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In year 3 we dressed up as old people to celebrate our learning in IPC. The oldies had a little parade around school and then they designed easy workouts to keep their bodies fit at an advanced age. The whole class joined in for the workouts and the results were hilarious! ...

We became artists in Year 3 this week. After talking about old and young people and after gaining some inspiration from Rembrandt, Lautrec, Vermeer and other great artists from history, we created our own self portraits. We drew and painted half of the face as we are now and half of the face as we believe we will look when we are old ...

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We have had an exciting first week in Year 3! We looked into how our brains work and we discussed and researched the importance of healthy diet, exercise, water and sleep. Come talk to us if you would like to find out how to keep your brain fresh and alert! ...

3 Bunyonyi made rivers as part of their Geography learning. They made sure their river showed all of the features they had learnt about, including; source, meanders, tributaries, main channel, mouth and estuary. We even had some paper boats to float down the channel when the source began to produce water! We also increased our understanding about the importance of gradient, in the flow of water. ...

Year 3 Bunyonyi chose an island in the world to research and create. They made fact files about their island on Word, detailing the human and geographical features on the island. The children then made plans of their island to allow them to make a ‘true to life’ model out of a mixture of materials including mod rock. They then labelled the features and got ready to present their learning to Year 5 Karuma. We very much enjoyed this project...

This week year one children enjoyed revising their knowledge of measurements. We looked at non-standard as well as standard ways of measuring distance, height, weight and capacity. We understand that there are different units that we use for measuring, like centimeters, m eters, liters or grams and kilograms. ...

Year 3 had the most wonderful camping trip over the last two days. For many of them this was their first night away from their parents and almost exclusively their first night in a tent which they had put up themselves. During the trip the children practices many of the personal learning goals, such as cooperation, adaptability and resilience. The children did team games, learnt volley ball, swam, obstacle courses, learnt about map reading for the IPC topic, celebrated birthday’s...