Getting to know each other

By Mrs K SMITH9th September 2023

Year 3 were very excited this week to meet Jigsaw Jino.

Jigsaw Jino helps the class to learn about lots of different things during our Jigsaw PSHE lessons.

This week Year 3 have looked at things they have achieved so far in their life and things they are proud of.

We talked about how we feel when we are proud of ourselves and some of the things we have done to be proud of. We are proud of achievements such as learning to write, ride our bikes, tie our shoe laces and count to a thousand. We are also proud of being good friends and being kind to each other.

We decide what we were most proud of and wrote them down on our gold coins to post in the proud box.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 3 have many things to be proud of and can not wait to achieve more during the year to be proud of.

Enquiry 7 – What is the Human impact on the tropical rainforest?

By Charlotte Ewen17th July 2023

In year 4 Geography, the children have been learning all about the Rainforest Biome. This week, they were investigating what impact humans have on the rainforest and deciding whether the impact is positive or negative. They conducted some independent online research, finding that humans are the main cause of deforestation, however this happenes because of the demand for the land for products and resources we require a lot of.

After researching, the children debated what they had found. They discussed the positives and negatives of the impact humans have on the forest and came to the conclusion that humans have a negative impact on the forest but they understand this comes from human demand. They decided that they will be more conscious and each made a promise to do something small to help reduce the demand on the rainforest.

Doodle Club

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD7th June 2023

Year 3/4’s Doodle Club got off to a good start yesterday.  We have been inspired by our visiting artist, Charlotte Eldred.  The children were really focussed on their tasks.

 

   

YEAR 3 LA FRUTA!

By Miss L STEWART30th May 2023

This term the children in Year 3 have been enjoying learning the Spanish vocabulary for a range of delicious fruits:

Una manzana – an apple
Una fresa – a strawberry
Una pera – a pear
Un albaricoque – an apricot
Una ciruela – a plum

We drew upon our Spanish phonic knowledge recognising that some letters are pronunced differently in the Spanish language:

Una manzana is pronounced as una man’th’ana
Una ciruela is pronounced as una ‘th’iruela
Una naranja is pronunced as una naran’h’a 

We then practiced writing the names of fruits and illustrating our favourites…

We have also  been building upon our Spanish language skills and are now able to recognise whether a noun is masculine or feminine from its article,  including whether the noun is in the singular or plural form!

un=masculine (singular); los=masculine(plural)
una=feminine (singular); las=feminine (plural)

Muy bien Year 3!

 

 

Volcano art

By Mrs K SMITH30th May 2023

In art this term, we have looked at the work of Nick Rowland and the work of JMW Turner. We have compared their work and discussed the different techniques they have used.

Nick Rowland has created colourful volcano pictures using different art techniques such as colour washing and splattering. JMW Turner has created an eruption of Mount Vesuvius using more traditional techniques including sketching and oil painting.

We have sketched our own pictures of Mount Vesuvius, taking inspiration from JMW Turners work. We have ensured we thought about the light and dark shades in our pictures and the dark and light lines as well as thick and thin lines. We used a selection of sketching pencils to create our sketches, we then added detail and darker lines with charcoal.

We added an eruption to our sketch of Mount Vesuvius. We used Nick Rowland as our inspiration for this and used a splattering technique to show the lava erupting from the volcano.

meeting with the local councillor

By Olivia Mead23rd May 2023

On Friday, our school councillors and house captains had an exciting meeting with our local councillor – Councillor Henry. Our children had the opportunity to have their voices heard by the councillor about what they do within Christopher Pickering to support the school. Councillor Henry shared some useful tips about how we can work together with her to incorporate British Values (even more than we already do!) into our school.

After our meeting, our house captains took the pleasure of showing Councillor Henry around our school, gardens and playground. They took ownership and developed leadership with the help of our special visitor!

Different types of volcanoes

By Mrs K SMITH18th May 2023

Year 3 are really enjoying our new topic about about volcanoes.

We have spent time looking at the layers of the Earth and found out lots of details about each layer. We know the outside of the Earth is called the crust and then the following layers are the mantle, the outer core and finally, the inner core.

We have also looked at the parts of a volcano and can identify different parts such as the crater, the throat, the vent and the ash cloud.

This week, we have looked at different types of volcanoes. We looked at different volcanoes around the world and discussed why we thought they may be different form each other. We thought that some may be dormant or extinct volcanoes as trees and plants were growing around them. We also thought that some volcanoes were older than others.

The volcanoes we looked at were different forms of volcanoes. We discovered that high sided volcanoes are called composite and that volcanoes that look a little like a bowl and have runny lava are called shield volcanoes.

Coronation Art with Charlotte Eldred

By Miss T LITHERLAND5th May 2023

On Thursday, Year 3 and 4 were very lucky as we had local artist, Charlotte Eldred in to work with us and we took part in a ‘Doodling Workshop’ based on the invitations for the Coronation.

A man called Andrew Jamieson designed the invites and before coming into our school, Charlotte asked permission to create doodles inspired by his work and he said yes! He also asked her to send some of the finished pieces to him so some of our work will be with the man who designed to invites! How exciting!

 

In Mrs Yardley’s class we worked hard on drawing outlines of crowns and lions (lions based on the crest) and then spent time doodling our own designs into the crowns!

As King Charles will be the third king as Charles and as he loves the environment so much we used these things to inspire our doodles. We think they all turned out pretty good!