Autumn Fest......."Read all about it!!!"

Come and spend quality family time, wrapped up warm and cosy, enjoying wonderful stories, warming yourselves by a bonfire, listening to music, eating scrumptious jacket potatoes........if you want to bob for apples, enter a carved pumpkin into a competition or take part in some Autumn art then why not have a go too!!!!!!! There's lots of family fun to be had at POWSA's Brand New Autumn Fundraising event - "AUTUMN FEST"...........Look out for posters around the school, letters will follow with options to buy tickets and food attached! We would love to see you all there......... "Celebrating Autumn, celebrating Families and Supporting the School."

Home Learning

We have asked the children to write an "acrostic" using the word "LIFEBOAT". They are being encouraged to write 8 sentences beginning with those letters, relating to facts about what they have found out about lifeboats.
DM

Out and About

The children in Year 3 have been out and about this week on two mvery successful visits.
On Tuesday we had fun in Weymouth visiting the Lifeboat and Nothe Fort. We are very grateful to Alan and Phil at the Weymouth Lifeboat station for spending time with us and showing us around.
Today we were lucky enough to coincide our visit to Maiden Castle Farm with sheep shearing taking place! Our thanks to Hazel again for inviting us along!
DM

Testing Solubility

In our recent Science Lessons we have been learning about the properties of gases, liquids and solids. We have been carrying out "fair tests" to see whether various solids can be made to dissolve.
We have also be thinking about effective ways to present the results of our experiments.
DM

Parents' Information Session is this Friday.

Just a reminder - The Year Three Parents' Information Session is this Friday (20th) at 9.00 in the school hall. I will be sharing with you some of the routines and practices that we will be working with during the term, as well as details of the curriculum for Year Three.
I hope to see you there.
Duncan MacBean

Spellings

Every Monday, we will be sending the children home with “Spelling Lists”. This will be a sheet of paper with 4 lists on it. The children will have a “test/quiz” on the words from the lists on the following Monday.

The children should choose 2 lists that they feel they need to learn and should only be learning 2 lists from the selection of four. In other words, if they are learning the words on lists 3 and 4 then that is because they are confident that they can already manage the words on lists 1 and 2.

Children in the past have enjoyed this approach. 

I will be asking the children to write their chosen words into their Home Learning Diaries.

Thank you for your support,

Duncan MacBean

Login details and passwords

The children's "login details" and passwords for "Mathletics" and "Purple Mash" have been stuck inside the backpages of their school diaries.
We hope that children will continue to make the most of these home learning opportunities. Can we remind you of the importance of adult supervision when children are using the internet.

Duncan MacBean

Class Charter Year Three

We have spent some time in class discussing how we can work effectively together and make the very most of a happy time at school.
We came up these these ideas for a Class Charter:

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.

Blogging back in Business

Dear Parents,
I'm sorry that I have not been sending out any blogs in the last week. This was due to technical difficulties, but we are now back in business!
The children in Year 3 have made a terrific start to the new term and are showing lots of interest and enthusiasm for the curriculum.
Do feel free to approach any of the Year Three Teaching Team if you have any concerns or need any information.
The Year Three Parents' Information Session is on Friday 20th September (9.00-9.30am) in the school hall. This will be an opportnity to find out more about the curriculum this term and some of the routines and procedures we will be involved in.
With kind regards,
Duncan MacBean
Year 3 Class Teacher