News from Class 3
It's been another wet month but, two Saturday tournaments and two midweek games since the Easter break have seen a couple of wins (we're back!) and some positive individual and team performances. We have also been involved this week in an Outdoor Adventurous Activities Festival at Rushcliffe Country Park with year 3 & 4. [...]
Class 3 had lots on fun yesterday afternoon planting peas for our 'Room for Growth' science investigation. We are investigating whether the amount of space available will affect the growth of the peas. Each group planted 4 pots of seeds. In pot A there are 2 seeds, B 4 seeds, C 6 seeds and [...]
Here is a copy of the Class 3 learning letter for Summer 1. Year 3 Summer 1 Learning Letter
It was an absolute treat to welcome the author LD Lapinski to Willow Brook on Friday! We have had such a great half term in the company of Flick and Jonathan from the 'Strangeworlds Travel Agency' trilogy, that it was a treat to meet their creator. We started the day with the whole school [...]
We had lots of fun is Class 3 yesterday baking biscuits for the staffroom. The day began with some product research where we tasted a variety on supermarket biscuits, followed by a biscuit questionnaire for the staff. After we had gathered all of this information, we designed our products thinking about appearance as well [...]
It’s always exciting for me to have the opportunity to watch the future Willow Brook footballing talent and earlier today, eight year 3 girls’ got their first moments of wearing the world famous Willow Brook football kit. An exciting start to a session organised by Keyworth Football Club at Platt Lane in the sunshine [...]
Class 3 had a fantastic session with LD Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency. We created blob characters as a team, made our own mini books and followed LD's top tips to create a skeleton plan for our own adventure! We also loved showing LD our Strangeworlds display full of our adventure stories [...]
Class 3 had a great time taking part in British Science Week last week. We started the week by investigating Does taller mean faster?' which provided some interesting results. On Tuesday, we set up two more investigations. For the first, we tested whether fresh and tinned pineapple affected how long the jelly took to [...]
Comic Relief Day at Willow Brook is always guaranteed to lift the spirits! From 200 children dressed in red (thank goodness for Forest tops!) and looking brilliant in the Charity's caps, t-shirts and noses, to a live open mic comedy afternoon, there was bound to be a positive vibe! Thanks to your donations, our [...]
There's nothing more exciting than the moment 200 book characters arrive on the school playground on World Book Day... From Matildas and enormous crocodiles to dragons, lions, witches and wardrobes, you never quite know who (or what!) is about to arrive! Our Year 6 children have always been 'dressing up pros', so we couldn't [...]
