News from Class 3
15
12, 2025
A Ye Ha triumph!
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16
11, 2025
A huge Ye Ha for Children in Need!
Friday's Children in Need day was, as always full of fun at Willow Brook! Everyone looked fabulous in their Wild West outfits and Pudsey shirts! In the morning, we danced and sang, played a Gold Rush team game. The afternoon saw us settling down at the Willow Brook cinema to watch 'Spirit', which added [...]
3
11, 2025
Class 3 Autumn 2 Learning Letter
Year 3 Autumn 2 Learning Letter
16
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 [...]
15
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 [...]
8
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. [...]
1
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 [...]
1
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. [...]
8
09, 2025
Class 3 Learning Letter Autumn 1
Class 3 Autumn 1 Learning Letter
26
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 [...]