Year 3 Blog

On Tuesday 5th February, the whole school participated in Internet Safety Day. This years theme was: Create, Connect and Share Respect: a better internet starts with you. In Year 3, we explored why we use the internet and how we can play the role in helping create a safer online community. Year 5 came to talk to us about cyberbulling and how to think SMART. We then created posters which we shared with Year 1 children. We taught them everything we know about internet safety. At the end of the session, Miss Lewis asked lots of questions to see how much we had learnt.

In Spanish we have been talking and writing about our favourite foods. In English, we have created a class book and filled it with our fantastic poems that we wrote about Rainforest Animals in the style of Paul Hess. In Science, we have been exploring different types of rocks,  their properties and if they are waterproof. In Maths, we have been learning how to tell the time to the nearest minute on an analogue and digital clock. We have been adding and subtracting time and learning about am and pm. Stay tuned for more…

We have been using a classical piece of music called ‘A Night of Bare Mountain,’ by composer Modest Mussorgsky. We have used this piece of music to inspire our English work. We have created an image of our own Bare Mountain and wrote super sentences about the senses. The music helps us to be creative with our thinking and writing. In Maths, we have been using buttons to help learn our multiplication and division facts for our 3, 4 and 8 times table. We have explored commutative numbers and found different factors to create a product.

Yesterday, Broadbent Fold was visited by the European and Commonwealth Games sprinter Leon Baptiste. The children took part in a tiring sponsored fitness circuit lead by Leon, who put the children through their paces! All the children enjoyed taking part in the activity and also enjoyed having the opportunity to meet a professional sprinter. I hope the children have been inspired by Leon’s story and they continue their fitness circuits twice a week to ensure and maintain active and healthy lifestyles!