Well done Years 3 and 4 for a fantastic Christmas Show

The children in Years 3 and 4 did a great job in our K.S.2 performance of Cinderella (the version told in the poem by Roald Dahl).
Lovely singing and acting! The costumes looked brilliant! Well done to everyone!
A big "Thank you" to Louise for her piano-playing,- and to Grandad Tim for his fantastic trombone!

Christmas jumpers on last day

 

It has come to our attention that tomorrow is causing some confusion as to whether children can wear jumpers or not. We are aware that tomorrow is a National charity day which highlights the wear of jumpers in support. We have chosen due to our three big fund raisers this term not to ask you to support this charity. We are also aware of many parents and children who wish to wear a jumper tomorrow and have been asking the class teams.

So, the simple is yes, jumpers can be worn, but we will not be collecting for charity. If you do wish to donate, then please use the website link highlighted in the press.

We apologise for the lateness and confusion, this event seems to have grown since last year, we will therefore be clearer next year with plenty of time to plan accordingly.

Also -Games are also allowed on the last day of term, named please and nothing expensive in case bits are lost!

Merry Christmas!

Mrs Mewett

WELL DONE!

A HUGE well done Year 3 - a super performance - there are definitely some budding actors and actresses, as well as singers among you!
I hope you have all managed to be able to come along and see the performance - they are spectacular! The children will all need a good rest!
Well done, we are very proud of ALL of you!
Thank you to all of you too for the excellent costumes!

Finally a MASSIVE thank you to the Year 3 and 4 teams for all their hard work as "stage crew" and "set designers", as well as the excellent musicians too!

Well done again and thank you

Mrs. Johnson

DT competition results!

We had excellent DT entries brought into school on Friday for the DT Christmas competition. A particularly good amount of entries from the Reception class and Year 1 class, so well done to these two classes.

All entries were super, lots of thoughts had been placed into designs, clearly child participation in all entries and all were able to attach to the Christmas tree and look eye catching.

What was also pleasing to see was the good sportsmanship from all children, never mind if they ‘won’, it was super to see such kind hearts and congratulations being given to the winner with handshakes and pats on backs!

Each class had a winner:

Reception: Philippa Hoskin

Yr 1: Thomas Grant

Yr 2: Odette Mistry-Dyer

Yr 3: Millie Goldstone

Yr 4: Alex Mistry-Dyer

 

Well done to everyone and their family helpers for participating in the competition. These are now on display in the foyer area near the ‘big’ tree.

Friday 18th December

POW Carols – everyone welcome, come and join us singing carols, to begin in hall from 2.45pm.

Musicians – please dust off those old instruments you may have once played (like myself) and come on in and join the parents/ community group, we gather around the piano and offer our sounds to compliment (?!) the pianist and the school singing. We have simple music to follow; sight reading is an easy level. The children love seeing the adults who turn up and show off an instrument! Any qus, please pop by the office and come and see me.

 

Mrs Mewett

Christmas Performance Costumes and Help on Christmas Technology Day

- Christmas Performance Costumes - and  - Help on Christmas Technology Day

Dear Parents (Year 3),
Just to remind you about the children bringing in their costumes for the Christmas Show a.s.a.p. (Our “Dress Rehearsal” is on Monday.) They should bring their costumes in a named plastic bag please. If you have any difficulties providing the costume, do please let us know.

If any of you would like to help out on our “Christmas Technology Day” this Friday (11^th) your help would be greatly appreciated at any point during the day. The children will be going to different classes in mixed-aged groups to take part in “making Christmassy things”.

Many Thanks,
Duncan MacBean

Home learning – Year 3 Europe Map Friday 4th December

Home learning – Year 3              Europe Map    Friday 4^th December

The children in Year 3 have been given a map of the outline of Europe. I would like them to find where some of the countries of Europe are and label these on the Map. They may also like to shade in some of the countries with different coloured pencils.

I do not want the children to do all of the countries as this would be really tricky. (There are 51 independent countries in total – depending on one’s definition of a “country”.) They should try to select some of them.

How about 15?

Many thanks,

Duncan MacBean

Musicians assembly -Monday 7th Dec

On Monday 7^th December it is our Musicians Christmas assembly at 10am in the school hall. This assembly gives all children who are learning instruments the opportunity to perform to an audience. Your child should have received a letter if they have been chosen to play. They therefore need to remember their music and instrument too!

Christmas Cards for our friends in Class

Dear Parents,
Many of the children have expressed an interest in sending Christmas Cards to their friends in class. We are going to have an "In-School-Christmas-Post-Box" to facilitate this again this year. The children will be able to post their Christmas Cards in the Post Box and these will be delivered and handed out at an opportune moment during the school day.
We would like to actively encourage the children to join in with this. We feel that this is a nice practice and also promotes children's neatly presented writing. We are sending home a class list to help the children.

Many thanks  

Lifeboat Seascapes by Year 3

Do try to pop in to the Year 3 Classroom to see the children's brilliant Lifeboat Seascape Paintings.
DM

Great Class Assembly - Well done Year 3

Well done to the children in Year 3 for their excellent participation in our Class assembly this morning. There was fantastic delivery of lines, brilliant miming and super singing. Everyone was very complimentary about the way the children worked together and managed to keep their concentration throughout the performance.

As I mentioned in the assembly, the children have created some very detailed and exciting sea adventure stories based on the ideas we explored
within this drama.

Thank you to all of the parents, grandparents and family friends who managed to get along to see the Assembly.

Duncan MacBean

Year Three Home Learning - Friday 27th November

Home learning – Year 3 World Map    Friday 27^th November

The children in Year 3 have been given a map of the World. I would like them to find where each of the continents are, and the oceans are - and label these on the Map. They may also like to shade in the continents with different coloured pencils.

Many thanks,

Duncan MacBean

Adventure Stories about Barnacle Ben

The children in Year 3 have been enjoying writing their adventure stories about Barnacle Ben. We have done this as a series of chapters over the course of this week. It would be great if the children could read their stories to you.
Our Class Assembly tomorrow will give you a chance to see the "live version".
DM

Costumes for Year 3 Class Assembly

Dear Parents,
It would be great if the children could bring in a costume for their Class Assembly on Friday 27th November. They are all going to be playing the part of sailors on board a 16th Century sailing ship.
Tracksuit trousers and T-shirts would be ideal. Handkerchiefs over their heads might make a nice addition. Any that fancy a bit of face paint to add tattoos and moustaches would be welcome. As the children will be climbing on the PE apparatus, they will need to have bare feet. (They will not be allowed to use any toy cutlasses or pistols as they will need their hands free for climbing.)
We hope that you can come along to the assembly to see them in action.
(At 9.20 am on Friday 27th November )
Many Thanks
Duncan MacBean

"Barnacle Ben" - The Big Write

Next week the children in Year 3 will be writing the story of “Barnacle Ben” and his adventures as a sailor. This is tied in with our class assembly at 9.20 am on Friday 27^th November.

This writing will follow the “The Big Write” approach,-  where we encourage the children to spend time talking over their ideas for their writing at home beforehand.  The story will be in the form of some diary entries at different stages of Barnacle Ben’s adventures.

There are 5 stages to his adventures:
Being tricked on board the ship
Learning to become a sailor
A battle with pirates
The mutiny
Finding land at last

Fun Dancing the Hornpipe

Well done to the children in Year 3 for their fantastic "Hornpipe Dance". Didn't they do well!
Thank you to all of those parents that managed to pop along to have a look and join in.
DM

Home Learning - Year 3 Friday 13th November "Wonderful World"

Home Learning - Year 3       Friday 13^th November     

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 face.
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

Great Work About Nelson

The children in Year 3 have done some fantastic work about Nelson this week. Well done to everyone who had a go at the "Nelson Quiz" that was sent as a "Home Learning" challenge. We have done impressive artwork and acrostics - some of which you can see on our classroom display board.
Don't forget that you can come along to see our "Sailors' Hornpipe" Dance in the school hall at 3.10pm on Thursday
DM

Finding out about Nelson during our "Britishness Week"

The children in Year 3 are going to be finding out about Lord Nelson this week. This is our particular focus for the school's "Britishness Week". We will be finding out about the events of his life that led to him being consider a British Hero.

The children are also going to have a go at learning a "Hornpipe Dance"; the sort of dance that might have been performed in the days of Nelson's navy. At the end of the school day on Thursday, the children will perform this dance in the School Hall. You are welcome to come along to watch and join in.

We hope to see you there, DM

 

 

Children in Need 2015

Children in Need is fast approaching. You should have all received a letter today explaining about Friday (13th).

 

The Children's Voice will be selling Children in Need merchandise from Monday in the area outside Year 1.

 

On Friday our dress up theme is 'Britishness'  (maybe they could dress up in the colours of our flag or famous British person)

 

Just like the country file team all children and staff at The Prince of Wales School will be partaking in a 1 mile ramble around our school grounds.

 

After school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. We would love to have lots of cakes (whole and cupcakes) and biscuits to sell. Please give all the cakes to your class teacher to store in the morning.

"Assembly Words" Year 3 for our Class Assembly on Friday 27th November

I have sent home some "Assembly Words" with some of the children in Year 3. It would be helpful if they could practise at home.
Our Class Assembly if on Friday 27th November at 9.20 am.
Many Thanks,
Duncan MacBean

Year 3 Home Learning Friday 6th November - The Nelson Quiz

Year 3 Home Learning Friday 6^th November  - The Nelson Quiz

Find the answer to as many of these questions as you can. Can you write the answers as WHOLE SENTENCES? If you get stuck on a question, don’t worry, just leave it and go on to the next one. You don’t have to do them in the order that I’ve written them.

 
What was Nelson’s father’s job?

How old was Nelson when he first joined the navy?

What two significant injuries did Nelson get when fighting at sea?How did Nelson famously ignore an order to retreat?

When was the Battle of Trafalgar?

How did Nelson send the famous message: “England expects every man will do his duty”?
How was Nelson killed?
Who was with Nelson when he died?
How did they preserve Nelson’s dead body so that they could bring it back to England?
Where is Nelson buried?
Where is the HMS Victory now?

Harvest fundraising

Harvest fundraising.

 

To let you all know that a super amount of £350 pounds has been raised! This will be sent to UNICEF to buy water kits as the children requested.

Many, many thanks to everyone for the generosity towards such a needy cause.

Award assembly 22.10.15

Today we had our first of the year ‘Award assembly’. This is the assembly when we ask teachers and their teams to select children who they think have worked particularly hard during this first part of the year in subject areas; writing, reading, maths, ICT, Creative arts, PE and displaying our Citizenship qualities.  Some awards have a certificate and a trophy to keep for half a term! You may have found one of these when you got home!

For our Reception parents; the awards can stay at home with your child until we send a letter inviting it back in for our next ‘Award assembly’.

Happy half term everyone, we will see you all back on Tuesday 3^rd November!

Ships and Seafarers

Next half term there will be a nautical flavour to our topic work. We will be using the theme of "Ships and Seafarers" to explore different areas of the curriculum.

DM

Home Learning - Thursday 22nd October,- Half Term Holiday

1. Write about “Reasons For and Reasons Against Wearing a Uniform When You Come To School”.

We have discussed this in class and shared examples of our ideas.
There are also some statements to look at to help me with this writing.
Learning objectives –
-To develop idea of considering 2 opposing points of view.
-Writing a balanced argument which looks at different opinions

I have written about the reasons for and against having a school uniform.

2. Handwriting
We have given the children a handwriting booklet. It would be great if they could spend a little time (perhaps every other day) working on their handwriting.

DM

Interesting Farm Visit

The Year 3 Class had an enjoyable, interesting visit to Maiden Castle Farm today. The children learned about how the crops are stored after the harvest and prepared for the cows to eat. We went to see the cows in their shed too.
Many Thanks again to Hazel for her informative tour of the farm.
DM

Reminder about Farm Visit

Just a quick reminder that the children in Year 3 are going to Maiden Castle Farm on the morning of Tuesday 20th October. They will need warm coats and outdoor footwear (wellies are ideal). We will back at school for lunch as normal.

DM

Home Learning - Maths problem Year 3 Friday 16th October

Bees and Ladybirds “Maths groups”

 Write down as many different totals as possible that you can get from ..

two different coins:

 Have you been systematic in your approach to this?

1p+ 2p= 3p

1p+ 5p= 6p

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£1.00 + 1p  =£1.01

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Dragonflies,  Grasshoppers, Butterflies  “Maths groups”

 Write down as many different totals as possible that you can get from ..

three different coins:

Have you been systematic in your approach to this?

1p+ 2p+5p= 8p

1p+ 2p+10p= 13p

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£1 + 20p + 50p = £1.70

Praised for their work - Year 3

The children in Year 3 have been working hard.
A special "Well done" to these children who have reached the top of the "Golden Ladder" this week:
Eddie, Harry B, Darcey, Mason, Luke, Tilly, James K and James F.

DM

Year 3 Home Learning - Fri 9th Oct

Home Learning        Friday October 9^th        Year 3

The children have been 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/drink.
The children need to do another example of a breakfast food like the one that we did at school. (We did a bit about bacon at school.)
- Examples: Marmalade, eggs, Corn Flakes, tea, milk, etc
Thank you for your help.

 

Year 3's Fruit Creation

This morning the children in year 3 made a super "Fruit Creation". This was a spectacular arrangement of Fruit Kebabs blossoming from a watermelon basket.
The children enjoyed arranging their fruit,- but, it has to be said, -the best part was eating it after lunch!

DM

Well done for a Fantastic Harvest Assembly

The children in Year 3 had lots of fun doing the Harvest Assembly with Year 4 today. We thought that they sang beautifully! A special "Well done!" to Bruno and Archie for winning the Kingston Maurward competition. The Year 3 class will be able to visit Kingston Maurward in the Summer Term for an educational adventure.
Did you notice our "Down on the farm" artwork?- Made out of seeds and cereals.
DM

Our daily bread

We had a lot of fun eating the delicious bread that the children brought in over the course of the week on a daily basis. Well done to Luke, Sophie, Emily, William, Hannah, Joshua, Bruno, Daisy, Megan, Elsie, Darcey, Mason, Harris and Ruby for bringing in some bread for us to try.

Rocks coming home

Today some of the children  have chosen to bring home  the rocks that they collected on their trip last week. We gathered most of these from the cutting near Bincombe where the new road has been built. These are part of the Purbeck Beds and were formed around 200 million years ago.
DM

Learning about Judaism

The children in Year 3 have been enjoying learning about aspects of  Judaism in their R.E. sessions. We found out about the special prayer called the schema. This is kept in a little decorated case on the door posts of a house. This case is called a mezuzah.
I have also told them the story of Moses and how the Jewish people fled from Egypt after the plaques.
DM



A Mezuzah

Delicious Bread! Well done

Well done to those children who have taken part in Mrs. Mewett's "Bread Making Challenge" - set as a "Home Leaning" activity.
We have enjoyed finding out about just how many ways there are of making different breads and sampling your creations.
DM

Indian Rice Farming

This morning, Mr. Farrington joined us to tell us all about Rice Farming in India.

This fits in with the work we are beginning about "Farm to Fork"; learning about where the food we eat actually comes from and what processes it goes through before reaching our plates!

We had to listen carefully and write down some interesting sentences about the things we had learned.

HomeLearning - Measurement activities (Fri 2nd October)

For their "Home Learning" this week, I have asked the children to have a go at completing the following practical measurement activities:

1	How tall are you in m and cm?
2	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of shampoo? (ml)
3	How much does your box of cereal weigh?(g)
4	How tall is the tallest person that lives in your house? Measure in m/cm
5	How high up do you sleep when you’re in bed? – measure in m/cm
6	Find the biggest potato (or apple, or banana) in the bag.  How much does it weigh?(g)
7	Measure the distance from your seat in the lounge to the television.  (Are you in danger of getting square eyes!?)   (m/cm)
8	How much does your breakfast cup/glass contain? (ml) Estimate or measure
9	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of ketchup? / or tin of soup? Have a look at the label on the bottle
10	If a soup/cereal bowl was full, how many ml of liquid could it hold?

Year 3 - Handwriting and presentation of written work

We are having an increased focus on handwriting and the neat presentation of our written work.
We are encouraging the children to check that they have an appropriate pencil grip and that they are sitting with a good posture - with their non-writing hand steadying the paper/book effectively.
Please can you reinforce these messages with any writing that the children do at home.
I am hoping to give out lots of certificates this week to children who have worked hard and made good progress.
Thank you,

DM

This week's visits

Our Geology /and Railway Trips this week were a great success. The children were excellent! - very enthusiastic and well-behaved. We had a really interesting time learning from the local environment. We were blessed with perfect weather too. Thank you to the parents and grandparents that come along. I hope that you had an enjoyable day too.

This picture shows one of the children with their arm inside a cylindrical thromobolite at Portesham Rocket Quarry. This is a fossilised remains of a tree trunk.

DM

 

 

Home Learning – Year Three - 25th September

 

Recite a poem

Following our “Poetry Focus” this week, we are asking the children in Year 3 to have a go at “learning a poem off-by-heart”. 

They have had a look at various different types of poem this week and can now choose one from any style that they wish (- including one of their own creations). It shouldn't be too long.

They should practise saying their choice of poem  aloud with a view to saying it to the class.

 

Many Thanks,     Duncan MacBean

Home Learning across the school!

Home Learning  - Harvest celebration

(week commencing Monday 5^th October)

 

During the week of Monday 5^th October as usual we have planned opportunities throughout the week where the children learn about: food and where it comes from, visits to Maiden Castle farm, creating art pieces, cooking, thinking about seasonal food, creating goodies for the Harvest café using our orchard goodies, looking at India farming and of course the reason behind Harvest itself!

 

We thought this year we would have a ‘Bake off’ format to the week as the ‘Great British Bake off’ has been inspiring staff as well as the nation!

 

So, if your child wishes to, the Home Learning for the children is to…

Create their own bread and bring into school through the week leading up to our Harvest celebration! The class will taste it and talk about how it was made.   Everyone will need to share the ingredients and how they made their bread (write down or be able to talk about).   ‘Bread’ products are wide and varied across the world, so experiment, create!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through the week each class has also been set the challenge of creating a ‘master piece!’

 

These will be displayed outside of the hall for our Harvest celebration.

 We will have our very own ‘Mary and Paul’ to taste each class’s efforts and decide upon a winner! Be ready to ask your child all about it!

 

Poetry Focus

Poetry Focus
Over the next two weeks ,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 be writing some of their own poetry too.
                                                                                                                                                        DM

Maths - measuring length (m, cm and mm)

Some of our Maths sessions this week will be looking at measuring length. Here are some of the learning objectives:

I can measure lengths in cm and mm.       

I can measure lengths in m and cm    

I can use decimal notation to record lengths. (using m, cm and mm)
I can convert measurements between mm - cm/ and cm - m.
I can make sensible estimates of lengths.

DM

Home Learning Year 3 - Friday 18th September

Dear Parents,
Kingston Maurward College are holding an exciting competition at their annual garden show.
The competition is open to all ages.
We thought that it would be nice to encourage the children in Year 3 to take part in this as this week's "home learning" activity.
There are two options for the competition:

 1. To compose some musical sound effects of Autumn and its weather.
or
2. To write and then decorate a poem about Autumn.
We have talked about this option in class and the children have made some notes.
As the entries need to be back at Kingston by Thursday 24th September, we will need the entries to be back here at the school by Wednesday 23rd September.

Many Thanks,
Duncan MacBean
Entries will  be displayed on Sat 26th Sept at the college.

Year 3 Friday 11th September Home learning

      

                                                                                                         

I have given the children an "Activity sheet"

To use knowledge of suffixes to generate new words from root words.

 

Using some words you know (called 'root' words).

Can you make new words from the root words and write them down.

 

Some examples

Child  - Childhood

King  - Kingdom

Nice  - Nicely  Nicer

Care – Careless  Careful

 

These suffixes may help you with the other words :-

-ship, -er, -ful, -est, -ness, -ly, -ment, -ish, -hood, -dom,  -less, -like

Humanities Lesson

Today the children in Year 3 enjoyed finding out about  the Abbotsbury Railway line. They looked at old photographs of the railway as well as some modern photographs that I've taken to show the bits of evidence that have been left behind. 

The Abbotsbury branch railway ran from Upwey to Abbotsbury. It opened in 1885. After a quiet existence carrying local passengers and agricultural produce, the line closed in 1952.

We talked about the changes in technology and how trains developed over that period, from steam, to diesel to electric. Other changes such as automatic doors and ticket machines were also discussed.

 

 

At the end of the month I will be taking the children to see some of the marks that the old railway line has left on our landscape today - bridges, buildings, a few remaining rusting pieces of track. We will do map work and stand at the places where the old photographs were taken to see what has changed - and what has stayed the same.

There was lots of interesting discussion during the lesson and I'm very pleased with the enthusiasm that the children showed.

 

DM