Year 3: Merry Christmas!

 This half term has flown by! We are so immensely proud of all the children for their efforts in 'No one wrapped like an Elf'. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Thank you so much for all of your support this Autumn term and a huge thank you for our kind a generous gifts. 

We hope you all have an enjoyable festive break and we will see you in January for some amazing learning experiences! 

🎄Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Scott, Mrs McConnell🎄

🎄Mr MacBean and Mrs Thomas 🎄

Year 3: Reminder about tomorrow

 

Just a quick reminder that your child should be dropped off at Dorchester library in the morning from 8.45am. They should be in their school uniform and have a coat. There will be no hot lunches tomorrow, instead the children will be eating their lunch in the classroom. Please provide your child with a Christmas wrapped lunch. Your child is welcome to bring Christmas clothes for the afternoon if you would like. 

Year 3: Next week

We have had a fantastic week full of Christmas cheer. The children have been so brilliant with their lines and performing on the stage. Thank you to everyone that has bought in a costume, we had a quick run through wearing these today. Any outstanding costumes for Monday please as this is our dress rehearsal. We have been finishing off our DT project which will come home next week. In Maths we have been focussing on multiplication and division. 

Just a run down of next week:

Monday: We are watching KS1 performance then it's our dress rehearsal. After lunch we will be walking to the care home to sing carols. 

Tuesday: 11am our performance to families. 

Wednesday: pm we have panto at school. 

Thursday: 11am our performance to families. 

Friday: We will be meeting you at the library from 8.45am, we will spend some time at the library before our special screening at the cinema (this is still a surprise). We will be back by lunch time.

There are no spellings or home learning this week. RWI spellings will return after Christmas now. 

If you have any questions about the above then please feel free to email me. 

Mrs Thorpe 

Year 3: No one wraps like an elf.

On Friday spellings were handed out but no home learning. We would like your child to practise their lines for our show 'No one wraps like an elf'. You should have all received the costume list here it is as a reminder. Please could we have these in this week (Friday by the latest) in a named bag. 

No-one wraps like an elf costume ideas

ELVES The majority of the elves should be dressed in red and green with pointy hats and scarves/ gloves etc. where appropriate.
GRAMPS Dressed as an elf, with additional waistcoat, half-moon glasses	ELVIRA/ELVIS Dressed as elves, with the addition of something sparkly.	BIBBLE & BOBBLE Dressed as elves, with tool belts and big cardboard scissors and screwdrivers.	JOBSWORTH & TICKIT Dressed as elves, with the addition of hi-vis jackets.

SMASH & GRAB

Smart outfits - suits if possible - with bow ties.

MINT SPIES

Dark jackets and trousers, white shirts, black ties and dark glasses.

REINDEER

Brown tops, brown leggings and antlers. Rudolph will need a bright-red nose.

SANTA

Traditional outfit and a face-painted beard.

TEACHERS

Smart-casual outfits

SHOP ASSISTANTS

Smart skirts/trousers, with shirts or blouses and bright neckerchiefs or bow ties.

NINJA KNIGHTS

Black tops and leggings, with black helmets or balaclavas.

CHILDREN 

School uniform.

SHOPPERS/PA 

Outdoor winter clothes.

MUM/DAD 

Outdoor winter clothes.

WORKERS/FLOOR MANAGER

Dark leggings with brightly coloured T-shirts or tabards with small S & G logos on them

If you would like your child to access more learning then they do have purple mash with a wealth of different learning programs on and TTRS as well as Ed Shed.

Year 3: Inspired to learn writing week

We're having a great Inspired to learn Writing week. We started the week by putting ourselves in the hot seat and pretending to be the White Witch. The children had to write questions for the witch and think about her response. 

In Science we have been investigating different magnets strength. 

We have had a fantastic day with the 'Bank of Dreams and Nightmares'. The children had to choose animals that they wanted to rule Narnia. 

The children then all performed their speeches and made campaign badges. Thank you so much to the team from the 'Bank of dream and Nightmares' who inspired the children to write some amazing pieces of writing. 

As well as amazing writing and Science we have been practicing our show 'No one wraps like an Elf'. The costume list came home today, if you have any concerns or questions about your child's costume, please get in touch. 

It would be very helpful if you could practice your child's lines with them at home please. 

This Friday is Christmas Craft day and the children can wear Christmas jumpers/ dress like elves in exchange for a donation for the tomobola for the Christmas Fayre on Sunday. 

Other dates for your diaries: 

Sunday 3rd December - POWSA School Fayre

Tuesday 12th December - Winter performances

Thursday 14th December - winter performances

Friday 15th December - Last Day of term and Party Day

Tuesday 2nd January - All children return

Year 3: Week 3- The week ahead

We have a few things coming up this week so this is just a quick reminder. 

Today (Monday) is the start of our Therapeutic Thinking week and we encourage everyone to wear odd socks. 

On Tuesday- It is world diabetes day and so children can wear blue nail varnish. Also on Tuesday and Wednesday we will be doing outdoor learning (half the class at a time on a each day) so please can we have raincoats and wellies. 

Friday is Children in Need. This year it is wear a silly hat, children can also come in non school uniform for a £1 suggested donation. We will be having a bake sale after school. If you are able to donate cakes for this then that would be appreciated. Please label ingredients on everything. 

As well as these activities, we will be thinking about how we feel and how are actions affect others. In English we will be learning about writing in past and present tense and in Maths we will be developing our learning of subtraction using the column method. In Science we will be investigation magnet strength. 

We have a huge amount of unnamed lost property that includes snack pots, lunch bottles, drinks bottles and many many jumpers. If you are missing anything please do let us know, we'll put the trolley out after school again today. We are really trying to encourage independence in Year 3 but are always encouraging the children to take their drinks bottles out for lunch and break and the children can have drinks and fill up their drinks bottles throughout the day. We have a fountain outside for children to use if they don't have their drinks. 

As ever, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or see me at the door. 

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Scott, Mrs McConnell

Mr MacBean + Mrs Thomas 

Year 3: Week 2

 This week in Year 3 we have been learning how to use the column method to add two 3 digit numbers together. 

In English we are learning about headings, subheadings and writing notes to write our own fact file on what life was life for a Roman Soldier. The children worked in partners today to research their subheadings. 

In History we found out about when the Romans invaded Britain and what the Romans brought to Britain. 

In our outdoor learning this week we finished our rota of planting and using clay to make a leaf. We will continue to use class and develop our learning on sculpture. 

Thank you all so much for the AMAZING shields! We plan to use these next week for our mock 'battle'

Mrs Thorpe, Mrs Scott, Mrs McConnell

Mr MacBean and Mrs Thomas