This week in English, we started our new book, Everest. The children carried out research and created informative posters about Mount Everest, before learning about the contrasting childhoods of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the two climbers who first reached the summit of Everest in 1953. We used conjunctions to write sentences comparing their very different early lives.
In maths, we continued our work on hundredths, looking at converting centimetres to metres. We went outside with metre sticks to measure our long jumps, then recorded the distances as decimal fractions.
In RSHE (Jigsaw), we learnt about drugs and their effects on the body, including how medicines are also drugs that can help us when used properly. We talked about the importance of safety, including only taking medicines given by a trusted adult.
In science, we explored reversible and irreversible reactions, thinking about which changes can be undone and which cannot.
Year 3 continued their work in computing, programming sounds on Scratch. In maths, they described translations of shapes, and in art they experimented with wire sculptures inspired by Alexander Calder. It's trickier than it looked!
Another busy week of learning across the curriculum!
