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Year 3 - Whitebeam Class
27th - 31st March. This week is the final week of the Spring term...what a busy term we have had! Have a wonderful, restful Easter holiday!
We finished our Art topic by creating our abstract sculptures using recycled materials. We glued, cut, and folded sections together to make playground equipment.
We had our Easter service this week, with Rev. Keen. Well done to all the children who read, you were amazing!
20th - 24th March. Crazy Scientist Day!! We dressed up as crazy scientists and spent the day doing experiments...it was so much fun!
Rev. Keen came to visit to talk to us about Holy Communion and Easter. He gave us some bread to share.
We had a Fizz Pop Science workshop where we made slime!
13th - 17th March. We kicked off Science Week with a BBC live lesson on forces.
We visited the Science Dome today! We learnt about light and shadow, and how to separate light. it was so interesting!
Mrs Chambers organised a Science Fair for Science Week. Well done Ivy for coming 2nd and Ariana for coming 3rd. Also well done to Poppy B, Ava and Lexi for making a project. It was so much fun seeing all of the projects and experiments.
In DT this week we made our moving monsters, using a pneumatic system...blowing into a tube to blow up a balloon! We had lots of fun!
6th - 10th March. Our Science was very cool this week...we used mirrors to reflect beams of light. In the dark, it looked amazing! We used 3 mirrors to reflect the light into a zigzag. We also learnt about how to keep ourselves safe in the sun and designed leaflets to give information to others.
In Music, we practised our melodies that we wrote using the pentatonic scale. They were so good! We learnt a Chinese song and played along with that as well.
After researching pneumatic systems last week in DT, this week we looked at ‘exploding diagrams’ and thumbnail sketches to design our monster. We are looking forward to making them next week!
In English, we designed our own dragon! We then wrote about it in a non-chronological report.
In Art, we used our cereal box to create free standing sculptures by thinking about shapes in sculpture. We didn’t use glue or sellotape to keep our structures standing!
27th February - 3rd March. Another busy week! It was World Book Day this week which we celebrated by dressing up as our favourite book character. There was a wide range of characters, which was amazing to see so a big, big thank you to our wonderful parents for helping to organise costumes! We spent the day reading stories and sharing our favourite books and characters. We described the character we were dressed up as in English and even managed to talk about it as part of our Year 3 assembly on the subject of ‘Wisdom’. We had a visit from author, Tom McLaughlin, who shared some stories and showed us how he draws his amazing pictures. We did a live lesson on the BBC which was also lots of fun.
We started our DT topic this week. We researched pneumatic systems in preparation for making a moving monster toy!
In Computing, we learnt about coding and making icons move. We typed our name and changed the colour, added sounds and movement.
As part of Music, we learnt about the pentatonic scale and played along with music to play the notes A, B, C, D, E and G. We then wrote our own melody to practise and play next week.
20th - 24th February. Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely half term. We have had such a busy week! In English, we refreshed our knowledge about contractions and how and where to use apostrophes. We also wrote recounts about our half term holidays.
It was World Mother Language Day this week. Our amazing Language Ambassadors set up activities for us to enjoy. We played games, looked at comics, did colouring, wrote in different languages and even used sand to help us! It was so much fun. Oliwia, our class Language Ambassador, was amazing!
Pancake Day! Are you giving up anything for Lent?!
In Music, we have been learning about earcons (short, catchy sounds) and emoticons (smiley faces) and how they are used in computing. We had to listen to different earcons to see if we could recognise them and played games to order them. The emoticons song was fun, we had to show different emotions whilst singing! We also tried to think of different ringtones for mobile phones.
Disco!! With massive thanks to our wonderful PTA, we were able to get out our best dance moves and bop the night away at our annual spring disco!
6th February - 10th February. We performed our play this week! We have been practising so hard this half term to learn our lines and songs. Thank you so much to all our amazing parents who helped learn lines and for finding costumes for us! Thank you to the PTA for organising tea and coffee for the parents, thank you to the parents for donating your money for your refreshments. The children were amazing and we are so proud of you all!
Wellbeing Challenge! Well done to all the children who took part in the challenged and taught themselves something new this half term!
It was Internet Safety Day this week. We did an online lesson where we designed a new character for the Digital Leader Squad, we designed an internet safety poster and thought about how it is so important to keep ourselves safe we we are online.
In English, we have been looking at nonsense poetry like ‘Ning Nang Nong’ and ‘One Old Oxford Ox’. We wrote and performed our own poems using alliteration...it was lots of fun!
30th January - 3rd February. We have been working with bar charts this week in Maths. We have created tally charts using information about our favourite animal and turned the data into a bar chart.
In English, we have been writing balanced arguments about whether or not we think Robin Hood is a hero. We had differing views and enjoyed giving our reasons for and against!
We shared the parable of The Good Samaritan and discussed what we thought the story was teaching us. We decided that everyone should help each other, even if they do not like each other.
23rd January - 27th January. In Science this week, we have been learning about how plants take in water. We did an experiment to find out if we could see how water goes into a flower. We put flowers into different colours of water, coloured using food colouring, and waited to see what would happen. The flowers changed colour! The water went right up to the petals and tinged the petals around the edges with the colour of the water they were in.
Thank you so much for helping your child to make their square for the quilt project....they all look amazing!
In Music this week, we have been learning about metre. We listened to a piece of music and played along.
16th - 20th January. We started the week with a lovely assembly led by our prefects. They reminded us how wonderful our school is and how our pupils are also all amazing!
In Maths, we have been practising telling the time and thinking about how long it takes to do a certain activity. This week, we estimated how long it would take groups of children to do different exercises. We then timed them and looked to see how close we were with our estimate.
In French, we have been learning about body parts and how to say their names in French. We play games to help us learn and remember!
It snowed this week! It was so much fun, but it did mean that we couldn’t go outside as the playground was too icy. So, we played lots of games and had fun during playtime inside.
4th - 13th. We have had a great first week back. We celebrated World Religion Day this week. We learnt about different faiths and how we should all respect each other’s faiths. Rishona talked to us about how her faith is important to her. Sam, Rocco, Jasper, Ava-Grace, Millie, Lucas and Eddie talked to us about how they celebrate their faith and what they do when they go to church.
Welcome back!! We hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year and are raring to get your teeth into the Spring Term!
12th - 16th December. Congratulations Ivy who came 2nd in the Trust Christmas card competition! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and time to spend with your family XX
It was pantomime time this week! Oh no it wasn’t...oh yes it was! Thank you so much to our amazing PTA for paying for us all to go on this fabulous treat again this year. Dick Whittington was so much fun!
In DT we researched packaging and then designed and made our own Christmas box to hold yummy Christmas chocolates!
We made Christingles as part of our Christmas celebrations. Do you know what each part represents? We also made stained glass crosses, Christmas cards and 2023 calendars as part of our crafts for Christmas.
We enjoyed disco dancing for our last Dance lesson before Christmas!
5th - 9th December. Christmas lunch! It was so tasty and we loved having crackers to pull with our friends!
In Geography, we have been learning about the UK and land use within the UK and Yeovil. We looked at a website that shows photos of Yeovil ‘then and now’. It was really interesting to see how buildings and land use has changed over the years.
Father Christmas came to visit! We had lovely games for the classroom.
28th - 2nd December. We had a cheese tasting session for Maths! We tried a variety of different types of cheese and voted for our favourite. We then created a tally chart to show the results. The most favourite was Red Leicester and the least favourite was mature cheddar.
We experimented this week with paper clips and magnets. We predicted how many paper clips would be picked up by different magnets and then counted to see which was the strongest and weakest. The strongest magnet was the wand and the weakest was the ring magnet.
21st - 25th November. It was our turn to lead class assembly this week. We used the Christian value of Hope.
We conducted an investigation in Science this week. We have been learning about friction and so predicted which surface would slow a car down the most by creating the most friction.
We spent time playing with magnets this week as we have been learning about the words ‘repel’ and ‘attract’. Do you know what those words mean?
14th - 18th November. This week we visited St James’s Church to see Rev. Keen. Rev. keen told us all about baptism by showing us a baptism service. It was really interesting...Millie was baptised (pretend!) and we had Godparents as well!
We visited the Dorset Museum this week to finish our Romans topic in History. It was so interesting; we looked at mosaics and how to put on a toga. We became archaeologists and dug up Roman artefacts. We even visited the Roman townhouse; it was amazing to be able to step into a real Roman townhouse and see the remains of the walls and mosaics.
A big ‘Thank you’ and well done to Rishona for being brave and telling us all about her faith and the beautiful clothes she wears!
Congratulations to all children who took part in the Year 3 cross country race! Well Jess who came 1st for the girls, Bernie who came 2nd and Lucas who came 3rd for the boys.
It was Odd Socks Day today to raise awareness for Anti Bullying Week.
7th - 11th November. It was Remembrance Day this week, the 11th day of the 11th month. We spent the day thinking about all the people who have fought in wars for our country. We have created poppies from tissue paper and made poppy lanterns and poppies kept together with a split pin. We did our 2 minutes silence on the playground at 11am and listened to poems and prayers. We even heard the siren from Leonardo’s signalling the start and end of the silence. What a lovely day!
We had a really exciting morning this morning! We had an ‘Engineering Fairytales’ workshop with BAE Systems. We thought about what an engineer looks like and the type of qualities you need to have if you want to be an engineer. In pairs, we had to try and make the tallest tower we could just out of paper and masking tape! What a challenge! We then listened to the story of Rapunzel and had to design and make a device to help Rapunzel escape from her tower! It was hard as we had a limited amount of equipment and materials to use, but most of us managed it!
In Science, we experimented with magnetic materials. We predicted which objects would attract or not attract a magnet and then tested our predictions.
We linked RE with Art this week. We thought about the bible story of Jesus being baptised by John in the River Jordan. We looked at paintings that portray the story and the important parts of it: a dove, the water and the voice of God. We then created our own oil pastel pictures to show the story.
31st - 4th November. We hope you have had a restful half term. In Science, we have started our new topic, Magnets and Forces. We started this week by thinking about push and pull forces.
Formal multiplication this week in Maths! We have had to use our times tables knowledge this week!
In English, we have been practising our editing skills. We have been reading a piece of writing and had to find all the mistakes...a bit like being the teacher for a lesson!
17th - 21st October. In English, we have been writing instructions to make a ‘Dream Jar’ from the BFG by Roald Dahl. We have written our own instructions and followed them to make our very own beautiful Dream Jar!
We learnt all about Julius Caesar in History this week. We found out that Caesar was a Roman general who played an important role in the birth of the Roman Empire.
In Maths, we have moved on to learning how to complete subtraction calculations using column subtraction. It was hard, but we got there in the end!
10th - 14th October. We have been street surfing! Premier Sports came and taught us how to street surf...it was really tricky to stay on the board and move at the same time!
As part of our Romans topic, we spent time this week learning about why the Baths were so important to the Romans. We learnt about the different rooms and areas the Baths had.
Hello Yellow!
3rd - 7th October. We kicked off the week with our Harvest celebration assembly. Thank you so much to everyone that donated items for our display. They will all be donated to The Lord’s Larder. A big well done to the children who read poems as part of our assemby; you were fantastic!
We have been practising our estimating and measuring skills in Maths this week. We have been looking at different objects and parts of the classroom to estimate and then measure.
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We really love our Dance lessons with Mrs Hill! Here is a dance we have been working on...
We were really lucky to take part in a poetry workshop. We had to create our own animal poem, it was a lot of fun!
In Science, we have been learning about our muscles and how they work together. We made a model of a muscle by cutting out a hand shape, sticking straws on and threading string through the straws. When you pull on the string, it pulls the fingers down to show how the muscles work.
26th - 30th September. Congratulations Chloe for winning the class cup!
It’s Art Week! We have spent the week doing symmetry in Maths, following Quentin Blake’s videos on how to draw Willy Wonka and Matilda, creating drawings of places that give us a sense of ‘sanctuary’ as well as making mosaics of fossils. It was lovely to have artists in to visit; Carolyn set us the fossil activity.
Millie, Jess, James and Ivy enjoyed a Science workshop this week. They discovered the world of forensic science and crime scene investigation!
In Science we have been learning about the different skeletons that animals have. Do you know what an animal that has no skeleton is called?
Our Language Ambassadors came to see us today to read stories in their first language, they were really interesting.
French...’Quel ãge as-tu?’ We have been practising how to ask how old you are and to reply with our age...’J’ai ?? ans!’
19th - 23rd September. Congratulations Noah for winning the class cup!
Chocolate! We tasted different kinds of chocolate in English this week as we designed our own brand new chocolate bar! We then wrote descriptions of our chocolate bar...they sounded yummy!
Marie from Animals2USouthwest came to see us with her pets! We are learning about animals in Science and so she told us all about the skeletons and diet of her snake, Prince, her millipedes, Billy and Millie, her geckos, Blue and Venus and her rats, Twix and Wispa.
12th - 16th September. Congratulations to Jess for winning the Class cup and Millie for winning the Team Point cup!
English has been interesting this week. We have been looking at information texts and thinking about the different features they use to present information.
In Maths we have been dusting off our place value knowledge. We thought about different numbers and how they are made up using thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We then used place value counters to make different numbers and completed activity sheets to show how to represent some numbers in different ways.
We have been busy in Science this week, learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We sorted pictures of different animals into each group. Do you know what each one means?
5th - 9th September. Each week, a class in KS2 is going to lead Collective Worship for the rest of the Key Stage. We led the first Worship (just to show the other classes how it’s done properly 😉). We used the Christian Value of Friendship and spoke about what a good friend is and what a good friend can do for you. Some children read the bible story of Jesus choosing his Disciples as we know they were great friends of Jesus and supported him throughout his work. Well done everyone, you did a fantastic job!
Maths made our brains work this week! We have been practising place value and how to write numbers as words. We ended the week with word problems!
We have filled the first week with getting to know new routines and getting to grips with life as a Year 3! We started our Romans topic in History by learning about the story of Romulus and Remus and how Rome began.
Welcome to Whitebeam! We hope you have had a wonderful summer and are ready for Year 3! The children all look very smart in their uniforms and have come in with big smiles and chatter about their holidays.
