Can you guess from the pictures of our classroom, which book Year 3 Birch is reading this half term? We are thoroughly enjoying reading this book in our daily class reading time. Well done to all the children who won a ‘Wonka’s Golden Ticket’ for reading every night this week. Read more
A fantastic first day back for Year 3 Birch. Our topic for this half term is ‘Scrumdidlyumptious’ in which we will be learning all about food. To engage us in this topic, we spent our 1st lesson food tasting. We tried a variety of fruits and vegetables and discussed with Read more
Over the last couple of weeks Year 3 have been learning parts of the body in French. To help us with his we have been singing and dancing along to the French head, shoulders knees and toes and to Jean petit qui danse.
Yesterday was World Mental Health awareness day. At St Luke’s, supporting good mental health and wellbeing is very important. Today the whole school took part in various sessions to celebrate this day. As part of this, all KS2 took part in a live lesson from BBC teach linked with TES. Read more
This morning, year 3 Birch visited Heywood library. We spent time reading books and then each chose a book to bring back to class for our free reading time. We are looking forward to visiting again.
This afternoon Year 3 were discovering what early humans used to eat. As we have discussed as a class, there is no written evidence of the Stone Age so we thought about how we could possibly find out what somebody had eaten. Year 3 guessed correctly. We had to look Read more
As part of our Stoneage topic, we have been learning all about the famous monument Stonehenge. We talked about why it would have been so difficult to build all those years ago and what it is believed to have been used for. We then took a 360 degree, virtual tour Read more
Wow! What a fantastic, fun week we have had with our Topic this week. We learnt all about archaeologists and how they help us to understand pre-history. We then became archaeologists ourselves and discover Stone Age artefacts. We have also been learning about Stone Age cave paintings and used our Read more
What a fantastic first full week we had in Year 3 Birch. Miss Lomax is really pleased with how well the class has settled in and how hard they are working. During this week, as part of our spelling and grammar lesson, we had lots of fun learning Kung Fu Read more
As it is our last week in school and the sun has been shining, we decided to spend part of our afternoon up in Kaden’s garden. We had fun exploring the new plants, checking on our crops and watching the wildlife, spotting lots of frogs and tadpoles and watching the Read more