Curriculum

Building birdhouses

Building birdhouses

This half term in DT, we have designed, built and evaluated our own birdhouses. We began by finding out about the different kinds of bird houses and the birds that live in them. Mrs Fraser challenged us to design and build a birdhouse for a blue tit, great tit or...

Pneumatic Devices

Pneumatic Devices

This half term in DT Year 3 have been looking at pneumatic systems that use air pressure to make something more. We started by constructing various investigations using straws, syringes and balloons before designing a toy car for 7-9 year olds that included a...

Boom Whackers

Boom Whackers

Over the last two weeks in Music, the children in Year 3 have used Boom Whackers. Stuart explained to the children that when their coloured Boom Whacker appeared on the board during each song, they had to tap theirs on their hand to each beat. Some of the songs they...