General Class Information
                                   Class Teacher: Miss Hawkins

TSAs: Miss Clark

Also working in our phase: Mrs Kirk

PE Day: Monday
Library Day: Thursday

                                                       Lights, Camera, Action!

     In Literacy, the children have been using drama to immerse themselves in our new story - The Rhythm of the Rain. They produced some amazing freeze frames which allowed the children to use emotive language to explore how the raindrop might be feeling at different points during the story.

                                                           Maths Geniuses!

The children have been using concrete resources to support and develop their understanding of addition and subtraction. Hazel Class have been doing fantastic at applying the newly learnt methods of column addition and subtraction to solve addition and subtraction problems. 

                                                            Super Scientists!

Hazel Class have been super scientists this half-term! They have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the appearance and properties of different types of rocks. The children absolutely loved making their fossil formation videos, we definitely have some paleontologists in the making!

  Ancient Egyptian Beliefs

During their learning about Ancient Egyptian beliefs, the children conducted their very own mummifcation of a tomato by following specific instructions to ensure that their tomato was  mummifed correctly. 

Water, water everywhere!

The children have enjoyed learning about the features of a river and it was fantastic to see them apply their knowledge on our trip to Bolton Abbey. The class are becoming more confident in using atlases and its key to identify and locate local and global rivers.

 Sacred Texts and a trip to the Buddhist Temple

During the first half of the Spring Term, the children enjoyed exploring how different texts are sacred in different religions. The children also enjoyed visiting a Buddhist Temple where they learnt more about Buddhism and explored some special religious artefacts. 

An introduction to French

The children have immersed themselves in our French lessons and have loved playing games which require them to speak the numbers 1-12 in French to practise their French, très bien Hazel Class!

Tints and Shades

Hazel Class were buddied up with children from Willow Class who supported them during our recent learning about tints and shades. In their partners, the children chose a background that they wanted to design. They carefully had to mix colours together with either white or black to create the background for their silhouette to be placed on top of.

Rights and responsibilities

Year Three have explored what their dream school would look like as well as the concepts of rights and responsibilities. The children are working hard on listening to one another during our PSHE sessions as well as being respectful towards others and their opinions. 

Rhythm of the River

The children applied their knowledge from their Geography lessons by identifying the sounds of a river at its different points. In groups, they created an ostinato (a repeating pattern) and chose the most appropriate instrument to match their part of the river. The classroom almost sounded like the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey.

Shake, shake, shake, shake!

The children loved getting onto the dance floor and showing off their moves in the African Dance Workshop. There was definitely some competition for who could shake the most!

Let's get muddy!

All of Hazel Class have thoroughly enjoyed getting outside in Forest School and have enjoyed some (muddy!) free play as well as creating their own villages using natural resources, creating a class river (which involved a lot of mud to represent the river banks!) in addition to practising their map reading skills.