What We will Build-Year 3

 Year 3 have created a unique piece of mixed media art inspired the story, 'What we will Build' by Oliver Jeffers. Take a look:-

Static Electricity DT Challenge

Today we explored static electricity using lots of experiments. Then using our findings we were set the challenge of designing a game for our classmates to play, that had to use static electrictity. See what we got up to!

Year 3-Curious about Static Electricity

 Year 3 have been having fun finding out all about static electricity: we have been very curious to discover what might happen. What did? Take a look:-

Year 3-Battle of Britain Day

 Year 3 had great fun yesterday on our Battle of Britain topic Day. In the morning we made invisible ink, made,cooked and ate our own bread and also deciphered Morse code. In the afternoon we went up to the field where we discovered very strange objects located around the field and had to piece together the mystery of what might have happened. We then engaged in a thrilling 'dogfight' between the RAF and the Luftwaffe. We had a brilliant day and loved dressing up in our WW2 costumes. Take a look:-

Year 3-Black on White Self Portraits.

 Year 3 have been looking at tone, shadow and negative space in Art. In this weeks lesson we had the challenge of using black paint on white paper to create a self portrait. We were inspired by the art work of celebrated street artist BANKSY who uses tone and minimal colours to great effect in his work. We took some silly photos and digitally made them greyscale. We looked at how the negative space in the photo were the lighter areas in our portraits and suggested features. We then had a go at reproducing them in paint. It was very difficult but we all did our very best. Take a look:-

Year 3 Art and Design Skills-Cartoon Faces

 Year 3 have started their new Art topic this term and have been learning all about cartoons. We have learned that cartoons are drawn in a simplistic and minimalist style and don't have to be funny. We looked at a range of cartoon families and cartoon and comic book illustrators from Walt Disney to a contemporary illustrator Afua Richardson. Our first task was to draw cartoon faces and create our own cartoon family. Take a look at our work so far:- 

A Busy Time in Year 3

 It has been a busy time in Year 3 since we have been back. Take a look:-

Year 3 PSHE-Emotions Books

As part of Year 3's PSHE curriculum we are learning that mental wellbeing is a normal part of daily life just like physical health. We also understand that it is important to talk about our feelings and seek support from a trusted adult.

To help us remember this we made emotions booklets. We had fun representing different emotions using our own thumbprints. Take a look:-

Dress to Express

Last Week was Children's Mental Health Week and to support this Oakwood had a 'Dress to Express' Day in each year group. We can all express ourselves in the way we dress, showing everyone who we are and what we like. We accompanied that by expressing ourselves in other ways and being creative. Can you spot any of these in the photos?

Christmas Craft Week Day 2

Today Year 3 had lots of fun making 'shrinkies'. We drew our design onto the magical paper and then used the oven in the KS2 kitchen to create the heat that makes them shrink. We had great fun watching them getting smaller right before our eyes. 

3LD Christmas Craft Week-Day 1

Year 3 started their Christmas Craft week with a little bit of scratch art. Take a look at the results:-

Year 3 RE-Holy Mary Mother of God

Year 3 Local Area Study

 Armed with maps and compasses, Year 3 set off into the woods of Lordswood. We used our equipment to not only locate our route but also North, South, East and West. We also took note of the different land uses surrounding our school. Here are a few pictures:- 

Year 3 Sewing

Year 3 have been working hard on learning lots of different stiches in order to create homemade, bespoke Christmas decorations. They have designed, planned and practised and are now finally working on their final piece. Here are a few pictures to show you how we are getting on:-

The Lighthouse by Year 3

Year 3 have been working hard on their latest writing journey producing a piece of writing which focused on bringing the setting to life-helping the reader to visualise the scene. We were inspired by this great short film The Lighthouse.  After studying great examples, learning some new writing techniques and vocabulary we produced our final pieces. As it is difficult to share our work at the moment, we decided our audience would be our Oakwood community and with that in mind we will be sharing some of our finished work this week on the blog. We hope you enjoy. 

LKS2 join Joe Wick for Children in Need PE challenge

 LKS2 have joined Joe Wicks this morning for the end of his epic 24hour PE challenge. We have star jumped, kicked and sweated....lots. What a lot of fun. Well done LKS2 and well done Joe. 

TikTok Algorithms-Exploring Coding through PE

 Year 3 started their new ICT coding unit by exploring algorithms. After watching a video to help us learn what an algorithm is we watched a dance routine and tried to work out what the algorithm was. After we worked it out we went and had a go to see if we could follow the algorithm. We then had a go at creating our own algorithms. Take a look:-

Year 3 D.T-Pneumatic Monsters

Which magnet is the strongest?

In Year 3 we have been learning about forces and magnets, last week we created our own experiment to work out which was the strongest magnet. Have a look at our photos to see what we got up to.

Year 3 Tribal Dance Part 2

 Year 3 have now added a circle element into their dance routine. Take a look at  our first practice:-