Year Three
Welcome to Year 3!
Our teachers are Mrs Taylor and Mrs Newton.
We hope you will visit our page regularly to see what we have been up to.
Year 3 Blog Posts
Cooking Popcorn in Forest School
This morning Year 3 cooked popcorn on the fire in forest school. We started off by working together to build the fire while learning about the fire triangle. We then melted coconut oil in a pan before adding the popcorn kernels. We had to listen really carefully for...
Holy Island Highlights
On Monday, children from Year 1 to Year 6 enjoyed a visit to Holy Island. The children learnt about the work of St Aidan on the island and the monastery that he established when he was working to spread Christianity through Northumberland. The children enjoyed seeing...
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 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
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...
Professor Brainstorm
Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from Professor Brainstorm! Professor Brainstorm aims to make science fun by doing lots of exciting experiments. We thoroughly enjoyed his Magical Science Show and learnt lots about electricity, air pressure and temperature....