Welcome to Oak 3!
2025 - 2026
Mrs Bayliss/Mrs Bowker - Class Teachers
Mrs Sullivan, Mrs Oldham, Miss Gregory - Teaching Assistants
Spring 1
Forces, Magnets and Metals
Year 3 have been busy creating delightful breakfast pots as part of our learning about cereals. They chose a mix of yoghurts, fruits, and cereals to combine in their pots. The children thought carefully about how to present their creations, ensuring they looked as tasty as they were.
Oak 3 put their understanding of forces to the test with an exciting challenge. Each child was given a paperclip and asked to make it move in four different ways, but they were only allowed to touch it for two of those movements. The children confidently applied their knowledge, using pushes, pulls and even blowing air to create contact forces. They also explored non-contact forces by using magnets to move the paperclip without touching it.
Ten of our Year 3 children represented Birchwood at the North Warwickshire Gymnastics competition. We were extremely proud of the confidence they displayed while performing their individual floor routines and vault jumps. The team did brilliantly, finishing 2nd overall in their heat and achieving a 1st place win on the vault. Well done to everyone involved!
This week, Year 3 proudly presented their class assembly to the rest of the school and their loved ones. The assembly focused on online safety, linking perfectly with Safer Internet Day, which takes place in a couple of weeks’ time. The children did a fantastic job learning and delivering their lines, as well as performing a song and a poem with confidence and enthusiasm. Their hard work and teamwork really shone through, and they should be very proud of themselves.
We hope that everyone in the audience enjoyed the assembly and, most importantly, learned something new about how to stay safe online. Well done, Year 3, for such a brilliant performance!
Year 3 planned their own investigation to find out how different materials affect how far a car can travel. We learnt that the force ‘friction’ slowed the cars speed when rougher materials were used.
To kick start Oak 3's learning journey this half term, we entered the classroom to discover a range of materials scattered all over the floor, and the whole area taped off with warning tape! There was also an enormous metal footprint next to the items. There were materials such as metal, fabric and plastic. We had a detailed discussion about what these items could be, where they could have come from and why they were here. After our discussion, we noticed a piece of writing hidden in the room, which described an iron man falling off a cliff. We think we may have discovered our new book, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
