Drake Primary School and Little Pirates Child Care

2024-25

D&T: Whittling sticks, making bread and cooking bread on a fire in Forest School

Willow Phoenix come in to work with us on some willow weaving- we created a willow lantern mallard duck!

Block printing Christmas baubles

Pine cone Christmas tree decorations!

Computing

During the computing lesson we learnt about simple animation techniques and created our own animations in the style of flipbooks (flick books) using sticky notes. First of all we had to draw pictures in a sequence and to flick the pages quickly to make the picture move. We also learnt to used Stop Motion app to create an effective stop frame animation. We can't wait to learn more about animation.

Science: Friction enquiry- How does the ramp material affect how far a car will travel?

PE: Football skills

PE: Team games - showing cooperation and respect

Science: Using a force meter to measure the size of a force in Newtons

Music: Playing ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ from The Nutcracker on the glockenspiel

Hadid- How to trap a troll

Kamkwamba How to trap a troll?

English

The Year 3 children came back to school on Tuesday to find that a mysterious creature had left sandy footprints through our classrooms and had left a mess! Everybody was shocked to find the huge footprints and various objects that the creature had left behind. Even our attendance trophy, books and plant pot were knocked down!
We thought about who the creature could be by thinking 'what do we know from the evidence left behind' and what we can deduce from this. We made predictions about where the creature had come from, what it could have been and where it might be now. We think that a troll has been causing mischief in our classrooms. We discovered our next Talk 4 Writing unit would be to write instructions on how to trap a troll.

Sketching and creating poppies for Remembrance Day

Creating Bronze Age style pots from clay

Music: Composing an ostinato rhythm to play on the glockenspiel

PE: Tennis

Learning to type on a Chromebook

Thank you to all the families who attended our reading cafe on Iron Man and for all your support with reading at home.

We looked at the Stone Age paintings from the Chauvet Cave in France. We created our own charcoal cave art- handprints, wild animals, tools and settlements.

BioBlitz: We explored the red playground in Autumn, looking for living things (plants, insects and fungi).

Trip to Norwich Castle: The Mystery of Prehistory. How life changed from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age and onto the Iron Age. The children enjoyed acting out Neolithic village life, sorting flints in an archaeology workshop, Bronze age weaving and classifying Iron Age metals.

Rock testing: We explored the properties of chalk, marble, basalt and sandstone. We were testing the rocks to see if they were sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic. We undertook four tests: visual check, testing the hardness, testing the permeability and the acid test (to discover if the rocks were made of the shells of dead creatures).

Art: Drawing with a charcoal

English

We have been learning a defeating the monster story during English, 'Jack and the beanstalk'. Take a look at our re-telling, with actions and expression!

Kamkwamba class Jack and the beanstalk Kamkwamba class Jack and the beanstalk

Hadid Jack and the Beanstalk

PE: Tennis skills

Rock classification

Music: using pentatonic notes to compose music

Glockenspiels

Computing: Digital literacy - We logged onto Chromebooks and practised using the touchpad and keyboard

High Lodge

On our first day in year 3, we went on an adventure to High Lodge in Thetford forest. We practised our aim in archery, created art with natural materials, took part in team games (including football, parachute and circle games) and explored the music trail. We ended the day in the play area and enjoyed the huge slide!