Today, Year 3 took their science learning into forest school. We had a question to investigate: ‘Does the taller a person is mean they have longer bones?’. The children used metre ruler sticks to measure their height, skull, femur and humorous. They decided that a child’s height did not impact the length of their bones, and we had an interesting discussion about whether this is because they are still growing and if this will change when they are older and stop growing. Bonnie even joined base 9 for their session!

Lots of cave men seem to have invaded Apley Wood Primary Academy yesterday afternoon!

In our history topic, we have been learning all about the Stone Age. An important part of the Stone Age was the cave art that they used to decorate their walls with. Year 3 went out onto the playground and created their own cave art, drawing pictures of animals, human figures and Stone Age characters inspired by the photographs they had seen of real cave art.

Yesterday morning, Year 3 were introduced to their new book and genre in English. We listened to the story of Rosa Parks and then did a quiz to test our knowledge. We then got into groups and freeze-framed the famous scene of Rosa on the bus, thinking about how each of the people involved might have been feeling.

Today, Year 3 went out into forest school for their English ‘Hook into Writing’ lesson. We listened to the story ‘Dave’s Cave’ which we are going to be focusing on before having a go at making our own Stone Age caves. We discussed the moral of the story as well as what makes a good place to settle.

What a great first week back we have had in Year 3! We started off this week by looking at the expectations of this year, and then Base 9 and 10 got together to predict what our new Love to Read book will be, based on the clues provided. We had lots of correct guesses- we will be reading Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl! On Wednesday, we spent the afternoon ordering events in chronological order and learnt all about the 3 eras of the Stone Age.