internet safety day

By Mrs K SMITH8th February 2024

For internet safety day, year 3 have been discussing different things that we may see or hear online and how these make us feel.

We looked at different scenarios including friends posts, you tuber videos and gamer messages. Some of these scenarios made us feel positive and we liked how they would make us feel if we saw them. Some of them made us feel negative and we did not like these one. We discussed why they made feel us this way and what me do if we saw things like this. We also talked about all the people who can help us and how we can ask for help to deal with things that upset us or make us worried online.

YEAR 3 P.E: HEALTH AND WELLBEING – MIDFULNESS – YOGA

By Miss L STEWART5th February 2024

Year 3 have taken on a Mindful approach to our Yoga sessions with Mrs Cobby this Spring term.

The children have revisited, built-upon and perfected many of the Yoga poses we have practiced in previous year groups, as well as practicing some new ones…here are just a few:

The children really enjoyed ‘Dance Yoga’ too whereupon when the music stopped they had to strike a pose with a suggested letter of the alphabet!

We have also practiced our Mindful Breathing by practicing our ‘Box-Breathing’ skills alongside our ‘Havening Touch’ and ‘Shark Breath’ techniques, which are all relaxation techniques that aim to calm both our bodies and our minds. To end each session, the children adopted the ‘Lotus’ position whilst listening to the calmful, reverberating sound of the ‘singing bowl’.

Namaste…and THANK YOU Mrs Cobby!

YEAR 3 P.E – GAMES -INVASION- HOCKEY

By Miss L STEWART5th February 2024

Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed getting to grips with our new hockey equipment in this Spring terms unit of Hockey.

We have focused on the core skills of how to hold the hockey stick in order for our own safety and that of others; dribbling in order to keep possession of the ball;  ensuring that we remain aware of attackers and keeping control of the ball when changing direction, as well demonstrating our knowledge of making an accurate pass to maintain possession in a game.

Once we had mastered all of our knew skills we put all of our new knowledge into practice and played some mini hockey tournaments.

Well done Year 3…Jolly Hockey Sticks!!!

stone age to iron age

By Mrs K SMITH18th January 2024

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 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.

Art exhibition

By Mrs K SMITH18th November 2023

We are so proud to have held our first Christopher Pickering Art Exhibition.

The whole school spent several weeks in preperation practising our art skills using different medias and exploring different artists work in order to create our art work. Some of us used collage, some used oil pastels, colour washing, paint, pencil and marker pens to name just some of the media in our final masterpieces. We drew on all the rt skills we have developed so far to help us create our fantastic art work and combined this with the influence of different artists including Tracey Savage, Van Gough, Paul Klee and Kandinsky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were all very proud when had the opportunity to visit the gallery and see our work displayed in frames and named just like true artists.

We hope that everybody who had chance to visit the gallery had a lovely time.

hull’s history

By Mrs K SMITH12th November 2023

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

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

treble clef stave

By Mrs K SMITH7th November 2023

This week year 3 have been looking at what a treble clef stave is and how to write musical notes one.

We have learnt the notes B, A and G so far and this week we have looked at where abouts these would be placed on a musical stave.

We found there are mnemonics we can say to help us where these notes go. We have practiced FACE for notes that sit in the spaces and Every Good Boy Deserves Food for the notes that sit on the lines.

We practised writing these notes on a stave before we played them on our recorders.

YEAR 3 P.E: GAMES – INVASION – NETBALL

By Miss L STEWART6th November 2023

Year 3 were introduced to the game of Netball today in P.E with the focus on the passing and receiving of the ball so as maintain possession.

After practising the passing and receiving of the ball utilising the chest-pass, we moved on to working as a team with the aim of creating and using the space around us effectively. Once we had developed our chest pass, we moved into a 5v1 game whereby the attackers had to create the space to pass the ball effectively before being intercepted by the defender.

Great TEAMWORK and ball skills YEAR 3!

Y4 MUSIC: RECORDERS – DURATION

By Miss L STEWART16th October 2023

As Musicians in Y4M this week,  we have been exploring the concept of ‘Duration’ and identified the difference between notes which were short or long in the tunes that we have been practicing so far.  In order to play a note with a longer duration the children established a longer steady blow was required.  We then utilised our new knowledge and put it into practice as a class while playing a familiar tune using the notes B, A and G that we are beginning to master on the recorder.

Here is our short rendition of ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’…

Masters in the making…Encore Y4!

Where is Hull?

By Mrs K SMITH12th October 2023

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.