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Year 3 - Term 4 

Science 

This term we have been learning about the human body. In this lesson, we made our own digestive system. To a sandwich bag (stomach), we added biscuits (food). Then we added orange juice (stomach acids) and some water (saliva) to the bag. After that, we squeezed the bag to represent the food being broken down and then poured the contents into one leg of a pair of tights (small intestine). The liquid that came out represented the nutrients our body needs. The leftover food in the tights is the waste that is no longer needed by the body. Then we wrapped the tights in a tea towel and squeezed again (large intestine). Finally, we cut a hole in the bottom of the tights and pushed the waste through the anus. 

Year 3 - Term 4 

Easter Trail 

This term we had the opportunity to take part in an Easter trail organised by Reverend Simon and Mrs Apps. This trail was set up on the school field with different areas to represent parts of the Easter story. We really enjoyed participating in activities which furthered our understanding. At the end of the trail we added our own painted pebbles that we depicted Easter symbols on.

Term 3 – DT

In DT we have been making bread! In this project the children had to research their designs, practise with salt dough, plan their final pieces and evaluate them. The children loved making bread and enjoyed getting messy at the same time.

Term 3 – Science

This term we have been studying Biology. As a class we made lung models to show the process of inhalation and exhalation. The balloon inside the bottle represents the lung and the balloon over the bottom of the bottle represents the diaphragm. When the diaphragm is pulled the lung expands.

Term 2 – DT Week

Oliver and the Seawigs is this term’s class text. We used the inspiration from this novel to create our very own ‘seawigs’ from recycled materials in this year's DT week. The children had to research, plan, make and evaluate their masterpieces and they were a roaring success!

Year 3 Term 2 – Water

This term, Year 3 have been studying the topic of Water in Geography. We decided to take our learning outside in order to react the Water Cycle. All of the children played a key part in the process and verbally explained their role.

Year 3 PE - Term 1 

This term the children have been mastering the skills of Netball. We have focused on two types of passes, the chest pass and bounce pass, ensuring we make a W shape with our hands on the back of the ball before we throw. Also, the children have been working on intercepting the ball in order to gain possession for their team.

Year 3 English - Term 1

Our focus for this term is Bedtime Stories for Monsters.

In this unit of work, the children have worked hard to produce an alternative ending to the original story and a newspaper report. 

Year 3 were tasked with finding evidence that a monster had visited our school, so went clue collecting on the field as if they were reporters!

Term 1 has got off to a great start. The children are settling really well and very soon we look forward to our Harvest Church Service which is on Wednesday 11th October. Year 3 will be at the 11.00am Church Service. 

 It would be amazing if the children could start practising some of the songs at home. 

Here is a list of  the songwords and backing tracks...

I want to grow beans

We will be singing along to the following backing track  I want to grown beans backing track

Year 3 Science - Term 1

This term in Science we have been learning about the topic of Light. We introduced the unit with a demonstration of a plasma sphere and a florescent tube. The children were amazed that the plasma sphere acts as an electromagnetic wave source with strong fields beyond its walls. Bringing a fluorescent tube near it accelerates electrons, creating an electric current that lights up the bulb.

Year 2 trip to Wingham

We had a wonderful day at Wingham. We saw tigers, giraffes, lions, penguins, chimpanzees, snakes, flamingoes, crocodiles and many more. We enjoyed the animatronic dinosaurs and bugs, had a lovely picnic together and loved the new adventure playground. The children had a fantastic time and were beautifully behaved. A credit to the school. Some lovely memories made for children and staff. 

Mrs Clark

Welcome to our Year Two class page!

Year 2 trip to The Tate Modern

We had a wonderful day at the Tate. The children were very well behaved and enjoyed experiencing the Art. We looked out especially for examples of weaving as this is what our Art Week focus was. 

Term 3

This term we are reading the book 'The Man on the Moon!' By Simon Bartram. 

We have read the book, retold the story and now we are in the process of planning and writing our own fantasy stories based on this story. We took part in a drama lesson to help us structure our stories. 

Topic

This term we are learning about two significant nurses. 

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.

We have learnt many facts about them, ask your child to see if they can remember any.

Welcome to Year 1 Class Page

Celebrating World Book Day with our fabulous Information Book costumes!

The theme for Science Week this year was growth. We thought about how patterns grow and decorated some cardboard squares that we then used to try and “grow” the tallest structure (with no additional materials). We learned a lot about trial and error, perseverance, team work and the need for a wide base area!

Here are some pictures from our trip to the Science Museum. 

Our Topic this term is the History of Transport. We will be finding out whether the wheel was the most important invention ever.

We have been reading this Anansi story in English and have been inspired by the illustrations to create our own collage spider characters.

As part of our Geography topic “Where do I live?”, we made this map of our village showing all the important features of Bapchild.

We combined our English, Science and Art learning to work on these collaborative Wild Things. Each group worked with only one material - plastic, paper, metal, wood and rock.

Off to church for our Christmas service with our hand sewn angel finger puppets. 

What a lot of beautiful angels and lovely lambs ready for our Nativity play!

Our fabulous jaguars! We looked closely at the pattern of their fur and learned how to tell the difference between jaguars, leopards and cheetahs. We made the backgrounds using just blue and yellow paint that we mixed on the paper and then used the other end of the paintbrush to scratch details into our leaves. 

Design Week 2021

This week we have been designing and making cereal bars. First we tasted some existing cereal bars for market research and inspiration.

Next we designed and made our recipes and packaging.

Here are some of our products ready to take home for taste testing before a final evaluation. 

We used chalk and charcoal to make observational drawings of feathers before cutting them up to collage our bird sculptures. Everyone managed to get their sculptures to stand up and remembered to decorate both sides because a sculpture is three-dimensional.

Some photos from Harvest Festival. Well done everyone for your beautiful singing in Church.

In Science, we have been learning to identify some common British birds. Have a look at our lovely paintings of them. How many can you recognise?

We looked closely at the features of our faces and tried to include as much detail as we could in these self-portraits. The beautiful backgrounds were made by laying tissue paper squares onto a wet background and then peeling them off when it was dry.

Our class value is “Openness”. We made these birds on our Transition Day to illustrate the story of The Mustard Seed which teaches us how great things grow from tiny seeds and that we should be open to all the new learning and experiences that will help us grow into the best people we can be. 

In Science we are learning about Animals including Humans. We drew round the tallest and shortest children in our class to make this display and identified and labelled different parts of the body. 

We also talked about the different bones inside our bodies and made these skeleton pictures inspired by the book “Funnybones”.

After reading “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?” in our English lessons, we drew our own animals to illustrate a new version of the book. 

In Maths we have been exploring number formation and different ways of representing numbers. We have made posters and number lines using found natural objects. 

Term 5 - How does your Garden Grow? 

This term in Ramsey Class we looked at gardens and what can be found in them. We started by looking at the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and planted beans and learnt the story. Then we looked at the story of Titch and planted sunflowers for the children to look after at home. They also thought about how they have changed as they have grown from babies. We read the Extraordinary Gardener story and planted lots of flowers and seeds in our outside area to watch them grow. 

We then moved on to looking at Oliver’s Fruit Salad and did lots of fruit tasting followed by making our own fruit salads to take home. Then we read The Runaway Pea and made our own stories up of runaway vegetables and sorted them into which part of the plant they were. 

Finally we looked at the book Yucky Worms and did lots of digging in the garden. Then we read Twist and Hop, Minibeast Bop and ended the term with a Minibeast Bop of our own where we learnt minibeast names in French, decorated bug biscuits, went on a tricky word bug hunt and played minibeast games. 

Throughout the term we had some very tiny but hungry visitors arrive that transformed into another creature by the end of the term. Can you see what they were from the pictures below? 

Term 4 - Who can save the World? 

This term the children have been thinking about who can save the world. We looked at the children’s favourite Superheroes and read ‘Ten Little Superheroes’. The children labelled superhero parts using their phonics. Some made their own superhero capes and  created an obstacle course to train and keep fit. 

We then read ‘Supertato’ and even made our own Super Veggies and printed pictures using vegetables. We sorted food into healthy and unhealthy thinking about which foods we need to eat a lot of and which should only be for a treat. 

Next, we thought about real life heroes in our lives and made thank you cards for different key workers including: doctors, nurses and people who work in hospitals; postal workers; rubbish collectors; fire fighters and police officers. We sent out the cards to the key workers in our community, including cheering for the rubbish collectors when they came to school. 

Finally we read ‘George Saves the World by Lunchtime’ and tried to help save the world ourselves. We did a litter pick and sorted the rubbish into their materials so we could recycle them and also held a bike and scooter day in school to remind people to reduce the use of cars where possible. 

How can you help to save the world? 

This term we also learnt all about the Easter story. We made palm leaves and re-enacted the part in the story where Jesus arrived in Jerusalem and people waved palm leaves, we looked for new life outside and we made shoe box Easter Gardens. Ask us, why are there 3 crosses on a hill? Why is there a cave and a rock by the front? Why are there flowers? 

We looked at hot cross buns and the parts that make us think about Easter. We tasted some hot cross buns and even had a go at reading and following a recipe to make our own. They were delicious. This helped us with our own Easter recipe for the Easter Service. 

We ended the term with a lovely Easter Trail where we reflected about parts of the story on the school field, we decorated stones and placed them in the Easter Garden on the field. 

Happy Easter everyone! 

Term 3 Who had the loudest roar? 

This term we have been thinking about which enormous creatures might have had the loudest roar. The children asked questions that they would like to find out about dinosaurs. 

Which were the biggest and smallest dinosaurs?

What did they eat? 

How big were the dinosaurs? 

How long ago did dinosaurs live? 

We read lots of stories about dinosaurs including  Tyrannosaurus Drip, Say Hello to the Dinosaurs and Dear Dinosaur. 

The children worked really hard in school and at home to complete lots of different activities all about answering our questions about dinosaurs. The children sent in footprints so we could see how many of our footprints would fit into one dinosaur footprint (see this on the picture of the display in the classroom), they wrote captions and labels for the noises dinosaurs made and their body parts, they made dinosaur paintings and models, they made dinosaur skeletons and they ended the topic by making their own dinosaur museum in their living room with lots of facts and art work all about their dinosaur learning.

In Maths the children e pored with length, mass and capacity and found things heavier, lighter, longer, shorter, wider and narrower than other objects. 

The children completed some ‘Funky Finger’ activities using spaghetti and hooped cereal, dinosaurs and crayons and pegs and numbers. 

Well done Ramsey class - you are roarsome learners! 

Term 2

During this term we have been learning all about ‘Magical Journeys’. We went with Baby Bear to visit the moon, followed the journey of the Naughty Bus (and made a bit of a mess), went sailing to the Isle of Blow Your Nose’ with Jack in the story ‘Jack and the Flum Flum Tree’ and helped Stickman find his way home. We finished with the special journey that Mary and Joseph took many years ago. 

We have spent lots of time outside making in all weather making our own journeys. The children enjoyed making their their own vehicles using the construction toys inside and out and they also make pictures and junk models of different vehicles. They drew maps and wrote  words with the all the sounds we have learnt in Phonics and explored the numbers 1-5 along with exploring the shapes circles and triangles. 

What a busy term we had in Ramsey Class. I wonder where our learning will take us next term!

Term 1 ‘This is Us!’

Well, what a busy first term we have had settling into our first year at ‘big school’. The children have worked on the topic all about ‘Us’. We had a family apple tree display with photos of the children and their families, measured how tall the children were with string and blocks, drew members of our families in height order, made pictures of ourselves using nuts and bolts, made junk model robots to go with our book ‘Can I build another me?’ by Shinsuke Yoshitake and thought about where in the world we live with our book ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers. Along with this we successfully celebrated ‘Us’ in our welcome service and told the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ in our Harvest Festival. We took a trip to meet Rev. Simon at St. Laurence Church to start our RE topic in Christianity of the Creation for story. On top of all of this we have had lots of fun during Child Initiated inside the classroom and getting rather wet and muddy in our outside area PLUS we have also got fully changed into our PE kits and enjoyed some games and gymnastics in the hall. Phew! We were all ready for a half term break and we hope you have had a good rest. 

Next term our topic is ‘Magical Journeys’ and we have planned activities based on the children’s interests. 

Cued Articulation

The children have been brilliant learning their sounds this term and they have learnt actions to support them with remembering these. These actions help them show what their mouth and tongue are doing when they are saying the sound. 

Here is a video to show you the actions so you can support your child with these. 

There is another video of the jolly Phonics songs that the children have enjoyed singing. 

Phonics

We have been doing lots of listening in our Phonics sessions over the last 4 weeks including hearing and making loud, quiet, quick and slow sounds. We began blending sounds together to make whole words (pushing the sounds c - a - t together to hear the word cat. Blending helps with reading) and segmenting whole words into their sounds (breaking dog into the 3 sounds d - o - g. Segmenting helps with spelling words).

Here is a video to watch that shows you how to say the sound (phoneme) that each letter represents (grapheme). 

Welcome

Welcome to all of our new Reception children. They have done brilliantly settling in over the last 4 weeks and have had fun inside the classroom and outside in our Early Years garden. 

Meet the Teachers Welcome Video