Welcome to Bluebell Class. We are the Year 3 Class at Hillmead School and our teacher is Mr Wisbey. We are also supported in class by Mrs Day.

Friday 17th January

In maths we have been comparing speeds using ordinal numbers.

Friday 20th December

This week we had a special visitor!

Friday 22nd November

This week in RE we have made clay diva lamps.

Friday 12th November

In DT this term we have been learning to join different materials together.  We have used these skills to create our own fabric faces.

Tuesday 12th November

In PSHE we have made these gingerbread people to celebrate our differences. 

Friday 25th October

This week in science we continued to learn about our senses and we explored the sense of smell.  

Friday 27th September

Today in maths we were learning to represent the numbers to 10 in many different ways.

Friday 20th September 2019

Today we got to play some with some toys  from the past, including 'Star Wars' and the game 'Perfection'.

Wednesday 16th September 2019

We had a visit from a company called Spirit of the Wild and we got the chance to see a variety of animals.  Some of us even got to hold them or feed them.

Week beginning 12^th November 2018

This week in Bluebell Class we have been learning all about the story ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We spent some time painting our favourite characters from the story and made some puppets to retell the story with our friends. We have also used the story to practise finding rhyming words!

Week beginning 5^th November 2018

This week in Bluebell Class we have been learning about Diwali. We talked about how Diwali is the Hindu Festival of lights and is celebrated all around the world. We have enjoyed learning about the story of Rama and Sita and had lots of fun designing and making our own Rangoli patterns, salt dough Diva lamps and Mehndi patterns!

Week beginning 22^nd October 2018

This week we in Bluebell Class we have been reading the story ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson. We have been really excited about Halloween and took inspiration from this story to make up our own potions and design our own broomsticks! We have enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters and retelling the story with our friends.

When we were in Nursery...

Summer Term 2018

Thursday 24th May 2018

We have been looking at different sea creatures this half term and have made collages of our sea creatures. We have been drawing lines and circles on our whale outline with chalk and pastels. We counted eight legs for our octopus mobiles. We also looked at ways of making eight. We shared many sea stories, our favourites were 'Hooray for fish' and 'The rainbow fish and the big blue whale'.

Friday 27th April 2018

We visited Boydell's Farm near Braintree. The farmer talked about the animals on the farm.

We met 'Toffee' the cow and had a go at milking her.

We fed the lambs with small milk bottles and stroked them very carefully while they sat on our laps.

We saw how the farmer looked after the pigs. We also met the chicks and stroked them.

We saw a very large turkey too !

We had a great time.

Wednesday 25th April 2018

We have been busy creating our 'On The Farm' display. We have been looking at animals we may see on a farm.

We came up with a selection of animals. We made collages of these animals.

We also practised many skills such as cutting and painting.

Spring Term

Wednesday 21st March 2018

We have been making our musical instruments during the past few weeks.

We made them out of junk modelling materials.

We played them to the rest of the class.

We followed a steady beat with Mrs Panesar.

Wednesday 12th March 2018

Our vehicle project

We have been making our vehicles and are very proud of our models.

We made some observational drawings of our vehicles too.

Thursday 1st March 2018

We dressed up on 'World Book Day' as a character from a story.

We read some of the stories the characters were from.

We had lots of fun !

Tuesday 27th February 2018

We have been adding details to our model vehicles. We have been using junk modelling materials to make the lights and wheels. We aim to display our vehicles once they are completed.

Monday 26th February 2018

We have been listening to different instruments in our music area. We have been listening to high and low sounds. We have been making a pattern with our sounds.

Wednesday 31st January 2018

Friday 26th January 2018

We have been making traffic light biscuits today. We thought about the order of the colours on the traffic lights.

We went outside and built a bridge.

Wednesday 24th January 2018

Colourful rainbows

We have been painting rainbows and mixing colours.

We made purple today by mixing red and blue.

We made our own colour strips.

Thursday 18th January 2018

Colourful Elmers

We have been looking at all the colours Elmer the elephant has.

We have been matching these colours and making our own multi-link Elmers.

Friday 12th January 2018

We made bird feeders using lard, bird seed , cheese and raisins. We weighed the ingredients. We made the mixture carefully and put it into the pots. We took them home. We hope the birds will like their winter treat !

Wednesday 10th January 2018

We have been sharing Elmer stories. We also painted our own Elmers for our Elmer display. We decorated our Elmers by painting patterns, printing with sponges and adding stickers.
Outside: We built a house with the crates and blocks.

Autumn Term

Friday 13th October 2017

We tasted pineapple and mangoes this week. 

Both these fruits were in the story 'Handa's Surprise ' which we have been reading this week.

We talked about our senses and which senses we used for our fruit tasting.

Friday 6th October 2017

This week we have been drawing with chalk in our outdoor area.  We have enjoyed the climbing frame, wheeled toys and  mud kitchen in our outdoor area this week. We have been reading the following stories; 'Owl Babies' , 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Goldilocks and the three bears. We have enjoyed singing circle rhymes: 'The farmer's in his den' and 'Here we go round the mulberry bush'.

Tuesday 26th September 2017

Today we have had a busy day making playdough  and biscuit faces which allowed us to discuss skin tone. We have also been thinking about our families and who we have on our network (our protective behaviour hands).

Monday 18th September 2017

We have settled into nursery really well this week and been really busy.  

We have been singing the nursery rhyme 'Incey Wincey Spider' and making spider biscuits.