We have been having fun creating algorithms to move the Beebots between 2 points and debugging them when they didn’t do what we expected them to.  We even programmed the Beebots to play football!

The children will be having their school trip to Underwater Street in Liverpool on Wednesday the 22nd of April.  Please ensure that they wear their uniform as usual and bring their lunch (including a drink – no fizzy drinks please) in a disposable bag.  Children with school lunches will be provided with a packed lunch.  If you child suffers from travel sickness please make a member of staff aware prior to the visit. If you would like to look at the kind of activities they will be undertaking on the visit please feel free to visit the website at www.underwaterstreet.com       Thank you – Mrs Fairhurst

Congratulations to this week’s winners:

Star of the Week – Hayden

Golden Ticket Winner – Evie

Group of the Week – Tigers 2

Our Clarice Cliff bowls are now complete!  We popped the balloons and cut out the shape of a bowl.  Then we painted the outside a pale colour and the inside a dark colour.  After that we drew the outline of the flowers on the bowl.  We had to do this upside down! Finally we  painted the flowers on our bowls.  We will be bringing these home at the end of this term.

We had jellytastic fun in Year 3 this week.  The children had to time themselves transferring jelly coated in oil between two bowls using plastic sticks.  They had to wrap different materials around the end of the sticks to create friction to reduce the time it took.  Our record was 7 seconds using sticks wrapped in bumpy tin foil.

The children will be leaving their books out for you to look at during Parents’ Evening.  They have put post it notes inside showing F for favourite, E for enjoyed and P for proud of.  We would love it if you would leave them a comment if you have enjoyed looking at their work.  I look forward to seeing you all.  Mrs Fairhurst

Congratulations to this week’s winners:

Star of the week – Alfie

Golden Ticket winner – Caitlin

Group of the week – Giraffes

We have had our first responses to our blog!  The children were delighted to read the comment from Mrs Charnley.  Year 3 are very proud to be part of our very first trial of blogging so a big thank you goes back to her for giving us this opportunity.

Also we send our thanks to Mrs Brown for our first parent comment too – extra brownie points for reading the electronic newsletter with our web address on it!

It is very exciting for the children to know that their parents are out there  keeping track of our blog.  We will check in with our blog on a daily basis so keep your comments coming, we very much appreciate your support.

Year 3 and Mrs Fairhurst

I have been amazed by Year 3 this week (pretty much like every other week really!).  We have been learning how to program kodus to play a game against the computer.  They helped me to create the right algorithms last week and I challenged them to use what they knew to create their own game this week.  It had to have 2 kodus and they had to program one to move with the arrow keys and the other to be moved automatically by the computer.  They had to insert objects to be eaten or swiped by the kodus.  They then added code to score points when each kodu found an object.  When one reached 5 they had to program the game to end and show who was the winner.  What they produced was mind-blowing!  Not only did they do everything I had asked, they also did things I don’t know how to do!  We invited Mrs Broad, our Key Stage Leader, to look at them and she was very impressed  Well done Year 3!  If you would like to download Kodu at home please visit kodugamelab.com.  Unfortunately this is only for windows based computers.

With the success of the Clarice Cliff plate designs in our minds we have embarked on a more challenging project.  We are making our own bowls using a balloon and papier mache.  Once they are dry we will be creating our own version of her famous ” crocus” design.  By the end of the lesson we were all pretty much stuck to each other and we owe Miss Wills a big THANK YOU because we all skipped out for playtime and left her with the tidying up!  Mrs Fairhurst.