We began making our own seed bags this week in our D&T lesson. Previously, we had planned the colour theme of our badge based on famous art peices and chosen our material. Today we began the fun, but tricky part! 

We had to thread the needle with the thread, tie a knot, create a stitch, create another knot so our stitch didn't move and then attempt a running stitch along the two open edges on the material! 

It was hard work but we perservered and repeated some positive affirmations and all made good progress. 

Thank goodness we had 5 football coaches on hand too!

This is the 3rd year that girls in year 3 have taken part in the Premier League Primary Stars Football Festival. The competition took place at Shephalbury Sports Academy and was arranged by Stevenage FC Foundation. The girls played their hearts out and represented Fairlands Primary school fabulously. All of the girls were awared a medal for their team work and participation during the event. Well done girls!

In our history lessons we have been looking at how lives changed between the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. 
Today we learnt about how trade changed the lives of people in Britain. We export and import items around the world and we have done this for thousands of years. 
We played a game where we had to trade items from the Iron Age to ensure we had everything on our list to ensure we survived. 

This week we have been looking at Branching Databases.

We have been using questions to sort animals into the correct catagory. We used j2data.com to help us make our databases.

In year 3 the children learnt how to make a rubbing using the side of the drawing tool on a textured surface. They identified different textures around the classroom and outisde and took rubbings of these. They also stuck the rubbings into their sketchbooks and made a note of where they took the rubbings from.

During science week, year 3 took part in a live lesson on the BBC website. The live lesson was presented from the National Space Centre and taught the children about the effects of space on our bones, how astronauts manage food and hydration and also the challenges of living in space. The children completed an astronaut training plan, which prepared them for life in space.

The children listened to the beginning of the Easter story and heard that during the Last Supper Jesus used bread to symbolise his body and wine his blood. They discussed how these words were a sign that Jesus knew that he was going to die soon and through his sacrifice a new relationship would be formed between God and humanity. We reinacted the event by earting bread and drinking blackcurrant juice in our classes.

In our science lesson, we thought about why we have a skeleton and discussed our answers.  Using dog biscuits we made a model of what we thought the human skeleton is like. We then used secondary sources to find out about the human skeleton and added to and change our models to reflect what we found out.  

Year 3 have been learning how to persuade people to make a change. 

We thought about topics that were important to us- these included stopping the use of single use plastic and composting fruit scraps. 

We have learnt some facts related to these topics and how important it is to use body language, facial expressions and rethorical questions when trying to persuade someone.

Some of us visited Mr Staples and read our speeches to him.

Mrs Johnson beamed with pride as we spoke clearly and confidently as we tried to persuade him to get our school more compost bins. 

Will he help us? 

Watch this space! 

During our art lesson this afternoon, we spent some time looking at shapes in our focus art piece, 'The Courtyard of a house in Delft'.  

We couldn't believe how many shapes were natural. 

Part 2 of the lesson was spent drawing, refining and adding texture to drawings of man made shapes within our classroom. 

We ended our lesson by silently walking around the classroom and evaluating the effectiveness of our peers work.