Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed Space Week. We have been learning about what it is like to live in space. We have watched videos from the ISS and looked at how they carry out every day activities such as; brushing their teeth, eating their breakfast and even how they go to the toilet! The children have been very enthusiastic and asked lots of great questions.
We then looked at the extreme temperatures that astronauts are exposed to and how their suits protect them. We investigated which material is best to keep ice cool for the longest period of time in order to conclude which material would be best to use for an astronaut suit.
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In our ‘changing materials’ topic we moved onto separating materials using evaporation, sieves, magnets and filter paper. We investigated how to separate salt and water, rice and sand and rice and paper clips-we had a great time!
Today we looked at gravity and it’s effect on astronauts. We looked at how long it took different objects to fall and recorded our results. We then looked at Galileo and his experiment-we had a great time!
We received the gold award for excellence in PE this week and we are so very proud-well done Mrs Waddell and everyone in school!
Year 1: Oscar Douglass, you have given 100% in school this week and answered so many questions fabulously-well done! Year 2: Anders Alderi, your reasoning in science this week was amazing-keep it up and well done! Rio Singh, you have tried your hardest in all lessons and have been asking for challenges to push yourself too-well done! Peace Akpowowo, you were amazing in maths
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Year 3 are still learning about collage and the artist we focused on this week was Andy Goldsworthy. Andy is known for creating collages using natural resources. We created our own natural collages using natural resources we found around the school grounds.
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In music we have been learning to sing the Bon Jovi classic! We are so good at the singing we are now playing music alongside!
We looked at a range of materials and predicted whether they would be soluble and insoluble-we had a lot of fun testing our predictions too!
Today, we celebrated European Languages Day and we focused on Italy. We all came in dressed in red, green and white to represent the flag. We learned lots of new facts about Italy, including, what continent it belongs to, the climate, famous landmarks and the types of food and drink they have there.
Next, we made our very own Venetian masks. After dinner, we had an Italian food tasting session where we tasted pizza, mozzarella, olives and salami. The children were very brave and tried foods they hadn’t tasted before.
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We looked at the reasons why learning languages is important and also how it is celebrated around the world-we then looked at greetings in 25 different languages and said hello to each other!
