Willow Brook's beginners chess club started this week and we got off to a great start! After going right back to basics of what a board looks like, we learnt (or, in the case of some children, revised!) how pawns start, move, take other pieces and can be very helpful if they make it [...]
Class 3 were incredibly excited to have our first whole class music tuition this week. Toots are best described as a hybrid of a flute mixed with a recorder. We learnt (very quickly!) that blowing hard into a toot makes a horrible sound and that blowing softly sounds much more pleasant! As you can [...]
After 7 weeks of focus, hard work and enthusiasm, Class 3 are incredibly proud to present their learning from our ukulele sessions! We've included some of our personal favourites that are guaranteed to be stuck in your head for the rest of the day! A big thank you to our wonderful Ms Fletcher for [...]
Creative Curriculum planning - Year 3 Journeys
Class 3 (including Miss Brearey!) were incredibly excited to start our whole class ukulele lesson today! We learnt all about frets, how to hold the instrument correctly and even learnt to play a few tunes as a class. Our work on reading notation came in handy when there were a few rest beats- we [...]
To make the most of the beautiful weather we've been having, Class 3 had our afternoon quiet reading time outside! Have a peruse of the photographs to see us engrossed in a good story and see what we've been reading recently... [...]
It looks like Class 3 and 4 had the most wonderful time last week recreating David Hockeny's artwork "Hawthorne Blossom by Rudstone" Have a look for yourself...
In Class 3, we have been mastering how to read and write rhythm using crotchet and quaver notation. I have been SO impressed at the children's concentration, enthusiasm and listening in our music lessons. We had a go at writing our own 4 beat rhythms (some even including a crotchet rest!) and challenged our [...]
Class 3 have been looking at what makes up a well balanced plate of food. We learnt about the different food groups and why we need certain foods in our diet. To follow up our learning in the classroom, a homework task was set to design and cook a well balanced plate of food [...]
Class 3 have been very lucky to have the chance to learn how to Kurl! After watching videos of ice curling, the children were slightly disappointed to discover we hadn't actually turned the hall floor into an ice rink for our PE lesson...They were, however, very excited to try out this new skill with [...]
