London Experience January 2023

25th January 2023Miss T LITHERLAND

The Y6 house captains and Y5 school councillors were given the fantastic opportunity to visit London to experience our capital city, see some of the famous landmarks and to find out about Democracy and how this country is ran by visiting parliament. Unfortunately, due to the rail strikes we had to postpone the date of our initial trip which meant that we couldn’t visit the Houses of Parliament.

On the 11th January, we set off from Hull to Kings Cross which took us just under 3 hours. When we arrived we headed straight to the underground and caught the tube to Tower Bridge. When we got there we ate lunch in the sunshine overlooking the Tower of London which made a fantastic spot to have something to eat.

We went into the Tower of London which is a historic castle originally built William Conqueror where he built a stone tower fortress overlooking London. Over the years we found out that it has been used for a multitude of things – a prison, a place to torture criminals, a zoo, the Royal Armouries, The Royal Mint and a place to protect the crown jewels. We saw the empty case where the King Edward crown had been taken to prepare for King Charles’ coronation!

After spending a few hours in the Tower of London we made our way onto Tower Bridge and identified all of the landmarks along the River Thames. Then we went to see the Horse Guards and made our way to Downing Street. Here we spent a bit of time learning about who goes to Downing Street, who lives there and why. We were lucky enough to see Rishi Sunak, well his car, whizz by into Downing Street – there were lots of police vehicles with the cars!

We then walked up to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben and found out about what happens in these buildings and how decisions in these buildings have an impact on us. The Palace of Westminster and Big Ben are synonymous with democracy and have become a symbol of parliament around the world – our school council elections are based on the voting systems that happen in this country when electing a political party representative.

After this we went up to Buckingham Palace and walked through St James’s park before heading back to Kings Cross and back home to Hull! A fantastic experience!

Y3 are learning about Chronology

By Miss T LITHERLAND16th January 2023

This term in Y3, we are finding out about life in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. So far, we have never found out about anything that happened in ‘BC/BCE’. so we found it really interesting to find out what life was like that long ago.

We found out that this period of time is known as prehistory because there are no written records and this is the period of history that we know the least about. We ordered the different eras in chronological order then put the information we had gathered on a timeline.

Exploring Stone Age Artefacts

By Miss T LITHERLAND6th January 2023

In Year 3, we are studying changes in life in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. To start off our new unit of work, we looked at all of our replica Stone Age artefacts we are very lucky to have in school.

We spent a while looking at them very carefully and hypothesising what we thought they were made out of, how they were made and what they were used for. Here are some of the artefacts below – can you work out what they are and what they were used for?

We all loved looking at them and couldn’t believe they were all made from stone, horns, tusks, bone and wood. We were all shocked with the animal skins in the frame and how it was stretched to use for clothing and shelter. Come and ask us in Y3 to tell you all about them!

Y3 Autumn Recorders – Final Piece

By Miss T LITHERLAND14th December 2022

Over the course of this term in Y3, the children have not only been learning how to play a new instrument – the recorder – but have also been learning how to read music.

On the recorder we have been practising every week how to hold it correctly, which we will carry on embedding, and how to play the notes; B, A, G, C, D. We have been learning that different notes mean different things and therefore we have to play the note longer or shorter. We have learned that a minim is worth 2 beats, a crotchet is worth 1 and a quaver is worth 1/2 a beat.

We have learned lots of different songs but our favourite was the first part of Jingle Bells and some of the children played it at the Christmas Carol Concert.

Now that we are familiar with the very basics we will continue practising how to play the recorder in our music lessons.

 

Y3 Final Artwork

By Miss T LITHERLAND9th December 2022

We have come to the end of our drawing and printing unit of work where we have been learning a range of drawing techniques using a ranges of grades of pencil and charcoal. We have learnt to shade, to hatch, cross hatch and smudge to create texture and to show the illusion of forms of light the we applied these  methods to create drawings of some of Hull’s well known landmarks.

We then looked at local artist Tracy Savage and explored her works and styles she uses to create her landscape pieces. Then using inspiration from her, we created our own drawings using some of our favourite Hull landmarks.

Once we had drawn this in pencil and charcoal we then created some imprints on polystyrene tiles and printed them using printing inks!

After this we worked in pairs and created a Brusho backwash to then create a  collaborative painting using our printed tiles.

 

Year 3 Trawling Experience

By Miss T LITHERLAND9th November 2022

Today, children in Mrs Yardley and Smiths class had the opportunity to go to the KC Learning Zone to learn about Trawling in Hull. We looked at what trawling is and what life was like for the trawler men while they were out at sea and how da and how dangerous it was for them. Also, we found out about the Triple Trawler Tragedy and how significant Lilian Bilocca was in shaping safety standards on trawlers for fishermen from then on, plus we concluded that Hull really is a great place to live and we all feel really proud to come from here!
We familiarised ourselves with facts about trawling in Hull then conducted some fieldwork where we surveyed members of the public to find out if they knew about trawling in Hull. At first we were all really nervous but once we started we all thought it was brilliant. We found out that the fishing industry in Hull is still at the heart of many peoples lives – we spoke to an old sea captain and even  Lily Billocca’s niece!
After that, we found out about life at sea and how dangerous it was for the trawler men. Deckie learners on board the trawlers were only young boys and they would often have the worst equipment yet the most dangerous and horrible jobs. We researched the Triple Trawler Tragedy and how this disaster shook Hull and then we visited the memorial in Zebedee’s yard and remembered those who had lost their lives. We also visited Hull Minster and saw the memorial and stained glass tribute. We found out about all of the work Lilian Bilocca and the Headscarf revolutionaries did and how significant it was to raising safety standards on board fishing vessels on a national level.

Thank you to Hull Children’s University who ran the trip for us – we all had a lovely time! Mrs O’Loughlin’s turn next week!

Year 3 Column Addition and Subtraction

By Miss T LITHERLAND7th November 2022

In Year 3 we are learning how to add and subtract 3 digit numbers using the column method.

We have been using manipulatives to help us combine numbers to add and then take away amounts using subtraction. We all had our own HTO place value grid and have been using counters to represent hundred, tens and ones,

We then carries out some pictorial calculations then abstract – we have been making sure that all of our ones are in the same column, all our tens are in the same column and then all our hundreds are in the same column.

We are becoming fluent at this and are now using our knowledge to solve problems.

Year 3 are exploring Relief Printing

By Miss T LITHERLAND7th November 2022

In Year 3 this week we have been exploring relief printing using polystyrene tiles.

Relief printing is where the surface is inked and printed from and anything that is cut away or pushed down from the surface doesn’t print because ink doesn’t touch it when the roller is rolling over the surface. Any incised lines, marks or shapes which are pushed down will show as white – or the paper colour you’re printing on.

In art, we have been looking at different drawing techniques and have been looking at the work of painter Tracy Savage. We used our own ideas to create our own versions of Hull landmarks with a Tracy Savage twist and were able to produce some excellent work!

We used pencils to create marks in the tiles and ensured that the indentations we were making were sufficient to create a good print. We then used paint and rolled it onto the tile to create some fabulous pieces that we were all really proud of.

Year 3 are learning about local contemporary artist Tracy Savage

By Miss T LITHERLAND30th September 2022

This week in art we have been learning about a local artist called Tracy Savage from Hornsea who has painted lots of paintings of our local area including ‘The Fruit Market’ in Hull and ‘Norwood’ in Beverley.

We spend some time looking at her work and finding the subjects of her paintings and the style in which she paints.

We used our knowledge of the drawing techniques we have learned so far this unit (shading, using pressure, hatching and cross hatching) to recreate one of her paintings using pencil in preparation for next lesson where we will be creating our own Tracy Savage inspired drawing of landmarks in Hull.

Y3 are learning how to play the recorder!

30th September 2022Miss T LITHERLAND

In year 3 we are learning how to play the recorder. We have all been given our own recorder to look after and use!

This lesson we looked at how to hold the recorder and how to blow so that it makes a nice sound – we quickly learned that if you blow too hard it doesn’t sound that great!

We have been looking at the note ‘b’ and have been learning that a note is a particular musical sound. We found out that notes can represent the pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation – today we looked at crotchets which is worth one bear and minims which are worth two.

After learning all of this new knowledge we then applied it to a piece music called ‘Biker Ben’ where we played the note b on the recorder and followed the music using the notations for the correct beats.