donating items of food for the Lord’s Larder, it is very much appreciated.
Congratulations to our Wonka bar winners for writing fantastic adverts for a product! The children could choose to write about Cookie Crisp cereal, a multi tool pen or a paper aeroplane kit. They were all amazing so it was very hard to choose winners (everyone did get a prize though because all the children worked so hard!)
Week 5. We have been busy this week learning about Hadrian’s wall and why it was built. We looked at a letter written to a soldier called Felix from his mother asking him about the wall and his job of building it. We wrote replies to her to answer her questions. Did you know that it took 16 years to build?!
Well done Iris for coming 10th in the Year 2/3 Girl’s cross country race!
Week 4. Our Science work this week included learning about different skeleton types and which animals have which skeleton.
PE! We have been practising our throwing and catching skills.
Week 3. It was European Day of Languages so we enjoyed some time thinking about different languages and designed our own Language Tree.
Dance
We enjoyed rocking out with Mrs Hill in our Dance lesson! Look at our moves!
Music
We performed a great song with Miss Roy in Music today. We used different instruments which was lots of fun!
We have stepped into Willy Wonka’s shoes today to design our own chocolate bar. Of course, we needed to try different chocolates to help with our designing! We then made a list of wonderful adjectives to describe each tasty treat. Yummy!
We had a presentation from Jo and Holly, from our School Nurse team, about the importance of keeping our bodies safe. We enjoyed designing our own pants and singing the Pantosaurus song!
Week 3. It’s Art Week! We have been mixing our artwork with maths this week and have created some fantastic symmetrical pictures. The Taj Mahal was really tricky so we needed to concentrate hard.
In Art, we were looking at relationships between people and animals in images. We chose to copy a picture of a lady and her lovely dog!
Week 2. In Maths we were learning how to represent numbers in different ways...here we are trying out tens frames and place value counters.
Welcome to Whitebeam! We have settled in so well and are ready to do great things and have amazing experiences in Year 3! Here is a photo of us on our first day...it was very sunny!
