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Year 3 - Willow Class

Monday 22nd July 2024

Assembly

Today, Reverend Keen joined us for assembly. He shared the story about the ten people who had leprosy to remind us about the importance of gratitude.

Charmouth

Friday 12th July 2024

Geography Day

Today, we celebrated Geography Day. Year 3 were focussing on Guatemala. We all came into school wearing blue and white, we spent time researching interesting facts, locating the country in atlases and making Guatemala biscuits.

Thursday 11th July 2024

Library Assembly

Today, we learnt about the Summer Reading Challenge. The theme this year is Marvellous Makers and the challenge is to read 6 books in 6 weeks over the summer holidays!

Monday 8th July 2024

Westfield Music Performance

We were very lucky today as we got to see a fantastic performance by the children at Westfield school! A huge well done to all who performed!

Carnival Masks - Brazil Day 2024!

Brazilian Truffles - Brazil Day 2024

Friday 28th June 2024

Art
This half term, we have been researching Anglo-Saxon art. Today, we created our own piece of art inspired by Anglo-Saxon runes and patterns.

Thursday 27th June 2024

Year 4 Egyptian Projects

Today, we went to see the Year 4 Egyptian projects. We would like to say a huge well done to all the children for their fantastic effort!

Sports Day Treats!

Sports Day

Celebration Day Photos

Martial Arts

Friday 24th May 2024

Art - Anglo-Saxons

Today, we have designed a piece of work inspired by Anglo-Saxon art. We had a go at writing our names using Anglo-Saxon letters. Here are some fantastic examples by India, Jesse, Lyla and Emrys.

Petting Zoo

Monday 20th May 2024

English - Recount

Today, we wrote a recount of our trip to the Dorset Museum. We used some fantastic fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, ambitious vocabulary, paragraphs and a range of conjunctions. We wrote our recounts in chronological order so it would be easier for the reader to follow. Here are a few super examples:

Friday 17th May 2024

Art - Anglo-Saxon Patterns

Today, we began our new art topic. This term, we will be researching Anglo-Saxon patterns and art work. We looked some examples today before tried to create them ourselves.

Thursday 16th May 2024

Trip to Dorset Museum

Year 3 went on a fantastic trip to the Dorset Museum to consolidate our learning about Romans. We went digging for Roman artefacts, wore traditional Roman outfits and had a fascinating tour of the Roman Town House!

Dorset Museum Trip

DT - Structures

This half term, we have been looking at structures. We have designed a castle with key features to fit our product specification. We then constructed a range of 3D shapes using nets to build the castles. Today, we completed our final product. Please see photos below!

DT Castles

Friday 3rd May 2024

Maths - 3D shape

This week, we have been looking at 3D shapes and their properties. Today, we used nets to make our own 3D shapes.

Friday 3rd May 2024

Computing - Data and Information

This term, in Computing, we have been learning about branching databases. Today, we created our own branching data based using knowledge from our science topics!

Wednesday 1st May 2024

Parliament Assembly

For assembly, we were joined by Tom who came to teach us all about UK Parliament.

Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Science - Fossils

Today, we learnt about the process called fossilisation. We worked in partners to put the steps in order.

Friday 19th April 2024

Computing - Internet safety

For our first Computing lesson this term, we discussed online safety. We reminded ourselves of the rules of staying safe online and why it is important. Then, we used Scratch to create little animations. We programmed our sprites to say internet safety tips.

Thursday 18th April 2024

Geography - Brazil

This term, our Geography topic is Brazil! We began our topic today by using Goose Earth to find Brazil in South America.

Tuesday 16th April 2024

Welcome back!

A huge well done to all the children for a fantastic first day back!

Tuesday 26th March 2024

Year 4 Play

This morning, we went to watch Alice in Wonderland performed by the Year 4 children. We really enjoyed watching it and would like to say a huge well done to all the children!

Easter Service 2024

Friday 22nd March 2024

Computing

This half term, we have been programming. Today, we learnt how to add sound to our sprite.

Thursday 21st March 2024

Holy Communion

Reverend David Keen joined us for our RE lesson today. We discussed Holy Communion and why it is important to Christians. David explained what he would usually do during a service in the church.

Friday 15th March 2024

Red Nose Day

Today, we celebrated Red Nose Day. We designed our own fun and unique noses!

Outdoor Learning - Roman Numerals

World Book Day

Wednesday 6th March 2024

Book Fair!

Outdoor Learning Session One

Monday 19th February 2024

Welcome back!

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Monday 29th January 2024

Safer Internet Day Assembly

In school, we will be celebrating Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 6th February 2024. To prepare us for this day, the Digital Leaders lead an assembly to teach us about how and why people celebrate the day.

Monday 29th January 2024

English - Balanced Arguments

This week we are going to be looking at balanced arguments. We began today by reading a text about whether or not pupils should wear school uniforms. After reading the text, we spent some time identifying the key features.

Thursday 18th January 2024

English

This week, we wrote non-chronological reports about Yeovil. All the children wrote super reports! Here is a fantastic example by Aviana.

Tuesday 16th January 2024

Science

Today, we conducted an experiment to investigate how water is transported within plants. First, we cut the stems of the flowers to make sure they were all the same length and we measured out the water to ensure it was a fair test. We poured an equal amount of food colouring into each cup of water so that we are able to observe the water moving through the plant.

Science Experiment

Monday 15th January 2024

Geography - Europe

In Geography, we looked at maps of Europe. We used these to complete our own maps labelling the countries and their capital cities.

Monday 15th January 2024

Maths - Time

This week, we will be focussing on telling the time on an analogue clock. Today, we were telling the time in 5 minute intervals. Then, we played games to consolidate our learning.

Friday 5th January 2024

Welcome back!

Well done to all the children for a fantastic first week back at school!
Here are some examples of maths work from this week by Ruby and Erin.

Wednesday 3rd January 2024

Happy New Year!

Tuesday 12th December 2024

Christmas art

Thursday 7th December 2024

Christmas Dinner

Monday 4th December 2023

Panto in a day!

Friday 1st December 2023

Computing - Frame by Frame

In the previous lesson, we created our own flip book–style animations. In this lesson, we developed this knowledge, and applied it to make a stop-frame animation using a tablet.

Friday 1st December 2023

Art - Creating texture

Our art topic this term is Prehistoric painting. For our final piece, we are going to be doing cave style paintings on a textured background that we will design to look like a cave wall. To create the textured background, we glued lentils, bulgar wheat, couscous and sand to some strong cardboard. After that, we painted over the top using the natural paints we mixed earlier.

Friday 1st December 2023

Art - Prehistoric Palette

Today, we made our own paint using natural resources. To make the base of the paint, we used flour and water. Then, we added herbs, spices, coffee and charcoal to create different colours.

Thursday 30th November 2023

Computing - Can a picture move?

This lesson, we discussed whether or not a picture can move. We learnt about simple animation techniques and created our own animations in the style of flipbooks using sticky notes.

Thursday 30th November 2023

Geography - Land Use

This week, in geography, we looked at land use. We researched photos of Yeovil from the past and compared them to images of Yeovil today. We discovered that the cinema used to be a railway and The Entertainer used to be a hotel!

Tuesday 28th November 2023

Science

For our science this week, we completed an experiment to test the strength of different magnets.

Monday 27th November 2023

School Council Assembly

Friday 17th November 2023

Art

Today, we used charcoal to create our art work. We crumbled the charcoal into a dust. Using a paper towel, we spread this dust over our paper to create a textured look for the background. After that, using sticks of charcoal, we drew animals similar to the ones we practiced last week.

Children in Need 2023

Diwali Dance

Odd Socks Day 2023

Friday 10th November 2023

Art/ RE

Today, we created art work to portray the baptism of Jesus. We looked at some paintings and discussed the features they all shared. We made sure we represented these features in our own art work.

Thursday 9th November 2023

Geography

This week, we’ve been learning about counties. We used a map of the UK to help us locate different counties and label our maps.

Tuesday 7th November 2023

Science - Forces

Today, we were learning about magnetic materials. We learnt that all magnetic materials are made from a metal but we found that not all metals are magnetic. We used magnets to test different objects around the classroom.

Tuesday 7th November 2023

Remembrance Wreath

Tuesday 31st October 2023

RE - Baptism

Today, we visited St James’ Church and Reverend Keen taught us about what happens during a baptism ceremony. We learnt that the holy water is poured onto people’s heads as a symbol of them being cleansed and about the role of Grandparents. Reverend Keen showed us the special robes he has to wear during the ceremony. After that, we acted our a baptism ceremony.

Stone Age Day

Monday 16th October 2023

Art

Today, we learnt about how texture can be created and used to make art. We created different textures on paper by using a rubbing technique. Then, we tore the shape rubbings to create a final piece of art.

Friday 13th October 2023

Hello Yellow Day

Today, we celebrated World Mental Health Day. We spent the day dressed in yellow, doing mindfulness yoga/meditation and discussing what makes us special!

Hello Yellow!

Healthy Tarts

Tuesday 3rd October 2023

Science - Muscles

In Science, we have been learning about animals and humans. Our subject for this week was muscles. We discovered that muscles are attached to bones with tendons and they are needed to help us move. We made models of our hands using strings and straws to demonstrate muscles and tendons.