Year 3 Science Week
Year 3 enjoyed being scientists for the week – some of our investigations looked at which drink stayed fizziest the longest and which materials made the best hats.
Year 3
World Book Day
Look at our costumes for World Book Day!
The Living Rainforest
Year 3 had an amazing adventure at the Living Rainforest and learnt all about animal adaptations.
Paddington 2
On 20 November the children in Years 1-4 enjoyed a special screening of Paddington 2 at the Phoenix cinema in Oxford. This was an exclusive schools’ event celebrating World Children’s Day in partnership with Unicef. Unicef statement: “The iconic Paddington Bear has become a champion for children in support of Unicef, to help keep all […]
Everyday Life of the Romans
This week Year 3 had a fabulous visit to the Corinium museum in Cirencester to learn all about the everyday life of Romans. We explored the museum and took part in an active learning session . We made mosaics, played Roman board games, dressed up as Romans and pieced together Roman pots like real archaeologists. […]
Tag Rugby Festival
Sports news from Mrs Whiting On 16 October 14 children from Years 3 and 4 attended a Tag Rugby Festival held at Cumnor school and attended by all the schools in the partnership. Year 4 were our A team and Y3 our B team. Many of the children had only ever played tag rugby at […]
Year 3 theatre trip to see Awful Auntie Live on Stage
Year 3 had a great time at the theatre watching David Walliams’ Awful Auntie. The performance was enjoyed by all and we have been using it to inspire our writing in class.
Vale Primary Schools Cross Country Finals
Tuesday 10 October 2017 – Boys Year 3 & 4 The Team: Bathie, Brian, Evan, Freddy, Lorenzo and Peter Following on from their triumph at Matthew Arnold, the boys from the Year 3/4 A team went forward to the Vale Final held at Buscot Park, Faringdon. The setting was perfect and the children did their absolute […]
Cross country competition 25 Sept 17
Congratulations to our 10 teams of Y3/4 and Y5/6 girls and boys What an amazing evening we had at Matthew Arnold School on Monday 25th September. I was able to take ten teams, a total of 46 children from Year 3, 4, 5 and 6. The children were grouped into teams A, B and C […]
Survival skills day at Hill End Y3 – June 17
Year 3 and 4 had a wonderful day at Hill End learning how to survive when marooned on a desert island. They made fire, built shelters, filtered water, made giant SOS signs, debated and agreed on five essential items, built animal traps and generally got very muddy and enjoyed the forest and open space!
