Thank you so much!

Just a quick message to say thank you so much for your kind and generous gifts and cards we are very grateful.

We hope you have a wonderful break and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. 

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Bishop, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hibberd, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Burgess and Miss James. 

xxx

Year 3: End of the week

Thank you to everyone that sang their hearts out tonight, it was fantastic! 

We have had a great week visiting Radipole and spotting lots of different birds including 10 herons! 

Christmas technology was full of festive fun and all of the children had a great day. 

This time of year can be very busy. With this in mind there is no official home learning or spellings. If you do want to access any home learning then there is Mathletics, PurpleMash 2 animate and AR reading but there is no pressure to do this, just enjoy some family time. 

Have a lovely weekend everyone. 

Mrs Thorpe and the Year 3 team 

Year 3: Trip tomorrow!

 Just a quick reminder about the trip tomorrow. Warm layers, waterproofs, wellingtons and hats and gloves are definitely encouraged! 

See you all tomorrow

The Year 3 team 

Year 3: Coming up in the next two weeks...

We have quite a few things happening over the next couple of weeks. Here is a quick recap of everything: 

Wednesday 8th Radipole trip. 

Warm clothes, waterproofs and wellingtons needed. We will be at school for lunch. Half of the class at a time will be going on the trip. Children that have piano lessons on Wednesday will be going in the afternoon and will still have their lessons in the morning. 

Friday 10th 

-Christmas technology day and Christmas jumper day. The children will be moving around the school making lots of Christmas crafts.

-Christmas Fair after school. We will be singing around the Christmas tree at 16:10pm. 

Friday 17th 

-Last day of term and special Christmas packed dinners. A day when lunch can be extra special and festive! All hot dinners will be cancelled so please bring your child's lunch wrapped up. 

Year 3: Fabulous Panto, animations and reminders...

 This morning we were treated to a fabulous Panto production of The 3 Little bears by the Tree House production company. It was a really funny show and the children loved it! 

This afternoon we linked back to our themed week and thought about a different mode of transport that Phileas Fogg used and that was a hot air balloon. The children used PurpleMash 2animate to make an animation of a hot air balloon rising into the sky, past a mountain and back down again. There were some really creative animations and some even went past volcanoes! You can access your child's animation at home on PurpleMash by going to the work folder at the top. A number of children did say that they would like to do another one at home. 

In Jigsaw this afternoon we had a really in depth discussion about how we talk to our friends and how words can hurt others feelings too. 

Reminder

It is dress like an Elf day tomorrow with a suggested donation of a bottle or chocolates to the POWSA Christmas Fair (next Friday 10th).

Year 3: Phileas Fogg, amazing Orient express drama and art!

Well we have certainly had a busy week so far! The children loved coming in and discovering Arctic airways! They spent some time on Monday researching Phileas Fogg and made leaflets on countries that he visited. 

On Tuesday they were in for a special treat as they got to board the 'Orient express'. With help from the Now Press Play headsets and some brilliant conductor commentary (Miss James), the children pretended they were aboard the train, eating snacks, looking at scenery out of the window and evening listening to a marching band. 

After this drama session the children then learnt about Cinquain poems. They used the inspiration of their train journey to write their poems making sure they they had the correct amount of syllables for each line (2,4,6,8,2). These were fantastic and will be going up in the writing hall of fame when our snowy scene is down!

This afternoon we stayed on the train theme and looked at this art deco picture.

Using chalk, oil pastels and paper to add depth, the children then tried to recreate the picture. The results were fantastic!! Below is a small selection of these which are now in the children's sketch books. 

The children have learnt about advent this week and even made a class advent wreath 

Today the children started their kindness advent. Each day they get to choose a token which gives them a suggestion. Today's was "hold the door open for someone". Accompanying this, the children get to choose a festive magnetic bookmark. We were gifted a chocolate advent today from a lovely child in Year 1, so we will also have this! 

In light of the communication about everyone having to have a PCR test, we have of course had another discussion in the class this afternoon as lots of children were taken out. If anyone has any questions about this please do feel free to contact me or talk to me at the door in the morning or after school. 

Mrs Thorpe and the Year 3 team