Year4 Cusack

Global Links

2012-01-20T08:23:00.000-08:00

Both Year 4 classes were treated to a wonderful, global experience yesterday. Our Samba teacher, Miss Macleod, has recently travelled to Brazil as part of her studies. She suggested a live link up while she was there and we managed to make it happen yesterday afternoon. For the JB students, we got to meet some of Miss Macleod's colleagues, who came from all over, not just Brazil, and listen to them perform an amazing piece of music for us live. The children got the opportunity to ask questions about Brazil and jumped at the chance, coming up with some very appropriate international and music-related questions. I was very impressed! Some of the children also got to perform for our 'cyber-guests', showing Miss Macleod's colleagues just how much they had already learned with her.
It was a lovely experience for all involved.

A bit of a round up...

2011-12-15T06:12:00.000-08:00

Well, Christmas has come again and we've reached the end of another exciting term. So exciting that Mr. C. has forgotten to put anything up on the blog for the past few weeks! Silly Mr. C.

To make up for this blunder, here are a few pictures showing what we've been up to since November:

Identifying states and changing states.

Using Photostory to make mini movies.

Using P.E. to learn about how our body works.

Researching winter festivals.

Clay modelling - making snowmen

Funny Bones

2011-11-03T05:26:00.000-07:00

Alas, our topic on Bones is coming to an end. Never fear. Our next topic (Food, Glorious Food) is sure to excite you all.

All throughout our exploration of bones we've been working on making our own skeletons. It's been a long process which has involved many skills:

Numeracy - measuring our own bones and halving the lengths to make our puppets small enough to manage.
Science - labelling our paper bones so that we could remember where each one goes in the skeleton.
D&T - using beads as joints, using string as a frame, using a firm wooden stick as our supportive spine as well as sawing and building the frame to allow us turn our skeleton into string puppets.

Literacy - creating a playscript (to be acted out later) using our string puppet skeletons.
Though it has been difficult at times and extremely frustrating (especially when the strings became tangled), the experience has been very educational and engaging. Well done Year 4!

Bones - Natural History Museum trip

2011-10-19T13:12:00.000-07:00

Year 4 spent the day today at the Natural History Museum exploring more about bones and what we can learn from them.

A firm favourite was the dinosaur room with its huge fossils and dinosaur replicas.

We also explored the mammals room to see how bone structures developed after the dinosaur eras.

Finally, we got to see the invertebrates (no back bone) and exoskeletons (skeleton on the outside of the body) in the marine life section of the museum.

Take a look at our trip in the photo-story below.

Using imagination

2011-10-07T00:22:00.000-07:00

For the past couple of weeks Y4C have been hard at work developing their vocabulary so that they may write more descriptive settings and characters for their stories.

We've been coming up with interesting adjectives to aid in our descriptions by looking at a range of characters and settings from some of our favourite stories and films. We've used these to generate lists of adjectives.

A great way of expanding your vocabulary is to take words we already know and to find alternatives. The thesaurus is a great resource for this and the children have enjoyed learning how to use the thesaurus to good effect!

2011-09-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

Welcome back everybody!

It was wonderful to see (almost) everyone back at school today. Year 4 is full of lots of interesting topics but I'm not going to spoil all the surprises just yet.

This week we are concentrating on reacquainting ourselves with school rules and procedures, while also looking into all the different ways people learn (learning styles). We are not all the same (thankfully) and everyone learns in different ways. This week, the children will get the chance to explore the ways in which they most enjoy learning. This will be of great benefit to them (as well as their teachers) thoughout the year.

Next week, we'll be taking a trip halfway around the world to Australia for International Week so get busy reseaching interesting facts about the land of Oz. As Mr. Norris (he is from Australia) might say, "Struth mate!".

Last minute change to the CD song!

2011-07-04T12:50:00.000-07:00

We've made a change with the song we'll be singing for the school CD. The new song is much easier and more comfortable for the children to sing and they enjoy it too. It's the classic Beatles song, When I'm 64.

Working with clay - African masks

2011-07-04T12:05:00.000-07:00

Using everything we had observed during the week, we set to work on our clay African masks. Y3C used paper to form the curve of the face and then added facial features such as eye sockets, eyes, a nose and lips. Using their decorative skills, they added a few extra design features to the clay.

Once the clay had dried the children began their challenge of creating an African design for their mask. The results stand for themselves. Y3C have done themselves proud throughout the entire Arts Week!

Redbridge Drama Centre

2011-07-04T11:57:00.000-07:00

A well-timed visit to the Redbridge Drama Centre allowed us to explore the performance arts. The children got into character as villagers from a long, long time ago (before electricity) and acted out improvised scenes from the story 'The Last Wolf'.

Planning our ideas for our African masks

2011-07-04T11:44:00.000-07:00

In preparation for the design challenge later in the week (clay African masks), we looked at some examples to inspire our work:

Next, we experimented on either paper or on our colleagues to get a better idea of the skills needed:

African Drumming

2011-07-04T11:31:00.000-07:00

Y3C were extremely lucky to get the chance to learn a bit about African drumming with their instructor who had come all the way from Ghana. Throughout the lesson the children were completely engaged and thoroughly enjoyed learning the basics of a simple African beat.

Proportional Drawing - Pencil

2011-07-04T11:04:00.000-07:00

We took a break from all the art work to do some observation. Using string, we marked out the distance from the tops of our heads to our chins. We noted where our eyes, ears, nose and mouth were positioned on the string:

Now it was time to put our observations to work! Using what we had learned, we used a face-grid to guide our lifelike sketches:

Mirror Sketching

2011-07-04T10:41:00.000-07:00

Continuing with our theme of Portraits, we did some more work on our faces. To better understand the dimensions of a face, we needed to take a closer look at our own. Using mirrors and a whiteboard marker (and closing one eye), we carefully traced around the outline of the face, eyes, nose, lips and hair.

For those of you who have never tried it, this is not an easy task. The slightest movement can mess everything up. The good news was that all we had to do was wipe out the whiteboard marker and try again. After about 4 or 5 tries each, we started to see some interesting results:

Pop Art - Andy Warhol Paintings

2011-07-04T10:14:00.000-07:00

After creating our individual photographs, we used these in our Andy Warhol activity.

Using 4 copies of our pictures, we took our inspiration from some of Andy Warhol's most famous portraits. The children chose the colours they wished to use and varied how where they used them in each picture, with stunning results:

Mr. Cusack's Favourite week at John Bramston, so far...

2011-07-04T07:02:00.000-07:00

Last week, we were lucky to spend the whole week doing different types of art. This was because it was... Arts Week!

It quickly became my favourite week at school. Y3C really got into the idea of Arts Week (trying to improve your art skills) and enjoyed exploring the different aspects of our theme. The whole school theme was 'Africa' (handy, as it's our current topic, hee hee!) but we also focussed on another theme - Portraits.

We started the week by investigating the artist known as Andy Warhol. He was well known for his 'Pop Art' portraits of famous celebrities. Y3C came up with unique expressions to express their own personalities and to use as the base for their own Warhol paintings. Here are a few:

The Big Dance

2011-06-22T09:32:00.000-07:00

For those of you at home who would like to get a little more practice in before the big day of the Big Dance, here is the video for you to practise along with:

Even Mr. Cusack is getting good at it now!

Song for this year's CD... maybe

2011-06-10T09:21:00.000-07:00

Here is what we hope to be recording for this year's John Bramston CD. It's a tricky song to master vocally but, with a bit of practice, we might just be able to pull it off. We like to aim high :)

Have a practice singing along and try your best to match the vocals.

Mr. C.

Letters to Taiwan

2011-05-24T11:22:00.000-07:00

Year 3 have gone global! Over the last few weeks, the year 3's have been learning all about letter writing.

In this age of email and digital communication the art of letter writing seems to have taken a bit of a back seat. So Y3C decided to go a bit 'retro' and explore what you need to remember when writing an actual letter.

We've learnt how to include our (school) address in the top right-hand corner, start our letters with a welcoming greeting, group similar ideas into paragraphs, include interesting details, and to finish with an appropriate closing sentence or paragraph (all useful skills which can be transferred to email writing).

We sent off our letters and eagerly waited for our Taiwanese colleagues to reply. Luckily, we didn't have to wait too long. Though email is certainly faster, there's a certain something special that you get when you open a sealed envelope.

Here are some examples of the great work we have sent off:

We are currently working on our individual replies, relaying some local insight from the royal wedding, and hope to learn some more about Taiwan before the end of the year.

Mr. Cusack

Designing circuits for our Iron Man!

2011-04-06T08:17:00.000-07:00

Alas, we are nearing the end of our topic on Robots.

We have learned so much already about electricity and how it works, about drawing and making circuits, using components, nevermind all the amazing learning that stemmed from our close look at the Ted Hughes book, The Iron Man.

To put in one word, it has been awesome.

To show you just how much the children in Y3C have developed their understanding over the past few weeks I've included 2 short videos from this afternoon's session on electricity.

The 'Tin-Foil Man' in our class seemed to have printed a message for us to read. Even though he was quite rude to Mr. Cusack, the children still jumped at the chance to help him become more like a real robot. They broke into groups and designed a circuit to go inside the Tin-Foil Man. Here are 2 of the groups discussing what they are doing:

Let me just say that I was incredibly impressed with the high level of understanding that I observed this afternoon when the children were discussing what and why they needed certain components for their circuits. In one of the videos, Dayna pretty much explains the difference between conventional current (positive to negative) and the actual flow of electrons (negative to positive) - secondary school level understanding! Well done everyone.

Mr. Cusack.

Static Electricity

2011-03-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

As part of of topic on ROBOTS we have been learning about electricity (as robots would be pretty useless without it).

One of our investigations involved using balloons and our sweaters to generate some static electricity. Here's an example of the learning taking place.

(Apologies for the background noise but when the children are really enjoying their learning they tend to let each other know and things can get a bit noisy.)

3D in 3C!

2011-03-22T12:58:00.000-07:00

Numeracy classes in 3C this week are taking on the topic of 3 Dimensional objects (or 3D to you and me).

We've been learning the names of some of the 3D shapes and have enjoyed making some of our own. Over the next few days we will be learning how to describe 3D shapes by their features and maybe even making some of our own to take home.

Here's what we've come up with so far:

Pentagonal Prism

Pentagonal Pyramid

Triangular Prism

Tetrahedron, Square Based Pyramid and Triangular Prism

Pentagonal Prism

Double Tetrahedron

Cube

Cube

2 Tetrahedra (plural for Tetrahedron)

Cube, Pyramid and Cylinder

Pyramid

Double Pyramid

Cuboid

Dodecahedron

Mr. Cusack

Reading Corner

2011-02-27T07:10:00.000-08:00

Over the last few weeks 3C has been heavily involved in a project to redesign our reading corner.

Reading has always been (and will continue to be) one of the most important skills a child can develop. Good reading ability allows a person not just to engage with their learning but, more importantly, gain a sense of enjoyment from an interesting text. Interesting texts come in many forms: a fictional story, an information book, a comic, a football magazine, a music book, or whatever you choose to read for enjoyment.

About a month ago we asked the children for their initial ideas of what they would like their reading corner to become. Here are some of their efforts:

Next we voted on our favourite themes and on key details from our designs. With Mrs. Khan's expert help we organised our ideas and added them to our overall class design. Next we started ripping up paper for our papier mache tree, bush and volcano. After glueing our paper together and covering it with more paper we were ready to begin painting our 3D creations:

Meanwhile, another group of students took it upon themselves to restructure the way we organise our reading books. Completely independently, they decided on catagories for the books, sorted through them to remove unwanted texts, designed labels for the new catagories and even set up special boxes for author studies of Roald Dahl, Roger Hargreaves and Jacqueline Wilson:

Other groups took it upon themselves to create the tall grass background and the jam-jar lanterns:

All our creativity, hard work and effort finally paid off as we reassembled the reading corner. We now have a new, exciting area for everyone to share books and reading experiences with and, hopefully, to gain an even-greater enjoyment of the simple pleasure of reading a good text!

Space: To Infinity and Beyond

2011-02-08T12:07:00.000-08:00

To begin our new topic on the solar system and space we visited the Planetarium at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. It was a fantastic day with lots of learning, loads of questions, and an engaging start to our topic. A HUGE thank you to all of our parent helpers. It would not have been the success it was without your help!

Mr. Cusack.

Role play

2011-01-19T11:54:00.000-08:00

In Literacy we have been reading a new story, Dougal the Deep Sea Diver. We have been spending quite a bit of time making predictions about what might happen, investigating the characters, and taking a really in-depth look at this great story. Here are some pictures of the class using role play to develop their ideas of what might be happening in the story.

Patterns and the Anglo-Saxons

2011-01-19T11:45:00.000-08:00

Our latest topic covers lots of different learning areas. We are learning more history through investigating the lives of the Anglo-Saxons. We are developing our Art and D&T skills by designing our own versions of Anglo-Saxon patterns. Also, through our pattern work, we have been exploring symmetrical and non-symmetrical patterns along with work on number sequences in Numeracy.

Investigating the different patterns we can make.

Making symmetrical pattern prints.

First attempt at using our printing blocks to print.

The last few months...

2011-01-19T11:35:00.000-08:00

Apologies for the lack of pictures on the 3C blog recently. The class website (Fronter) has been hogging all my time. That said, here is a brief look at the last couple of months in pictures:

Practising our handwriting

Learning how to use speech marks

Making Christmas wreaths

Using clay to learn about halves and quarters

Light and Shadows

2010-10-22T09:25:00.000-07:00

3C have started their new topic on 'Light and Shadows'.

Already we are turning into budding young scientists, investigating ideas and developing conclusions from our observations. Here are some pictures of 3C using straight and bent tubes to test if light can travel around corners.

We've also been learning about light sources and investigating if we can change the direction of our shadows.

More Roman shields

2010-10-22T08:36:00.000-07:00

3C worked so well to make their Roman shields look as authentic as possible. Using their Design and Technology joining skills they added 'metal' plates to the front of their shields and brackets to the sides to create the authentic curved look.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What a Wonderful World

2010-10-05T09:25:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are interested in learning ALL the words, here is the song we are currently learning in Y3C. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Mr. C.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby ii ii iii
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true ooh ooooh
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me ee ee eeh
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me oh
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? i iiii

Well I see trees of green and
Red roses too,
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Well I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark and I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying, I...I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more
Than we'll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world (w)oohoorld

Someday I'll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find me
Oh, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? I hiii ?

Roman Shields Weren't Built in a Day.

2010-10-04T12:05:00.000-07:00

Y3C have been incredibly busy for the past few weeks learning all about the Romans. It's been a great topic so far. We've learned about Rome and where it is, how the people of Rome were governed, about the Roman invasion of Britain, Roman schools, Roman homes, and about the many gods the Romans prayed to. We've also been investigating non-fiction texts about the Romans and the children have been busy honing their research skills. All of this and we're not finished yet!

Since last week we have been looking at Roman soldiers and how they were excellent warriors. We've been busy designing and making our own Roman shields. Y3C have made their teachers very proud with their excellent teamwork and communication skills. Working together they decided on their final designs, pulling aspects of their individual designs together into a collective creation.

Here are a few pictures of how we have been learning. Come back next week and see how our Roman army gets on when we stage a battle against the Celts!

Welcome Back!

2010-09-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

A very big welcome back to all my new students in Y3C. I hope you are all nice and relaxed and after having an enjoyable summer. I'm really looking forward to helping you all develop your learning skills in fun and interesting ways. Maybe you can teach me a thing or two aswell...

See you on Monday!

Mr. Cusack

Year 3 - Litter Awareness in our Community

2010-07-15T12:27:00.001-07:00

Well done Year 3! Congratulations on winning the JB Film Awards trophy.

Y3 have been working very hard on their Litter Awareness Campaign. First the children thought about the problems with litter and discussed how they felt about this. Then they carried out some research for homework about the effects of littering. Following on from this they designed and made huge placards to encourage people not to litter.

Next they designed their own survey questions, and on Thursday 8th July, 3E and 3C went off to Manford Way to raise public awareness of the effects of litter and to carry out a survey. It was a really interesting visit and the public were very helpful in answering the questions honestly.

We compiled all the footage of their work into our film entry and they were rewarded for all their hard work with the award. (There should have been a lot more footage but computer/camera malfunctions unfortunately prevented this.) Well done Year 3!

2010-07-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

A big, big thanks to Mrs Onelum (Mariah's mum) who came in for a visit this week. Since we couldn't go to Africa, we were lucky to have a little bit of Africa come to us!

Year 3 received first hand experience of African textiles, media and food (a clear favourite with everyone) and had the opportunity to quiz Mrs Onelum with questions about African culture.

2010-06-22T05:59:00.000-07:00

This week we are comparing 2 different versions of a story. The story we have chosen is The Pied Piper. 3C have been getting into role to better understand the story and the characters. Here is a snippet of what they've performed:

Mr. Cusack

Year 3 - Song for our CD

2010-05-27T07:58:00.000-07:00

Here is the song we are learning for the school CD.

The song is Forever Young, originally sung by Alphaville.

Tennis at Redbridge Sports Centre

2010-05-17T09:09:00.000-07:00

On Thursday 29th April, 3E and 3C went along to Redbridge Sports Centre to have a tennis lesson using their indoor tennis courts. This followed on from some sessions we received in school from the tennis coaches at Redbridge Sports Centre. We had a great time and worked particularly on developing our forehand pass. Take a look at our photos!

Mr. Cusack

3D in 3C.

2010-05-13T13:26:00.000-07:00

For the past few months, 3C have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. They've used this knowledge in a number of ways, from recognising 3D shapes in everyday objects around the house to helping them visualise and plan their robot designs.

One of the most fun aspects of learning about 3D shapes has been using the Polydron pieces to explore the interesting world of 3D. Here are a selection of some of more usual (and unusual) 3D creations they have made.

Mr. Cusack

2010-03-19T08:10:00.000-07:00

Last week, the whole of Year 3 went to visit the Royal Observatory at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. It was a terrific day and a wonderful addition to our topic on 'Space: To Infinity and Beyond'. The children got a real kick out of watching space come alive, landing on the moon and on Mars, and getting a glimpse of what may lie beyond our own galaxy.

Here are some pictures from our trip.
Mr. Cusack.

Musical patterns - composition.

2010-01-13T13:41:00.000-08:00

Our current topic is all about Patterns and the different types of patterns we see and hear everyday all around us. Y3C have been listening to different pieces of music and have tried to find the patterns within the songs.

Once we understood that music is made up of repeating patterns we decided to make some of our own. We used cue cards to help us invent individual sounds and then combined them into groups of four to make our repeating musical patterns.

Here is a sample of what we came up with. I hope you are as impressed with what we achieved (in just one lesson) as I was.

Mr. Cusack.

Exploring how characters feel.

2010-01-12T13:46:00.000-08:00

Welcome back Y3C. I hope you are as excited as I am about the New Year and all the interesting learning that is ahead of us. It was a real pity that the snow stopped us from visiting the National Gallery for our topic on Patterns but, hopefully, we will be able to reschedule the trip in the very near future.

This week Y3C have been taking a detailed look at some characters from a new story we are exploring. We haven't read the book yet. We are imagining who and what the characters might be just from the pictures. Below you will see our efforts at getting into role. We have had a lot of fun so far and I'm proud to say that the responses you are coming up with are both creative and intelligent.

Keep up the great work!

Mr. Cusack.

Learning languages from each other.

2009-11-23T14:19:00.000-08:00

One of the many reasons I am proud to teach Y3C is that they have been really up for sharing each other's cultures and languages. Everyday, we practice greeting each other in many different ways. We've practiced bits and pieces of Chinese, French, Arabic, Turkish, Indian, German, Irish and more. However, no one has taught us more (so far) that Mr. Sekula. Yes, that's right, Y3C had a visit from a very special teacher last week, our very own Maksymillian. Here he is taking us through the basics of Polish phonics. Apologies for the video quality but I think you can see that we are very lucky to have so many different cultures in our class willing to share!

Mr. Cusack.

mm, cm, metres and kilometres

2009-11-23T13:52:00.000-08:00

Year 3C have been working extremely hard over the last few weeks at learning how to measure accurately. We have carried out many studies including this one, to find out the most common length of shoe in our class. We found out that we have mostly big feet (over 20cm long!).

Y3C are doing fantastic work in Numeracy.

Mr. Cusack

Learning all about fables...

2009-09-28T16:06:00.000-07:00

Year 3C have been busy learning all about fables and even got the chance to act out a popular fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Through acting out the story, they were able to understand how the different characters felt and wrote sentences to show these feelings. They did a great job.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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Mr. Cusack.

Welcome all Y3C students back to school!

2009-09-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

Welcome back to John Bramston Y3C. I can tell we are all going to learn so much this year. To get you started, how about you try out this game I found. Let's see how good you are at number bonds of 10! Please leave me a comment and tell me if you liked the game. Mr. C.

Click here to play the number bonds game.

Shadow Puppet Show Awards

2009-07-15T03:34:00.000-07:00

Shadow puppets

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As part of our science work this term we have been looking at Light and Shadows.
The children made their own shadow puppet theatres, wrote scripts and produced their own shows. Have a look at what they did.

2009-07-15T03:28:00.000-07:00

Fish

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We have been making Bean Bag Fish in Y3 - Have a look at our reults!

Drumming Delight

2009-06-19T08:31:00.000-07:00

Inder showed us how clever he was at playing drums. It's quite a skill keeping two separate drum beats going with both hands at the same time. Excellent performance Inder!!

Arts Week

2009-06-12T06:17:00.000-07:00

We have been having an exciting time taking part in arts week.
The children have taken part in Dancing, Photography, textiles, drawing, DT and sweet making as well as learning about the origins of Bollywood.

A group of childen have been making Fish beanbags and their skills in sewing and threading needles have been quite remarkable for children of such tender years!!.
Here are some photos of them working - watch this space, more to follow.

New Half Term

2009-06-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

Welcome back everyone, we hope you all enjoyed your half term break.
Mrs Smith, Miss Kaur and Miss Casey will be working with 3G during Mr Griffith's absence. 3 teachers for the price of 1!!
We aim to ensure your children receive the best possible education during this time. Continuity and making sure the children feel safe and valued and ready to learn are our prime aims. If you have any concerns or would like to speak to one of the class teachers, please do not hesitate to approach us.

Riddle poems

2009-05-12T11:08:00.000-07:00

In Y3, we have been writing animal riddle poems.We chose an animal, and wrote some clues to describe the animal.Can you guess what the animal in the poem below is? How many clues did you need?

Riddles poem

I have sharp claws,
and I sometimes growl.

I have big jaws,
and I like to prowl.

I have a golden coat of fur,
I like to eat meat.

I am a lion!!

Green Fingers

2009-04-24T03:45:00.000-07:00

This term Y3G are finding out all about plants in science and will be growing them from seed.
On Tuesday the 21st April (which was the first day back for the children after the Easter holidays) we all planted a sunflower seed in a pot of damp compost. We are gong to keep a record of how each seed germinates and how the plant develops and we will keep you posted with our results on the blogspot.
Eventually we will be planting our sunflowers in the border at the front of the school like we did last year.
We must remember to take some photographs this year!

Talking Tins!

2009-04-03T03:19:00.000-07:00

In our ICT assembly slot today our class demonstrated Talking tins.
We have been using them this term to help us learn Spanish words.
We worked in small groups to learn Spanish words for numbers and colours, we found the talking tins really helpful.

Y3 Mother's Day cards.

2009-03-20T04:50:00.000-07:00

Y3G have been making Mother's Day cards this week and we showed them in our sharing assembly on Friday. We also foud out how it was that Mother's day began way back in the sixteenth century when maids and servants were given the day off to visit their mothers!

Y3G have been busy!

2009-03-13T04:26:00.000-07:00

Following on from last week's book week, we made up our own mini-books based on the Anglo Saxon period which we have been studying in History. We found out lots of interesting information which we included in our books. Things like the names of the days of the week which are Anglo Saxon in origin and also place names ending in -ton
, -ing and -ham (Luton, Chessington and Birmingham) as well as many others. We also noticed that there is one single Anglo Saxon wooden church still in existence, (all the others have long since rotted away) and it stand in a little town called Ongar which is only 11 miles away from Hainault. Our teacher Mr. G knows Ongar very well since he lived there for five years.

Pictures of our trip to Hainault Forest!

2009-02-27T03:21:00.000-08:00

Y3 trip to Hainault forest.

2009-02-13T03:07:00.000-08:00

Last Monday the 9th of February both the Year 3 classes walked to Hainault forest. We had been invited to the opening of a new climbing frame playground area for children. The Mayor of Redbridge was there for the grand opening and we were the first children allowed to test the new equipment. We had a great time, despite a day of non-stop rain. We enjoyed a free lunch provided by the Centre. We hope to be able to show photographs of the event in our next blog.

Springs in science.

2009-01-30T03:19:00.000-08:00

In Friday's showing assembly we talked about springs and showed examples of the different kinds of springs there are to be found in everyday objects.We learnt that there are two main types of springs. Compression springs as used in biros and staplers, and extension springs as used in trampolines and Newton meters.

Sharing assembly 16-1-09

2009-01-16T03:10:00.001-08:00

Y3G are finding out all about magnets and magnetism in science during the first half of this term. Kymani, Bernice, Charlie,Gracjan,Geevitha and Nathan talked about what our class had learnt during assembly. We had found out that most metals are non magnetic and only four are attracted to a magnet, two familiar metals iron and steel, and two not so familiar, nickel and cobalt.

ICT Assembly

2008-12-12T03:55:00.000-08:00

Y3G had fun showing the Digital Document Camera in the sharing assembly on the Thursday 11th December. Mr G showed his Roman coin, which was 1800 years old.

The Road-wise Ranger theatre group entertain us!

2008-11-21T01:59:00.000-08:00

Year 3 joined KS1 for an hour's entertainment on Thursday afternoon. There was a serious message associated within the comedy sketches however, it was all about obeying the rules of the Green Cross Code and crossing the road safely!

Year 3G's British Museum photographs are here!

2008-11-14T03:28:00.000-08:00

This photograph shows everyone in Year 3 posing in front of the British Museum in London. We all look really excited don't we because we're about to go inside!

This is Geevitha posing with one of the Isle of Lewis Chessmen at the British Museum Children's Shop.

This is Mr. G standing beside a Roman artefact (it's a kind of inkpot!)found by his friend Justin Hayes in a field near Bishop's Stortford 30 years ago. Mr. Hayes sold it to the British Museum and he received so much money in payment for it that he was able to buy a house!

Science news!

2008-11-03T08:30:00.000-08:00

This term we are looking at materials and their properties!

2008-11-03T08:21:00.000-08:00