This week Years 2 and 3 had the opportunity to have the WUFF project come to school and teach them how to be safe around dogs. This included lessons on how dogs behave in certain situations and how we should behave around them too. Following the theory, the children were then visited by Denver the golden retriever who let them practice what they had learned. 

What a day we had this week celebrating all things Ancient Greece. 
It seemed the goddess Demeter was in mourning as the day started with the weather being terrible, but then Hades must have released Persephone from the underworld as the day progressed...

We started the day being put into two city state teams: Sparta vs Athens followed presentations of our favourite gods. 

We then revisited some of our cutting skills and made some (very garlicy) Tzatziki, wrote our names in Greek and then read about Greek pottery. 

After break, the children painted their pinch pots and created Greek themed paper plates with temples on! We then had the Olympics followed by a feast.

With so much on, we didn't manage to finish all I had planned - so this Friday we will be performing mini Greek plays in our teams in front of the class! 

Well done team Sparta for winning on the day - a historically accurate victory, they certainly played up to the Spartan stereotype.

With another bank holiday upon us, would you believe that we only have two Mondays left until half term?! 

The children have hit the ground running, with science experiments on plants, the building of castles and learning about the Ancient Greeks - a Greek themed day is being organised for the last week of the term. 

In Maths we are learning about mass and capacity, so get the measuring jugs and scales out. The perfect excuse to bake something together!! 

With the sun shining, remember the importance of sunhats, sun cream, sunglasses and water. 

We hit the ground running this week and half-term seems like a distant memory already. 
We have carried on learning about measuring and perimeters in Maths. 
In English we have focused on upgrading our simple noun phrases by using adjectives and verbs.
Would you believe that we are half way through Year 3 already?!  

Yep, it is that time of year already. 8 weeks in school is a long time, however I feel as though it has flown by for Year 3. 
Already the children are showing progress and adapting ever so well to KS2. 

We have been creating pots similar to those made by the beaker people throughout the Bronze age and had a go at painting them too. Year 3 are also moving on to more complex mathematics, where they are adding and subtracting 10s and 1s across 100s. In English, they have been retelling the story of the first painting, putting themselves in the shoes of a stone age person and writing in first person using a range of grammatical structures. 

It has been a learning curve these past two months and Year 3 deserve a break - enjoy!! 

This week Year 3 have travelled back in time to the Stone Age! 

We have been studying the Stone age through to the Bronze age in History but also focusing on the subject in our English writing. The children have focused on imagining what it would have been like to be in the Stone Age. Their school trip to Kents Cavern truly helped bring their imaginations alive, solidifying their knowledge of the period, despite the fact it can be a difficult time in History to picture. I was particularly impressed by how much knowledge the children were able to remember from lessons and share during the tour. 
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