Autumn Learning
Autumn 2
Stone Age Experience
On a very cold November Friday, each class took it in turns to walk up to Whitehouse Primary School where we went back in time to the Stone Age. It was an amazing experience. We got to share our knowledge from our lessons in class, find out new facts and handle artefacts. Back at school, we had a try at creating our own cave art by drawing on the backs of tables. In our writing lessons, we have used our knowledge from this time period to write our own historical stories.
Design Technology
The children have been learning about the importance of a balanced diet within our DT unit 'Food and Nutrition'. We explored how we can add seasoning to popcorn to enhance the flavour, and we added healthy toppings to yogurt. Finally, we prepared our own oven chips and experimented by adding different seasonings before cooking them. We all enjoyed tasting our creations.
Christmas Production
Rehearsals for the Christmas production are going well, and the children are looking forward to showcasing their singing and acting talents with you all in the final week. Thank you to Mrs Cooper, music lead extraordinaire who has worked hard to put this together and, of course, your support at home with the costumes.
Autumn 1 2024
We have been very impressed with how well the year 3 children have settled into Springfield Juniors. They are trying hard to demonstrate the SPRING learning behaviours throughout each day.
We began the term by completing our first art unit of the year. We explored the work of the artist Vincent Van Gogh. We experimented with mark making using pencils and developed different painting skills. We learnt how to cross hatch, change the colour by tinting, impasto, tonking and sgraffito.
In our science lessons, we have enjoyed learning about rocks. We began the unit with a WOW lesson where we played the game of rock, paper, scissors to music. Throughout the course of the lessons, we learnt that there are three different rock types. The children enjoyed practical, hands-on lessons, where they explored real rocks and even got to make their own sweet rock cycle!
In our morning maths lessons, we have developed our knowledge of place value. We are now moving on to using this knowledge to complete addition and subtraction questions. In writing, we practised our sentence writing skills and are currently writing our own first person narrative. We look forward to helping the children become creative writers over the course of the year.
We have been very impressed with the children who have been completing their weekly times table homework. There are 10 games to play in the garage area. Once these have been played, they can explore the rest of the website.