P.O.W.S.A Blog

P.O.W.S.A (The Prince of Wales School Association), now has it’s own section of the school website which includes a blog detailing all their latest news and events. To access the P.O.W.S.A page simply click the link labelled ‘POWSA’, at the top of any page within  the school website.

Harvest Festival reminder...

Just to remind all of our community that Harvest Festival is taking place this Friday (30^th Sept) in the school hall. KS 1 begins at 9.15am with produce sold afterwards. Then KS2 begins at 9.50am again with produce being sold afterwards. All produce for Harvest please take to the Servery in the morning; we will be awaiting you to begin placing onto our display areas.

If you are bringing in cakes, etc for the Harvest Café please take this to the classrooms; we will then collect this later on in the day when the hall is prepared for the afternoon. Harvest Café is open to parents, friends from 2.30pm and will close at 4pm, this is so hopefully pre-school children and parents can come over and join us. Children will be able to buy two cakes and a drink for 20p.

We very much look forward to seeing you, thank you for your help and support.

Science/DT

Just to let you know that another learning website has been added onto Merlin, Yr 3 photo gallery page under the 'pink flowers'. This website is an interesting read and play, teaching children about circuits, and components in a fun way. Enjoy!
Mrs Mewett

Great swimming

The children are really enjoying their swimming lessons!
They are working really hard.
Excellent!
DM

Year 3 I.C.T (Week Two)

Today in Year 3 I.C.T we began work on our e-portfolios with SWGfL Merlin which over time will allow us to compile and share a portfolio of work with each other, our teachers and most importantly with you as parents. To access your child's e-portfolio with them, click the My Space tab on any SWGfL Merlin page. By default, an e-portfolio contains a page called Noticeboard containing Web Links and Picture web parts, a page called Shared Files containing a document library, and a blog.  However, the pupils will all have complete control over their e-portfolio and can add and remove pages and web parts as they wish. Pupils can also create other webpages within your e-portfolio, and share them with selected other users. I am sure this is something that the pupils will want to carry on at home and I encourage them to do so. Mr. Spracklen

Stories with a Familiar Setting

In the first term of Year 3 the children are required to study the Literacy Unit -"Stories with a Familiar Setting".
For your interest here is a brief description of the planning provided by the National Literacy Framework:

Stories with a Familiar Setting.
Overview -Read short stories and serialised longer stories and review the main features of the characters, plot and setting. Discuss views, response and preferences as a class. Compare settings and analyse words and phrases used for description. Teacher demonstrates and then children plan and write a story with description of setting, beginning, middle and end. Open with description of setting to set scene. Clear beginning, middle and end.

Phase 1   Read and compare stories with familiar settings. Engage in investigations and analysis of various settings. Discuss atmosphere and common features and themes.
Phase 2    Reread and analyse, investigate and write sentences through modelled and shared composition.
Phase 3   Investigate and write sentences to describe a setting.  Writing of stories.

DM

Year 3 SWGfL Merlin (Problem Resolved)

Thank-you to those pupils and parents who spoke to me about an error which meant that Year 3 pupils were unable to access the Year 3 pages within SWGfL Merlin. This issue is now resolved (I hope?) and you should not be able to access all the required content. Mr. Spracklen

Home Learning

Home Learning


Friday 16th Sept- for Friday 23rd September
Bicycles
The children have been asked to complete a piece of writing about “Bicycles”. We have made a start at this in class by discussing what we know about Bicycles and thinking about how we might organise our ideas into sections.
Thank you,
DM

Science and DT so far in Year 3...

Year 3 have been learning about how electricity is made and the dangers to look out for in our homes. The children have now been introduced to a simple circuit and all used wires, a battery and bulb to make a complete circuit. We have experimented with adding more bulbs, batteries, motors, buzzers into our circuits and have discussed what we see.We are also getting used to very 'scientfic' words such as 'components' and 'cell' meaning 'battery source'. The children have also now come across the word 'conductor' and this week's homework is to find out the word which means ' doesn't allow electricity to pass through' .... beginning with I!
All this science work will help plan our DT topic which is to either design a torch or another object which involves a simple circuit. We start planning next week!
Finally, on Merlin, if the children click onto the pink flower photo I have put up an interesting electricity website which they can access with yourselves to extend their learning further. This will be changed weekly.

Thank you for your support, Mrs Mewett

Year 3 I.C.T

We had an excellent Year 3 I.C.T lesson today where we considered the importance of being S.M.A.R.T when using the Internet. We discussed password safety and all changed our SWGfL Merlin password to something unique. We finished the lesson by watching a video which encouraged us to think about e-safety. This video can be seen at home by following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8auwnJtqE. As parents, I encourage you sit down with your child/children to watch this video and discuss the powerful message which is conveyed. Mr. Spracklen

Bonjour

Bonjour,
Les enfants ont fait le premier cours de Francais du trimestre.

The children had their first French lesson of the term on Tuesday.
We had a lot of fun learning some numbers, colours, and a finger rhyme:
"Voici ma main
Elle a cinq doigts
En voice deux
En voici trois."              I wonder if they could show it to you....

Art Work

The children have had fun creating the backgrounds to their "Seascapes". They experimented with different ways of applying the paint (including using their hands!). They were all wearing painting aprons of course, but some still managed to take a little paint home with them on their clothes...woops sorry.

Things we have been up to

The children have been enjoying finding out about Nelson. They were keen to discuss whether he should be described as a "hero". Most thought that he should.

We enjoyed the funny story "Jolly Roger and the Pirates of Abdul the Skinhead" by Colin McNaughton.

Why are Pirates called Pirates?

(Answer: Because they aRRRRghhhhh)   The children thought I should share that joke with you.. (sorry)

Class Charter

The children in Year 3 had a discussion about how to work together nicely at school. They came up with these ideas:

Class Charter


Follow the seven caterpillars.

Be kind and caring to other people.

Remember to be polite.

Be sensible. (Don’t let other people persuade you to do the wrong thing.)

Share things nicely with other people.

Be friendly and make people feel welcome and included.

Move around the classroom sensibly.

Work together and be cooperative.

Always listen to each other carefully.

Look after the equipment and show respect for the school property.

A very nice start

Thanks to the children for a lovely first day back.

We have discussed a "Class Charter" for how we will support each other with our kind, supportive behaviour at school.

Mr. MacBean told us about his visit to Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Column and we started to think about what we would like to find out about Nelson.

Thank you to those children who brought in things to show us from their holiday. Adam kept a fantastic diary.

We hope that you have had a very happy Summer Holiday!

Hello there Year 3,
I hope that you have had a very happy Summer Holiday and are now excited about starting the new term. We are going to have lots of fun this year. There are lots of exciting things planned.
I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

Mr. MacBean