We have been working so hard in Year 3! The children have written a letter to a parent from their boat trip sailing around the Arctic where they were looking for a giant jellyfish. Each child took on a role that was important for the jounrney to go smoothly.

We have been learning all about the Stone Age and the changes that happened in the Bronze Age and Iron Age. To help us think about whether or not these changes were positive or negative we worked in groups to make paper chains. We work together in groups looking at all the changes that happened. We then had to decide in our groups whether this change was a ‘good change’, a ‘good and bad change’ or a ‘bad change’. Once we had made our choice we wrote it on the coloured paper that linked to our choice linking them all together in a paper chain.

As we come to the middle of the second summer term, we are looking back at what we have already done in the past few weeks. Lets just say they have been rather busy.

Let’s start with what you could say is some peoples highlight of the year. Sports day! All the children did so well and they all tried their best. It was great to see the skills we have been learning this year put into practice. Ending the morning with the races and every single child should be so proud of themselves for what they achieved.

We also carried on learning about the Romans and all dressed up for Roman Day. This day saw us sharing the Boudicca speeches we have been writing in English, testing our Roman numberial knowledge and founding out what it means to be a Roman solider.

Today, Mrs Over and Mrs Sykes who are Geography teachers at Oaklands, very kindly helped us with our Geography learning by hosting us for a river demonstration. In groups, we predicted with a piece of string where the river would flow. We tested this with water to see whose prediction was closest. We saw how other smaller rivers formed from the main channel. Then we looked at what materials we might find in a river such as sand, rocks, soil. We discussed how the river might transport these materials and again tested it with water. We looked at the river we had created and learnt key vocabulary to help us describe what we could see. It was an amazing experience to consolidate our Geography learning from last half term and the children really enjoyed it. Thank you Mrs Over and Mrs Sykes for helping us with our learning!

While the sun was shining on Friday 20th March, some of us got the chance to take part in our second inter-house competition of the year which was netball. This saw us putting into practice what we have been learning in our PE lessons this half term.

We showed how to be good sports people by making sure that everyone got a chance to be involved and being happy for those who won each game. It was a tough competition but we all tried our best to get points for our houses.

Well done to all that took part!

In Geography, the children loved looking at maps to find our local river. They followed the River Meon to see how far it would go on for.

In Year 3 we are learning about solids, liquids and gases in Science and Peru including different biomes in Geography. Within both of these topic, we learn about the water cycle and how it might change and adapt in different biomes. We thought it might be a great idea to see how the water cycle works in our classrooms, so have created our very own water cycles in a bag. We are hoping that they will stay up on our windows until the summer holidays so we can test whether or not the season change the water cycle in our classrooms.

This week, we have started our new music topic for this term. Samba! We have learnt about where Samba comes from and what the instruments we will be using over are. We got the opportunity to play some beats on the instruments and can’t wait for what we will learn next.

This half term, in Computing, we have been looking at animations. The children have focused on stop frame animations and how these are made up with a series of images. They had a go at making their own  animations in a flip book style and now have used iPads to make a longer animation that follows a story that they planned. The children loved doing this!