Blog by Tag: KS3

The KS3S Maths group enjoyed spending their break time enjoying the left over snow! Students made “big” and “small” snowballs and enjoyed walking on the snow and listening to the crunch! All students were able to identify that they needed to wear their coats and hats to go outside, and some…

Students from KS3C and KS3W enjoyed a visit from Jam the dinosaur. Our students learnt facts about dinosaurs like what they eat, how they move and what noises they made. Some students got up and fed Jam and even played tricks on him. It was a brilliant day for all students and staff.

KS3S enjoyed taking part in STEM day where they met Jam the T-Rex! Students enjoyed feeding the dinosaur, stroking him, kissing him, chasing him and getting tickles off him! 
 

Students from KS3C have been busy getting ready for our Christmas market. They have been designing and painting items ready to sell. 
 

Students from KS3C have been learning about samba music and have made their own musical instruments from recycled materials. They each designed their own labels for their shakers before adding rice.

Two students in KS3S demonstrated one of our four school values of “Friendship” this week by playing chase together in the outdoor gym area. Both students have been working on their communication and interaction skills over the last 9 weeks and are now able to demonstrate the transfer of these…

Students from KS3 had a lovely maths lessons using shape in different ways. Each student had the opportunity to make robots, construct shapes using lolly sticks and play dough and making sandwiches before using shape cutters to cut out their shapes before writing and evaluation. 
 

Students have been learning about different shapes. They have been learning their names, how many sides they have and vertices. They were able to complete worksheets to demonstrate their knowledge of the shapes.

students from KS3C had a brilliant PE lesson learning how to complete circuits. They all worked in small groups and completed each station with their partner. They completed the circuit twice to see if they were able to improve their first scores. During the activity they spoke about how they felt…

Students from KS3 had fun finding their answers to their maths problems using body boards to get from one end of the hall to the other. They worked as a team to find the answers and raced each other to get back to their teams.

In Computing today, 3L have been collecting data from tuff trays and representing the data using Microsoft Excel. Students sorted classroom items in the tuff trays, counted how many of each item there were and then this information was recorded in a table on a spreadsheet, then a bar graph was…

This week in KS3S we’ve been revisiting the core word “go” and using it in lots of different ways. Students really enjoyed using the Glow and Go robot and making it “go” by pressing the buttons to make it move, light up and play music. We’ve also enjoyed learning about Africa, had PE with Miss…