Year 3 - Woodpecker

Easter Parade- April 2025 

What a fantastic day we've had celebrating all things Easter! Starting off with our Church service this morning where the children wow-ed us with their beautiful singing and finishing with our amazing Easter Parade where they got to show off their bonnets. A huge thank you to you all for the effort that was put into making these. We hope you have a brilliant Easter holiday when it arrives. 

 

Puxton Park- March 2025 

We all enjoyed a fantastic day at Puxton Park near Weston, finding out about animals diets, habitats and which animal group they belonged to. We were able to make enrichment boxes for the marmoset monkeys and then watched them hunt through the boxes to find vegetables and mealworms. We had an animal show where we met a couple of reptiles, a furry mammal and a creature with 250 legs. After lunch, we enjoyed a tractor ride into the cow barn to learn more about the newly born calves, a train ride and a play in the different outdoor play park just for fun. We were so lucky with the weather and had a brilliant time as a class. 

 

World Book Day -March 2025 

For world book day this year, the children were set with the task of writing a character description of any fairytale character they could think of. The only rule they had was that they could not name who they were writing about. The children included fantastic adjectives and descriptive language to create their paragraphs and then headed up to Year 4 to share their writing to see if they could guess which character they had chosen. The children spoke confidently and shared their ideas well. It was a lovely way to celebrate world book day! Thank you to everyone for their amazing costumes- you really blew us away with the effort made. 

 

Wessex Water Visit- February 2025

During Science Week, Woodpecker class were lucky enough to have a visit from Sue who works at Wessex Water. She spent time explaining her job, what happens with our water system and showed us lots of pictures of our local area. The children then had the opportunity to see how different materials dissolve (or do not dissolve) in water and compare this to what would happen if we flushed these at home. 

 

Cheddar Caves School Trip- December 2024

What a fantastic day! We learnt so much about life in Stone Age Times and also about rock formations within the Cheddar Caves. The museum of prehistory taught us all about Cheddar Man, who's remains were found in Gough's Cave and the visit to Coxes Cave helped us to understand the story of water and how the Cheddar Caves and Gorge were formed. We saw stalactites and stalagmites and even columns formed where the calcite met in the middle. Lots of pupils thought the cave formations were beautiful and they could see all sorts of strange formations within Gough's cave as pointed out by our guide Sophie, including ice-cream scoops, melted cheese and a dragon's head. There was even a cinema where we watched a film called 'Beyond the View' all about life within the Gorge.

 

Woodpecker Cheddar Caves Trip 2024

 

Antler Head-dresses- November 2024 

The children had a fantastic afternoon on Friday 29th November when they created their very own head-dresses. We loved their enthusiasm and how supportive they were of each other. 

 

Rocks Workshop- November 2024

Today, Natasha from Somerset Heritage and Learning came to share her knowledge on rocks and fossils. We started our session by watching a video about how fossils are made and then moved on to three different activities. The first activity was working with Natasha to identify different rocks and using magnifying glasses to see what small particles the rocks were made up of. The second activity was a game of rock bingo, and the third activity was rubbing fossils to make our very own prints. We then had to identify what type of fossil we had been given. There were lots of opportunities to walk around the room and read the information that Natasha had brought out as well. What an exciting morning we had learning more about rocks and fossils.

 

Stone Age Day- November 2024 

Today we spent the day as Stone Age people dressed in costume and experiencing life like they would have done 3 million years ago. In the morning, we used natural materials to create paintings, made sparks for a fire using flint stones and crafted clay pots. Because it was so cold outside, we had to have hot chocolate and marshmallows to warm us up when we came back inside! During the afternoon, we pretended we were inside a cave by going under the tables and drawing on the 'cave roof', we also made a fruit stew-it tasted delicious. The children looked absolutely amazing. What a great day we had! 

 

Oracy Session- Sharing our Dream Giver stories! - October 2024 

Over the last two weeks Year 3 have been writing their own narratives linked to the 'Dream Giver' video. They have worked hard to ensure they have added inverted commas, adverbial phrases and subordinating conjunctions. To finish our unit today, the children headed back down to their Year 2 classes to share their narratives with the current children. They used their fantastic oracy skills to confidentially share their narratives and it is safe to say that everyone in Year 2 was impressed!

 

European Languages Day- September 2024 

We had such a super day celebrating diversity and culture as part of the European Day of Languages. Our focus country was Poland and we found learnt some Polish phrases, used the laptops to complete a fact file and also enjoyed a wordsearch. We are very lucky to have some children in our class who were born in Poland who helped us with our learning. 

 

Year 3 Local Area Walk- September 2024 

On Wednesday 18th September, Woodpecker class enjoyed a 2 hour walk around our local area. As part of our Geography unit this half term, we are looking at what our local area has to offer and how the land is used. We were surprised to see a range of buildings including residential properties, shops, farms and industrial units. There were a range of transport links that we spotted including the canal, train line and motorway. Our favourite parts of the walk were Dunwear Ponds and the park where we stopped for a bit of fun.

 

Year 3 Trip to Bristol Museum : July 2024

What a fantastic day we had at Bristol Museum! We took part in a work shop about Ancient Egypt. We used our enquiry skills to investigate Ancient Egyptian artefacts were made from, whether they were real or replicas and who used them. We also found out Amelia Edwards and her travels across Egypt. After this we walked around the museum and enjoyed looking at other artefacts. We found out about rocks and minerals which linked with our Science learning.

 

Our favourite part of the day was seeing Alfred the gorilla. 

Sports Day

Despite the weather, we enjoyed a fun-filled sports morning participating in a range of team building activities and then came the races. Quantock were the lucky winners and everyone tried their absolute best. There was a great team spirit in all the house groups and pupils cheered each other on across all of Key Stage 2. 

Year 3 Sports Week : w/c 24th June 24

 

As part of Sports Week we looked at the Origins of the Olympic games in Olympia, Greece. We compared the events of the ancient games to those that we will be able to watch in the Paris games next month. We explored each sport including those new to the 2024 Games like Breaking. We had a look at some Greek pottery showing the ancient games and created our own depicting the modern events in the Greek style. We are all very proud of our vase designs. 

 

Year 3 Sports Week : w/c 24th June 24

On Thursday, we took part in a tennis workshop. We worked with the coach to develop our skills. We enjoyed the challenge of bouncing the ball and having to clap before we caught it. Well done to all the children for great participation!

 

Year 3 Sports Week : w/c 24th June 24

On Wednesday, we had a brilliant afternoon working with a group of Year 6 children and Miss Bryant. The Year 6 children were developing their leadership skills and ran a carousel of activities for the Year 3 children. We all had a wonderful time outside in the sunshine and were very pleased for the cloud cover that came over!

 

Year 3 Sports Week : w/c 24th June 24

On Tuesday we enjoyed a great day at Bridgwater College in the sun where we learnt new skills such as archery and football golf. We practised our teamwork and communication skills during relays and a 'cross the pond' challenge. Everybody loved the spin bike challenge as well!

Teeth and Bones Workshop - 19th June 2024

Year 3 enjoyed a Bones and Teeth Workshop where they were able to examine bones and teeth, look at some animal skeletons and use an app called virtuali-tee which enabled us to see the bones within our bodies!

 

 

Year 3's Got Talent 

Year 3's Talent Show did not disappoint! We were so impressed with the standard of the acts which performed. A huge well done to all the children who took part and put in so much effort preparing. It was lovely to see the other children encouraging and supporting them. Within PHSE, we are learning about what makes us special and unique and today definitely showed that!  Thank you to the parents who clearly had spent time supporting the children to be ready for their showcase. It was a wonderful afternoon of talent!

 

CAD Character Visit - March 2024

Yesterday, we were visited by Doctor Henry Goodfellow who was a doctor at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685! Doctor Goodfellow taught us all about the events leading up to the battle and how the Duke of Monmouth travelled across the South West gathering his followers. 

Doctor Goodfellow helped us to imagine what the Battle would have been like and we even had a go at acting it out. 

It was a fantastic morning of learning with lots of laughter and fun. 

 

World Book Day - March 2024

Woodpecker Class had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day and sharing our story of Blodin the Beast with Year 4.

Rocktopus : March 2024

Year 3 had a fantastic morning creating our own song for the 2 times table. You will be able to watch the video online later this week as the children will be bringing home an access code. In the meantime, have a look at the pictures so far.