Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School
Autumn 1
This half term, our topic is...
Reading in Kingfisher 📚 👀
Our books this half-term are ‘The Lost Thing’ in English and ‘Varjak Paw’ as our class story.
We really value reading and want the children to have a love of reading. ❤️
As well as these books, they have a reading book to take home and a reading for pleasure book that they have chosen from the reading area in class. 📖 💭
Week Beginning: 16th October 2023
🎃 Pumpkin Carving! 🎃 What fabulous entries 🥰
D.T - Our final product. We have used our skills and knowledge to make a final moving picture of the water cycle. 🌧️ ☀️ ✂️
D.T: Refining our plans ready for making our moving picture. ✂️ 📍 📏
Geography: We have made a working water cycle and have been observing the condensation each day. 💧 ☀️ ☁️
Week Beginning: 9th October 2023
Friday 13th October: Holly Hill’s Black Excellence Day
Dr Shirley Thomason’s musical composition: We rose to the challenge of moving to her music using balls. Dr Shirley Thompson has written and composed music for football ⚽️ 🎶
Benjamin Zephaniah - Poet
Our performance of the poet Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘For Word’
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English - We have been working hard to describe one of the settings in our story, The Lost Thing. We certainly got the atmosphere right, and ended up with goosebumps at our own writing! ✍️
Week Beginning: 2nd October 2023
Freezing and melting: We investigated different solids and melting points. We predicted that some solids would never melt. The challenge was making a tinfoil boat 🚤 to float the solids in.
In English, we have been writing directions. This proved trickier than we thought, as we put them to the test to see if they got us to our destination... 🌳 🏠 🚗
Geography: We made a model of a river, starting with a trickle of water for the source and finishing with the estuary to pour into the sea. 🌊
D.T: We had the challenge of making a reciprocating lever. It proved tricky in places but we persevered and ended with success.
Week Beginning 25th September 2023
R.E: As part of our learning about Moses and the Exodus, we made and tasted some flat bread (still used in Holy Communion today) to think about the Jewish people escaping the Egyptians. The bread had to be unleavened because they did not have time for it to rise and had to escape quickly.🍞 🚫
D.T: We have been reviewing some levers and thinking about how we can improve the structure before we make our moving picture. 💭 💡
Week Beginning 18th September 2023
Design Technology ✂️ We have been practising the skill of making a working lever using fixed pivots. To be successful, the output needed to be an oscillating movement.
Maths: Kingfisher class have been working hard on partitioning three-digit numbers. 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣s 1️⃣0️⃣s. 1️⃣s
Week Beginning: 11th September 2023
Marvellous Maths! Kingfisher made a strong start to maths today by partitioning numbers into tens and ones. 🔢
English: Kingfisher had word-banks and they had to decide which words had the strongest meaning. We used dictionaries to help us with the trickier ones. 📚
Jigsaw: We had a lovely discussion in Jigsaw about our achievements and goals for Year 3🏅 🥅
What a successful first week - fabulous work Kingfisher!
08.09.23- STEM WOW DAY, session 1. In Kingfisher classroom, we focussed on gas and were challenged to make the balloon travel along the string.
We found that smaller balloons travelled faster. 🎈
Our balloon rockets in action! We had some fails, but part of the activity was to work out a solution.
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08.09.23- STEM WOW DAY, session 2. In Swallow classroom Kingfisher focussed on solids and were challenged to build a bridge using paper, straw’s and lollipop sticks.
09.09.23 STEM WOW DAY, SESSION 3. Kingfisher visited Mrs Cordon to take part in an Ice Melt Challenge. They tested a range of methods to see which would melt their ice cube the fastest: shaking, chipping, squeezing, blowing, wrapping and salting!
The Ice Melt Challenge in action!
Art work: We recreated The Great Wave of Kanazawa , by a Japanese artist called Hokusai. 🌊
