CLASS 3

Autumn term 2008

 

We welcomed 11 new children into class 3 in September.

We began our work in literacy by taking pictures of our school playground and using them to help us write description  and poems about the playground. We are eventually going to send

 

Our Visit to Bletchley Park June 2008

 

We touched an enigma machine that only about 1000 people have touched. The machine could make 159 million, million, million codes.

We saw lots of toys children played with during the war. Thomas threw a marble at a wooden ship and made it explode. There was a banging toy made of paper which frightened Yasmin.There was a toy car from 1941 and when you clapped it moved.

There was a statue of a code breaker called Alan Turing, it was made out of half a million pieces of slate.

 

                                          

 

The mansion was massive it had beautiful carved painted ceilings.

In World War Two birds were called Hitler's Feathered Friends.

We saw a Morrison shelter, it was like a cage. People were locked in during an air raid.

There was a folding picture with four pigs on and when it was folded up it was a picture of Hitler.

 

                                        

 

We saw an ambulance from the film Goodnight Mr Tom.

Children made their own lead toys in the war. It was very dangerous and sometimes they got hurt.

At Bletchley Park they used an enormous machine called the 'Bombe' to help them crack the German code.

We had a brilliant day. We saw lots of interesting things and spoke to really kind people who told us what their life was like during World War Two.

We would all like to go back again.

 

                                        

 

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We had fun photographing ourselves playing different playground games.

We wrote instructions on how to play the games for our friends in Uganda and Senegal.

 

 

No these are not self portraits - just some of our imaginative art work!

 

 

                     

 

 

In Class 3 we enjoy working with the younger children.

Here we are helping them follow clues in a treasure hunt we made during maths week and sharing stories we wrote with them.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                       

             

           

 

 

                     

 

We like the challenge of problem solving.

 

 

In science we learn about ourselves.

 

 

 

In games we learn cricket, tennis, unihoc, football and rugby.

We enter lots of competitions against other schools.