TOPS-Year3-Blog

 Year 3 launched our new History topic with a walk around Topsham to spot historical buildings. The oldest building we found was the Church House on Fore Street built in 1385! We also learned that some buildings were designed to look older than they are, like the ‘mock Tudor’ building actually covering a structure from the 17th century.

 This half term our DT project was Cooking. The children learned a basic muffin recipe and then they designed their own flavour combinations to make their own muffins. We had the expert help of Harry, Elliot’s Mum, who is a Food Writer. She gave us a brilliant talk and demonstration of flavour combinations with a fabulous 4 tiered cake!

 We started our new Art unit on World Book Day, learning new skills using oil pastels.  We learned how to use hard pressure and light pressure blends, using white, black and contrasting colours.  We then applied them to create pieces of collage for our class artwork based on the book Windows by Julia Denos. Our finished collage will be up on display in the Library soon!

 Can you guess which book characters Year 3 came dressed as for World Book Day? The clues are in the photos!

 We have been exploring the magnetic properties of different materials in Science this week. We made some surprising discoveries!

 Year 3 have worked hard all half term to earn a class treat. The children voted to wear their PJs to school and bring a cuddly toy. As you can see, the cuddly toys were put through their paces on TT Rockstars,