Year 3: Self-Portraits & Forest School

This Autumn, we have been exploring the question ‘What makes me, me?’ We’ll start with some wonderful art showcasing a range of drawing skills from observation, proportion, pencil shading for form and expressive linework. Inspired by the work of great artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo, Year 3 have been putting the finishing touches to  their own self-portraits. It’s been a wonderful exploration of identity and diversity and a time to reflect on all that we share in common and a celebration of all that makes us unique.

On Wednesday, we were invited to explore the Forest School Garden at  Kingswood school. An amazing space with room to roam, imagine, explore and reflect again on the question ‘What makes me, me?’.  It was wonderful to see such a variety of independent learning and creativity in action – from writing and performing a musical  (complete with script, songs, stage directions and an audience!), building nests and dens, making bread (and eating it!), searching for dragons, toasting marshmallows, swinging, running and foraging, crafting with sticks and wool and singing together around the campfire.

Back in the classroom, we’ve been excited by the amazing power of adverbs and adverbials. And then, inspired by The Wolf’s Secret (our mysterious class book) we’ve enjoyed flexing our story-writing muscles to build wonderful sentences of our own.