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Today was the last day of our Veni, Vidi, Vici topic and we have enjoyed a fantastic Roman day.

The day began with making our Roman shields and it was brilliant to have so many parents and family members come along to give us a hand. Thank you for all of your help!

In maths, we looked at Roman numerals and completed a carousel of activities to develop our understanding of the different symbols.

This afternoon, the fun continued as we explored some real artefacts which we have loaned from a museum and we tried to guess what each of the objects were used for during the Roman times. Then, it was time to put our shields to use and try out some different army formations before noisily invading the rest of the school!

Take a look at the photographs below... Veni Vidi Vici!

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A huge well done to all of the children for a fabulous couple of days in Austerfield! We were so lucky with the weather and the children were brilliant! Here's a sneaky peek to see what we all got up to . . .

Y3E have had a wonderful time at Austerfield over the last two days. All of our staff were impressed with the children's resilience at spending the night away from home and their enthusiasm for all of the learning activities. 

Here are the highlights from day 1...

We began our residential with a fantastic lesson all about different types of rocks.  We had the opportunity to study them carefully and complete several experiments to investigate their properties.

Following our rocks lesson, we were all getting hungry so it was time to enjoy our packed lunches in the sunshine.

After lunch, we walked to the local quarry. We timed our trip perfectly and arrived just as an empty lorry was being weighed. We watched the lorry drive into the quarry and be filled by a huge digger before returning to be weighed again with its full load.

After that, we searched for three different types of clay in the quarry and then weighed ourselves on the weighing bridge. There were some excellent estimates of our class weight - one child was only a few kilograms away!

For the rest of the day, we played outside, ate dinner and watched a film before snuggling into our sleeping bags for a well-earned sleep!

After lunchtime, when kind members of Y4/5 made sure they had friends to play with, we looked at the art of Andy Galsworthy and full of inspiration we went outside to try and re-create some of our own art in the same vein. We decided that he must have a lot of resilience and determination because sometimes we found it difficult to get the natural resources to co-operate! Have a look and see what you think. 

Year 3 have had another super productive week! Continuing our Roman topic Veni, Vedi, Vici children had the opportunity to complete their own Roman Villa, design a Roman outfit and meal, research the Roman gladiators and completed map work to find out about the Roman invasion. How exciting!

Year 3 have found out about the French words for the days of the week and thought about the activities we complete on those days.

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Violin lessons are also going really well in Y3GW and the children used their bows for the first time this week.

As the weather has improved (finally!) we are making the most of our fantastic grounds and the children have been developing their rounders skills. This week the focus was improving batting skills ready to begin playing full games over the next few PE lessons.