Banana Muffins

Banana Muffins

On Friday, Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed making banana muffins as part of their Design Technology project. We started off by using scales and measuring jugs to measure out the ingredients before learning new skills such as whisking, folding, sieving and how to crack eggs....
Year 3’s Visit to Holy Island

Year 3’s Visit to Holy Island

Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed our whole school trip to Holy Island on Monday. The highlight was exploring the beach, finding St. Cuthbert’s beads, different rocks and shells and hermit crabs. It was lovely to learn more about St. Aidan and the island itself.
Empathy Workshop

Empathy Workshop

Yesterday, Year 3 were involved in a workshop all about empathy, organised by Gateshead Libraries. We started off by reading a picture book called ‘The River’ which helped us to understand what empathy means. We were then given different scenarios and were asked to...
Pneumatic Devices

Pneumatic Devices

This half term in DT, we have been looking at pneumatic systems, in which air is used to make something move. We started off by researching different systems and looked at how they worked. We then made straw rockets before designing our own toy cars which use a...