Class 3

The children children looked magnificent today as their favourite Roald Dahl characters! They started the day with activities such as a new recipe for George’s marvellous medicine, a job advert for a teacher (based on Miss Honey from Matilda), BFG mindfulness colouring and Charlie and the…

We have started our art unit on Charcoal today. We used charcoal sticks to explore techniques such as hatching, cross hatching, blending, stippling, scrumbling and expressive lines. Well done children. 

Our new value for this half term is ‘Responsibility’. The saint we are learning about is St Mary, who was chosen to be the mother of Jesus. This was not just a responsibility but a huge honour! 

This afternoon we introduced our new History topic, World War 1. We started off with an art activity, the children were able to choose their own materials and techniques to create poppies for our poppy wreath display. We spoke about the significance of the poppy and read the poem ‘In Flanders…

We have started our year by reading the book Duffy’s Lucky Escape. We have written some poetry based on the illustrations. We have also drawn the turtle in art and worked on our colour blending skills. 

This week we have held our auditions and here are the 3 groups through to the final from Class 3.

Today we used an atlas to locate different UK mountains. We then used different materials to recreate the topography of them as show on the maps. 
 

We have created our final pieces in our art unit today. We have been analysing architecture and developing our sketching skills. We combined them all together to create our own city skyline. Fantastic work Class 3! 

Our current Y2 and Y3 children spent the whole day together today, as the new Class 3! They enjoyed being in the same cohort once again and completed lots of beautiful Art task to put their own stamp on the class ready for September. 
 

In Science, we have been collecting soil to understand that it is made from rock and organic matter. We have collected different types of soil, such as from around trees or in plant pots. To keep it a fair test, we put the same amount of soil in each pot as well as the same amount of water. We…

A small group of our girls have designed bookmarks and sold them at break time to raise money for the new trim trail. They’ve worked very hard and so far raised £25! Amazing result girls, thank you for all of your efforts.

In Science, we have been studying how rocks are formed. We have created models of the sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks through using Starburst sweets. We analysed the features of each ‘rock’ to create each rock form. We had lots of fun.