Year 3 Blog

In Indoor PE this week, Y3 have been having fun producing the first part of their Flamenco dance. This consists of forming standing positions with arm gestures followed by scrape and circle movements. It's looking really good.

On Wednesday, we had a lot of fun in Y3 at our Ancient Greek day. We all came to school dressed as ancient Greeks. The costumes were amazing! They included a Hoplite soldier...

A minotaur...

And some fantastic hairstyles...

During the morning we enjoyed lots of craft activities and games. Here are some of the things we did.

We found out that hoplites were foot soldiers who carried a spear and a round, patterned shield. We designed and made our own shields...

We learned to play a game called 'Knucklebones' that ancient Greek children played using dried bones from the neck of an animal (we used plastic bones!). We had to concentrate hard...

We learned that the owl was used as a symbol of the Greek goddess Athena's wisdom. We made clay models of Athena's owl...

We did some Greek maths. We discovered how to use an abacus...

And we built some of the Platonic solids (and learned their names). Here is an icosahedron which has 20 triangular faces...

Some children got together and made a tall stack of dodecahedrons...

We have learnt that masks were used in the theatre in ancient Greek times. We made masks of Medusa, a character from some of the Greek myths we have been reading...

Some of our activities had an Olympic theme. We found out that in the ancient Olympic Games, relay runners passed a torch to each other rather than a baton. The winner lit a fire to the gods. We made our own Olympic torches...

Olive wreath crowns were given to the winners of the Olympic games in ancient Greece. They were made from the branches of the olive trees growing in Olympia. We made our own winning crowns...

One of the events of the ancient Olympic games was the discus. We designed a discus using a paper plate...

We also had a go at writing using the Greek alphabet, completed some puzzles, coloured some pictures and designed key patterns.

Even though it was a busy morning, we found time to relax and read a Greek myth or two...

In the afternoon we showed off our amazing costumes and performed the Greek dancing that we have been practising in PE lessons...

We finished the day off with a huge Greek feast where lots of us tried foods we had never eaten before like feta cheese, olives, figs, dates and pomegranates...

It was a great day!

Y3JD and Y3R/W visited the English Institute of Sport yesterday to take part in a morning of sports skills led by students from Sheffield Hallam University.

They all enjoyed a very busy morning and learned about agility and ball skills by playing lots of different games.

Here are some pictures of the Y3s enjoying the sponsored Zumba-style fitness event in school this week. Thank you to everyone who has sponsored the children and helped to raise much-needed funds for school. We worked hard and had a lot of fun!

The Y3s took part in our Greek Olympics yesterday. Luckily the weather was kind to us and we all enjoyed an afternoon of sports activities outside. We split into eight teams and completed a circuit of activities, including the long jump, a sprint, hurdles, skipping, throwing and even a water race! We finished the afternoon with our own 'marathon' which involved running all the way round the outside of the school. The children in Y5AP helped to organise the events for us and did a fantastic job helping us to keep going and keeping the score. A huge thank you to them for their support.

Here are some pictures of the action...

HURDLES:

SPRINT:

LONG JUMP:

BAT AND BALL BALANCE:

SKIPPING:

DISCUS:

The Marathon finishing line:

Here are the winning team when they had received their medals. They also received an olive wreath crown like the winners did in ancient Greek times.

The winners of the marathon received a medal and olive wreath too.