Class of 2014

Year 4 have started learning about states of matter in science. 

We have been learning about how the different particles behave in the 3  states.  We acted out these to show our understanding.

All the children in Sycamore class have made a wonderful start to the new term.  They have been enthusiastic and keen to learn.  Everyone has demonstrated a positive attitude and good behaviour.

Well done to all of you!

This afternoon Year 3 got the opportunity to share their music learning with their parents. Children sang ‘This Is Me’ from ‘The Greatest Showman’, ‘Shotgun’ by George Ezra and a kenning poem called ‘Our School’ that the children wrote together. Children then used Purple Mash to show their parents…

In Year 3 today we have been learning how to colour mix. We used the primary colours and made other colours by mixing two or three primary colours together.

World Cup fever has hit Year 3!

This week children have all been assigned a country to research and produce work about. Children have made a flag, found out interesting facts about their country, and made a PicCollage on the iPads too.

In Year 3 this week, we have been learning about angles. On Thursday, despite the very windy conditions, the children completed a range of angle challenges outside. They had to write down the route from the start of the cones to the end using the vocabulary; forward, 90 degrees, clockwise and…

In Year 3, to celebrate the royal wedding, we have been creating wedding invitations. We used the PicCollage app on the iPads to combine text and graphics to produce the invites. Some of our invitations are below, we think Harry and Meghan will be delighted by them!

This week in Science, Year 3 have been learning why different plants need different amounts of water, heat and light. To understand this, we are going to investigate it by planting seeds in different conditions. Some of the seeds are outside where they will have access to light, heat and water and…

In RE we have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Rakshan Bandham. The celebration is all about family, love and unity and Hindus give each other Rakhi bracelets as a gift to symbolise the love they have for each other. We made our own Rakhi bracelets using wool and card.

Today Year 3 have been learning about St George and have been using the story about ‘St George and the Dragon’ to improve their writing. Children had to use a range of different sentence starters and structures to describe in detail a specific part of the story. Below are some examples of the…

Today Year 3 have been learning about tempo and texture in music. Children listened to the Coldplay song ‘Sky full of Stars’ and discussed the different instruments we could hear in the song and how together they created texture. Then we discussed what tempo and made out own beats using different…

Welcome back! Year Three have had a really busy week to start our Summer Term.

We have been focussing this week on learning the 4 and 8 times table and all the children have shown they have been learning their tables at home.

In Science we have been learning about the foods that humans need…