Feel the force

Our science topic last term was magnets. Complete the word search below and blog the meaning of as many of the words possible.

Cast-iron problem

How did we free the Iron Man from the scarpyard without touching him?

Musical chairs - Part 1

After our latest triumphant concert, this time at the Royal Albert Hall, Year 3 will be celebrating its outstanding musical talent in a new series of still photographs.

Here, the baton has clearly passed from Paco de Lucía to the next generation.

An epic battle

Terribly black, terribly scaly, terribly knobbly, terribly horned, terribly hairy, terribly clawed, terribly fanged, with vast indescribably terrible eyes, each one as big as Switzerland.

The world is under threat from the huge and terrifying space-bat-angel-dragon, which wants to eat all living things (people, animals, forests). It doesn't care what it eats, so long as the food is alive!

Write a short story showing how Hogarth and the Iron Man could have defeated the horrifying space-bat-angel-dragon.
 

Number fun - Part 2

Can you do it again and this time break our record of 106 comments?

What number sentences can you make using these five numbers?

Remember, you can put the numbers in any order, but you can only use each of the numbers once.
Who can post the most answers?

You need nerves of steel to eat here!

Write what you think the family might have been saying when they were having their picnic on top of the hill.

What changed and how did the family react?

Magnetic personalities

These children enjoyed investigating with magnets.

What do you know about magnets? Do they always attract magnetic things towards them?

Think about what magnets are and where you have seen them used in real life.

Spotlight on maths

Rock on

Our students collected three rocks from Seven Sisters Country Park. Each weighs a different amount.

The first and second weigh 7kg altogether.

The second and third weigh 8kg altogether.

The first and third weigh 11kg altogether.

What is the weight of each rock?

Seven Sisters

What did you learn when we went to Seven Sisters Country Park and can you answer any of the questions in the film?

Down with the dawg

You can now use your same Manga High log in and password to play Sumdog. Each week you will be able to take part in a new maths challenge. You will be able to compete with the students in your class and other students across Lambeth. So play regularly and climb that league table all the way to the top!

Click on the logo to beat the dawg!

Can you dig it?

See all the photographs from when our intrepid fossil hunters took to the road and ended up at the Natural History Museum. Indiana Jones can't hold a torch to these seasoned trail blazers!

Click on the photo to examine the evidence.

A guessing game?

All the cards are different. There is a number from 1 to 8 on each card. Our student has chosen four cards that add up to 20.

What are they?

There are seven different possibilities, try to find them all.

What if our student has three cards that add up to 16?

Smokey's slumber party

Shadow play

Here are shadows of some 3D shapes.
What shapes could they be?

Think about what 2d shapes you can see and how that might help identify the 3d shape. 

Is there only one possible 3d shape for each?

Whose side will you take?

For or against

Think about whether you are for or against trapping the Iron Man.
Write about who you agree with and why.
These might be the farmer, Hoggarth, Hoggarth's dad, a member of the public, the town councellor,  the NOPDWT (National Organisation for the Prevention of the Destruction of Wild Things) or the Police.

Accidents will happen?

What do you think will happen to Hogarth's father after he drove into the Iron Man's foot? 

I am a shape!

Describe the properties of the shape you can see in the picture.

What other 3D shapes can you name and what are their properties?

Storycraft ... be inspired

Today is World Book Day! 

What book are you reading today? 

Will somebody be reading you a bedtime story tonight?





Storycraft is World Book Day's online storytelling tool, which helps you create your own stories in a range of genres. Over 50 top authors have created their own Storyguides, to share their top writing tips. So click on the Storycraft logo and get writing!

Fossil hunters

What is a fossil?

Can you find out what the oldest fossil found in the UK is?

What fossils do you think we will find when we go to West Sussex?

What other facts can you find out about fossils?

Beady eyes

his eyes, like headlamps, glowed white, then red, then infra-red ...

The Iron Man's eyes glowed different colours at different points in the story. 

Why do you think this is and what do you think the colours mean?

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