Spring 1

Week 1 

As designers, we started our DT topic by looking at pneumatic toys and researching how they work using pressurised air. We created our own blow rocket to develop our understanding further. We will be making our own pneumatic monsters over the next couple of weeks. As writers, we are rewriting the opening of ‘The Iron Man’ by using talk maps to help us. Have a look at what both teams came up with!

 Week 2 

This week as designers, we created our Anglo-Saxon monster using our knowledge of pneumatics. We inflated the balloon using pressurised air and this opened the monster's mouth! As musicians, we composed our own rhythm to show how an Anglo-Saxon monster would move. We used our knowledge of ‘Metre of 4’ and crotchets and quavers to help us compose this.

Week 3 

Year 3 have been very busy this week! As writers, we finished independently writing our own opening to ‘The Iron Man.’ We were very proud of our writing, and we visited Year 6 to share our story openings. As mathematicians, we have been learning to add 2 and 3-digit numbers together using column addition. As physicists, we are learning about forces and friction and applied our learning to see how cars would travel on different roads. In PE this week, we have learnt different gymnastic leaps: stag leap, scissor leap and cat leap.

Week 4 

As musicians, we developed our Anglo-Saxon inspired compositions by adding texture. We did this by adding in a range of instruments and changing the structure of the piece. As mathematicians, we have used representations to help us understand scaling by 10. We can now scale known multiplication and division facts by 10. As citizens, we have been learning about our ‘Rights of a Child’ and ‘Human Rights’ and explaining why these are so important. 

Week 5

At Hillcross, we have been taking part in Children’s Mental Health Week 2025. The theme this year was ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.’ In Year 3, we discussed how we will all feel a range of emotions at different times and it is okay to have these emotions. We spoke about different strategies to help us when we feel different emotions. In history this week, we have continued our learning about the Anglo-Saxons and compared what life was like for a child in the Anglo-Saxon times and life today.

Week 6 

This week, we visited Butser Ancient Farm to support our history learning about the Anglo-Saxons. We got to sit inside an Anglo-Saxon house with a real fire, dig for artefacts underground, carve using flint and weave cloth to make bracelets! We were able to apply our past knowledge from our learning this half-term to help us further our knowledge even further! Everyone at Butser Ancient farm was super impressed with the white hat facts we could share. What an amazing trip we had!