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. 

This morning eight children from year three took part in a bowling competition against 11 other schools at Hollywood Bowl. 

The event was organised by Stevenage Sporting Futures to aspire children. 

I am thrilled to announce that Fairlands won with an overall score of 645! This is a fantastic achievement for year 3 and Fairlands- many of the other schools had older children from Key stage 2. 

The good news doesn't stop there...one of our children also walked away with a medal for scoring the highest individual score-101! 

Well done Fairlands!

In year 3, we have been reading and writing 'Fables' which are stories with an important message to be learnt. First, we read 3 fables in class. The characters in the stories all learnt important messages. Keving the Koala learnt that trying new things was a good thing, the squirrels Cyril and Bruce learnt that helping each other was better than squabbling and the lillte mouse from The Lion Inside learnt that it is good to just be yourself. We then used these stories to help us write our own fables.

Today years 2-5 took part in an exciting launch assembly for RockSteady Music School. 
We played some fun games to understand musical elements and learnt about 4 instruments- drums, vocals, keyboard and guitar. We then formed a band and performed together. 

Children took home letters with more information on signing up for Rocksteady Music lessons in the spring term.