Here are year 3!

On our stadium tour during the author day visit, we even got to sit in the dugout!

On Friday, some lucky year 3 and 4 children were chosen to attend a World Book Day author event organsied by the Premier League and hosted by Stevenage Football Club. The children met Michaela Morgan who is well known author, who has had many books published. Her most famous books for children are Night Flight, The Walter Tull Scrapbook and Respect. She delivered an informative talk to the children and even signed their own copy of The Walter Tull Scrapbook which had been donated by The Premier League.  The children took part in some World Book Day activites and even went on a Stadium tour! An amazing day was had and it was also a great opportunity for our children to have the experience of meeting a 'real life author.'

For World Book Day the children in Hazel class read the book How To Be A Lion by Ed Vere.

The book taught the children the importance of being true to yourself, mindfulness, and standing by your friends. In the book they met Leonard, a lion, and his best friend Marianne, a duck.

Leonard and Marianne have a happy life together--talking, playing, writing poems, and making wishes, But one day, a pack of bullies questions whether it's right for a lion and a duck to be friends. Leonard soon learns there are many ways to be a lion, and many ways to be a friend, and that sometimes finding just the right words can change the world.

During the day the children created fact files about lions, made a zig-zag books to retell the story in their own words and even followed a tutorial on how to draw Leonard.

On World Book Day, Luke from Stevenage FootbalI Club donated some free books to some year 3 children in Hazel class to distribute across the school. The free books were donated for us as part of their relationship through the Premier League Primary Stars programme!

A total of 120 books were donate for classes in years 2-6 - A big Thank you to Luke and his team.

Hornbeam class have had a brilliant day celebrating World Book Day 2024 today.

We began the day by learning all about two families; The Smeds and The Smoos. The main characters are aliens. The Smeds are red and The Smoos are blue. Miss Brown was dressed as a Smed and Mrs Johnson was dressed as a Smoo.

After being read the story and watching it digitally, we wrote book reviews highlighting our favourite parts- safe to say it recieved 5 star reviews. 

The story ends with the families setting aside their differences and realising that no matter what your differences are, you can get along! The red Smed Janet and the blue Smoo Bill had a purple alien called a Smoo-Smed.

This lead to a colour mixing activity where we made our own spinners using two colours to make a secondary colour when spun. 

We created some awesome aliens and planets for them to live on. Before ending our day by making colouring mixing sensory bottles. We used half a jar of water, added a few drops of food colouring, mixed baby oil and a different food colouring in a seperate cup and poured the oil mixture into the water in the jar. We loved watching the colours mix as well as watching the jars settle to show the two seperate colours again!

Our song to sing by the light of the silvery squoon, 

And you can sing, too, if you make up a tune:

"Play with the Smeds and play with the Smoos.

Play with whichever friends you choose. 

Then close your eyse and while you snooze, 

Dream of the Smeds and dream of the Smoos!"

Hornbeam class spent a fun and informative hour at the museum this week. We were shown some pictures of the plans for Stevenage becoming the first new town and a historian told us lots of facts and allowed us to ask questions.

We then spent some time exploring the galleries, we loved how interactive they were. 

Finally, we were lucky enough to see some fossils, sketch these and attempt to identify them in their directory. 

We are looking forward to learning more about the wonderful place we live. 

Year 3 are lucky enough to have their PE lessons taught by the amazing Chris from Fit Kidz for the next four weeks. 

When we arrived at the lower hall a fourteen part fitness circuit was set up. Chris explained each of the stations and then we spent one minute working at each one. We tried different kinds of weight lifting- in balls, bags and bells. We practised balancing on trampolines and balls. We had a great time and can't wait to do it all again next week! 

In our topic lesson we have been looking at The United Kingdom, we found England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Then we had to locate the capital cities within these countries then find other major cities. It was a little bit tricky but we enjoyed using the atlases and learning how to use them.

In our maths lesson this week we have been looking at perimeters. Did you know the perimeter is the length of the out side of a shape or area. We looked at rectangles and squares and calculated the perimeter by adding the length and width then mulitplied that answer by 2. For E.g. a rectangle with a width of 3cm and a length of 7cm = 3 + 7 = 10 then multiply by 2 for the other 2 sides. The answer is then 20cm! We then looked at rectangles or squares that look different but have the same perimeter. To help us we used straws to make the diagram before we calculated each perimeter.

Hornbeam have kicked their new topic 'Under our Feet' to a rocking start this morning by going on a rock hunt. 

We thought about what we already know about rocks and soils and Mrs Johnson explained the different types of rocks. We then walked to the mound on the upper field to find lots of different types of rocks. When we got back to class, we sorted the rocks.