European Day of Languages 2025 – German

By Miss L STEWART1st October 2025

For this year’s ‘European Day of Languages’, Y6F learned and practiced a few German words, questions and phrases with Miss Stewart.  Here are the children putting some of their new language skills into practice to a familiar tune. Wunderbar kinder…Wunderbar!

In Mr Sutton’s class we looked at a variety of different ways for greetings and the children had to guess where the languages came from when given specific words. The children then worked together to create a class poster displaying the world flags and languages used.

partitioning numbers to 1000

By Mrs K SMITH23rd September 2025

Year 3 have been working on our place value unit in maths to start the term. We have looked at hundreds, tens and ones and how these make up numbers to 1,000. We have used the base 10 resources this week to help us partition our numbers. We began by making a number and the partitioning it in to hundreds, tens and ones.

We then looked at how these numbers could be partitioned more flexibly. We realised that when we add our parts together they add up to the same whole number. We moved our hundreds, tens and ones around to see how many ways we could partition a number.

ocean meets sky

By Mrs K SMITH22nd September 2025

Year 3 were surprised to find a mysterious suitcase left in our classroom this week. Who owns it? Where did it come from? What’s inside? Just some of the questions the Year 3 children had.

The children were very quick to notice that the suitcase had a label saying ‘Grandpa’.

 

Inside was many exciting things including a book labeled ‘Grandpa’s Stories’, some dumplings and a picture of a boy with a man.

We knew that these were all things telling us about our new story ‘Ocean meets Sky’ and we used them to help us make predictions.

Some children thought the story would be about eating dumplings on a boat in the sun whilst others thought the story could be about a special trip that Grandpa is going to take. We can not wait to discover who the characters are and what is going to happen in our story.

reflective materials

By Mrs K SMITH18th September 2025

Year 3 have been looking at light in our first science unit. We discovered that there are many light sources that we use every day including the sun, light bulbs, phones and televisions. We were very surprised to discover that the moon is not a source of light and that it only reflects light from the sun. We decided to see what other materials reflected light and which materials reflected this best. We carried out a fair test on materials including tin foil, card and fabric.

We discovered that the most reflective materials had a smooth surface and that the light reflected brightest from these types of materials.

First recorder session

By Mrs K SMITH16th September 2025

Year 3 were very excited to start our music lessons this week.

Over the year we will be learning to play the recorder. This week we began with getting used to holding our new instrument and practising where to place our fingers.

We had a go at making sounds and discussed how we will make different notes with our finger placements. We had a go at making soft and loud sounds by blowing gently through the mouth piece. We were very excited to start to look at the different notes and could confidently identify the first note. Year 3 can now confidently play a B note. We also talked about how we look after instruments and how to handle them correctly.

The history of hull

By Mrs K SMITH12th September 2025

This week Year 3 have been discussing chronology and what this means.

We have discussed how chronology tells us the order things happened in.

During our history lesson we have begun to look at the history of Hull. We spent some time looking at some different pictures showing different points in the history of Hull. We then discussed the chronological order of these events.

We discussed how black and white photographs must be older than coloured ones and how paintings must be even older as these were created before cameras were invented.

 

 

 

 

 

Once we had created our chronological timeline we discussed the correct order of events in Hull and how over the Autum Term we will be finding out lots more about these events.

We then created our own timeline in our books ensuring we thought about the chronological order of the events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We cannot wait to find out lots of information about these events that shaped the city of Kingston Upon Hull.

Mental health and yoga

By Mrs K SMITH14th February 2025

This term Year 3 have been doing Yoga in PE and we were very proud of ourselves for remembering lots of poses we learnt in Year 2. Can you spot our tree?

As part of mental health week we talked about how Yoga can help us to clear our minds and help us to relax.

We tried lots of different breathing exercises such as box breathing and shark breaths. We all loved how calm this made us feel.

Scratch

By Mrs K SMITH1st February 2025

Year 3 are loving our new computing unit using the scratch programme.

We have spent time learning how to make our Sprite move, make sounds and even sequence a short string of sounds and movement together.

Some of us have made our Sprite walk across the screen before shouting, some of us have made our Sprite sing and dance to music.

We have also explored how to change a background when creating our scratch clips and even change our Sprites to different things.

We can’t wait to create more clips on Scratch.

Lunar New Year

By Mrs K SMITH27th January 2025

As part of our Mandarin music lessons this term. Year 3 were very lucky to learn about the Luna New Year from our Mandarin teachers.

We found out about how important the New Year is and how this special time is spent with families. We discovered the importance of red envelopes and how these are given to younger members of the family with a wish for health for the coming year, as well as containing money.

We also discovered how houses are decorated with lots of red decorations and lanterns and the types of food that are eaten. lots of families spend time making dumplings together before they have their special family feasts.

We were excited to find out that lots of us were born in the year of the Rooster. Did you know this year is the year of the snake?

Stone Age to Iron Age

By Mrs K SMITH10th January 2025

Year 3 are starting our new topic this week. It is called Stone Age to Iron Age. Lots of us realised we are going to be learning about a period of history that happened a long time ago. We discussed the word ‘prehistoric’ and its meaning as well as how we use the letters BC/BCE and AD/CE to define what time periods we are discussing. We were all fascinated that ‘prehistoric’ means pre history and that archeologists are our key to that time period along with artefacts that are discovered.

We had the exciting opportunity to start our new topic by looking at artefacts that would have been used during these periods. We looked at things such as animal skins, shoes and tools that would have been used to make life easier during this time period.