Blog by Tag: Year 3

The cornflour egg experiment! 

Year 3 and 4 teamed up together to mix cornflour with water to experiment with how, when pressure is applied, the liquid solution becomes a solid. They then tested with, upon impact, the cornflour and water would turn to a solid to protect an egg from cracking. 

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At playtime some of the girls from Year 3 were found clearing up the leaves and having lots of fun. They worked collaboratively and it was great to see.

What were the Year 3 and Year 4 elves up to last night?! 

Year 3 and 4 book club working hard on inference questions this evening.

On Friday 24th September, we joined thousands of schools across Europe to take part in 120 minutes of exercise throughout the school day. Our day was kicked off with a Wake and Shake in the school playground, followed by a whole school active assembly in the hall.  We were very lucky to have…

This week is sports week and so for our maths lesson, we focused on looking at Olympic firsts. We looked at the beginning of the Olympics and some of the records which were set by the first athletes to compete. We then compared these to the world records we currently have. It was then our turn…

Today in Topic, we moved into the Bronze Age! We learned about how bronze started to replace stone, to make things such as weapons, as it was much stronger! We discovered that bronze is made from mixing copper and tin, and the process they used to do this was called 'smelting'. We then had a…

This half term, year 3 have been working incredibly hard and have managed to get all of their marbles into their class jar. The children decided they would like to watch a movie, and have some smores! We all toasted our marshmallows on the barbeque, before squishing them between 2 biscuits- they…

This week in RE, we looked at 'The Fruits of the Holy Spirit', which are the fruits which grow inside us with the help of the Holy Spirit. They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 

We had the outline of various fruits and had to use…

Over the past few weeks in Science we have been investigating plants, looking at different parts of plants and designing the 'perfect conditions' which help them to grow. Today, we all planted our own seeds that we will be watching grow over the next few weeks!

We were also asked if we…

What parents can expect from the St. Francis Teaching Team in the coming weeks.

As always, the staff at St. Francis will work as a team to support and guide your child’s learning.

This will be a different way of working for us all.

We will use Class Dojo to keep in touch about…

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 3 have been working on recreating the Trojan horse. We used our DT skills to design and make a jinx frame with wheel axels. Then we used a net to create the cube to hold the horse. After that we used the hot glue gun to strengthen the jinx frame. They turned out…