Blog Author: C. Hayward

We have started our computing sessions by learning about online safety. We began by watching a video about the ‘spaghetti tree’ in Switzerland that had a bumper crop! We were intrigued to learn more about this but then discovered it was a prank! It highlighted how easy it is to spread fake news…

In our History lesson, we learnt more about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process. We used a tomato to represent the human body and scooped out the seeds (which represented internal organs), before covering the inside of the tomato in salt to preserve it, just like the Egyptians did to…

This morning we learnt a Harvest poem and creating art work to share at the Harvest service as we read the poem next week in church. 

 

We have enjoyed reading newspapers today! Not just to keep up to date with the latest world news, but to see how the layout is different to a fiction book. Next week we will study this further, before becoming reporters ourselves and writing a newspaper article from the 1922 discovery of…

To end the afternoon, we enjoyed the quiet of the outdoor classroom to remind ourselves of our ‘Noticing’ activity. We linked it to our school value for this half term, thinking of times we have shown respect to others, when we’ve been respected and of times we could have been more respectful and…

We have been looking at how the Egyptians communicated through hieroglyphics. We had to crack the coded message we were given before using the hieroglyphic alphabet to write our own names. We all agreed that even though it was fun, our English alphabet is much easier! 
 

This afternoon we completed activities based on Roald Dahl books. We made ourselves human centipedes to race and follow wiggly lines, played ‘George’ says following actions that may have happened when George created his marvellous medicine, competed in a ‘hammer throw’, a Roald Dahl alphabet quiz…

Today the children played the minims, noticing how the pitch goes higher as they go up the staff. 
 

Our new English text is a story set in another culture. So far we have made a prediction about what may happen using clues from the front cover and blurb, created a story mountain to tell the story and contrasted the English version with the Egyptian one. We are excited to read more next week. 
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For our first PE lesson, we took our heart rate before exercise then after different types of exertion such as yoga, a jog and a sprint. We compared how it increased after some exercise and decreased after others and discussed why this was. 

Class 3 should all have come home with a chapter book today. This is their ‘Recommended read’ book they have chosen to read for pleasure. Whenever they finish and return it, they are welcome to swap for another one. 

As we approach the end of the school year, we are looking forward to new learning in September. Can you guess what Class 3 will be learning about in History when they return to school?