Category: Year Three Blog

We had a fabulous time on our visit to the Jorvik Viking Centre in York.  We took a journey through a reconstruction of Viking-Age streets and experienced life as it would have been in 10th century York.
At 'The Dig' we went on our own archaeological adventure - we felt just like real…

This week, Lucas, from Wellness Kickstart, came in to work with us during PE.  We worked on fitness core skills, such as speed, agility and flexibility.  In addition, we considered how sleep and diet are important factors in living a healthy lifestyle.

Today we were visited by Natwest's Community Banker, Chris.  We talked about how to be responsible users of ICT, to develop a better understanding of internet safety.

Today we worked extremely hard to improve our handwriting.  

Viking Berserkers (or berserks) were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which led to the modern English word 'berserk'.  Today during Art, we drew our own crazy Berserkers.  They are absolutely fantastic and we can't wait to name them next week!

Today we used dictionaries to find words and to improve our understanding of the text that we are studying.  We are getting so much better at locating words in the dictionary.   

Today we discovered that the Vikings thought that their alphabet was made up of more than letters.  They believed each letter, or rune, had magical powers.  During art, we had a go at writing our own names in runes.  

A special visitor joined our assembly on Monday morning.  Roary - the Boro mascott -  came to school to say a BIG WELL DONE to all of the children who have got 100% attendance so far this year!  Two lucky pupils will each win a pair of tickets for an upcoming Boro match.  In addition to this,…

We have made a super start to our new topic for the Spring Term.  We recorded what we think we already know about the Vikings as well as thinking of some questions about what we would like to find out.

Take a look at our amazing work from last term.  I was so impressed by the children's enthusiasm and the effort that they all put into making their work look brilliant.