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Year 3

Staff: Mrs Puddephatt / Mrs Harris / Miss Green 

Contact info. – rebecca.puddephatt@panshanger.herts.sch.uk 

Spanish is taught by Ms Fernandez on a Monday and Music is taught by Mr Mitchell on a Tuesday.

Welcome to Panshanger School and to our Year 3 class. On this page, we post photos every half term sharing updates on the activities and learning the children are completing. 

Spring 1

In geography, we have been investigating the weather.  This has included weather observations around the school and well as work on biomes around the world.  We have created a lovely display with our weather watcher photographs and our biomes homework.

Science this half term has been all about food and nutrition and our skeleton.  We have enjoyed making apple and breakfast muffins from the NHS healthy choices website.  We also made some food for birds, although all of our cheese, raisin and apple hoops were stolen by a squirrel.  We actually saw it take them!

We also had a bird theme in art.  We practiced our sketching skills and our final projects was making bird sculptures with wire and tissue paper.  They are on display in the hall and look absolutely fantastic!

In gymnastics, we have developed our skills in balancing, jumping and rolls. This has included forward rolls!  Lots of children can do these now!

Our Thursday class assemblies had a clothing theme. We have learnt how to tie shoe laces and aprons, check our PE equipment and hang clothes properly on hangers!

Well done everyone for working so hard again this half term!

Autumn 2

History this term has been all about the Roman Invasion of Britain.  We loved finding out about Boudicca, and the Roman army. 

In science, we have explored forces and magnets.  One of our practical tasks was to explore which surface a toy car would travel the furthest on.  We also made compasses with magnets and a bowl of water and got them all to point north!

Our design and technology project was using pneumatics to make a moving monster.  We came up with some fantastic designs, some cute and some more scary!

One of our PE topics was a machine dance – can you see how we represented levers, cogs and pistons in the photos?

One of the highlights of the term had to be our play, ‘The Little Fir Tree!’  The acting and singing was wonderful.  We were so proud of you all!

Autumn 1

What a great start to the year!  Everyone has shown so much enthusiasm for their learning and we have had lots of fun too. 

In Geography, we have been learning about volcanoes.  We started off by making a plasticine model to show the four layers of the earth – the inner core, outer core, mantle and the crust.  We found out about the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, particularly Mount Vesuvius which destroyed the Roman town of Pompeii.

We have done lots of practical work in science, including making and excavating our own fossils and comparing soil permeability. We made the most of a sunny afternoon by discovering what the soil in our school garden is made up of.  We also read a story about Mary Anning and recreated her fossil shop!

In art, we have been learning how to mix secondary and tertiary colours.   We have explored the art movement ‘Fauvism’ where the artists used unrealistic colours in their landscapes.  We drew our own landscapes, thinking carefully about the horizon, background and foreground and painted them in bright colours.  They look fantastic! 

We had a wonderful trip to the Woodhall estate where we explored the woods.  It was like a summer’s day and we had great fun going on trails, bug hunting, playing a game and building dens.

We have also worked really hard on our writing, spelling and Mathematics.  We can even do column addition and subtraction with exchanging!  In our Thursday assemblies we have been learning some first aid skills, such as putting on a sling.