D&T – Y4 Electronic Games

By Mr S MORGAN15th December 2024

Today was the final step of our autumn term DT project – electronic board games. Children spent the day applying the circuit building skills they have been practising along with their final design plans to great an ancient Egyptian themed operation game. Well done children, your final products are fantastic!

Kristian went for a tomb raider approach where you have to remove the treasures from the Pharaoh’s tomb! 

In Jame’s game, players have to remove a mummy’s organs and put them into canopic jars

Millie cleverly included the Egyptian god Anubis in her game. Dare you steal the precious jewellery? 

A Magical Performance!

By Mr S MORGAN4th December 2024

This afternoon was the final day Y4’s English unit based around ‘Leon and the Place Between’. For their last piece of writing, children learned a magic trick and wrote a set of instructions on how to perform their trick. Children then got a chance to practise their oracy by performing this to our Y2 children who absolutely loved seeing some magic!

Magic Millie showing her cup and ball trick! 

Willow couldn’t believe it disappeared and reappeared again! 

James demonstrating his vanishing coin trick. 

Soup making

By Mrs K SMITH1st December 2024

As part of our Design and Technology unit in Year 3 this term, we are creating healthy soups that the fishermen could take on trips with them.

Before we can create our soups we have talked about healthy ingredients and what we could put in our soups. As part of the preparation to make soup we talked about how to cut the vegetables we are going to use.

We have practised our cutting skills this week in preparation for making our soup.

We all had the opportunity to practise both our claw and bridge grips to make sure we could cut our vegetables safely and securely.

We are ready to do lots more cutting when we make our soups now.

Trawling heritage of hull

By Mrs K SMITH3rd November 2024

Year 3 enjoyed our trip to Hull city center to discover all about the fishing industry and how it shaped Hull as a city.

We were very excited before we even arrived at the KCOM learning zone as we saw a portrait of Big Lil and could say why she was important. We spent some time at the beginning of the day recalling all the facts we already knew about the fishing industry. We knew lots of facts such as Hull’s first dock was built for whaling ships and was called The Dock but we were all surprised when we discovered this is now Queen’s Gardens..

We found out lots more information from our session with Children’s University. We were all very shocked when we discovered that Hull was once the worlds largest port.

Once we had discovered these facts we had the opportunity to go and ask members of the public the same information. We found out that older people knew lots of facts about the fishing industry in Hull however younger people did not know as much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We spent some time finding out even more information about the fishing industry by conducting our own research. We got to find out what life was like onboard a trawler and and that fishermen only spent 3 days at home between fishing trips. This helped to give them the name ‘3 day millionaires’. We also discussed how important the Headscarf Revolutionaries were in preventing  many deaths at sea.

After our morning of research we got to see the influence of the fishing industry around the city. We visited many important sites including ‘The Last Trip’ memorial, the fishing gate where fish was taken to the markets from the trawlers and we saw one of the fish shops where lots of fish was sold in Hull.

Library

By Mrs K SMITH18th October 2024

Year 3 have loved our first visit of the year to the Library. We had the chance to read books quietly, share books with friends and even listen to a story that Mrs Smith read.

We sat around the library and spent time looking at all the lovely books we have. Mrs Smith even sat and read a book as well as telling us which ones were some of her favourites. Lots of us want to read Charlotte’s Web after we heard about some of the things which happen in the story.

Symmetrical and asymmetrical

By Mrs K SMITH16th October 2024

Year 3 are loving our PE gymnastic unit this term.

We have looked at how to hold poses, what symmetrical and asymmetrical poses are and what points of contact are.

We have shown each week how we can create different poses with extension whilst ensuring we maintain 1 or 2 points of contact as well as using different levels on the equipment to differentiate our movements.

using atlases to identify where hull is

By Mrs K SMITH5th October 2024

This week in geography, Year 3 have been using atlases.

We have begun to identify countries in Europe with the use of an atlas. We could identify England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland independently. We then began to find France, Belgium and The Netherlands as these are the countries which are closest to Hull.

We can use our atlas and our knowledge of compass points to find European countries which are north, south, east or west in relation to where Hull is.

We enjoyed using the atlases and worked together to identify lots of European countries.

Recorders

By Mrs K SMITH29th September 2024

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 begun 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.

We also talked about how we look after instruments and how to handle them correctly.

Chronology

15th September 2024Mrs K SMITH

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 sources of evidence and discussing what these sources showed us. We then had a go at putting our sources into the correct chronological order.

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.

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.

Geography – fieldwork

By Mrs K SMITH22nd March 2024

Year 3 had the fantastic opportunity this term to complete fieldwork comparing villages and towns.

We began our fieldwork by visiting the local town of Hessle.  We were lucky to be able to walk to the town where we discussed the differing types of land use we could see as well as recording the different types of buildings we passed on our walk. We saw lots of different shops in Hessle including food shops, pet shops and a post office. There were many pubs and we walked past 2 churches as well as local park. We discussed the size of populations in towns and if all these facilities were needed.  Before we left Hessle we had the opportunity to carry out a traffic survey. We used a bar method to record all traffic that past us in a 10 minute period. We kept our findings ready to compare with what we discovered on our next fieldwork trip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, we had the opportunity to visit Brantingham. This is a local village, we had to use the school minibus to get here as it was a little further than Hessle. Again, we discussed the types of land use we could see in Brantingham and recorded the building we saw as we walked around. This time there were no shops, no post office and there was only one pub and one church. We discussed the size of populations in villages and we were very surprised that it did not take us long to walk the whole length of Brantingham. Before we left we carried out a traffic survey. Again, we used a bar method to count all vehicles that passed us in a 10 minute period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we were back at school we were able to compare Brantingham with Hessle. We were all shocked to compare the findings of our traffic survey. When we were in Hessle we struggled to record all the vehicles but in Brantingham we were waiting for them to come past us. Only 4 vehicles passed us in Brantingham! We compared the shops and facilities of both areas and discussed how a town would need these facilities more than a village due to its bigger population. We also discussed how land use in a town had more commercial and industrial use than a village which had more agricultural and forestry use and the reasons for this.

Year 3 really enjoyed our field work and seeing these types of settlements for ourselves made us realise the huge differences between them both.