Hindu Temple Trip

Today, the children in Year 3 took a trip to Birmingham to visit the Hindu Temple, to complement and enhance their recent studies in RE.  

The Temple was a real feast for the senses - the shrines were dazzlingly beautiful and the children all enjoyed ringing the bell - it was extremely loud!  After a tour of the Temple, we had time for some questions before undertaking a yoga workshop, and learning a little about solving maths problems the Hindu way!

We all learnt a great deal and the children really enjoyed gaining an insight into a different culture.  We thank the staff at the Temple for extending such a warm welcome to us.

Super Scarabs!

To complement our Humanities work on Ancient Egypt, in our Art and DT lessons this autumn we have been designing and creating our own scarab beetles using air drying clay.

First, we drew and painted a colourful design, before using clay to create a 3D model of a scarab beetle.  We had to knead and shape the clay and then use different tools to create patterns in the wet clay.  Finally, we painted the finished scarabs using metallic paints.

Here are some photos of our work in progress!

Amazing Artwork

During the autumn term, Year 3 are lucky enough to have their art lessons from Artbase, who share their expert knowledge and teach the children different skills and techniques using a variety of different media.

For the first few weeks of the autumn term, the children worked on some paintings for the corridor display outside the classroom.  The theme for this term was Music, and we chose to interpret one of Mrs Vaqueiro's favourite songs, 'Strawberry Fields Forever' by the Beatles, using watercolour and poster paints.

We used a painting by the Liverpool artist Jo Gough as inspiration for our work, and we are now finally ready to unveil the results!