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Food Technology: savoury scones!

Posted on Thursday 12 June 2025 by Miss Birch

Today, Year 3 completed their final Food Technology session. This time, they made savoury scones! Some of us had never eaten a savoury scone before, let alone made them.

They had courgettes, carrot and sweetcorn in to make them filling and a part of our balanced diets.

We worked in groups of 10 to make a batch of scones so we all had to share the jobs. The two main skills we learned and practised were grating and kneading.

Grating the vegetables was tricky as we needed to keep the slippery grater up-right! The courgette was the most difficult.

Kneading our dough was interesting as the dough was quite sticky. We needed to make sure our surface and hands had enough flour on to stop it from sticking everywhere.

Overall, we did a fantastic job and ALL of the children loved the flavour!

Help at home by using the recipe to remake the savoury scones using different vegetables! They’ve been sent home today. The children thought that pepper and tomatoes could be tasty…

Living and Learning: RSE

Posted on Wednesday 11 June 2025 by Miss Birch

Over the last 3 weeks in Year 3, we have explored relationships and change.

We’ve discussed that we have relationships with lots of people. For example, our family, friends, people we meet through clubs, like leaders etc. These relationships should be happy and healthy. We talked about this might look like:

  • We trust each other.
  • We are kind to each other.
  • We listen to each other.
  • We try to help each other.

But what happens if this becomes unhappy and unhealthy? If you can’t resolve the problems between you in a respectful way, then you can ask a trusted adult to help!

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.

We decided that change is good because it takes us outside our comfort zone and lets us 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?

Herd Farm adventures

Posted on Monday 12 May 2025 by Mrs Weekes

One of the reasons we take the children on a residential visit is to find out more about the children outside of school as well as the obvious opportunity to experience the adventurous activities. This year was no different – we see a whole different side of the children and even found out that some move around in the splits!

It was an amazing visit and the children were fabulous. There were hesitations and nerves about some activities but nobody refused to do anything and a lot of them surprised themselves. This is what they got up to..

             

           

 

 

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A huge thank you to Miss Newman and Mrs Charlesworth for giving up their time (and sleep!).

Until next year!

Grammar Games 2025

Posted on Friday 09 May 2025 by Miss Wilson

This week, Y6 have been embroiled in the hotly anticipated Grammar Games 2025. Each day has seen the children take part in a variety of tasks all related to grammar.

We’ve looked at punctuation such as apostrophes, commas and hyphens and we’ve recapped grammatical terms such as conjunctions, tenses and Standard English.

Each round, they totalled their points and worked out their table’s mean average to add to the leaderboard.

As we know, punctuation saves lives…

By the end of the week, we could crown our winners!

Help at home by asking your child which areas of grammar they’re confident with and which they need help with.

Science: Which materials make the best shadows?

Posted on Tuesday 06 May 2025 by Miss Birch

Which materials make the best shadows?

I predict that opaque objects will be the best at creating shadows because they block all the light.

We then tested different materials: tissue paper, cardboard, glass, wood

Our predictions were correct! The objects that were opaque were the best at making shadows.

The translucent materials did create a shadow but the shadow wasn’t as dark (strong) as the other shadows.

Help at home by having a go at this quiz!

Friday 02 May

Posted on Friday 02 May 2025 by Mr McGriffiths

This week’s spellings are practising the split digraph i-e.

slide

time

like

line

while

The spellings will be tested on Friday 9th May.

Netball

Posted on Friday 02 May 2025 by Miss Wilson

The weather has been really helping us to enjoy our new PE topic this week. We’ve started a unit of netball which we’re really enjoying so far.

This week, we’ve focused on throwing but mainly catching, using a ready position and sticky feet.

Help at home by asking what sticky feet means!

Netball is a fantastic sport which teaches so many crucial skills like hand-eye coordination, using space and communication.

Living and learning: sleep

Posted on Friday 02 May 2025 by Miss Wilson

In Living and Learning this week, we’ve been talking about sleep.

We’ve analysed our own sleep to suggest any helpful changes. We know poor quality sleep really isn’t good for us so we want to make the best possible choices to look after our body and minds.

We also debated whether “a perfect night’s sleep is impossible” in Philosophy Friday and came up with some interesting contributions.

Jensen explained, “I don’t think it’s possible for anything to be perfect but there’s always small choices you can make to have good quality sleep. You can go to bed a little earlier, stay away from devices, read and make it as peaceful as possible.”

PE – ball skills

Posted on Friday 25 April 2025 by Mr McGriffiths

This week in PE we have started to work on our ball skills. We will be using our hand eye coordination to throw, catch and aim our balls. We started with a challenge to ourselves – could we catch the ball and clap our hands? If they finished that level then they had to catch the ball after touching their head and shoulders! The children were really determined and did a brilliant job.

We finished the lesson by playing ‘clash ball’. The children had to sit opposite each other and roll their balls so they clashed in the middle. It was lots of fun!

We will continue to practise our ball skills for the rest of the half term.

 

Help at home by practising throwing and catching different sized balls.

Pedometers in computing

Posted on Thursday 03 April 2025 by Miss Wilson

This half term, we’ve been building up to making our own pedometers!

And we pulled it off!

As always, we had to use logical reasoning as a team.

We measured how effective they were by counting our steps and comparing it to how many had been recorded on the micro:bit.

Help at home by linking this learning to our computing vocabulary:

  • simulation
  • repetition
  • decomposition
  • computer network
  • internet
  • variable
  • selection
  • world wide web
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