Eckington C of E First School

Welcome to Class 3

Welcome to Class 3: we are located in our bright, spacious classroom near the front entrance of the school, and this is the home of our mixed year 3 and 4 class. 

Mrs Dodd is the teacher of Class 3. 

Mrs Crumpton and Miss Greening  also help us with our learning.  Our room is well equipped with everything we need including a super interactive board and computers.

Under Attack!

Our new topic covers the spring term and first half of the summer term as it encompasses the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings - invaders to Britain.  In the next couple of weeks we will be out and about in our learning with a visit to the Corinium museum in Cirencester where we will discover lots about the Romans and their way of life.  A point of interest is the legacy of these people - what did they do for us?.

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Our visit to Cirencester was a great success.  We enjoyed workshops learning about everyday Roman life and exploring all the amazing artefacts.  We were blown away by the opportunity to touch some of the breathtaking mosaics - we were touching objects shaped and made by people centuries ago.  We were amazed at the detail and ingenuity of some of the objects and the variety of items that had been recoved by archaeologists.

We also took the opportunity to spend time admiring, observing and sketching some of the fantastic Roman relics in the peaceful, thought- provoking atmosphere of the Corinium Museum.

In our latest literacy unit we have been using the book 'Escape from Pompeii' to inspire our writing of narratives set at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. We have found it quite challenging thinking about the terrible events and the sudden deaths of so many citizens.

We have been practising using expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language.  Here is one example of our brilliant writing in Year 4 - Annabelle wrote:

A ruby red blanket splashed and crashed onto the city.  Belle quivered and shook in fear as the dangerous roaring monster dashed towards her.  Behind her the crowd scattered, lightning slashed and roared like a fierce lion.  The volcano vomited ruby red lava onto the city.  Belle dashed frantically towards the bay.  The city was about to collapse into a pile of rubble.  The grass turned as black as soot; the beautiful golden sun turned to dust.  Belle finally escaped in time, she hid in some blankets and sailed away into the distance on the proud boat.

Check back soon for some of our finished stories.

Amazing Amazon

Our topic this term is all about the rainforest and South America.  We will be learning about the human and physical geography of South America, and discovering the details of the rainforest and other biomes.  We are looking forward to our visit to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens for some hands on discovery and enjoyed a super start creating our own rainforest! Can you spot the amazing creatures we have produced?

Please check back to learn more about our activities during the term.

Crime and Punishment

Our topic for the summer term is a chronological study on the theme of 'crime and punishment'.  We will be learning about how this changed from the time of the Romans to the present day.  Our super start involved an intruder in the classroom ... this led us to learn about the work of forensic artists and we sketched the culprit!   We are looking forward to our practical design and technology project where we will be using our woodworking skills to create a punishment tool. 

We have a mini adventure week planned, opportunities for Forest School activities and we look forward to learning to play the ukulele (with our specialist teacher).  Our exciting cricket coaching has also started, so this is definitely a fun packed term!

Secrets of the Sphinx

This term we are thinking about the ancient Egyptians and their amazing advanced society.  Our Super Start 'WOW' afternoon at the beginning of our topic really helped us to walk like the Egyptians!  We created a large scale Sarcophagus for our display, Egyptian neck collars and wrote our names in hieroglyphs. We will also be having an Egyptian themed workshop later on in the term, which will further immerse us into Egyptian life. 

Turbulent Tewkesbury

Our topic this half term is Turbulent Tewkesbury which is all about the Battle of Tewkesbury and the amazing local history we have on our doorstep!  Did you know the battle has close links with the Wars of the Roses?  We will also use this topic as a vehicle to develop our geography skills (in particular field work skills when we visit the town centre).  We are looking forward to immersing ourselves in our learning and our Super Start this term was a visitor from the Battlefield Society who shared lots of interesting information with us.

In science we are learning about healthy eating and about our skeletons.  We have discovered that our skeleton protects our organs and gives our body support and helps it to move.  We are trying very hard to learn the scientific names for our bones and our friend 'Bony' is helping us with this!