Year 3: Blog items
Skeletons with Year 3K, by Mrs Harris
Date: 8th Feb 2025 @ 3:33pm
Year 3K had a fun afternoon learning about the human skeleton! We learnt that the human body is made up of 206 bones! We borrowed a body (thanks Locklyn!) and labelled some key bones such as the skull, rib cage, spine, pelvis and femur. We learnt that the skeleton helps to protect our organs, helps our bodies to move and provides support.
Y3M Ancient Egyptian Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:40pm
Harper has been working extremely hard at home getting lots of amazing facts all about Ancient Egypt and King Tut! Thank you for sharing Harper. 🇪🇬
Y3M Ancient Egyptian Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:37pm
Harleigh brought in some interesting artefacts from Egypt. We were all fascinated by the length of the River Nile! Thank you for sharing Harleigh. 🇪🇬
Celebration of Lunar New Year in Y3M, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:35pm
Year 3 celebrated Lunar New Year by learning all about how Chinese people prepare for the New Year and all of the traditional things they do to celebrate.
Chloe had kindly brought in some fortune cookies for us all to share and with Scarlet, they explained to everyone what they are and what special surprise to find inside of them!
We then decorated and cut out our snakes - a symbol of wisdom, intuition and elegance.
Year 3 Jubilee 2025, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:06pm
Friday 24th January was Jubilee 2025 Launch Day! Year 3 took part in a class Jubilee assembly to introduce the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. We reflected on what we can do this year to be pilgrims of hope for our local and global family.
Year 3 Maths, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:01pm
Year 3 have been working hard to divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number by using base 10 to show flexible partitioning. ✖️➗
Year 3 Egyptian Bazaar, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:56pm
Year 3 have been working towards writing a settling description of an Egyptian Bazaar, based on our focus text 'Flat Stanley'. To help us use our senses to describe, we turned our classroom into a Bazaar! This morning, the children became 'Stanley' and explored the bazaar, thinking about what they could see, hear, smell, feel and taste. We then focused on exciting vocabulary to describe. Well done year 3!
Year 3M Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:40pm
Year 3 VM had a truly grotesque experience last week learning all about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process!
They looked at the 8 steps of the process in preparation for the afterlife. Take a look if you dare!!
Y3K Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 8:43pm
Year 3K loved learning all about the Ancient Egyptians' beliefs in the afterlife and how they worshipped many Gods and Goddesses. They thought about what items ancient Egyptians would take with them to the afterlife and what they would take with them if they were to make the journey to The Field of Reeds! They then played Top Trumps to try and defeat their opponents with their Gods or Goddesses and the many powers they held.
Kinslee's Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 10:19pm
Thank you for sharing your homework with us, Kinslee.
Kinslee has done some fantastic research about Ancient Egypt and created a wonderful Egyptian map - well done, Kinslee 👏
Y3VM Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris
Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 9:56pm
Y3VM Ancient Egyptians
Year 3 loved learning all about the Ancient Egyptians' beliefs in the afterlife and how they worshipped many Gods and Goddesses. They thought about what items ancient Egyptians would take with them to the afterlife and what they would take with them if they were to make the journey to The Field of Reeds!
They then played Top Trumps to try and defeat their opponents with their Gods or Goddesses and the many powers they held. Year 3 concluded with writing about and drawing their favourite God or Goddess.
Y3 Christmas Party, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Dec 2024 @ 8:02pm
Year 3 had a fantastic party day! Hymn practise, musical statues, pass the parcel and a lovely buffet! We finished with an extra playtime
We are definitely in the spirit of Christmas now!
Thank you to our Year 3 parents for providing our party food! It went down a storm
Miss Kealey and Mrs Mcgunigall
Year 3 - Stone Age Workshop, by Miss Kealey
Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 5:57pm
Year 3 had a fantastic day today!
We met our Stone Age leader who shared lots of interesting information with us about early humans and their settlements. We then spent our day learning through many different fun activities such as:
- Stone Age Drama/Role Play with props
- Clay arrow head making
- The ‘Big Quiz’ (congratulations to Miss Kealey’s class for being the big quiz WINNERS!)
A fantastic day had by all!
Teddy observed Rememberance Sunday, by Mrs Harris
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 10:07pm
Teddy observed 'Remembrance Sunday' with his family this weekend. He was so proud to share a picture of his uncle with the class and told us all about how important it is to remember and think about all those who have served our country ❤️
Y3 High Five of Kindness, by Mrs Harris
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 9:51pm
Year 3 had a lovely afternoon thinking about friendship. We started off by completing our High Five of Kindness. We thought of kind words to write on our friend’s hand.
We then thought carefully about friendship challenges and how we can resolve conflict through role play and hot seating.
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School Holiday Memories, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 10:19pm
Holden very kindly decided to share some pictures and a lovely video showing us the wonderful memories he made with his family during half term ❤️
We have Blackpool Tower, which Holden has been learning about in class 👏 and...
...Blackpool beach, pumpkin picking, River of Light Liverpool, Activity for All........and....... helping to train and feed an artic fox 😮☺️
Thank you to Holden's mummy for sharing his pictures 📸
Our Lady's Brownies, by Mrs Harris
Date: 26th Oct 2024 @ 5:13pm
Good News Alert ❤️💙
Our superstars Heidi, Jessica, and Zyrah from 9th Birkenhead North Brownies, selling poppies in the pyramids today for the Royal British Legion #poppyappeal
Year 3 Science, by Mrs Harris
Date: 13th Oct 2024 @ 8:06pm
Year 3VM finished celebrating Space Week by creating their own space art using the most beautiful pastel colours. Well done Year 3, your space art is out of this world!
Year 3 News, by Mrs Harris
Date: 9th Oct 2024 @ 5:12pm
Jessica was proud to share her achievements in her performing arts group. She told us all about her performance as an Umpa Lumpa 👏👏👏👏👏
Y3 Cave Art, by Mrs Harris
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 9:21pm
Year 3 had so much fun imagining they were in a cave, discovering some unusual art designs on the ceiling of their cave. They then re-created their own cave art by using pastels. Well done Year 3!
Y3 Dancing News, by Mrs Harris
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 9:00pm
Y3 Dancing News!!
Wow, what amazing news we've had today!
Aleah attended a dance competition in Glasgow over the weekend, came runner up in slowdance, and then she danced for the first time in under 8 champs................and she only went and won!!!
What an incredible achievement for Aleah! She has clearly shown incredible confidence and determination! Aleah loved sharing her news with the class and we all celebrated with her as we watched a video of her winning moment! Well done Aleah!
Y3 RE, by Mrs Harris
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 8:52pm
Today in our RE lesson we reflected on the gifts God has given to us. The children then thought about the special gifts their friends have. They picked a name from the pot and wrote words to show the gifts that person has from God. We then shared these together as a class and celebrated how special we are
Year 3 Science, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 7:40pm
Today Year 3 looked at what our earth looks like from the International Space Station. They then imagined they were looking out of the ISS window and drew their visions!
The Holy Rosary - Y3K, by Mrs Harris
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 12:25pm
October marks the month of the Holy Rosary. The children are invited to pray a decade of the Rosary each day. Year 3RK enjoyed creating their own rosary crafts to use during prayer.
