In DT this week, Year 3 designed and created their own Trojan Horses after learning about the Trojan War in History.  The children enjoyed linking their historical knowledge to a practical project and showed great creativity throughout. During the project, they developed important design and technology skills including measuring, sawing, cutting, shaping and glueing, while learning how to work safely and carefully with different materials. They also practised planning and designing their ideas, improving the strength and stability of structures, following step-by-step instructions and evaluating their finished products to think about what worked well and what they could improve next time.  Please see the pictures of the process so far. We will post pictures of the finished product next week! Stay tuned!

 Here are some snaps from last week's mini marathon!

  S tory focus : Mad About Dinosaurs! by Gliles Andreae. We have been having 'Poem Time', rather than 'Story Time' this week! Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We now have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus: missing parts to 5; compostion of 5; composition of 6 and 7 as '5 and a bit'.  We sang '5 Little Kittens' as a prompt for discussion of missing parts to 5. We made arrangements of 6 and 7 using ' 5 and a bit'. Can you spot the '5 and a bit'? 6 is made of 5 and 1. 7 is made of 5 and 2.                                                           PE focus : we have started a new unit called  Crawl, Climb, Collect.  We have t...

 Over the last few weeks we have been able to explore the goings on around our school throughout the evening and the night due to Miss Lucas's brilliant idea. Miss Lucas secured us the loan of a camera trap from The Colchester Zoological Society, in association with Suffolk University, with the aim of allowing primary age children access to the secret world of our local wildlife. We first set the trap in our nature garden area and were treated to a procession of the local cat population before a treat which you can see in the clip below. It has also given us the view at night-time. The camera trap in situ. Last night the camera trap was set up to allow a view from the KS1 block towards the Eco-Garden area. And this is what we saw! Look out for further bulletins. Mr Hopegood :)

Today, we had great fun testing materials to see which was the best material at absorbing sound. We listened to a piece of music and we had to stop on a spot when we heard that sound. The musical device was wrapped in various materials. We spoke about how some materials are better at absorbing sound waves, making it harder to hear.