Year 3/4 Miss Burley 2021-2022

Today, we’ve learned about the Celts and their influence during the Iron age. The Celts were a group of people who lived in Europe during the Iron age. (800BC-AD)

The Iron age was a period of time when iron replaced the use of bronze when making tools, weapons, jewellery, plates and cups.…

On Monday Jean Banwell, an archeologist  from the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, visited the class. She talked about how people survived throughout different periods in the Stoneage. The children then pretended to be archeologists and were presented with the remains of a Woolly Mammoth,…

This week has seen another wonderful week of learning.

In English we have read the story ‘The blind man and the hunter’ from the book Tales of Wisdom and Wonder The children used their imagination and put themselves in the place of the blind man. In order to do this the children, put…

What a wonderful first week back! 

This week the children have worked so hard in Topic and English. 

During topic, 'Tribal Tales' the children worked collaboratively to create their own timelines. They were able to place the Stoneage, Bronze age and Iron age periods in order. They then…

This week we have been learning about Christian festivals focusing upon All Saints.We now know how to become a saint and created our own picture using oil pastels. Did you know that there are over 10,00 saints and that you have to be dead more than 5 years before you can become a saint?! We looked…

Today's science lesson got very messy. The children used objects found at home to recreate their digestive system. 

First, we used a knife and a potato masher, to act as teeth to cut up and mash a banana. We then added some orange juice to the mixture. The children poured the liquid into a…

Today we created our own set of teeth using clay. The children worked collaboratively with their learning partner to shape the jaw line using their hands. Then they created the different types of teeth, incisors, canines, pre-molars and molars using clay modelling tools. The children all had…

This week the children brought in their pieces of topic homework. I am amazing at the standard of learning taking place at home. We have models of teeth, posters about healthy eating, models of the digestive system, facts files and much much more. 

A huge well done for all of your hard work…

This week the children have worked hard on producing their own diary extract of the day Miss Root the dentist came to school, from the story 'Demon Dentist'

We used RAG words from the text to describe our feelings when she arrived, how she looked and why the children were so frightened of…

This week we have been working together to write adjectives and noun phrases to describe Miss Root the Dentist from our class book 'The Demon Dentist'. The children enjoyed describing her appearance, mannerisms and attitude towards the children she met. 

We then wrote our own character…

Last week we set up two experiments, one to find out what effect different types of drinks had on our teeth and what happened to bread if we touched it with clean and dirty hands. 

Today we looked at both experiments and recorded our findings. First, we looked at the bread experiment. The…

We have had a fabulous first week back! The children have worked incredibly hard and have been really engaged in our new topic ' Burps, Bottoms and Bile' 

We had lots of fun finding out how clean our teeth actually are. The children chewed a disclosure tablet, which made the plaque on their…