Author: Miss Gledhill

Finding Fractions Of Amounts

Year 3 have been using counters to find fractions of numbers.

We used the counters to split the whole into equal parts and looked at how many counters were in one of the parts.
We also learnt that if we want to find 1/3 of a number, we can just divide the number by 3. Finding 1/4 means we divide the number by 4.
The children were really enthusiastic about this learning and loved the rare opportunity to draw on the tables!
Help at home: Practising times tables and division facts will really benefit our maths learning. We will need to use this lots to help us tackle new concepts.

Carnival Music Day

We were so excited to be able to meet Dave who came to do a workshop with us around our new history topic, carnivals!

We started by doing some call and response using clapping. We learnt we had to have group cohesion to ensure we were all clapping at the same time and could really feel the rhythm we were creating by using our bodies.

Dave taught us about the instruments used by the Yoruba tribe in West Africa. This tribe were invaded by European countries and transported as slaves to the Caribbean. This was known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. We will be learning more about this in the upcoming weeks.

The Drums were hollow so the sound can vibrate and get out of the bottom. Tight rope is used to hold the top in place which is made from goat skin.

We learnt the best way to hit a drum so we did not hurt ourselves.

After splitting into four groups, we used our drums in different ways to create a thunder storm.

We then looked at some serdo drums which were much larger and much deeper.

In the afternoon, we created a performance for the whole school using different instruments. Check out our performance here.

Fantastic Forces!

Our new science topic is forces and magnets.

We started the topic by learning that a force is a push, pull or twist. We went out onto the play equipment and thought about which forces we were applying as we moved.

We observed how the more force we use the further and faster the movements.

Here is the vocabulary we will be improving our understanding of this half term.

Help at home: When exercising, ask your child to consider which forces they are applying.