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. 

Year three enjoyed experiencing a short visit from a musician this afternoon. 

Ross, from Hertfordshire Music Service, visited each of our classes to describe where his love of music came from (learning recorders in infant school!), explain what the music service can offer and treated us to some of his guitar playing!

We were given the opportunity to ask questions- he hasn't yet been on TV but was on Jazz FM last week. 

His contact details are on the picture. Please reach out if this is something you are interested in for your child. 

Year 3 helped spread a little joy by creating some beautifully bright and creative gingerbread pictures for a unit at Lister Hospital. 

These are hanging with pride to help make some poorly, scared people feel a little bit happier. 

The manager of the unit gifted us a festive pencil to thank us.