What a week it has been already! Year 3 children have settled in so well and demonstrated their maturity and attitude towards their work. They could remember lots of their previous learning in History. They could organise events into living memory and beyond. #smithdownhist
We have been exploring different push and pull forces that require contact between two objects. Lots of toys and actions helped us understand these forces. Year 3 did a great job of organising the forces into our Venn diagram. #smithdownsci
Having fun acting out our new vocabulary for English! #smithdownenglish #Y3
What an experience! Year 3 went to a stately home to feel what one looked like and felt like. Sudley house was perfect for helping us understand our new book – Seen and not Heard. #smithdownenglish #smithdownextra
Super start to our “Painting with Scissors” topic with a focus on Henri Matisse. Amazing inspiration applied to their own work✂️? great work Year 3! #smithdownart #theartsatsmithdown
Year 3 have had fun being Archaeologists this afternoon! We have been using a picking tool to remove the dirt, look at what we discovered! ? #smithdownhis #smithdowny3
What an exciting afternoon excavating some Ancient Egyptian artefacts! We all became archaeologists and discovered things like Howard Carter. We found some things that may have belonged to Tutankhamen. ⚰️?? #smithdownhist
Great start to the week focusing on the importance of attendance and why we need to be in school! Lots of different reasons that help us in different ways. #smithdownextra
In year 3 today, we practised doing peer to peer massages on each other. They completed many different strokes and we all felt very relaxed. Thank you very much for this @MrsCarpenter30 #smithdownextra
Lovely singing voices this morning! Year 3 have been learning all about our rights. We have discussed about having the right to learn and believe what you believe! #smithdownextra
Year 3 had lots of fun today in maths adding and subtracting ten from a three digit number. A lot of the fun came from being able to write all over our tables! #smithdownmath
#smithdownextra #smithdownY3. This morning 3KM have been discussing different ways how we can be kind to others no matter our differences, we had some lovely things to say!
Having fun in Spanish this morning! #smithdownextra #smithdownyr3 #smithdownspanish
In English, 3KM have been discussing predictions on what our new novel could be about by using colours for reference of different habitats ??? #smithdowneng #smithdownyr3
3KM have had fun using imagination to draw pictures to represent our new vocabulary for our new novel ‘Dear Earth’ ??? #smithdowneng #smithdownYr3
This afternoon, 3KM have had so much fun learning about mummification in History! #smithdownhis #smithdownyr3
What ancient Egyptians believed about death? We used role play to become priests that would have preserved bodies and prepared them for being buried. We washed, pulled organs out, placed the body in salt, embalmed the body and then placed it into a coffin. #smithdownhist
3KMc exploring how opposite poles repel and like poles attract with magnets #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY3
3TS explored the Puja in R.E. then moved onto some tricky rolling in gymnastics. Well done! @SmithdownPrimY3 #smithdownpe #smithdownre
3TS worked super hard this morning to apply their skills of rolling, jumping and balancing to using apparatus safely #smihdownpe @SmithdownPrimY3
3KM applying their balancing, rolling and jumping technique using apparatus #smithdownpe @SmithdownPrimY3
This Friday, 8th December 2023, we will be having our very own Santa Dash! A chance to squeeze in an extra fitness session whilst having some festive fun ??♀️????♂️?????
Watch this space! ?
Year 3 have continued to explore Scratch. Yesterday we investigated how we can use the x and y axis to get a Sprite to move to a specific location on the screen. Children were able to plot their Sprite to move to a certain position and then change costume
This afternoon we focused on being able to use the wait block when controlling Sprites. Children used this block to get two Sprites to tell a knock knock joke.
This afternoon Year 3 have been using all the skills that have been developed over the past few weeks to create a pong game. Children needed to use repeat loops, If statements and motion blocks to create their game.
Year 3 have been working hard on poems about #Goldilocks this World Book Day! 
Monday afternoon Year 3 started their unit focusing on media and photographs. Children spent the lesson becoming familiar with how to correctly take a photograph. We created a checklist on the best way to use the camera on an iPad and children then spent the lesson taking a range of images. 
3KM had an amazing time being reporters today. They asked our ‘witness’ questions about a strange sighting he had. They then worked in groups and took turns asking and answering questions. This will help us when we come to write our own newspaper reports. 🙂 
3KM have been working scientifically by exploring the question ‘do we need light to see things?’
The children had 5 boxes with a different item in each. They had to peer through the hole in the box and make a predication on what the object could be. When more light was added to the box, some objects could be seen a lot easier than others. 
3KM have been loving practising their throwing and passing skills in P.E. The nicer weather is meaning we can enjoy our P.E. lessons outside.
Year 3 had a great morning making pizza! They mixed all the ingredients, kneaded the dough and added toppings all by themselves. All whilst looking the part in their chef hats and aprons! I think everyone would agree that the best part was being able to eat it. 
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Year 3 continued their new unit Altering Media. Today we focused on the importance of using the correct style of images when making a collage of pictures to advertise a place. We used Google images and Flickr to get a selection of images to advertise Italy. We discussed the importance of picking the correct type of image ensuring the brightness was correct and it demonstrated the features wanted to show.
We looked at division using concrete and pictorial representations to help our understanding of the concept. We were more confident by the end of our work!
Year 3 made predictions of what materials they thought would be the most reflective and the least reflective. They then tested that and checked to see how much light was reflected off each one. We spoke about material characteristics and why they absorbed or reflected some or a lot of the light.
Year 3 had a brilliant morning with Everton in the Community. They
all had smiles on their face throughout the morning. Especially when the beach balls came out ?⚽️
Year 3 had a wonderful afternoon creating cyanotype art pieces, influenced by the Artist we are currently exploring, Anna Atkins. The children collected a range of natural materials, placed them on Cyanotype paper, let it sit in the sun for 10 minutes, removed the design and rinsed the paper.
Don’t they look amazing!!!
This afternoon Year 3 continued looking at Altering Media, the focus today was being able to edit pictures to change their appearance. Children used Flickr to search for images linked to Italian food, then using the edit feature in Microsoft Photos children needed to change the appearance of the photo by changing the position, adding in filters and making other adjustments.
Year 3 used a very old way of producing photographs without a camera. We used light sensitive paper to create a cyanotype capture. The children created their designs using natural resources found around schools – similar to Anna Atkins.
Year 3 used their factor and shape knowledge to find equal groups of shapes with 24 lollipop sticks. 3 octagons, 8 triangles, 4 hexagons and 6 squares could be made!
Year 3 have been learning a new skill in their P.E. lessons. 
They have started to learn the rules and skills of cricket. They had a great time learning how to be a batter and a baller in this weeks lesson.
Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.
Year 3 had a great afternoon exploring shadows. Thankfully we got a lovely sunny day to complete this lesson. We drew our shadows and after some time we returned outside and noticed how the position of the sun meant our shadows had moved. 
Year 3 used the pigment from different foods and natural resources to paint and mark make. 
Year 3 have continued to look at Altering media. Children recapped how we can edit the photos to change its appearance. They were then set a task to use a photo editor to change a bright image of a forest into a dark and ‘gloomy’ one.
Year 3 had an amazing trip down at Goodison Park as part of our Everton In The Community project. 
We took part in a cooking demonstration and enjoyed the yummy chicken paella we made.
What a week we have had! Year 3 had a lovely trip to New Brighton to find natural resources so that we could create landscapes in the theme of Frances Hatch. We glued on things we found and used water to extract the pigment out of them to colour paper.
Year 3 and 4 girls had a super experience with an introduction into rugby. They had a chance of practising kicking, tackling and their footwork.
Year 3 explored the different parts of a flowering plant. We found out that there are male and female parts and that bees and other insects help move pollen from flower to flower.
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
Year 3 had a lovely day at New Brighton! We collected a range of natural materials from the woods and the beach, and used these to create a painting of the seaside. I think everyone’s favourite part was playing in the sand!!!!
In year 3, we have been ensuring we are taking care of our own well-being and have been doing 100 of a various of movements. We all enjoyed doing 100 starjumps and jogging on the spot for 100 seconds. We recognise the positive impact movement and exercise has on our mental well-being! 😊🏃♀️👟⏳
We have created our volcanoes and painted them. They look amazing! We are going to erupt them this week and see what happens when an active volcano blows. Watch this space…
Our first group created their very own authentic traditional bolognese sauce! We have linked our DT unit with our Geography topic of Italy. Super behaviour and sensible cooks.
Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.
We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.
We had our second group to make our traditional Italian bolognese. They had a great time preparing the ingredient and seasoning it to perfection! Thanks to our amazing head chef once again – Monica.
I love starting off our Wednesdays with our singing assembly. It puts a smile on all our faces and gets us ready for our work.
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Super morning with our LKS2 sports day! We had a great day for it and we all tried our best with every activity.
We used celery to investigate how xylems transport water and nutrients to the rest of the plant. Watch this space and see what we find out! 
Year 3 had an exciting afternoon learning about how water is transported around pants. We completed an experiment with a celery stick and food colouring. We made a prediction about what might happen to the celery. Come back next week to see the results.
I’m sure many of us thought we would never witness a volcanic eruption!!! Today we did. The children in year 3 have been learning about volcanoes. We created our own, painted these and even made them erupt! We a had so much fun doing this experiment!!!
What a great Spanish day! Red and yellow everywhere 🇪🇸. Can’t wait for food and dancing later.
A massive thank you to all parents and children who donated money to Alder Hey. The children on the school council were very lucky to be invited down to Alder Hey for a cheque presentation.
The money raised is going to help brighten the lives of children and their families, all over the country, who require the help of Alder Hey.
We all feel so very grateful and proud of the children we have helped grow this year! A big thank you to all our families. ❤️
We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.
We have had a lovely couple of days and we have started our first piece of writing – a set of instructions!
Today we have recapped living memory and beyond living memory in History from year 1 and 2 topics.
Today year 3 have started their place value topic by creating numbers with counters.
Year 3 had a brilliant morning taking part in their first Spanish lesson of the year. 🇪🇸 The children learned how to say their names and they took part in fun Spanish games to learn their numbers.
A great afternoon in our computing lesson.
Today, the children used the IT suite and developed computing skills by logging onto the computer, opening a website and paying a coding game, ‘Rodocodo.’ Mathematics and direction skills game into play when deciding how many jumps their character needed to make. The children really enjoyed this.
We explored new vocabulary in our new topic – Seen and not Heard. We acted out each word and drew a picture to help us remember them.
Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).
In P.E. this week, Year 3 had a great time practicing their coordination skills. We used beanbags and skipping ropes to do this. We threw beanbags into the air, and before catching it with our other hand we had to clap hands behind our back. We also had to run to the end of the skipping rope and catch the beanbag before it fell on the floor. Everyone had a smile on their face attempting these moves.
Year 3 have been introduced to scratch. Children navigated to the website and created a new project. Today we focused on being able to create and insert sprites and backgrounds and then looked at how we can code a sprite to change costume when pressing the green flag.
We looked at different forces in science and were able to organise them into a push and pull Venn diagram.
WOW what an exciting afternoon! In history, the children learnt about Howard Carter and how he excavated ancient remains. The children then put their excavation skills to the test and uncovered some artefacts. They had great fun 🤩
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Year 3 all had a go at being an archaeologist and excavating some ancient Egyptian artefacts – just like Howard Carter!
We used a car and a ramp to create a fair test for friction. We found out that plastic is smooth so has a low amount of friction and sandpaper is rough and bumpy so has a high amount of friction.
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In P.E. we learned about how we use speed in everyday life and played a variety of activities where we needed to use our speed and use the techniques discussed.
In PSHE, we talked about what makes our school a dream school. The children gave answers such as,
“Our school has adults that listen.”
“We learn in our school.”
From this, we discussed that a nightmare school wouldn’t have the lovely things that Smithdown has. We created posters for our nightmare school. Some amazing imagination was used. 😊
Year 3 had a great start to their first shared write of the year. We have been learning about imperative verbs, rhetorical questions, adverbs and how instructions are laid out. We put all the new skills we have been learning to the test and used them to create a set of instructions about how to be a mischievous child, based on our reading book ‘Seen and Not Heard’
Parents watch out! Your children came up with some very interesting ideas!
Year 3 had another great ‘Hands’ practice. We are really enjoying learning new sign language.
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Year 3 have been exploring the force friction by testing the distance cars travel on different surfaces. We discovered that the surface carpet had high friction but plastic had low friction.
We have a super star in Year 3 who is working hard to add within 10.
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Today we have looked at different poems for national poetry day!
Year 3 had a great afternoon applying their painting with scissors skills to some Ancient Egyptian paintings. We discussed the pictures and what we could see, using our art vocabulary. We then had the challenge of focusing on a small part of these images and then had to recreate this.
Year 3 have been working on writing instructions in their English lessons and are working really hard to do it independently!
Author of ‘The late crew’ Rob Ferguson came to visit our school today. Some of us were so excited to even get our books signed by a real life author! We even designed our own alien that we could use in our stories. 
This week year 3 have their computing lesson consolidating the coding that has been covered over the past few weeks. We have managed to get two characters to move separate ways by using different events and different motion blocks, we then introduced repeats and how we can use these to keep our code nice and tidy.
Year 3 had an amazing day at the Liverpool Museum. We gained so much knowledge about Ancient Egypt which will help as we continue to study this topic in our history lessons. Mohammed, Azad and Banu dressed up as embalmers and they mummified a fake Egyptian body. It was a great opportunity for the children to learn all about this and step back in time. 😊
In English, we are starting a new book. Before the children heard the name or seen the front cover we looked at various clues and made predictions about what it could be about. The children came up with great ideas. Based on the clues, some children thought it was about an explorer who visits different parts of the world. Others thought it was about different habitats. The book will be revealed next lesson! 📜📚🌍
Year 3 really enjoyed this weeks computing lesson. They all love using scratch to code and create their characters.
Today Year 3 looked at the celebration of Diwali and enjoyed watching how it is celebrated. We enjoyed looking at the different activities and looking at how the Rangoli designs are made!
Year 3 had a wonderful day exploring the museum and looking at the different artefacts from ancient Egyptian history. We walked the length of the River Nile and spoke about the process of mummification. We also watched some of our friends become Pharos!
Today, year 3 had a workshop based around Diwali. The children enjoyed learning about this celebration. They learned how it called ‘the festival of lights’ and created their own pieces of art that candle lights are placed in. We got to dress up and took part in a traditional Diwali dance.
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Year 3 had a wonderful time learning all about the celebration of Diwali and how it is celebrated within the Hindu community. We had lots of fun using a variety of different coloured paints to make Diya lanterns. We looked at and talked about different rangoli patterns and made our own ones. We have lots of amazing artists in our class!
Year 3 had a great P.E. lesson outside. We are making the most of the sunshine whilst we have it. The children had to use their speed and agility in todays lesson and work in teams of 4 to collect the most high-fives. We also had a skipping competition to see who was a top skipper in our class.
Year 3 have been working hard to identify nouns, verbs and adjectives and using them in their English work.
We used our skills and techniques we have been practising by replicating how Henri Matisse created his art. We applied this method to our Ancient Egyptian topic in History.
Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.
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Huge respect in our class to recognise the soldiers that have fallen in the past. We did a minute silence in the morning and then created amazing poppy art work based on our art topic ‘painting with scissors’ in the afternoon.
This week, year 3 began their gymnastics topic. We discussed different ways to balance using small and big body parts and made these shapes. Overall, a great introduction to gymnastics!
This week, we worked scientifically by sorting and classifying different types of rocks. We explored the rocks and discussed their characteristics. The children came up with great words such as ‘rough’ ‘bumpy’ ‘smooth’ ‘sharp’
Year 3 had a great workshop this afternoon on how to save energy and how to be NRGenius’s. They had to create a powerful image representing why we use fossil fuels. We learnt all about renewable energy and how these are better for our environment. We ended the session by making a pledge to try our best to save energy. 💡⚡️
Year 3 had lots of fun learning about and talking through different ways we could save money by saving electricity. We learnt the benefits of turning off things we aren’t using and saving money by doing this. We had to create powerful images to show the importance of fossil fuels and why we need them. We then wrote our own pledge On how we will try to save money, well done Genius’s!!!⚡️💡🔦
Year 3 had another great gymnastics lesson this week. They made shapes with their bodies using point and patch balances. Some children got very creative with their shapes. 🤸♀️🤸♂️👟
Here are some of the amazing things the year 3 children came up with when we were discussing how we can help people who are being bullied. Some of the answers were incredible. Everyone enjoyed drawing around their hands and colouring their work. 😊
We created moving mechanisms using pivots and levers in our DT lesson with different types of cards, we created holes to bring the mechanism together with a spilt pin and made it move.
What a lovely morning with parents we had! We all had a toasted marshmallow, cup of hot chocolate and sang some songs.
We have been studying rocks and today we tested the how hard wearing sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous are, along with their permeability and how they react to acids.
We had a lovely morning with our Hands assembly and our DT craft activities. Thank you to all our adults who turned up to support us.
Year 3 were so excited to resume their computing lessons. This term, the children will be leaning how to find, save and edit photos. The children enjoyed searching for photos of different animals and adding a filter to them 🐶🐱🐻🐰🐤
We all loved exploring charcoal, mark making and smudging on our page. We remembered lots of information about the artist we are studying as well – Laura McKendry.
In PE we practised different types of throwing aiming for targets and trying to catch the ball.
Year 3 had a practical maths lesson this week which involved them exploring and making 3D shapes. We discussed the properties of each shape and learned some new vocabulary such as, vertices, edges, curved surfaces and flat faces. The children spotted where these 3D shapes can be found in real life. A Pringles tin was a popular cylinder shape in our class 🤣
A massive well done to all the children who received a star of the week certificate, a dojo badge or a TTRockstars medal for their efforts this week. What an amazing assembly! It was filled with happiness and rounds of applauses for our friends. 🥳
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Year 3 discussed their dreams and goals in our PHSE lesson this week. We talked about the importance of recognising the steps that are needed to achieve our goals. We recognised that no matter what dream we have, we need to work hard and overcome any challenge that pops up along the way. We linked our dreams to our school motto ‘together we grow’ and used a flower template to show how our dreams will grow. 🌸👩🏫👩⚕️🧑⚕️💃👨🎓👲
We applied our right angle and directional understanding to some worded problems.
We created some designs that we may use for our 150 year bunting. We will practise stitching so that we can attached our designs.
We all collaborated to create cave art using charcoal. Combining art skills and history knowledge means amazing work!
Today, year 3 mixed their history knowledge on the Palaeolithic cave people with their art skills by recreating cave art with charcoal. The children worked like our artist Laura McKendry and completed a group activity on the floor. This allowed them to work on a bigger scale and move around their work.
Working together to adjust our calculations, when adding 3 digit numbers.
Well done to our year 3 and year 4 children who received a star of the week certificate this week. Well done everyone and keep up the great work!
Working together to gather ideas before planning our own independent write, based on our novel Pea Boy. ✍️📖
We looked at our bones that help us move about, support our body and protect our organs.
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We all practised our binca running stitch so that we are ready to create our 150 year celebratory bunting.
Year 3 had a great afternoon creating snakes, as part of our Chinese New Year celebrations.
Y3 have been busy labelling bones in the humans body. Steve the skeleton joined us for our lesson this week and taught us some names of bones in the human body. 
Y3 have been exploring nutrition facts from a range of food packaging. We identified the food groups we had learned about and compared measurements of salt and sugar in some foods. 
Today, the children acted out the story ‘Daniel and the Lion’s Den’
We were very lucky last week to have some visitors in our class talking to us about keeping our environment healthy and how to look after plants. We all planted our very own sunflower seeds to take home. 🌻
Year 3 explored inserting and editing images on a different program. Children were tasked with using powerpoint to create a picture presentation on Animals including humans. Children used ‘search from web’ feature to find pictures of different animals, they then used the colour correction tool and artistic tool to change the appearance of the image.
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Y3 have been investigating do taller children jump further this afternoon. We took our lesson outside and measured heights and distance travelled. We concluded that generally this is true but some shorter children were able to jump just as far!
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We had an amazing visit from a local archaeologist, Dr Hill, who brought with him so many artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. We had time to look at stone axes, arrow heads, tools and weapons made from bone and so much more!
Year 3 had a lovely afternoon learning even more about the Stone Age and being able to hold a variety of artefacts including, animal bones, types of rock, pictures and even seeing how people during the Stone Age created fire!
We are learning about our skeletons and muscles. They help to support and protect our bodies. They also help us to move.
We made art that we would find in Palaeolithic caves. We worked together and made our caves walls as realistic as we could.
Our designs for our 150 Year bunting are really coming along. We are going to stitch “TOGETHER WE GROW” along with some pictures that remind us of school.
What an amazing start to our art project. The children created their very own paper and then decorated it. Next in our sustainability art project is to up cycle clothing. We can’t wait for the outcomes.
On February 21st, it was International Mother Language Day. To celebrate, we have been learning words and phrases in different languages. The children have been fantastic teachers.
Y3 have been busy making their own paper out of pulp this morning with our visitors from Metal.
Great work from Year 3 and Year 4 boys and girls! They all worked well as a team to play in a 5 a side football competition organised by Everton.
Year 3 had a great afternoon making their own recycled paper and adding their own designs to this.
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Today, the children started their new PSHE topic. We discussed new vocabulary such as; oxygen, heart rate, calories, energy and fitness. The children talked about how their bodies are effected when we do exercise and what happens to our heart rate. We set ourselves a new fitness challenge. We also created amazing posters to remind ourselves about exercise and movement.
Year 3 celebrated International Mother Language Day. We wrote some phrases, in our home languages, and taught these to our friends. In our class, we speak in 12 different languages.
Today, year 3 were learnt that adding a group of letters to the beginning of a root word is called a prefix and a prefix changes the meaning of the word. We worked together to make these words,
We have been working very hard learning our 4 times tables. We have learnt to separate our multiples of 4 into equal groups. We have even been practicing the bus stop method for dividing.
In music, we had a great lesson singing our new song ‘Tongo’ whilst using the glockenspiel. We are really enjoying the new skills taught during our music lessons.
Today the children have had lots of fun dressing up as their favourite characters. We enjoyed learning all about the 101 Dalmatians and trying to find them around our school. We had lots of fun designing and decorating our own Dalmatian dogs with paint and cups!
Today we had a visit from Cruella De Vil who wanted to steal all of the Dalmatian puppies, luckily the classes were able to find all 101 of them and saved the school! What an amazing World Book Day 2025. 
Year 3 had a lovely day celebrating world book day. We read the story ‘101 Dalmatian’s’ and completed a book review on this. We also created our own dogs out of cups and black circles. In the afternoon, we learnt a new art skill in pointillism to paint our own Dalmatians.
All the costumes were amazing, thank you for yours efforts.
To begin our British Science Week activities, year 3 researched a new scientist. We discovered that Alexander Miles invented automatic elevator door in 1887. We completed a research activity on the IPads and created our own art piece of Alexander using art skills of continuing the picture and shading.
This afternoon, for British Science Week 2025, 3KMc investigated which biscuit was the best dunker. We were so shocked that the strongest biscuit was a rich tea! We thought bourbons would be the strongest as they were thicker. The rich tea dunked over 50 times without breaking!!
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Y3 have been busy upcycling their fashion items ready for their fashion show for parents. We have learned all about recycling and sustainability over the last few weeks which has inspired us to carry on out of school. Thank you metal!
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Both Y3 classes took to the playground to explore shadows in real action. We drew around each others shadows with chalk. We observed that our shadows are attached to us!
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This morning we have been supporting Laura from Metal with a new card game all about sustainability. We were lucky enough to be the first school to trial the game and learned a lot about symbols and ways to upcylce and compost. Thank you Laura!
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Today, we investigated which objects were good reflectors of light and which objects weren’t good reflectors of light. We discovered that objects with shiny, smooth surfaces were better at reflecting light than objects with dull, rough surfaces.
We loved exploring our clues and objects that linked to our new English topic. We made great predictions about what the story will be about and shared them with each other.
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Lovely to see all our children dressed up for Eid. Lots of families have been fasting through Ramadan and have had a lovely few days celebrating Eid.
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Starting off the day with a very interesting and exciting game of dodgeball!
Year 3 have started a new book called Jemmy Button. We have been learning some new vocabulary from this book by acting out, drawing images and thinking of synonyms. 📚🍃🛶🎩
We have been working very hard in year 3 on our new maths topic, fractions. We all enjoyed making a fractions wall and comparing the size of different fractions.
We started our new art topic today and researched a new artist, Frances Hatch. She creates her images using natural materials, such as soil. It’s safe to say everyone enjoyed using soil in their work today. 🎨
We have loved starting our new art topic. We looked at Frances Hatch who gets the pigment out of things like grass, rocks and poo! We used soil to help us write about Frances and the work she does.
We have had boys and girls finding multiples of 2 out on our yard. They grouped objects into 2s and then found the total. They explored so many different ways to show their 2 times tables. Super work!
Year 3 had a great lesson reinforcing their fraction knowledge! They have been able to recognise fractions of shapes, understand the difference between the numerator and denominator and order fractions.
This morning we focused on synonyms for the 6 words we have been looking at in Jemmy Button – voyage, magnificent, civilised, year, gazed and savages. We then recorded the best alternative words to use in our future work.
3KMc have been exploring different materials to decide which ones would be most suited to creating sunglasses. We applied our knowledge of sun protection and new vocabulary words we have learned during our Light topic.
To culminate our learning on religious festivals, we thought about reflective questions and used all our learning to answer with our own opinion. We were respectful and 3TS gave some fabulous mature responses.
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In art today, we learned about Anna Atkins who was the first person to publish a book of photographic images using the process of cyanotype. We used water colours to recreate some of her art.
This week year 3 are taking part in different zoo workshops ready for our trip on Thursday! Today we are learning all about animals and creatures that are Native and Non-native. We are testing ourselves on these words gaining lots of knowledge that we will use around the Zoo.
We had a very exciting start to our week with our first Chester Zoo Workshop on UK Wildlife. We used the iPads to find some species in our playground. The workshop got us excited for our upcoming trip to the zoo on Thursday. 🐒🐼🐯🦁🦋🐍
Year 3 spent their computing lesson focusing on the basics of using Microsoft Powerpoint by creating a fact presentation on an animal of their choice. Children needed to use different fonts and colours when creating their title slide and when inserting their facts page. We then looked at how to insert and edit images linked to their hobbies. Children used the insert online pictures features, searched for their image of choice and inserted it and then edited the size to allow it to fit into the slide.
We had a fantastic day exploring Chester Zoo. The children loved looking at the variety of animals. We saw chimpanzees getting fed, lions having a nap, penguins splashing water and even explored the bat cave. The children had smiles on their faces all day! 🦁🐒🐧🦇
Our Chester Zoo trip was fantastic! We saw lots of interesting animals in the lovely sunshine. We also had a great session with Chester Zoo staff about our UK native species.
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Today in P.E., we developed our throwing and catching technique. We practised our chest pass by throwing a ball to each other. We even tried to pass it 20 times to our team without dropping it. ⚽️ 🫴
This morning year 3 had lots of fun learning lots of different tricks that are performed in the circus. We worked hard on our concentration and focus to perform them and learn the tricks. We had so much fun watching and learning from each other!
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We were very lucky today to have a visitor from the circus 🎪 We learnt some awesome tricks and used a range of props. Smiles all round!
Year 3 and 4 had a great time learning a variety of circus skills linked to our class text.
Today, year 3 looked at a range of pictures and documents from our school, that are up to 150 years old. We discussed some of the events that have occurred over the last 150 years in Liverpool and plotted these on a timeline. We were all amazed at the changes in our school over the years, 📖🕵️♂️🔎✏️🏫
Year 3 have been exploring artists who use natural materials. Anna Atkins created one of the first books with photographs in it without using a camera! We practised the same technique she did nearly 180 years ago. We used light sensitive paper and natural things we found to create our cyanotype photos.
Our school is now over 150 years old! To celebrate, we are dedicating some work this week to look at our school through time and what events have happened during its time. We started off our week by looking at photos of “Chatsworth Street School” and the area around our school. Everyone was so excited and had lots of questions about our school.
We went to our “Smithdown Archive” today to look at the log books from Chatsworth Street School. Some of the books are nearly as old as our school so we took extra care looking at them.
We have worked super hard to create a scaled timeline of events in Liverpool and our school from 1874 to 2025. We added in things like when our school was created, the blitz in Liverpool, boys and girls merged in school and when our local mosque was built.
Amazing skills practised by Year 3 today! Continuing with our 150 year celebration, we used charcoal to create an image of our school from the 1960s.
Thank you to our parent volunteers, hennaliverpool.com and Hennabyinaaya for helping us to celebrate Eid Al-Ahad.
We had AS Creative deliver a super session to link with our 150 years celebrations. Year 3 we’re looking at events through our school’s life, so in our session we focused on WWII. We did freeze frames to represent evacuation, rationing and the blitz. It was a great way to think about the children who would have experienced this event in our school in 1939-1945.
We had a great walk around our school finding new and old parts of the buildings.
We looked at how we change from babies and what things we can now do as a child compared to when we were younger.
What a lovely picnic this afternoon! A big, huge thank you to all children, parents and staff for all the work and effort everyone has put in for our 150 year celebration. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate this afternoon.
We read a book that helped us understand what refugees are and how they might feel and spoke about the possible reasons for why someone might need to become a refugee.
Thank you to everyone wo helped make our family picnic such a success, from the generous items on our community table to the fantastic Henna work in aid of Alder Hey hospital to the very generous sharing of food with staff, the day was fabulous.
We looked at why our world has different climates and we also explored digimaps to find different temperatures across earth.
This morning Year 3 were welcomed by a very big mess after break. There were lots of clues left around class about our new book which the children were very excited to find out about. A trail of metal objects were left through our room and tables flipped as if the unknown creature was a little too big for us and our room!
Today, we were so happy to be reunited with a couple of our classmates who had been living in another city and were now back in Liverpool. They were welcomed with cheers, hugs and huge smiles by all their friends. Everyone showed kindness. So lovely to see!
We “stepped into” some pictures from our new book. We answered some questions, asked our own questions and made some predictions about our new book.
In year 3 have started our new book. The children looked at pictures from this book and came up with some great questions and predictions. We are all very excited to read and learn about this book.
Year 3 have stated a new and exciting maths topic, statistics. We have learnt about pictograms and today made some of our own to quiz our friends.
This morning year 3 have been working hard to collect information for our topic on statistics in maths. We looked out of the windows onto our very busy community to see how many different coloured cars we could see. We then collected the data into a tally chart to turn into pictograms. 
Y3 built on their plant topic today by completing some observational drawings. We noticed how much attention to detail was required to sketch the intricate details of the flowers.
In groups we created different biomes of our worlds. We thought about, climate zones, temperatures, vegetation and animals that would live in our different biomes.
Today, we learnt that biomes are places with similar climates, landscapes, animals and plants. These children created biomes representing deserts, rainforests and savannas.
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We have had an assembly and a workshop this week to inform the children about CO (carbon monoxide), the dangers of it, how it is produced, how it can be detected and what the symptoms of CO poisoning are.
We had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating 150 years of our school. The children loved playing traditional birthday games 🎁, having a boogie 💃🕺and they all enjoyed some ice cream 🍦
Smiles all round!
Year 3 & 4 had a wonderful morning celebrating our school’s birthday. We enjoyed some yummy ice cream together!
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What a day! We had party games, cake and presents for our school turning 150 years old. Happy birthday Smithdown 🎂 🎁 🎈
We have started looking at different lessons that both have links with Ancient Egypt. We’ve spotted lots of clues that suggest we will be looking at this topic this term.
Year 3 had a lovely experience this morning designing cakes based on their local area. Lots of great ideas and presenting skills being used.
We gathered all our thoughts and ideas about what we know already about Ancient Egypt! Great ideas and pictures Year 3.
During PE this week we had lots of fun working in teams to practice our ball skills with different throwing and catching techniques.
We have been exploring our new character’s feelings and how they have changed through the book. Marcy started off excited for an adventure but quickly changed to fear and worry when it went dark and she reached the cave.
In PSHE we looked at what a nightmare school would look like. We are very lucky not to have a school like these and we have people around us to keep us safe, support us and help us grow.
Practising our catching and chest pass. We also practised our bounce and overhead passes before applying them in a game of bench ball.
We looked at prepositions today, focusing what we could change in our sentence accuracy. Some great examples!
We have had a wonderful start to the school year. It is lovely to see the children working hard and helping each other. We have also used our home languages to help our friends who are new to English.
Great work from Year 3 today trying to recreate Henri Matisse’s work. We cut up pieces of paper to make collages.
We have been writing sentences based on the story called The Shopping Basket by John Burningham. These children have worked very hard and are very proud of their work.
Some boys and girls have worked incredibly hard to be more secure with numbers up to 10 and then 20. Using practical resources they were able to create 10 in different ways.
Year 3 had a great session this week practising our throwing and applying it into game situations.
Thank you so much for all your donations towards MacMillan Cancer Support. Children had a lovely time – a lot of cake was enjoyed : )
What a super day out! We mummified a body, spoke about what the Ancient Egyptians would have done with dead bodies and went on a scavenger hunt to find information out about the Egyptians.
Great work using Matisse’s style to recreate some Egyptian pictures. We only used scissors and glue. Our cutting skills are getting better, well done Year 3.
Today, we looked at items that are used to create a puja tray. We talked about why these items are important to Hindus and how they are used in daily worship. The children worked very hard and remembered lots of new words.
We had a great session with Loti, talking about how we can be different but are still all humans. We spoke about accepting each other and living alongside one another, which can make us stronger.
We have looked at sketching parts of a chosen picture to focus in on different sections. We are getting ready for next week, when we’ll be recreating our chosen picture using the painting with scissors technique.
We all became archaeologists for the afternoon excavating and finding ancient Egyptian artefacts. We spoke about what we learn from the things that can be found, which are thousands of years old.
We had a wonderful workshop this morning to celebrate Diwali and reinforce the work we have already done in Hinduism. We listened to a story, danced and created lanterns.
We are planning our instructions for how the Ancient Egyptians would have mummified a body to preserve it.
Great effort on our final piece in art. Painting with scissors has been a great skill Year 3 have gained over the last term. No pencil markings, just free hand cutting. Everyone has become more confident with this technique and we have some amazing collages of some Ancient Egyptian art work.
To finish off this term, we played a game of golden ball. We continued with throwing, catching and how to move in team games.
Starting our new book, we met a character that loves the sun light stroking her skin as she dances. We used this image to create our own to show how the sun makes the girl feel.
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Today we had lots of fun working in groups to create a dance and role play as our character dancing in the rays of sun from our new book in English.
We listened to music about the sun and got into character. 
Year 3 have started Remembrance Day by focusing on some art work that uses paint, fabric and stitching. When they are dry we’ll add some stitching on them to add colour and texture.
To think about those who have lost their lives, we created some rhyming poetry. We based our poems on poppy fields, just like our art work.
We have written scripts for two characters in our book. We have used our inference skills to create a conversation that might have happened between them. Then we had some children perform their scripts to the class.
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We have used today to compile a list of words that personify the sun – both human actions and emotions. We started constructing sentences with these words so we were ready for our next lesson.
We are reading Into the Forest by Anthony Browne. The children are enjoying looking at his fantastic illustrations and seeing what they can spot. The pictures tell the story and keep us guessing about what happens next.
We finished off our second prototype today for our DT unit. We labelled our work with key vocabulary and then created some designs to stick onto our arms.
