Datchet St Mary's CofE Primary Academy
Friendship, Love, Compassion, Honesty, Forgiveness, Resilience and Equality
Year 3
Welcome to Year 3.
The class teacher is: Ms Master (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday)
Miss Koza (Thursday & Friday).
Mrs Clark is the class Teaching Assistant.
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Class Newsletters 2022 - 2023
The celery experiment - investigating water transportation in plants
Seed dispersal
In PE this term we have been looking at basket ball skills such as dribbling, bounce passing, chest passing and shooting!! We are now able to put all those skills together
Desktop publishing - We linked our science with our computing lessons by creating a magazine cover all about pollination. We chose a template, edited font, added images and thought about the layout carefully.
We have learnt how to use the expanded written method for multiplication. Some of us used numicon and cuisenaire rods to work out our multiplication calculations which we then applied to our newly taught method
Science - Pollination - This week we learnt all about pollination in flowering plants. Take a look at some of our work.
School Trip - Chiltern Open Air Museum - We had so much fun gaining real experience of what life was life in the Stone Age and Iron Age. We hunted animals, learnt how every part of the animal could be used, foraged for food, started a fire and even turned milk into butter!
Plants - To kick off our science topic of plants tis term, we became botanists and collected some flowering plants to observe and describe the functions of different parts of the plant.
In science this term we have been looking at nutrition. Have a look at our balanced meals
Ancient Egyptian Day Monday 5th December
Investigating magnet strength
Animation - This term in computing we are learning all about animation and created our own animations on the ipads
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Performing poetry. To finish off our unit on poetry, we learned about the importance of performing our poetry to an audience
Forces - In science this term we are looking at forces. In today's lesson, we investigated which forces were at work during our everyday tasks such as opening a door, pulling out a chair, opening a book, writing and jumping! Can you have a go at saying whether the actions involves a push or a pull?
We made leaf garlands
Ancient Egypt - To kick off our topic of Ancient Egypt, we located where Egypt is on a map and on our globe
Autumn poetry - we explored our forest school area to generate ideas for our autumn poems
Datchet's Got Talent Auditions - What a great afternoon we had watching some of our incredibly talented children. Well done to everyone who auditioned
Computer Networks - We made computer networks on our tables to visualise how everything within a network is connecting and applying it to our school network
Soundproofing - today, we carried out an investigation to find out which material was best at muffling sound
Penny Run
Harvest live lesson - We joined forces with year 4 to take part in a Harvest Live lesson where we learnt how carrots are grown, harvested and what they go on to be used for so no part of the carrot is wasted
computing - we are learning about digital devices. We painted a picture of a tree with the resources on our table. We then compared this to using the paint program our laptops and compared the results
String telephones - We investigated how sound is made by vibrations travelling through a medium to the ear
Good vibrations - We discovered that sounds are made by vibrations! We could see the rice vibrating on the drums and we got splashed when we put the tuning fork in our bowl of water.
Science - Sound. To kick off our science this term, we went on a sound walk around the school to see what different sounds we could hear and suggesting how we though these sounds were made.
Story Structure: To help us understand the structure of narratives, we acted out and created freeze frames of the key parts of our class story 'Mr Mouse and the Queen’s knickers'
