News from Class 3
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11, 2025
Class 3 Autumn 2 Learning Letter
Year 3 Autumn 2 Learning Letter
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10, 2025
Making Ancient Egyptian Shadufs
As part of our exploration into the significance of the River Nile in Ancient Egypt for our Dawn of Man topic, we were investigating how the Egyptians transported water from the river to their crops. We learnt about the shaduf, a simple yet effective irrigation tool that played a crucial role in ensuring crops [...]
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10, 2025
Happy Diwali!
This morning Miss Mistry taught the whole school about her Hindu faith. It's an exciting time of the year... having just celebrated Navratri, it's time to start the preparations for Diwali! We learnt all about the feasts and deities, dances and rituals and even got to admire Miss Mistry's fabulous outfits - brought all [...]
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10, 2025
Class 3’s Moving Muscles
As part of our science topic we have been learning about the human body. We had lots of fun last week making movable arm models. We rolled up pieces of paper to represent the radius, ulna and humerus (the bones in your arm) and then used balloons to represent the bicep and tricep muscles. [...]
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10, 2025
Eating Cake for Breakfast (but all in a good cause!)
Last Friday, Willow Brook held their annual MacMillan Coffee Morning. Whilst eating cake for breakfast may be a challenge for some, we managed it in style! Our Bake Off competition was fierce...Paul Hollywood would have had an aching arm from all the handshakes he would have given! After much deliberation (and another slice of [...]
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10, 2025
Potted Sports 2025
Our first whole-school sporting event of the academic year was a roaring success this afternoon! With 190 children, an enthusiastic team of teachers and TA's and a wonderful band of parents, grandparents and volunteers, we spent a happy and successful two hours competing in team challenges - an event we call Potted Sports. Mr. [...]
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09, 2025
Class 3 Learning Letter Autumn 1
Class 3 Autumn 1 Learning Letter
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07, 2025
On the Beach
Friday was a wonderfully sunny day, which made our Beach Afternoon perfect! We had fish and chips 'take-away' style and ice-lollies were wonderfully welcome! There were plenty of beach games to take part in and picnic rugs to relax on and we had a happy couple of hours getting ourselves in a holiday frame [...]
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07, 2025
Sports Day
Our Robin Hood themed tournament on Wednesday was full of fun! Thank you for joining us and adding such fabulous support, volume and positivity. Whilst some children love the competitive spirit and have an arena to show off their talents, we try to design races so [...]
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07, 2025
Robin Hood’s Tournament
As part of our Sports Week at Willow Brook, we all joined Robin Hood on the field for a tournament of games! There were seven themed events, which as you will see from the photos, ranged from archery to Capturing the Castle! There were clever events that saw children robbing from the rich to [...]