We have had another fantastic day today. First we worked on our designs for the calendar competition. Can you work out which local monuments we have used and which months our designs represent? Then this afternoon we worked with Mrs Wilkie to learn and add some elements to the Hoyland…

We have had a lovely day today at Wentworth Castle…. It was so hot! We looked around the ruins of the castle and looked really hard for clues that there might be a dragon! We saw monuments and turrets. We climbed up lots of steps in search of the dragon!…

On Monday afternoon we met Katie… She came to tell us all about a dragon, in a town called Barnsley! We were all the villagers and we had to decide how we were going to get rid of the dragon that lived near the big rocks! We all tried to…

We have been designing and building our very own castles! As a group we looked at books about castles and decided on the features that ours would have. Then we drew our designs. When we had finished our design we looked at others’ and ‘pinched’ some ideas. Then we started…

What a fantastic day year three had at Cannon Hall! We worked with an artist and musician who are preparing an installation of our work in the Hall over the summer period. We used some Chinese pottery on display in the Hall as an inspiration for the days work. We…

Today we have been dancing! We have learnt the first part of the Hoyland Hop and devised one of our own motifs. Everyone came up with some great ideas using their holiday homework. Next we worked hard drafting and completing our calendar competition entries. Roll on tomorrow for another exciting…

I reckon only the most important and richest of Romans would have been able to afford one of Y3/4H’s fantastic mosaics for in their home. Can my class recognise their own? All the children designed their mosaics with symmetry in mind. How many mosaics have 1, 2 or 4 lines…

Hope you’re looking forward to our dance performance on Friday!

We started at Cannon Hall, working the artists and musicians to create an exhibition for public display

We’ve been really busy creating our own dragon models. We’ve used lots of different materials to create different textures on our models. Can you spot what we’ve used?