PE Kit coming home

Dear Parents,
We've sent the children in Year 3 home with their P.E. kits so that they can have a wash; and to give you the chance to check they are still the right size.
Thank you,
Duncan MacBean

Year Three Class Assembly is on Friday 14th November 9.20am

Dear Parents,

Year Three Class Assembly is on Friday 14th November 9.20am.

We are doing an assembly to help us to learn about the life of Nelson and Hardy, and a bit about the naval history of that period. The children are keen to dress up in simple costumes, so it would be great if they could bring along a white shirt, maybe a waistcoat, some tracksuit trousers (perhaps the odd head-scarf) etc, to become sailors from that period.

Thank you,
Duncan MacBean

Home Learning - Half term Holiday week

Wonderful World

For their “Home Learning” activity this week I have suggested that the children make up a poem under the title “What a Wonderful World”. They should try to include images and ideas that make them feel happy and put a smile on their faces.

 In class we have listened to “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong and talked about the words in the song.

 Many Thanks,

Duncan MacBean

Right to play

This afternoon Mr Farrington spent the afternoon with Year 3 and the children learnt about the right of all children in India to play. We played with some Indian toys, watched videos of Indian children playing with marbles, bikes, trumpets, catapults and spinning tops and discussed photographs of other children at play.

Time

Dear Parents,
We are having a bit of a focus on "Telling the Time" in our Maths lessons for the rest of this week. For those children who are already able "time-tellers", there will be activities relating to addition and subtraction of time, using time-tables and working with data involving time.
DM

POWSA AGM

Just a quick reminder that the POWSA AGM is happening this Thursday 23rd October 19.45 in the school staffroom.
This is a great opportunity to meet the current POWSA Committee, find out what we do for the school and enjoy home made goodies! We are a committed, friendly but small band of parents and we are always looking for new members. the level of your involvement in planning, implementing and running POWSA events is entirely up to you. We don't expect you to be at every meeting and at every event from start to finish but with more members and if we all do a little bit then there is plenty of time for us all to enjoy each event with our families as well as helping out.
It is a lot of fun and in return you receive a huge amount of satisfaction and feeling of pride that you have raised funds which are used to help all our children and our fantastic school.
Please consider coming along and finding out a bit more. Hope to see you there, POWSA.

The Great PoW Poetry Competition!!!! Get Writing!!!!!

What a wonderful, exciting and inspiring time of year we are immersed in - beautiful autumnal colours, leaves floating to the ground and flooding the pavements, conkers peppering the streets, crackling fires, Diwali, Halloween, Bonfire Night, moving towards winter and all the excitement of Christmas............so let's fire up our creativity and use it to compose a poem!

I am thrilled to announce The Great PoW Poetry Competition!

The theme is Autumn/Winter.

BE AS CREATIVE AS YOU LIKE! Your poem can be as long or as short as you like, it can rhyme or not, you can use any particular style (Acrostic, Haiku, Tanka, rhyming couplets........) However you choose to construct your poem make sure it conveys the theme, remember the presentation of you poem is important too and why not illustrate it as well!!!!!

For Reception ONLY: if writing your own poem is a bit tricky, why not find a favourite poem about this theme and try to copy it, get an adult to help you write one, use a computer or even record yourself reciting one!

There will be one winner per class so, PUT YOUR NAME AND CLASS ON YOUR ENTRY AND HAND IT IN TO YOUR CLASS TEACHER BY FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER.

The winners will also be displayed on the New Golden Writing Wall!!!!!

We are a very creative school with a bubbling and overflowing imagination so I would love to see as many of you as possible having a go...........then we can have more competitions like this!!!!!

Get writing!!!!!!!

Good Luck - Mrs. Johnson (Literacy Coordinator)

Year 3 English lessons - Poetry Focus

Poetry Focus
Next week the children in Year 3 will be exploring some different types of poetry.
They will find out about how different poems follow different structures and patterns. They will find out what is meant by "syllables", "similes" and  "alliteration".
They will read a selection of poetry in their "Guided Reading" sessions. They will write some of their own poetry too.
                                                                             DM

Home Learning - 10th Oct . Farm to Fork

Home Learning Year 3 -    10th October

 

The children are finding out about things that people have for breakfast. They are considering where things are grown and what happens to them before they arrive on the breakfast table, for example shipping, processing, slaughtering, refining, packaging, drying, bottling, transporting – depending on the food/or drink.

The children need to choose a breakfast item and create a diagram to show how it gets from "farm to fork".

 

Thank you for your help

Can anybody help?

On the 20th of October we will be having a Rights Respecting Week to celebrate 25 years of the UNCRC. 

The Children's Voice have decided that they would like to see some of the UNICEF articles of the Rights of the Child displayed in our school entrance. Each year group will be designing and making a flag portraying one of the articles. 

This is where we need your help! We are looking for some plain white flat sheets usually used for bedding that we could have please. As an Eco School we encourage recycling old unwanted items so was wondering if anyone has any old sheets that we could have for our project please. If so please can you either give them to your child's class teacher or pass them on to Mrs Thorpe in Year 1. 

Many thanks 

Harvest Celebration Cafe

Dear Parents,
On Friday afternoon we are having a "Harvest Café" in the hall.
We are asking the children to bring 20p to school to buys some items from café.
Parents are invited to come along to the café from 2.30pm.

DM

Where does our Breakfast come from?

This week we will be talking in class about the importance of having a good, healthy breakfast. We will be thinking about how things we eat and drink at breakfast time get "From Farm to Fork".        DM

Home Learning - Friday 3rd to Friday 10th October

Dear Parents,
This week we have asked the children to design a "flag" expressing the "Children's Rights - We Have the Right to an Identity".  Mrs. Thorpe has produced a leaflet for all of the children in the school explaining what is required, so that they can all have a go at this activity for their "home learning" this week.
DM

Whole school home learning

This week all children will be bringing home a whole school home learning project. We are really proud to be a Rights Respecting School and will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the UNCRC in the week beginning 20th October (more information to follow soon).

Article 8 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child:

‘We have a right to an identity’

We are going to be designing a school flag to be displayed at The Thomas Hardye School as part of our DASP Rights Week Project (starting on the 20^th October). We would like the children to design something we can add on our flag linked to our theme. One design from each class will be chosen by the Children’s Voice. It could be a picture they draw or suitable quote/words. Why are the children proud to be them? What makes them special? All entries to be given to class teachers by the 10^th of October.