Blog by Lucinda Croston

Today as part of MAD festival, we decorated pebbles to make a class pebble snake. 

Today we filmed Olive and Beech Class assemBEElies. We are filming Elm class tomorrow and then after some magical editing, they will be uploaded to our school YouTube page. Keep an eye out! The children worked so hard today. 

Today we have been making character profiles for our favourite characters in The Jungle Book. We also did some marching along to Colenel Hathi’s Elephant March. 

A bug well done to all of year 3 for today’s spelling Bee challenge. Beech class winner was Louis Howard, well done Louis! Elm class winner was Bethany Carroll , excellent work Bethany! Olive class winner was Amelie Tomlinson, super spelling Amelie! 
 

It’s been a bit of a wet May so far so we’ve had a dodgeball tournament in our PE lessons. The children are really good at working as a team and it was a great competition. 

Today Amy and Ethan from the Bee Centre visited Heyhouses. They told us all about bees and we learned lots of really interesting facts. We tasted two types of honey which were delicious. 

Today, we had the Bee Centre visit Heyhouses. Amy and Ethan came to talk to us all about bees and it was so interesting. We learned lots more interesting facts, we tasted two types of honey and we spotted the queen bee in the hive. Bees are so amazing! 

Today Amy and Ethan from the Bee Centre visited Heyhouses. They told us all about bees and we learned lots of really interesting facts. We tasted two types of honey which were delicious. 

Success! We finally got our Roman Day. All the children looked absolutely fantastic in their costumes. We had lots of fun learning some Latin, making catapults, Roman PE, Roman numerals and designing Roman menus.

Science this week was to test which magnet was the strongest. We worked in teams of 3 and tested 3 different magnets, counting how many paper clips each one could hold. Click continue reading to see us all busy investigating.

This week we have had lots of fun experimenting with the magnets. We explored the poles of a magnet and tested what happened when we put two like poles together and two different poles together. Click continue reading to see our photos. 

In our PE lessons this week, we have been completing some different circuits. We have all kept moving the whole time and really enjoyed being active with our friends again. We enjoyed seeing how many jumps we could do in 10 seconds on the speed jump, our highest was Max with 21 jumps! 
 

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