Year Three Blog

Today, we all had a great time learning how to read music!  We put our new skills to the test, by playing some tunes on the recorder.  Finally, we played along to a pop song, using the new notes that we had practised!

This week we investigated which forces need contact between two objects.  We found that many contact forces were in action on the playground.  Non-contact forces, like magnetic force, can act at a distance.

This week, we have been getting creative as poets and artists.  We gathered inspiration for our poems from 'Someone', by Robert Louis Stevenson.  Using paint on polystyrene tiles, we created bold prints to accompany our poems.  

Last week, we enjoyed a wonderful day, full of fabulous Viking activities.  We did some weaving, created Thor's hammer amulets from clay, baked delicious Viking bread and performed a Viking fashion show with the shields and jewellery which we made.  After a hard day of work we ate our freshly…

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,…