This half-term the children have been reading ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roahl Dahl and re-writing their own versions using ‘The Write Stuff’. The children have watched clips of both the old and new film versions of the book to support their ideas before writing various sections such as Read more
This week the children have been learning how to divide 2-digit by 1-digit numbers. They have all worked really hard using partitioning to work out the answers. Today we moved on to learning about division with remainders. We used multi link cubes to help us share our numbers and find Read more
A fantastic start to the new year in Year 3. We began the week looking into our new topic titled ‘scrumdidlyumptious’. This is a topic based around food. We began the week by talking about the difference between fruits and vegetables and tasted various ones including, Lychee, Pineapple, Grapefruit, mushroom, Read more
We have had a fantastic week in Birch, completing lots of fun Christmas activities alongside Maths and English. We also had lots of fun in our Christmas party afternoon. Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas. See you in 2019
In science today, Year 3 planned and carried out experiments to test the permeability of various types of rock.
This week we have been having lots of fun and creating lots of mess making volcanoes ready for us to carry out explosion experiments next week.
This week we have written our own firework poems. We began the week in the immersive room watching a firework display and gathering vocabulary, we then looked at good examples of firework poetry highlighting the key features. We then wrote a poem in groups focussing on onomatopoeia before writing a Read more
This half-term in R.E, we have been looking at the topic of Harvest. We learnt all about how and why Christians celebrate Harvest and then looked how it is celebrated in other faiths. We looked in paticular at the Jewish festival of Sukkot and built our own Sukkahs.
We have been working really hard on addition and subtraction of 1-digit from and to 3-digit numbers. Today we used Base 10 to help support our understanding of exchange and re-grouping. Tomorrow we will be using this knowledge to help us understand column method addition and subtraction.
In our science lessons we are looking at seed dispersal. We took a trip to Queen’s Park to see what seeds we could find. We had lots of fun doing so!