Year 3
03.07.2025: The Year 3 children enjoyed a visit to Rugby's Art Gallery exhibition Great and Small in preparation for Art Day. The children looked at different animals, made in different ways out of different materials.
30.06.2025: The children enjoyed participating in a fantastic range of inclusive sports.
23.06.2025: The Children attended The Big Dance at Rugby School. They had a fantastic time participating in music and dance workshops and watching a spectacular display by the Motionhouse Dance Circus Company.
Art Day 16.05.2024: The children used continuous line drawings in the style of Quentin Blake to sketch 'poses'. Afterwards, they looked at the poem,The Hula Hoop & The Chicken by Emily Voigt, to create sketches in a similar fashion.
28.04.2025 Maya Stunning Start: The children had a fantastic time sharing what they know about the Maya, recording what they would like to know about the Maya, and perhaps most importantly, following instructions to make Maya hot chocolate.
07-11.04.2025 DT Week: The children in Year 3 have been learning about kites. They tested various materials to see what would fly best, then designed and made their own kites.
10/11.04.2025 Ancient China Fabulous Finish / Science: The children had a fantastic time making shadow puppets to recreate The Legend of Nian and Chinese New Year. They experimented with the puppets to see what would happen to the shadows if they were moved closer or further away from the light source.
04.04.2025 Art Day: Year 3 used a range of media to create a landscape in the style of Alice Kettle.
03-07.03.2025 World Book Week Celebrations at Northlands: The children at Northlands have had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day/Week. Activities included: A book hunt, designing a book token, a visit from Mike Payton Storyteller extraordinaire and performance poetry based on Chinese New Year.
27.02.2025 Y3 Trip to the Think Tank: The children had a fantastic time time exploring the museum. They were introduced to their new science topic of light which will start shortly.
10.02.2025 - 14.020.2025 DT Week. The children in Year 3 had a wonderful time learning about Ancient Chinese inventions and investigated the properties of different types of paper. They went on to make water clocks.by following a set of instructions.
12.02.2025 Y3 Ninja Warriors: Year 3, and the rest of the school, enjoyed a visit from Ninja Warriors for kids. They enjoyed using a range of equipment to complete the Ninja Warrior Course!
07.02.2025 Art Day: The children made view finders and experimented with mark making using different media. In the afternoon the children painted landscapes in preparation for creating a piece of art in the style of Alice Ketlle.
18/19.12.2024 Ancient Egypt Fabulous Finish: To finish our Ancient Egyptian Topic the children made amulets in the shape of scarab beetles. The Ancient Egyptians believed that these small ornaments brought good luck and even placed them in tombs or the wrappings of mummies!
The children have had a fantastic time in the last couple of weeks; making Christmas decorations, hats, cards and even being visited by Father Christmas himself!!
10.12.2024 Music: The children in Year 3 put on a fantastic concert for the Reception children playing their recorders and singing.
WB 02.12.2024 DT Week: The children really enjoyed designing, making and evaluating their own packages. Some of the children were able to utilise some skills learnt in Science to include details on allergies, nutrition, ingredients, etc.
29.11.2024 Art Day: The children produced charcoal drawings in the style of Heather Hansen, a performative and visual artist. Their challenge was to use their individual pieces, to work in a group and produce a collaborative piece.
28.11.2024 Science: The children enjoyed identifying magnetic and non-magnetic objects around the classroom. They then experimented with different forces to see if the force had to be in contact with an object in order to move it. They realised that a magnetic force does not have to be in contact with an object to make it move.
The children in Year 3, and all other year groups, were incredibly respectful and reflective during a 2 minutes silence to remember Armistice Day (the end of World War I).
06.11.2024: The children had a wonderful time following instructions to prepare a tomato for mummification. This will prepare them for writing their own set of instructions.
04.11.2024: Ricky Dance, Scooby Doo: The Haunted Mansion: The children had a 'fabulous' time making a dance routine based on a Scooby Doo movie
22.10.2024: The children enjoyed using nets to make 3D shapes whilst thinking about different packaging. Some children were able to label the shapes and some were able to solve clues to find the 3D shapes.
18.10.2024 Art Day: The children enjoyed experimenting with line drawing, mark making and shading using charcoal
17.10.2024: The children enjoyed working scientifically to measure and record arm span and height. They hypothesised that these measurements would be roughly the same.
26.09.2024 Science: The children enjoyed sorting and grouping foods from their packaging. Some groups simply sorted according to healthy and unhealthy foods, whilst others looked at fat content or sugar content.
Summer Art Day: The children very much enjoyed sculpting and painting chickens out of 'Mod Rock'. This was inspired by the poem 'The Chicken and the Hula Hoop' by Emily Voigt. They used their experience of Inbal Leitner's My Tiger Sketch book and Quentin Blake's illustrations to help.
03.07.2024 DT: The Year 3 pupils really enjoyed designing and making a package for a product of their own choice. They were asked to think about what information the package would need, who the product was aimed at and what graphics and fonts to use.
18.06.2024: Thank you once again to The Friends of Northlands for kindly donating funds for the children to experience a climbing wall and to practise some circus skills. Thank you from everyone in Year 3 and the whole school. It was amazing!
06.06.2024: The Year 3 students very much enjoyed the Maya day and wanted to thank The Friends of Northlands for their kind donation. They had a fabulous time learning about the Maya number system, wearing Maya costumes, examining artefacts, using VR headsets to explore Maya sites and much, much more.
21.05.2024 Ricky Dance: Oliver. The children in Year 3 had a fantastic time learning to dance to the musical Oliver. They were all amazing!
Art Day: The Year 3 pupils enjoyed striking poses, inspired by the work Quentin Blake and Inbal Leitner using continuous line drawings.
09.05.2024 & 16.05.2024 Year 3 enjoyed investigating what would happen to the size of a shadow if the light source (torch) was moved further away from an opaque object.
The Year 3 children enjoyed an introduction to their new Topic: Maya. They thought that the Maya hot chocolate was delicious!
Year 3 DT 18/19.03.2024: The children tested various materials to make prototype kites, one of China's great inventions. Following the testing they decided to make their own kites from tissue paper.
Year 3 Art Day 15.03.2024: The children really enjoyed adding texture and detail to their paintings on fabric using sewing techniques.
Y3 Enjoying the company of Y5 pupils sharing story books
04.03.2024 The Year 3 children enjoyed a boom hunt this afternoon as part of our World Book Day celebrations.
Science 01.02.2024: The children enjoyed trying to work out how much water a plant needs to grow.
16.01.2024 Year 3 Visit to Compton Verney.
06.11.2023: The Year 3 children loved learning a dance routine this morning. Thank you to Ricky Dance.
The children took part in a Diwali workshop this morning where they learnt the story of Lord Krishna defeating Narakasura.
The Northlands Year 3 class had an amazing time at the Tag Rugby Festival at St Andrew's Rugby Club, organised by the Harris C of E Academy School Sport Partnership. All at Northlands would like to say a huge thank you for coordinating a wonderful event.
Year 3 Science: Is our arm span the same as our height?
Fluency Friday, Active Maths, children working on number bonds to 20 and timestables.
DT has been very inventive this week as the children explore Chinese inventions such as paper, the compass and the water clock.
Year 3 explored a 'garden' in the classroom. The children studied images of flowers to identify the parts of a flower.
Exploring the garden!
Year 3 children have embraced their theme on China and have completed some very interesting research which they have shared with the class.
3D Shapes - in Maths we have made 3D shapes using cocktail sticks for the edges and midget gems for the vertices.
After exploring different materials and making prototypes, we finished our DT project by designing and making our own kites!
Science, looking for signs of spring. in our local area.
Spring
Working Scientifically
Happy Christmas from Year 3
Practical Maths - Our New Learning, Finding Perimeters
We had a great time learning funky dance moves with Ricky Dance
Exploring How to Make Free Standing Structures in DT
Number Week - exploring different arrays that make 100 and using a variety of manipulatives.
Mummification
Mummifying a Tomato
Year 3 TAG Rugby
Year 3 had a great morning at St Andrew's Rugby
Club, taking part in an inter schools tag rugby
tournament.
