Year 3

Stars of the week

Super hard work this week! Well done Year 3 and 4.

Eid Celebrations

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.

Predictions

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.

Light and Reflection

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.

Silly Hair Day 2025

Y3 Sustainability Game

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!

Y3 Light & Shadows

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!

Y3 Sustainability Project with Metal

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!

Y3 Dunking Biscuits ~ Science Week

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!!

Scientist Study – Alexander Miles

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.

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.

The Dalmatians are safe once again!

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.

World book day

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!

Music lessons

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.

Consolidating our 4 times tables

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.

Understanding a Prefix

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,

International Mother Language Day

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.

Start of our Healthy Me topic

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.

Star of the Week

Well done to our stars of the week in 3KM.

Visit from an artist

Year 3 had a great afternoon making their own recycled paper and adding their own designs to this.

Football Competition

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.

Y3 Sustainability Project with Metal

Y3 have been busy making their own paper out of pulp this morning with our visitors from Metal.

International Mother Language Day

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.

Art project

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.

Superstars in Year 3

We love children doing work at home!

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.

Palaeolithic Stone Age

We made art that we would find in Palaeolithic caves. We worked together and made our caves walls as realistic as we could.

Year 3 Science With Ms Siddiqui

We are learning about our skeletons and muscles. They help to support and protect our bodies. They also help us to move.

Stone Age Workshop

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!

Archaeologist Visit

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!

Do taller children jump further?

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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!

Computing- Altering Media

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.

Sunflowers

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.

Learning about prayer

Today, the children acted out the story ‘Daniel and the Lion’s Den’

Superstars

Year 3 and 4 stars of the week!

Nutrition researchers

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.

Y3 Funny Bones

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.

Year 3 Dragon Workshop

Celebrating Chinese New Year

Year 3 had a great afternoon creating snakes, as part of our Chinese New Year celebrations.

Running stitch

We all practised our binca running stitch so that we are ready to create our 150 year celebratory bunting.

Our bones

We looked at our bones that help us move about, support our body and protect our organs.

Planning before we write

Working together to gather ideas before planning our own independent write, based on our novel Pea Boy.

Star of the week

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!

Adding 3 digit numbers using adjusting

Working together to adjust our calculations, when adding 3 digit numbers.

Imagining we are cave people!

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.

Palaeolithic Cave Art

We all collaborated to create cave art using charcoal. Combining art skills and history knowledge means amazing work!

150 Years of Smithdown

We created some designs that we may use for our 150 year bunting. We will practise stitching so that we can attached our designs.

Solving problems

We applied our right angle and directional understanding to some worded problems.

What are your dreams and goals?

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.

An assembly of celebrations

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.

Shapes, shapes and more shapes

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

Throwing practise

In PE we practised different types of throwing aiming for targets and trying to catch the ball.

Charcoal

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.

First computing lesson of 2025

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

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Christmas

Lovely visit from Father Christmas this week.

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Parent assembly and activities Year 3

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.

Rocks!

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.

Amazing maths

Super work using deines with their maths work.

Year 3 campfire

What a lovely morning with parents we had! We all had a toasted marshmallow, cup of hot chocolate and sang some songs.

Mechanisms!!

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.

We have some amazing children in year 3

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.

Another great gymnastics lesson

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.

NRGenius’s

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!!!

NRGenius’s

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.

Sorting and Classifying

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’

Beginning of gymnastics

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!

Remembrance Day 2024

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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.

Amazing homework!

Superstar sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics . Well done guys.

Painting with scissors

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.

Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives!

Year 3 have been working hard to identify nouns, verbs and adjectives and using them in their English work.

P.E. in the sunshine

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.

Diwali celebrations!!

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!

Diwali Celebrations

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.

3TS trip for Ancient Egypt

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!

Diwali celebrations

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!

Using Scratch

Year 3 really enjoyed this weeks computing lesson. They all love using scratch to code and create their characters.

What could our new book be about?

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!

A great trip to the museum!

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.

Year 3 Computing

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.

An author has come to Smithdown!

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.  

Instructions for our independent write!

Year 3 have been working on writing instructions in their English lessons and are working really hard to do it independently!

Applying Painting with Scissors

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.

National poetry day!!

Today we have looked at different poems for national poetry day!

Super addition work!

We have a super star in Year 3 who is working hard to add within 10.

Friction Experiment

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.

Year 3 Hands

Year 3 had another great ‘Hands’ practice. We are really enjoying learning new sign language.

How to truly be a mischievous child

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!

What would a nightmare school look like?

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 need for speed during P.E.

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.

Friction!

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.

Being an archaeologist!

Year 3 all had a go at being an archaeologist and excavating some ancient Egyptian artefacts – just like Howard Carter!

We became ARCHAEOLOGISTS

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

Year 3 Science forces

We looked at different forces in science and were able to organise them into a push and pull Venn diagram.

Year 3 Coding- Scratch

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.

Coordination is key!

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.

Black History Month ‘24

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).

Number bonds to 100!

Today we have used dienes and number bonds in maths to make 100.

New Vocabulary

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.

Mondays are for coding!

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.

First Spanish Lesson

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.

Year 3 Maths

Today year 3 have started their place value topic by creating numbers with counters.

Year 3 History

Today we have recapped living memory and beyond living memory in History from year 1 and 2 topics.

Lovely Start to Year 3

We have had a lovely couple of days and we have started our first piece of writing – a set of instructions!

Painting with scissors

We used Henri Matisse as our inspiration for our art topic. We used his method of painting with scissors to make our collages.

So very grateful!

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.

Cheque Presentation

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.

Well one to our stars of the week in year 3 and 4!!!

Spanish day!

Amazing dancing from Year 3, everyone really got into it.

Spanish Day!

What a great Spanish day! Red and yellow everywhere . Can’t wait for food and dancing later.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION!!!

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 will happen?

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.

Water transportation!

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!

Sports day!

Super morning with our LKS2 sports day! We had a great day for it and we all tried our best with every activity.

A great morning for sports day!

Singing Assembly!

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.

Cooking time again!

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.

Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

Volcanoes Eruptions!

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.

Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.

Spaghetti Bolognese time!

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.

Volcanoes!

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…

Taking care of our well-being

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!

Trip to the beach!

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!!!!

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

Year 3 and 4 had great morning during their rugby skills training!

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Flowering plants

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.

Girls’ rugby

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 natural resources!

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.

Trip to Goodison!

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.

Year 3 Altering Media

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.

Primal Painting

Year 3 used the pigment from different foods and natural resources to paint and mark make.

Shadows!

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.

Bell Beaker Pottery

Super work creating our Bronze Age Bell Beaker pots. We created a similar shape and added patterns to them.

Time for Cricket

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. 

Shape division

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!

Cyanotype Art

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- Altering Media

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.

Cyanotype!

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!!!

Lifestyle project!!!

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 ?

Reflective materials

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.

Exploring division

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!

Great morning with our Everton project! We made our dough from scratch, cut up our own toppings and created wonderful pizzas!

Year 3 are really starting to focus in their practice with our recorders! Super work.

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We had a good afternoon discussing how housing had changed and improved over time and what Bronze Age Roundhouses would have looked like.

Year 3- Altering Digital Media

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 another artist who focused on natural materials. Anna Atkins used cyanotype to create one of the first books entirely of photographs. This was done with seaweed and without a camera! We used water colours to replicate the colours gain from the process.

Pizza Time!!!

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. ?‍???‍?

Well done to our year 3 and 4 stars of the week

Having lots of P.E. fun

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.

Exploring Light

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.

Taking the Role of a Reporter

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.  

We have started our new PE topic – cricket. We practised our throwing and catching skills so we are ready for next week.

We looked at how people from the Bronze Age would have mined for copper and tin to create their tools and weapons. We acted out this process.

We started our new Art topic, which focuses on natural materials. We used sand and soil to mark make just as Frances Hatch does.

Year 3- Altering Media

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.

We had an amazing day on world book day! We focused on #Goldilocks and created our own poems and naughty hashtags.

World Book Day in Year 3

Year 3 have been working hard on poems about #Goldilocks this World Book Day!

We rounded off our ‘My Bnk’ sessions with talking about money habits and the importance of saving! We even made our very own money bank.

During PSHE, we looked at our new topic ‘Healthy Me’ and how we can keep our bodies healthy. We recapped our Science knowledge of our muscles and how we can look after them with exercise and a balanced diet. We also looked at the importance of washing hands and brushing teeth to keep our bodies healthy.

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Superstars in Year 3 and 4! Stars of the week for some amazing work and attitude.

What an exciting afternoon! We had an archaeologist join us to show us artefacts from the Stone Age. We really enjoyed learning more about our topic and demonstrating all of our knowledge we have gained so far.

We explored how nets can be used to transform into 3D shapes. We practised cutting, folding and gluing tabs to be able to make shell structures.

This superstar made a spear that may have been used in the Stone Age to hunt various animals at home.

Super visit to Calderstones and the Storybarn today! We explored how Stone Age people would have lived using the land and trees around them. We also had the chance to see the Calder Stones that were over 4,800 years old.

Year 3 Computing- Scratch

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.

Super Science lesson explore our human skeleton and the bones that we have.

We had a great morning preparing for Chinese New Year!

Great afternoon with our LJMU students and our sustainability project.

Year 3 Scratch

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.

We have combined our knowledge of Palaeolithic cave art with skills and techniques acquired from Laura McKendry.

Year 3 Scratch

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

Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.

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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! ?

A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.

Using Henri Matisse’s style, painting with scissors, Year 3 created poppies to show their respect for all the people who have lost their lives and our thoughts for their families.

Year 3 have explored the different rocks that make our school. We discussed the key characteristics of each rock.

Year 3 loved exploring Hinduism and the different elements in the religion.

3KM applying their balancing, rolling and jumping techniques

3KM applying their balancing, rolling and jumping technique using apparatus #smithdownpe @SmithdownPrimY3

3TS worked super hard this morning to apply their skills of rolling, jumping and balancing…

3TS worked super hard this morning to apply their skills of rolling, jumping and balancing to using apparatus safely #smihdownpe @SmithdownPrimY3

3TS explored the Puja in R.E.

3TS explored the Puja in R.E. then moved onto some tricky rolling in gymnastics. Well done! @SmithdownPrimY3 #smithdownpe #smithdownre

3KMc exploring how opposite poles repel and like poles attract with magnets

3KMc exploring how opposite poles repel and like poles attract with magnets #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY3

What ancient Egyptians believed about death?

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

Fun learning about mummification in History!

This afternoon, 3KM have had so much fun learning about mummification in History! #smithdownhis #smithdownyr3

Drawing pictures to represent our new vocabulary

3KM have had fun using imagination to draw pictures to represent our new vocabulary for our new novel ‘Dear Earth’ ??? #smithdowneng #smithdownYr3

In English, 3KM have been discussing predictions on what our new novel could be about…

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

Having fun in Spanish this morning!

Having fun in Spanish this morning! #smithdownextra #smithdownyr3 #smithdownspanish

Discussing different ways how we can be kind to others

#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!

A lot of the fun came from being able to write all over our tables!

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

Lovely singing voices this morning!

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

In year 3 today, we practised doing peer to peer massages on each other

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

Focusing on the importance of attendance…

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

What an exciting afternoon excavating some Ancient Egyptian artefacts!

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

Year 3 have had fun being Archaeologists this afternoon!

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

Super start to our “Painting with Scissors” topic with a focus on Henri Matisse

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

What an experience…

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

New vocabulary for English!

Having fun acting out our new vocabulary for English! #smithdownenglish #Y3

We have been exploring different push and pull forces that require contact between two objects

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

What a week it has been already!

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