3GR

Class 3GR had a fun day during our writing enrichment day this week. We created a profile for a jungle animal, designing its habitat and write our very own story involving the animal. 

An amazing trip to the Tower of London brought together various topics whilst having a fun filled day! 

From exploring the Tower, to seeing the ravens and the Crown Jewels, as well as sliding into and exploring the Superbloom around the moat of the tower! 

It's obvious that the Year 3's are becoming more independent as we learnt about Road Safety this week, we went on a road safety walk to learn how to stay safe around the streets and roads.

3GR studied mirrors and reflections in science this week. We investigated how mirrors work and answered various statements to see if they were true or false.

We explored light in Science this week, understanding some basic facts and ensured we knew the misconceptions about light. 

We shone a torch onto a small box to show how the light is required to see and how it bounces around the box to enable us to see the items within it. 

We had a fantastic week and lots of fun during Science week.

We had a competition within class to see who could grow the tallest cress, created data based on the growth of children through the school before displaying it into an 'Art Attack' style bar chart, tried to create slime, and see who could grow theirs the longest by adding in extra chemicals and we also looked at the growth and spread of germs, seeing how many people we can into close contact with during a short spell.

The children had a fun packed Platinum Jubilee day - making various items, creating their own memorial plate, designing their own crown and playing some British garden games on the lawn too! 

3GR went on their local area walk this week, taking in the sights of Grays. 

We looked at the local area, taking a map layout of older than 100 years old and compared how it has changed over the last 130 years as well as considering reasons for why those changes had happened.

3GR continued on with their science topic of ‘plants’ 

This week we looked at roots. We learnt about the different types of roots and which flowers has those roots.

We continued to increase our knowledge of maps in Geography this week. 

We had time to explore atlases and discuss the features of the maps that help us to find out where places are. We shared our knowledge and showed how good at map reading we already are!

The children enjoyed the start of their geography topic this week (Our Local Area). We looked at a variety of maps and their purpose before drawing our own sketch maps of the school. Our own Geography lead, Miss Weller, was extremely impressed! 

We looked at our goals and targets for the rest of the year in PSHE this week. We had lots of fun exploring different targets, and setting our goals for the remaining months of Year 3! We worked in table groups, and wrote the different possible targets on post it notes before (gently) placing them on the stickman assigned to each table.

3GR were extremely excited to learn that a dragon had left their egg in year 3 over then weekend! 

We want to keep it so much that we’re writing a letter to the mother dragon asking if we can keep it! 

A Quarry Hill Dragon!!

The children are loving their soil investigations this half term!! 

We ensured we conducted a fair test to discover which was the most permeable soil. The children set up their experiments using water, soils, funnels, measuring cylinders and filter paper. 

This week in Science we had fun investigating different soils. We used our results from our investigation to decide whether the soil we were testing was clay, loam or sand. 

A big well done to our Star of the Week too!

We studied the different layers of soil in Science this week. Learning about the different layers, before creating our own edible soils in clear cups. (Yes we ate them afterwards!)

A huge well done to our fantastic star of the week too!

We mixed things up in English and incorporated music within our immersion lesson in order to give sounds to our story ‘The Stone Age Boy’

A busy week in year 3!
It started with Rev. Cathy who came to share with us, how and why Christians pray as we compared that with our knowledge on the prayer routines of other religions.

The week continued with our Stone Age to Iron Age Enrichment day workshop where the children explored various artefacts, went on an archeological dig, made clay pots and attended warrior school! 

3GR continued with making their pneumatic monsters as part of their DT project this week. They are coming along nicely!

3GR conducted a fun science experiment this week! We were investigating which rocks were igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic by testing their hardness and if they were permeable or not.

A standard Monday morning was thrown into chaos when we learnt aliens had landed! A foil covered room, along with the items inside it, followed by foil through the school (with green slime splattered in sections) allowed our imaginations to run wild, until the CCTV footage confirm it to be aliens. We incorporated this into our English topic this week, generating some amazing descriptive language and powerful verbs. 

This week we have had a fun science lesson, exploring how rocks are formed using compression and heat - ask the children to describe some of the outcomes to you!

Star of the week was Arisha because of her constant hard work and how she always follows the core values! 
Well done Arisha!

This week in 3G we started numerous new topics as we began the Spring term. The children enjoyed exploring and learning about different rocks in Science.

A festive time in Year 3 this week saw us have our Christmas Party - playing musical statues, musical bumps, Pass the parcel and pin the nose on Rudolph! 

All this and we even got to have some yummy treats as well!

Well done to all the children this term - we hope you have a lovely Christmas and look forward to seeing you all next year!

A very festive week saw Year 3 and 4 go to the church to learn more about Christmas, where we sang some carols and listened to readings about the story of the birth of Jesus.

The children enjoyed printing their Kenyan masks in art this week. They looked amazing!

3GR working hard on their Christmas carols for the upcoming church trip!

3GR enjoyed an online webinar session with the 2 Johns about staying safe online.

3GR had a great time cooking Spanish meatballs this week, linking into past topics of healthy eating!

This week 3GR started their science topic on forces, which involved exploring how push, pull and twist forces are made and used. 

3GR had an awesome Ancient Egyptian Enrichment Day! We made Canopic jars, mummified several children (no children were harmed during this process), learned about hieroglyphics, learning to write our own names in the process, as well as creating Egyptian Pharoah necklaces. 

Class 3GR had a wonderful week making their healthy sandwiches for our DT project. We even had a visit from Morrisons to discuss eating healthy!

This week 3GR looked at other civilisations, along with Ancient Egypt, that we have been studying. We wrote down as many of the other civilisations as we could remember, and stuck them on a 'lucky' person from each table!

We have had a very busy week, but our highlight has to be History. We have been studying Ancient Egypt and this week we have been looking at mummification.  Did you know that the Egyptians used to bury their dead with their personal belongings, such as gold treasures and even their pets! Also, the more important the person was, the bigger the tomb (pyramid).

We had great fun mummifying one of our class friends. Just check out the photos to see how the process took place.

Please note, that no pupils, or indeed pets, were harmed as a result of our mummification lesson! In fact, our mummified friend got up and walked! 😳 Not sure that that happened in ancient times!

In 3GR, we learnt about how and why the pyramids were created, before transferring our new knowledge onto paper pyramids we built.

3GR had a tasty afternoon on Friday, tasting a variety of breads before they create their own sandwich in the coming weeks.

We have started the year wonderfully in 3GR. The children have settled straight back in to school life, being so well behaved and demonstrating lovely manners. We have learnt the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and started to plan our own stories. We also had lots of fun learning about the River Nile in our Ancient Egyptian topic too.