What a year!
It’s the final day of the year before the summer holidays begin! We just wanted to write a final message to say a huge well done to all the children for such a fantastic year. It really has flown by and they have progressed and learnt so much along the way.
Also, thank you to all the grown ups and families who have worked with us to support their children and thank you for any gifts you have given too!
Have a great holidays,
from Miss Birch and Miss Kidd.
Here are some great memories from Year 3…
Science and Media Museum
Today, Year 3 and 4 visited the Science and Media Museum in Bradford.
There were loads of interactive stations that taught us about sound, music, gaming and photography. We explored these areas by reading the information and testing the machines.
We also had a workshop that taught us more about sound, how it travels and how it can be manipulated. We changed the pitch, speed (tempo) and added sound effects!
Help at home by trying to add sound effects to your favourite film ending using objects from home. Could you use tupperware for horse hooves or hand clicking and clapping for rain?
Football Festival
Some girls from Y3 and Y4 took part in a football festival today at Boston Spa Academy.
First, we took part in lots of fun games and drills to get our bodies warm and our feet used to football! We worked on things like passing, dribbling and communication.
After lunch, we played a mini tournament! It was really exciting to put our skills into practice against other schools.
Risk-taking, being ready and responsible weren’t the only 8Rs we were showcasing – we also had to be very resilient because it was extremely windy!
We represented Moortown by being polite, listening well and most importantly having lots of fun.
Design and Technology: pouches
This week, we’ve been sewing together our two pieces of fabric to create our pouch.
One piece is longer than the other so that there is a closing flap for a button, press stud or piece of velcro.
We’ve been very resilient and great at supporting one another. Lots of us having been helping our friends to tie the knots in their thread and thread their needles.
Here’s just a handful of the amazing results!
Help at home: Discuss your child’s pouch with them. What are they proud of? What would they do differently if they did it again? Is it a successful pouch?
Living and Learning: body image
In our L&L sessions in Year 3, we’ve been learning about body image and the media.
I know that people I see in the media don’t always reflect real life.
We talked about how media and advertising can make us think that beauty is to look one way or another.
However, some of these images may have been edited or changed to look a certain way. So, it is important that we do not compare ourselves to the images that we see online. Not everything we see online is real! We looked at two images and identified the edits that had been made between them.
We then thought about ourselves and how we are all beautiful in our own ways.
Help at home: watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpM499XhMJQ ) and have a discussion about it. Reinforce the idea that not everything we see online is real.
Leeds Rhinos discount tickets
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D&T: sewing
In Year 3, we’re going to be designing, making and evaluating a pouch! This pouch can be for whatever purpose that the children choose. It could be a pencil case, a coin purse, a glasses case or something else entirely.
A key skill that we’ll be using to make these pouches will be sewing. Some of us had sewed before but many of us hadn’t.
We followed these instructions:
1. First, thread the needle and tie a knot in the thread.
2. Then, complete a running stitch using your binka fabric.
3. Finally, tie a knot at the end of the stitch and cut the excess thread.
The children worked so hard to be precise with their sewing and their running stitches look fantastic! More confident sewers were helping their friends and Year 3 all worked together. Have a look at how we got on:
One of the trickiest parts was tying the knots in the thread. Help at home by practising tying knots in a piece of string or even learning how to tie shoelaces! These fine motor skills will be really beneficial for the children.
Topic: Design and Technology
We’re two weeks into our final topic of year 3 – Design and Technology.
This week, we’ve learnt about design criterium.
Design criterium are the features a product must have in order to be successful.
We looked at different products and came up with the top 3 most important design criterium they should have.
For example: an umbrella must be…
- waterproof
- lightweight
- sizeable
Here’s the task that we completed independently. Help at home by checking your child’s understanding of the vocabulary and match them up together.
City of Leeds basketball girls opportunity
Living and Learning: RSE
Over the last 3 weeks in Year 3, we have explored the differences between male and females and different stages of life.
Sometimes we might need a change and change can seem scary when it’s new. We looked at the different stages of human life and the class discussed how our lives change over time.
For example, when we are born, we have no responsibilities and our grown ups look after us constantly. As we grow older, we have more freedom and we realised that with freedom comes more responsibilities like cooking for yourself, having a job and learning to drive.
Growing and changing is good because there is lots to look forward.
Growing and changing is good because we can try new things.
Help at home by discussing a change that is coming up soon. How do you feeling about moving up to Year 4?