Scarisbrick Hall School Winter Newsletter 2014 | Page 11

Year 3
3S
Reported by: Miss Sutcliffe
3S boarded the spaceship in September ready
for a term full of exploration and adventure.
Our first topic saw us learning more about
Continents and Oceans along with the names of
European countries and capital cities. We loved
using our new atlases to learn more about our
world!
We moved on to learn about the structure of the
Earth and enjoyed writing our own stories about a
Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Next, we moved
on to Tectonic Plates. We learned that some pull apart and some push together.
To help us remember this, Miss Sutcliffe gave us all a Milky Way! We cracked the
chocolate crust and pretended this was the tectonic plate with the caramel below
being the mantle! We were able to pull our tectonic plate apart and push it
together to form mountains then we got to eat them – the Milky Ways that is!
From there we learned all about volcanoes and earthquakes. We loved learning
about some of the famous volcanoes around the world and wrote fact files about our favourites. In our
Science lessons we made our own volcanoes and loved watching them erupting! The red food colouring
that we put into the mixture made it seem very realistic! It wasn’t quite as hot as the real thing! In some
American schools they practise the Earthquake Drill so we had a go at that too. We were very pleased
when Josie’s Grandad came in to tell us more about volcanoes. He brought in some fantastic rocks for us
to look at but the best thing was he had worked out all about a rock that Elliott had found on the beach in
Wales and was able to tell us its story.
Recently, we have been learning about the three different types of rocks and loved doing some more
experiments to investigate how hard the rocks were and whether any of them floated. We found out that
Scarisbrick Hall is made of a sedimentary rock called Sandstone. Before we finish for Christmas we hope to
learn about fossils and even make our own using Plaster of Paris.
In our English lessons we have learned a lot about Roald
Dahl and read quite a few of his books including George’s
Marvellous Medicine. It was great fun pretending to make
our own version of the medicine! We were really pleased
to hear that Esio Trot is going to be on the television at
Christmas. Miss Sutcliffe let us write our own class
assembly about Roald Dahl where we got to dress up as
our favourite characters.

Winter Poems
Winter bounces in with
spiders webs glistening and
trees shivering in the cold
on a frosty, icy day
with foxes crawling
through the deep snow.

Winter shoots in with
children skating on thin ice
then laughing with joy
on an icy, frosty day
with snow drops falling
on their hands.

Winter blows in with
birds flying south and
snow all around
on a freezing cold day
with trees gently swaying.

By Taraa Yousaf

By Phoebe Foster

By Oliver McIntosh