Tonight our Y4s represented the school at a fantastic dodgeball competition. The event was themed around developing sporting values, and instead of finishing positions, children were asked to demonstrate self-belief, teamwork and honesty. All of our children were fantastic and came away with a certificate acknowledging their achievement – well done!
Dodgeball: The CP Chihuahuas, Labradors, Poodles, Pitbulls, Terrier and Bulldogs ready battle!
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?
To start our new topic in Year 3, we have spent time looking at events and new items that were introduced between the Stone Age and the end of the Iron Age. We used the dates to help us put these things into chronological order. It got a little bit confusing as the dates we were looking at were BCE dates and we talked about how these count in a different way.
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.
This afternoon was our first PE session of 2024 and saw Y4 throw themselves – in a control and purposeful way of course – into gymnastics! Our unit ‘bridges’ is about exploring different way we can create gymnastics poses using different points of our bodies on different apparatus. Today we did some group bridges which turned out great! Well done children.
Today we ended the Autumn term with our first ever Santa Run – and what fun it was! Thank you so much to parents who made a fantastic effort to dress up along with children and run the course around our school field. The funds we raised will be put to good use for new outdoor equipment. Merry Christmas!
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?
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.
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.
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.
