This week we have started our new topic ‘Gods and Mortals’. In our lessons over this half term we will be learning lots about Ancient Greece. In our first lesson we learnt about Ancient Greek vases and how to paint them and sunset backgrounds using watercolours.
This half term we have been reading the book friend or foe. The story is about two boys, who are evacuated from London in world war 2. To help improve our writing, children experienced what it would be like to be a child during world war 2. Children had to Read more…
Oh no! Miss Smith has caught the plague. It’s up to year 5 to save her. We experimented with different medicines from medieval times to try and conquer the nasty yersinia pestis (the bacteria that causes the plague) here are pictures of our experiment.
Everyone has been working really hard this week to make some lovely poppies to add to our field. The children really enjoyed making them and learning all about the importance of Remembrance Day.
We made Iron Age Hill Forts for our Innovate part of our topic. We used our knowledge about the Iron Age to create our Iron Age Hill Fort. We then compared the Hill Fort to a Stone Age camp to see what the similarities and differences were. We used recycled materials to Read more…
This week we dissected the organic remains of Stone Age people to find out more about their diets.
We learnt more about the Bronze Age today. We looked at how bronze was made and what it was used for, and learnt how bronze age homes differed from the stone age. We then discussed how we could find out more about the diets of the Bronze Age people. We Read more…
We have been learning lots about prehistoric times in Year Three in our topic for this term – Tribal Tales. We conducted an archaeological dig to find artefacts about the past. We had to guess what they were and say whether we think they came from the Stone Age, Bronze Read more…
During our English lessons, we have been writing newspaper reports about air raids in London. We focused our reports on The Blitz bombings on London and spent a morning immersing ourselves in 1940s London. We came up with some thoughtful questions and gained lots of understanding of the events we Read more…
Year 3 have had a fantastic start to the school year. We have worked hard in English and Maths and been archaeoligists and cave men in topic.