Welcome to Class 3  2021-22

In Class 3 we have Years 5 and 6. The teacher is Mrs Ascot and the LSA is Mrs Bisby. We welcome Mrs Rook into Class 3 on Friday afternoon as our PPA cover teacher.

We hope the children enjoy their time in Class 3 and are ready to take on the challenge of being in Year 5 and 6. They have lots of exciting learning ahead of them!

As Scientists we have been learning about the 5 kingdoms of living things. We focused in detail on the kingdom of Fungi. The children looked in detail at some mushrooms and learnt how they reproduce with spores.

As athletes the children have been spending time developing their agility with the use of equipment. Mrs Rook taught a great lesson based on bowling which really encouraged hand eye co-ordination as well as team work.

As artists Class 3 visited the galleries of local artists who live in Mary Tavy. The children thoroughly enjoyed having the opportunity to see real artists at work. The children asked very interesting questions and were they inspired by the amazing art work on show. They then had the opportunity to put their own art skills into action in an art session where they developed their observation skills. 

As Scientists this week we have been learning about classification keys. We learnt why scientist use them. We also learnt about the 5 kingdoms which all living things are sorted into.

We had a go at using our own criteria drawing on our previous knowledge of living things to create some of our own classification keys. We are very proud of them.

As part of Roald Dahl day 2021 we explored part of the book James And The Giant Peach.

For those of you who are familiar with the book the is part of the story where the giant peach is lifted high up into the air and flown by a flock of seaguls.

As  engineers Class 3 were given the challenge of making their "peaches" ( hard boiled eggs) fly.

.All the children worked collaboratively as part of a team to design some ingenious "peach" flying contraptions.

Cricket at the field. It is so lovely to be able to use this fantastic space. We are so lucky.

The children worked hard on improving their bowling accuracy. We have some budding cricketers in Class 3! 

As authors we have studied the picture book The Journey by Francesca Sanna. The book follows a family who become refugees. We spent time discussing how this would affect the children and the mother in the family. 

We then wrote our own narratives entitled "The Journey" inspired by the book.

We will share some of the finished stories when they are complete.

As mathematicians we have been learning about area, perimeter and volume.

We have had fun exploring areas of different shapes. We also found out how to find the area of a  parallelogram . 

As athletes Class 3 have been improving on their cricket skills, with Jonny from Chance to shine. As ever the great British weather didn’t play ball today but we still had a great session. Let’s hope next week we can play at the field.

Class 3 spent time this afternoon completing their own one hundred challenge for the #CaptainTom100  challenge. 

They have thought about a one hundred challenge they would like to do over the weekend.

Class 3 started the afternoon with a P.E lesson where the children had to work hard as ateam to cross the "river".  There was lots of team work and great problem solving skills to be seen.

We then moved over to look at the beautiful daffodils and spent time drawing them and thinking about they were such a positive symbol. 

Week beginning 1/06/20

We also made quizzes to help us with our learning of grammar.

Click on the links to give them a go!

Week Beginning 18/05/20

This week we completed some more quizzes for computing linked to our science topic of LIGHT.

Have a look at the blog plage below.

Our English work has been linked to our History topic of Ancient Greece. The children completed tasks about the Ancient Greek Gods and Godesses.

Week Beginning 11/05/20

Lost of learing going on in Class 3.

This week should have been SATs week for year 6 - so to mark this they had lots of "Silly SATs" papers to complete. They were fun.

We made games for Class 1 to play. They were based on famous childrens stories and were part of our computing lessons. Follow the link to our display board on Purple Mash and have a go yourselfs.

Some of the Year 5 children were finishing off their labryinth projects. See the Mine Craft project below.

Year 5 were revising Roman Numerals in maths.

Week beginning 4/05/20

VE day at home celebrations. Class 3 were tasked with researing and designing a VE day poster to share with the community.

Our DT  project has been to design and make a Labyrinth based on the Ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Following on from last weeks English , Class 3 were set the task of writing a super hero comic.

Below are some examples.

Week Beginning 27/04/20

Week beginning  20/04/20

Wow what another busy week we have had of home learning.

Our focus for English has been Sci-fi Adventure stories, which we planned and wrote based on the book 2000 leagues under the sea. Below are some examples of the planning stages and the finished stories.

Maths was a week of revision of multiplication and division skills. Below are some examples of the type work that the children completed.

Week beginning 23/03/20

Class 3 have carried out a wide variety of learning tasks this week at home.

In science they showed how their imaginary creatures would evolve if the creatures environments changed.

In maths they went on an angle hunt around their homes and gardens - There was some amazing angle spotting going on.  They also carried out work to find the area of items around their homes. Some great estimation skills were seen here!

Some of the children have set challenges for each other. We have our very own Joe Wicks style workout page for the children and some maths questions. Great work everyone.

Please see some photos below. We couldn't share photos from everyone, but will do our best to share something from the whole class over the coming weeks.

Amazing work everyone (parents too!) - we love looking at your work and can't wait so see more after Easter.

Advent Calendars. Skilfully made by Class 3. (click on the link below)

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