Year 3 Iveson Blog

 Today, Year 3 walked around school searching for signs of nature. We found all sorts of interesting plants and creatures. We saw beetles, slugs, flies and spiders. We heard a dunnock, a magpie, crows, a robin and a blue tit. We discovered that the Secret Garden has become a wilderness and is a peaceful sanctuary for nature within school grounds. Have a look at some of the things we found!

 Have a look at some of the fantastic poetry we have been creating this week in our English

 This week is Poetry week and we have started the week off by welcoming Lauren Kara to Iveson. She worked with all of KS2 to share some of her own poetry. We then had a go at writing some of our poems. 

 We are going to be making pouches, bags or purses this half term. We have researched different products, chosen materials and this week we began planning our product designs.

In PSHE, we have been learning about healthy and happy friendships. To begin with, we discussed the qualities of a good friend and how we would know whether a friendship was healthy or unhealthy. We then discussed the importance of personal space and how we can all view this differently, and how it can depend on the person we are interacting with.  We finally looked at our own friends and relationship networks and recorded these to show how our relationships fit into different "zones".

 Our Science topic this year is Rocks, Fossils and Soils. We completed an investigation to help us understand rock formation. We use starburst to first simulate how sedimentary rock is formed of layers compressed together. Then we found out how  metamorphic rocks are formed when sedimentary or igneous rocks are exposed to heat and pressure. Finally, we investigated how igneous rocks are formed when molten magma cools into a crystallised solid.