World Book Day

On World Book Day we dressed up as characters from Roald Dahl books. Benjamin won the Year 3 prize as Mr. Twit.

Oxfam Cake Sale

As part of our topic on food and healthy eating a guest speaker was invited to give a presentation to Year 3, to raise the children’s awareness of the global food crisis. He spoke about food deprivation and poverty in different parts of the world and the children compared these conditions to their own home life.

As a class we wanted to raise money to provide emergency rations for crisis hit families by selling cakes. One ration includes grain, beans, oil, sugar and salt and costs £7.

To link in with our healthy eating theme, the cakes had to include a fruit or vegetable ingredient. On Friday 5 th February hundreds of delicious cakes were brought into school. It was a huge success and Year 3 managed to raise just under £100, providing enough rations for 14 families. Well done Year 3!

Space Pop-up Books

The children enjoyed using reference books and the school laptops to research information about the sun and the planets. They then used this information to create some super pop up books. We thought they were great, we hope you like them too !

Space Aliens

In Design and Technology Year 3 had great fun making very creative aliens from outer space! They used simple pneumatic mechanisms to make either the arms or mouth move.

Exploring Shapes

The children enjoyed making and describing different 3D shapes. Can you name any of them? They also carried out a number of shape investigations including, how many squares can you make from 20 matchsticks?

Science Dome

Our exciting morning started with a warm up game. The class had to hold the edge of a parachute that looked like the solar system. There were holes with nets on the bottom to catch the nine balls. These were the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Inside the dome Neil used his remote to show the position of the sun and the moon by making them move up and down to show day and night.

We saw a video about the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first saying, ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’ He and Buzz Aldrin travelled on a moon buggy. They collected rocks and planted a flag. There is no wind or gravity on the moon so the flag did not flutter.

We saw a video about a boy and his grandad who were camping under the night sky. They looked up to see patterns of stars which are called constellations. They could identify Leo which means lion and Pisces the fish. The brightest star in each constellation is called the alpha star.

Finally, we learnt about the Milky Way. This is the view of our Galaxy from Earth. by William Dopson

Rocket Workshop

On 20 th October Pete, a member of the Hornchurch Airfield Rocket Team (H.A.R.T.), came into school to help every child in Year 3 build their own powered model rocket. They were launched the following day, climbing around 100 foot high! The rockets were amazing and the children had an ‘awesome’ time!

Harvest Time


All the school attended a Harvest service at St Andrews church in Kingham

Creative teaching with mutual respect, preparing our remarkable young people for the future, whatever it holds.