Our Comparative Investigation

We have been learning about plants and how they live, grow, and reproduce. Today we set up a comparative investigation to find out how temperature affects how a plant transports water. We put flowers (chrysanthemums and carnations) into beakers of water, coloured with food colouring, and placed each beaker into either a cold, warm or room temperature location. We had to ensure a fair test by making sure:

  • the flowers were the same type (or species) and were the same length
  • the beakers were the same size and made form the same material
  • the amount of water was the same
  •  the amount of food colouring was the same
  •  the only thing that was different, the variable, was the location temperature where we put the beakers.

Over the coming week, we will observe the flowers and compare how quickly they take up the blue water and show it in their petals. Watch this space for the results!

David Attenborough’s 100th birthday

Today we celebrated David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, a momentous occasion for an extraordinary person. AS part of the day, we enjoyed a Forest Schools workshop led by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust during which we made flower bombs to spread wildflowers for pollinators. we also decorated the compostable bags which we took them home in.

World Book Day 2026 in Class 3

Today we celebrated World Book Day 2026 and enjoyed lots of exciting activities including a Book Traitors themed assembly and lots of fabulous class-based fun. We also dressed up as our favourite book character.

In our school today was a Miss Honey, 5 x Matildas and a Miss Trunchbull!

School Closure 9th January – Class 3 suggested activities

The Manor House comprehension

Compare Numbers to 1000

TTRS Worksheet

 

Good morning Class 3,

Here are some activities to keep you busy today:

  • Maths homework – Multiples of 50 on sheet in your homework folder

Additional activities:

  • The Manor House comprehension (on paper given). You could also draw a picture showing what Lara could see as she entered the woods (with labels from the text)
  • Additional Maths activity – Compare Numbers to 1000 (on paper given)
  • Computing – Scratch – https://scratch.mit.edu/ (no login necessary). Click Create and work online. Change your sprite, change your background, use the motion blocks to make you sprite move around the stage.)
  • Reading practice ( you have your books and reading diaries)
  • TTRS Division 2 Practice 4s sheet and/or online practice (logins in reading diaries)

Mrs Williams

Mrs Watts’ Flint-Knapping Visit

Mrs Watts and James came in to show us all of their stone age and iron age artefacts. They also showed us how the Stone Age people knapped flint. They used large pieces of flint and  deer antlers to chip parts off to make tools such as hide scrapers, arrowheads and axes.

Dr Rogers’ visit – Rock and Fossils

Dr Steve Rogers came in to show us the amazing fossils he studies and talk to us about what and how we can learn from them. We loved looking at the ammonites and trilobites especially. He also showed us different rock samples and we asked questions from our Rocks science unit.

Investigating What Plants Need to Live

We learned about what plants needed to live and what happens to plants if they don’t get those conditions. We worked in groups to design a fai test. Each plant was the same to start with then one was given no light, one was given no water, one was given no air and the other was given the wrong temperature (cold). We also had a control that had all of those conditions. We observed the plants over the following week.

Number Games

We have been enjoying activities around number and here we were playing a memory game where we had to match 3-digit numbers in numerals and words. It became very competitive!

Rocks and Fossils with Dr Rogers 27th November 2024

Today we had a fabulous visit from geologist Dr Steven Rogers. He brought in lots of different rock samples for us to look closely at and some amazing fossils to hold and study. We learnt a lot about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks as well as fossils such as trilobites and ammonites.

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