Proud to be me week, dressing up day!

On Monday 24th February we will be having a themed week in school called "Proud to be me".

On Friday 28th February we would like to finish the week with a dressing up day, the theme being "This is what I would like to do when I grow up!" The focus is on aspirations, what career/job I would love to do when I am older.

A letter will be coming out on Friday 14th February.

Mrs Mewett

Home Learning - Half-term holiday

Home Learning (over half-term holiday- Feb’14)

1.     Can you add the names of the continents and the oceans to your World map?

2.    When we get back after the holiday, we will be having a “Proud to Be Me” week. Can you write a list of things that you are particularly proud of?

3.    Have a great holiday!

                                                                         DM

Home Learning - Feb 7th

What Can You Find Out?

What did the ancient Greeks eat?

What can you find out about Athena?

What was it like to be a slave in ancient Greece?

Find out about wars in the times of the ancient Greeks.

What was an Oracle?

Who was Aphrodite?

What is the Parthenon?

Find the names of as many ancient Greek Heroes as you can.

I have asked the children to do some research relating to our topic about the Ancient Greeks.

DM

POWSA Meeting

The next POWSA meeting will be held at the Poet Laureate on Tuesday 28th January at 7.45pm. All welcome.

Homophones - Home Learning

For their "home learning" this week I have asked the children to collect pairs of homophones (eg pear, pair- shore, sure - sea, see - wear, where- etc).
There is an "activity sheet" explaining this.
Thank you,
Duncan MacBean

Happy New Year

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year from the Year 3DM Team (Mr. MacBean, Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Long, Miss Kensington, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Thorne, Mrs. Dukes and Mrs. Mewett)

We all hope that you all had an enjoyable Christmas holiday! (In spite of the rain!)

I will be holding a Parents’ Mathematics Workshop Session on Wednesday 15^th January at 9.00 am.

This will be an opportunity to hear about our approach to teaching and learning within the Mathematics curriculum.

Just a bit of advanced notice-  Our Class Assembly is on Friday 31^st January at 9.20 am, in the school hall.

Our main topic for the first half-term term is “the Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece”.

I'm sorry about the lack of "Blogs" over the period before Christmas. This was due to technical difficulties. These have now hopefully been resolved.

Duncan MacBean

Class Teacher Year 3 

Home Learning- Planets in our Solar System

For "home learning" this week we have set the children the challenge of learning the names of the nine planets in our Solar System.
A helpful sentence to remind the children of the names of the planets , as well as their order from the Sun, is as follows:
"My very east method just speeds up naming planets!"
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

We have also suggested that the children "track the moon":
Early in the evening, sit by the window and look out at the Moon. Put a piece of Bluetack (or something sticky) on the window in line with the Moon.
Go back to the same place in front of the window later in the night and see how much the position of the Moon has changed.

Have a good weekend,
Duncan MacBean