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.

Year 4 English Hook – Cinderella

By Mr S MORGAN8th September 2025

Today year 4 launched their new English unit with a mysterious box….

They were tasked with identifying which story they will be reading in English over the next few weeks. As each item was revealed, they had to use their inference skills and piece the clues together. Very tricky until a single slipper was revealed!

We can’t wait to get stuck into ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ by Shirley Climo and read the amazing work which is sure to follow!

Pharaoh Skyla with her slipper, scroll, papyrus, sand, pyramid and jewelry. 

Graffiti

By Mrs K SMITH5th April 2025

Year 3 have completed their final piece of art for this term.

They have created some amazing name tags using fabric paint and t shirts.

We spent time looking at all different types of graffiti going back to cave art in the stone age all the way through to work of a local street artist called Dieynaba Sidibe.

We practised making our own tags with various materials including pencils and pastels before we had a go at using fabric paints.

Once we had done lots of practising and were happy with our tags we were able to recreate them on our t shirts.

We used fabric paints and brushes to create our tags and we were all very happy with our completed piece of art.

Geography fieldwork

By Mrs K SMITH3rd April 2025

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 5 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 5 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.

creating an Iron Age tunic

By Mrs K SMITH2nd April 2025

Year 3 have completed our Design and Technology unit this week. We have had great fun creating an iron age tunic for our teddy bears.

Investigation

We begun our D&T by investigating about patterns and how these are made. We looked at different clothes designers and discussed how all of their designs differ from each other.

Focused Practical

We used two pieces of material to create a pocket. We had to sue different stitches, one of these was easier than the other. We practised using a running stitch, we found this one was the easier of the two. We then practised using an overstitch, lots of u found this one hard.

 

 

 

 

 

Once we had practised our sewing skills we thought about the patterns we needed to create to help us. We had to take measurements of our teddy bear to ensure our pattern was the correct size before we could create our pattern with paper.

 

 

 

 

 

Make

In order to make our tunics we pinned our pattern to some hessian before carefully cutting around it. We then decided which stitches to use to join our tunic together. Most of us chose a running stitch as we found this one easier to do.

It took lots of patience and we had to be careful when we sewed our tunic together.

Evaluate

When our tunics were finished we put the on our teddy bears. Some were a little tight and some of us had to cut the front to get them on so we created jackets.

We completed an evaluation of our finished tunic and thought about the things we did well and things we would change if we made a tunic again.

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.

ordinance survey

By Mrs K SMITH6th February 2025

As part of our geography this term, Year 3 have been using an amazing online resource called digimaps. We have been able to look at different maps from 1890’s, 1950’s and today. We have compared our local area and discussed the developments that have taken place.

As part of us comparing these maps we needed a way to look at all these maps in the same way. We used ordinance survey icons to help us and we quickly spotted that things like churches have always been in our local area. We also spotted that things like viewing areas are a newer addition to our area as these were not on the earlier maps.

We really enjoyed using these ordinance survey symbols to help us identify lots of different features in our local area.

Y4 Mental Health Report

By Mr S MORGAN4th February 2025

Today Y4 launched their video ‘Looking After Your Mental Health’ for the start of Children’s Mental Health Week 2025. This formed part of a really interesting English project where children learned all about the importance of mental health. They then wrote reports and finally worked in groups to come up with a report which they could report. As a year group, we merged the best bits together and created this video report written by them. Huge well done to the children who presented their parts so well, and a big well done to all children for their contributions both on screen and off!

 

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.