Suckley School

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Summer

Look at these AMAZING Shakespeare portraits, inspired by our work on The Tudor and our class read: A Midsummer Nights Dream

Acting out A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Dt & Science - creating light up crowns using our circuits knowlege

Buzzing aboue ELECTRICITY - what happens when we add a SWITCH into our circuits?

Exciting Electricity! Constructing simple series parallel circuits

The children were very excited about creating their own electrical circuits! Using two wires, a cell/battery and a bulb, the children investigated for themselves how to create a circuit and observe the result of energy flowing through that circuit. We noticed that the light bulb will only light when the circuit is closed, which means that all the wires are connected to both the bulb and the cell, and there are no 'gaps' in the the circuit. We also noticed that the bulb will only light if the metal crocodile clip makes contact with the metal part of the light bulb component. This will help the children to understand about conductors and insulators in future learning. We are so excited about electricity!

Electrical applicance hunt around school

After completing our Forces and Magnets unit in Science last half term, we have now begun ELECTRICITY! We started this unit last week by learning about how to stay safe around electricity and made posters to reflect our knowledge on safety. This week, we undertook an electricity hunt around the school and were able to identify at least 22 different electrical appliances! We were so surprised to discover that so much of our modern day-to-day life relies on electrical power. We used Venn diagrams to sort the different types of appliances. The children were very interested to know where electricity comes from, so using this child-led inquiry, we learnt about renewable, non-renewable and nuclear sources of power in our English lesson, transferring our skills across the curriculum.

Circumnavigating the globe like Sir Francis Drake

Computing- simulations!!

Practical maths - telling the time

Talk maths -oracy skills to consolidate maths skills

More super science - investigating whether all metals are magnetic

Science - Forces & Magnets - Investigating the strength of magnets

Woodpeckers worked scientifically to investigate the strength of magnets. First of all, they explored different types of magnets and what they do! Using our glossaries from last week, Woodpeckers were able to extend their exploration to describing that like magnetic poles repel, and opposite magnetic poles attract. Then, Woodpeckers used their super scientific skills to set up investigations into which of the magnets was the strongest. They did this by testing how close a magnet could get to a paperclip before attracting it. They recorded their data in a table, then interpreted their results before drawing conclusions. Many were surprised to find their predictions were not necessarily the correct - the largest-size magnet did not necessarily mean it had the greatest magnetic force, and how heavy the magnet was turned out to be more important. Woodies loved this enquiry-based science!

English / Science - cross curricular learning - creating our Forces & Magnets glossaries to embed key scientific vocabulary

Maths - Y3 Counting with Money

Welcome back everyone! We can’t believe it is the SUMMER term. Have a look at our topic web and class letter to see the plans we have in store in our final term this year.