Year 3
THANK YOU!
We would just like to say a massive thank you to all, for the lovely messages, cards and presents which we received. You have been an amazing class and should be so proud of your achievements this year. We hope you have a fantastic summer holidays and have lots fun.
Stay safe! 
Love Miss Jones & Miss Timms
xxxxx
Message to Year 3 about moving to Year 4
Curriculum Information
For further information on the curriculum we teach, please speak with Miss Jones or Miss Timms.
July 2021 - Sports Day. Having fun in the sun and getting wet too!
Cooling off with ice lollies
Enjoying our picnic
Celebration of Reading Day
Today we had our Celebration of Reading day at school. We dressed up as pirates or characters from our favourite book. In the morning, we had to guess which teachers' were behind the mask in Finchale's The Masked Reader. In the afternoon, we watched a play of Treasure Island.
Year 3 pirate door
June 2021 Creating our own art work inspired by Sonia Delaunay
June 2021 Drawing and tasting strawberries as part of our D&T work
June 2021 Planting herb seeds as part of our D&T topic 'The Edible Garden'
May 2021 - Celebrating NSPCC Number Day dressing up as a TT Rock Star or simply wearing a number inspired outfit
For our Science topic on plants we looked at the different parts of a flower today. We dissected some lilies to learn about pollination.
March 2021 Congratulations to Adam for winning the Year 3 Easter Egg Decorating Competition
March 2021 Enjoying the PTA led Easter Egg Hunt
Red Nose Day 2021
Lets Go Fly A Kite - We made our own kites. We even had to use the saw to make sure the frame was the correct size.
We celebrated World Book Day by reading Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister. We designed our own poster to advertise the magic show and learnt how to juggle.
Adam showing us his impressive juggling skills
Hello 22nd Feb
Websites
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We celebrated World Thinking Day in school by wearing our Scouting and Guiding uniforms
We read the book Silly Billy by Anthony Browne and made our own Worry Dolls
We had fun playing in the snow
We had fun exploring mirrors and using the reflections to write our own secret messages
We created our own artwork linked to the book Under the Love Umbrella by Davina Bell
We created our own artwork linked to the book The Dot by Peter H Reynolds
PE challenge
If I were not a student...
Algy met a Bear
Thank you to everyone who helped save myself and Ms Arnell from the PE Escape Room
Grace has been mummifying a tomato
Fun in the snow
We created our own Joe Wicks circuits
We recreated a human skeleton and labelled the bones in the body
Emma has been baking flapjacks with her Gym Club
Niamh has been practising her yoga
Adam has been practising his hieroglyphics, dressing up as a pirate to read compass directions and running away from zombies
Jasmine has created this art about what it means to be a good friend.
Christmas Fun Run
Year 3 had great fun taking part in the fun run on Tuesday in the Christmas jumpers and hats. They especially enjoyed the snow machine at the end.
Durham Christmas Big Sing
Year 3 and 4 took part in the Durham Christmas Big Sing. They spent the last couple of weeks learning all the songs before joining in with lots of other schools live across County Durham.
Captain Chemistry
Year 3 have had a fantastic day learning about Forces and Magnets with Captain Chemistry. They started the day on a sinking lifeboat with only a magnet, some string and a stick (meter ruler) to help them “fish” for metal (paper clips) to help them survive. They then made their own compass using a magnet and a sewing needle to help direct them home. After lunch, they made their own rocket so they could send an emergency message for help. The final activity was to make a new lifeboat out of tin foil and the winner would be the boat that could carry the most boxes of supplies. Lots of fun was had by all, as well as learning about magnetism, friction and air and water resistance.
Take a look at the photos and videos to see the fun things we have been up to.
Magic Paperclips
Powerful Magnets
The Power of Magnets
Homemade Compass
Rockets 1
Rockets 2
Rockets 3
Rockets 4
Boats 1
Boats 2
Antibullying week - Friendship
This year, Year 3 have focussed on Friendship for Antibullying week and what it means to be a friend. We thought about all the qualities a good friend should have and then chose our top 5 to create our own friendship hands.
Bollywood Dance to celebrate Diwali
Year 3 have been learning about Hinduism and Diwali in RE and thanks to GemArts were able to learn this Bollywood inspired dance to celebrate Diwali. Year 3 performed the dance for Mrs Morton and Reception were very impressed with the video of our dance. We are now looking forward to using these dance movements to inspire our own Indian dances in PE.
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Spots and Stripes for Children in Need
Remembrance Day
This year, Year 3 and 4 commemorated Remembrance Day together up in the Memorial Garden. Year 4 read the poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon and Year 3 read the poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrea. We also sang the song We Will Remember.
We Will Remember
Year 3 rock out for TTRS!
Harvest Hymn
Year 3 get spooky for Halloween
Different types of soil
Year 3 have been studying different types of soil in science. By putting the soil into water and waiting 24 hours we were then able to see the different layers in the soil.
Spelling
This week Year 3 have been practising their common exception words outside using chalks.
What happens when you put a rock in water?
This week Year 3 have been investigating what happens when you put a rock in water. We found out that some rocks create bubbles because they have holes in-between the sediment - these are called permeable rocks. Other types of rocks didn't produce bubbles at all, which are called impermeable rocks.
Cave Painting
Year 3 had great fun creating their own cave paintings this week. They had to make their paints, just like they would do in the Stone Age, using items found around school (mud, berries, leaves, grass). They then had a go at recreating their own cave paintings using their fingers, charcoal or paintbrushes they had made out of sticks.
The Rock Cycle with a difference...
This week in Science, Year 3 learnt about the rock cycle using chocolate. We explored the different ways rocks are formed using chocolate. First, we had to erode their rocks (chocolate) to get sediment. Then we used pressure to compact and cement the different layers together to create sedimentary rock. We then applied gradual heat to the sedimentary rock and let it cool to create metamorphic rock. Finally, we heated the metamorphic rock to create igneous rock.
Hunter-Gathering around school
This week Year 3 have been pretending to be hunter-gatherers at school. We learnt that in order for people to survive in the Stone Age, they had to identify what were threats and what could be used as assets just using what was around them. We went on a hunt around school to see what natural items could have helped us survive in the Stone Age.
Athletics Tournament
Year 3 spent Friday afternoon practising their running, jumping and throwing skills at an in-school athletics tournament run by Sedgefield School’s Partnership. They had to run 50m and 200m (twice around the school track) and see how far they could jump and throw a howler. It was lovely to see the Finchale team spirit, with everyone cheering each other on.
European Day of Languages - Russian
Year 3 had great fun celebrating European Day of Languages. We learnt how to say the Cyrillic alphabet and wrote our names in Russian. We can also now say simple phrases such as Hello, Goodbye, Thank you, Please, Yes and No. In the afternoon we listened and explored music by the Russian composer Shostakovich and we designed our own Russian Dolls.
The Stone Age is how long ago!!
We had our first lesson about the Stone Age today where we found out how long ago the Stone Age period actually was. We used a roll of toilet roll to discover that if all of history (up to 0BC) was to fit on the first piece of paper, then you would have to unroll the entire toilet roll to reach the beginning of the Stone Age!! That's a very long time ago!
