Year 3: Gallery
Happy Diwali, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 1st Nov 2019 @ 2:27pm
Y3 enjoyed learning about Diwali on Friday. We were involved in self-learning tasks, sharing what we had learnt with others in the class. We had a go at designing our own Rangoli patterns - which aren't as easy as they look!
Mini Makers in Y3, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 9th Oct 2019 @ 5:04pm
Year 3 have had an AMAZING day today with the Mini Makery team! We made potions, vegetable skeletons and rainforest pictures... and then ate them! Including LOADS of foods that lots of us had never tried before. The Makery team also set us the Mini Makery Rainbow Challenge - the children have taken these home and are attempting to try 55 different fruits and vegetables over the next seven days! Visit https://www.facebook.com/theminimakery/ for more information on this super experience, linked with our healthy food and bodies topic in Science.
Reading surprises in Y3, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 15th Sep 2019 @ 5:32pm
Our Year 3 children are looking forward to choosing from our mystery books. Which one will they choose for us to read together next?! There are clues to help them make their choices.
Share the learning in year 3 , by Miss Jones
Date: 23rd Jul 2019 @ 2:12pm
We loved welcoming parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters to the year 3 classroom this morning to share our ancient Egypt work.
Year 3 Ness Gardens, by Miss Jones
Date: 1st Jul 2019 @ 8:22am
Year 3 had a wonderful time at Ness Botanical Gardens last Friday. The sun was shining and there was plenty to see. We enjoyed a tour around the gardens and looked at many beautiful plants and flowers. We even planted our our radish or bean seed to bring home and watch grow. After that, we learnt all about the life cycle of a flowering plant. The lady leading the tour was very impressed with the childrens' knowledge and understanding. Then, we did a bee hunt and explored their habitat. Did you know bees have a very important role in the reproduction of plants. We then enjoyed a lovely picnic lunch before exploring the rest of the gardens.
The children were a credit to Oldfield with their excellent behaviour, inquisitiveness and curiosity.
Thank you to Mrs Pierce, Mrs Hampson, Mrs Batchelor and Mrs Davies for coming along and helping with trip. We hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did.
Sports day, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 22nd Jun 2019 @ 10:44am
Thank you to everyone who supported our Sports Day this year. It was great to see and hear the support for all the children taking part, your cheers and claps were huge motivators! The weather was fabulous and a great day was had by all.
Thank you to those who supported the PTA by purchasing raffle tickets. There were some amazing prizes - our Year 6 pupils did a great job of writing letters to companies to encourage them to donate prizes. We raised a total of £216!
Using the chrome books in Year 3, by Miss Jones
Date: 13th Jun 2019 @ 9:21pm
Year 3 were thrilled that they got to use the new google chrome books today. We incorporated safe internet use and research skills to create a timeline of key events in ancient Egyptian times. We also used our own personal logins and talked about why we should keep passwords private.
Year 3 French breakfast , by Mrs Woodward
Date: 12th Jun 2019 @ 3:35pm
Year 3 enjoyed a French day. They had a French breakfast and tasted French pastries,crepes,brioche and baguettes,then talked about which ones they liked. Chocolate crepes were the favourite ‘Ooh la la!’
Active maths in Year 3, by Miss Jones
Date: 7th Jun 2019 @ 6:03pm
We have enjoyed competing TWO active maths activities today. We worked in the hall and in our classroom because of the rainy weather but that did not stop us having lots of fun.
We have practised reading time on analogue clocks and we have been estimating how long something would take to do. What could you do in an hour? A minute? A second?
Year 3 Residential - Tattenhall 2019, by Miss Jones
Date: 20th May 2019 @ 7:23pm
What a brilliant time we have had!
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their first residential experience at Tattenhall last Thursday and Friday. The weather was glorious on the first day so we spend as much time as possible outside. We weaved willow to make a fish sculpture, played team building games and enjoyed bouldering in pairs. After tea, we all went on the Millennium Mile walk around Tattenhall village before spending lots of time in the adventure park. On the second day, we took part in den building and fire lighting sessions. We even roasted some sweet treats on the fire.
All of the adults involved in the trip were amazed by the children’s determination, politeness and excellent behaviour.
Thank you to Mrs Woodington, Mrs Woodward, Mr Brown and Mrs Davies for assisting with the trip.
Welcome to a new volunteer at Oldfield, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 22nd Apr 2019 @ 1:33pm
It was lovely to welcome Gaby Hall, our new volunteer, to Oldfield this week. Gaby will be supporting children in our Year 3 class on a Friday afternoon.
Year 3 maths of the day - adding fractions, by Miss Jones
Date: 20th Mar 2019 @ 11:48am
Today in maths, we did an activity called around the world. We had to find hidden word problems in the hall and answer them in pairs. This helped us practise adding fractions that have the same denominator.
Year 3 Geography with an artistic twist , by Miss Jones
Date: 11th Feb 2019 @ 7:19pm
Year 3 started their new geography topic today by painting their own map of the United Kingdom. Over the next few lessons, we will add to our maps as we learn more about the cities, counties, rivers and mountains within our region.
Year 3 - Safer Internet Day 2019 , by Miss Jones
Date: 5th Feb 2019 @ 6:08pm
Year 3 have had a wonderful afternoon completing a carousel of activities about staying safe online. Our activities included sorting statements into fact and opinion so that we are able to spot fake news online. We also completed a quiz to understand what information is safe to share online. Another activity involved writing rules and top tips for keeping safe online and sorting true and false facts about internet usage. Finally, we read a story about Buddy the Dog and how we could stay safe when using tablets. Buddy taught us a song. Why not ask the children to sing it to you at home?
Space-themed PTA cake sale and coffee afternoon this Friday , by Mrs Bailey
Date: 5th Feb 2019 @ 4:52pm
The force is calling you from a galaxy far, far away!
SPACE THEMED
PTA CAKE SALE
From 3pm on Friday 8th February 2019
in the School Hall
It’s time to get your imagination working over time. Think out of this world (literally) for our Space Themed bake sale this Friday.
We can’t wait to see your creations!
Tea and coffee available
Prizes for the best entries from each class.
Please label cakes with your child’s name and year group and give to class teachers or the school office on the day.
Please bake and buy generously. All proceeds raised go to the PTA
If you wish to support the cake sale but don’t wish to bake, shop bought cakes are always well appreciated.
We would also be grateful to any of you who can help set up or sell on the day - just reply email to let us know!
Sharing homework in Year 3, by Miss Jones
Date: 1st Feb 2019 @ 9:00pm
Year 3 have been very busy at home over the past 2 weeks. As part of our English text, Escape from pompeii, the children had to research the events in Pompeii, 79AD. Children used the internet, trips to the library, videos and even song lyrics to gather their information. They then presented their research in a variety of ways. We had lift the flap peters, posters made on the computer, leaflets with glossaries, speeches, story writing, fact files and PowerPoint presentations. It was brilliant to see the children use features that we have looked at in English and guided reading.
Zoo visitor, by Miss Jones
Date: 25th Jan 2019 @ 11:43am
Today we had a visitor from Chester Zoo, as a class we discussed how we can protect our environment by recycling our household products.
Christmas lunch, by Mrs Bailey
Date: 19th Dec 2018 @ 1:52pm
We enjoyed a tasty Christmas lunch today. Thank you to everyone involved in preparing and serving the meal. We listened to festive Christmas music whilst we ate. It was exciting pulling our crackers and reading the jokes inside!
A special thank you to Mrs Stark, Mrs Maddocks and Ms Denham for preparing the food , to our governors who came in to help serve the food and to staff who gave up part of their lunchtime to ensure the lunch went smoothly.
Year 3 visitors , by Miss Jones
Date: 27th Nov 2018 @ 12:21pm
Year 3 have been very lucky to have had two visitors into the classroom this week. Last Tuesday, Mr Trevor visited the class to deliver a workshop about the Stone Age. The children were fabulous at asking and answering historical questions. It was a perfect opportunity for them to show Mr Trevor what they have learnt during their English and topic lessons. I was very proud of the children and amazed at just how much they could remember from lessons.
This Tuesday, we welcomed a ladycalled Marissa from Chester zoo . She tasked to us about the importance of looking after our planet by recycling and reducing plastic waste. The children were shocked to learn just how long it takes for certain materials to rot after they are thrown in the bin. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle 😀
Year 3 National Poetry Day celebrations 🍁 🍂 , by Miss Jones
Date: 12th Oct 2018 @ 7:36am
To celebrate National Poetry Day, Year 3 thought about what Autumn means to them and wrote their own acrostic poem about Autumn for a class poetry anthology. For homework, the children went on Autumn walks with their family and made collages, posters or artwork to show what they saw. 
Year 3 - cooking a fruity Stone Age pudding. , by Miss Jones
Date: 5th Oct 2018 @ 1:44pm
This week, we cooked like a Stone Age person and made delicious stewed fruit using ingrediants we predicted they would have used in the Stone Age. We wrote up the recipe and a set of instructions using imperative verbs and adverbs for when and how. We even worked out the total cost for the recipe.
We talked about how they might have foraged and gathered fruits like plums and blackberries and nuts and seeds. To make our pudding sweet, we used honey becuse there was no sugar in the Stone Age.
If you would like to make it at home, I have uploaded the recipe.
Year 3 National Fitness Day , by Miss Jones
Date: 26th Sep 2018 @ 9:35pm
We enjoyed training like a Jedi with Jade Jones today as part of National Fitness Day.
Year 3 - Maths of the Day; Reading and Writing 3-digit numbers., by Miss Jones
Date: 17th Sep 2018 @ 2:46pm
Today we went in the hall to complete an Around the World quiz with a partner. Frist we identified 3-digit numbers using lots of different representations and recorded the numbers in numerals and words. We also solved Chilli Challenges that involved place value problems.
Year 3 - Roald Dahl Day 🐊🦒🍫, by Miss Jones
Date: 15th Sep 2018 @ 7:28am
We had a great time celebrating Roald Dahl Day on Thursday 13th September. In English, we practised skim reading; reading to find key bits of information within a text and made notes all about Roald Dahl’s life. We then turned our notes into full sentences to add to our biography poster all about our Author of the Month, Roald Dahl.
We also enjoyed practising representing 3-digit numbers in different ways. We used the number of pages in some of Roald Dahl’s most Famous books as our starting number.
The children also really enjoyed discovering their Roald Dahl name. This is displayed on our window. I wonder what your Roald Dahl name would be? Why not have a look the next time you are outside our classroom.
Year 3 - Art and Design , by Miss Jones
Date: 15th Sep 2018 @ 7:17am
This week, the children have been investigating cave paintings. We used the iPads to research facts about Stone Age cave art and to get a closer look at some paintings. They also used a range of different art media to sketch on different papers, specifically experimenting with tone and texture. Next, as a class we looked at how we could design our own cave art inspired line drawing to make a tile for press printing. The children worked very hard creating their own unique design for their printing. We used ink and the repeated printing techniques to create new covers for our topic books. The final results were wonderful!
