Listen to the fantastic Corona Rap homework made by some of our pupils from Years 2, 3 and 4 below…

Year 3 really enjoyed learning about light and shadows within the  planetarium. They listened very carefully and asked scientific questions. Well done year 3!

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On Friday 22nd November, Year 3 went on a trip to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. We had a hands-on mummification workshop, where we learnt how to perform mummification, and we learnt about the Ancient Egyptians beliefs about life after death. It was very fun, and everyone got involved (even Pharaoh Smith and Pharaoh Cupper!). We also had the chance to have a look around other parts of the museum, including the Staffordshire Hoard , art galleries, and Birmingham through the ages. We had a brilliant day out, and learnt lots! 

On Friday, Year 3 were evacuated to the Severn Valley Railway in Kidderminster – we were transported to 1940’s Britain, in the midst of WW2! The children spent the day dressed as evacuees, experiencing what it would have been like as a child in WW2. They learnt all about rationing, home life, shelters, the Blitz and were immersed into 1940’s life. The highlight of the day was definitely getting to ride on an old-fashioned steam train, going through the tunnel and imagining what it would have been like during a Blackout. We also got to watch a demonstration from WW2 firefighters, and learnt how they would have put out fires/bombs (whist getting a little wet in the process!) during the war, and rode an old-fashioned bus. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and we all learnt a lot! 

3HC spent the morning carefully extracting fossils from rocks. We had to take lots of care not to damage the fossil as we scraped, chiselled and swept the rock away to reveal what was inside. Afterwards, we found out about the life of famous fossil hunter Mary Anning and how she discovered previously unknown, fossilised sea creatures.

Year 3 had a fantastic day today at their Stone Age to Iron Age workshop with their Neanderthal teacher. They learnt about the developments from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, and how people’s daily lives changed with the development from using stone, to bronze, to iron. 

They were able to be deer and woolly mammoth hunters; they held real woolly mammoth bones; they learnt about communication within tribes; they looked at different types of settlements; they handled and drew Stone Age fossils and rocks; and they even built their own Stonehenge!

A brilliant time was had by all!

3AS have been developing their geography skills as they created a 3D landscape before choosing where to site the Stone Age village. We had to think about where a lake was most likely to form, where rivers would flow into it from and what resources the villagers would need access to. After surviving a flood (maybe we shouldn’t have built right next to the lake after all?) the villagers decided to construct a stone circle.

3AS have been building stone circles and finding out how Stone Age people may have used them as calendars. We looked at how shadows changed with the position of the sun and found out about how the sun rises in different places depending on the time of year. In this way, Midsummer and Midwinter could be found.

Putting bones together the right way must be hard enough if you know what the animal looks like but it is even trickier when the animal has been extinct for over 66 million years! That didn’t stop 3AS from trying to interpret their bag of bones today. Starting from exactly the same set of fossils, we came up with some different ideas. However, we were not the only ones as we found out about how scientists over the last 150 years have changed their ideas about what an Iguanodon  may have looked like when alive.

We’ve been using a mix of careful observation and chemical tests to identify different rocks. We used a geological classification key to help us determine what each of our mystery rocks were.