Year Three - Written work on display

As promised, we have put some of children's written work about their "Class Adventure to Upwey, Portesham and Abbotsbury" on display outside the school hall.
All of the children in the class have done a report in their Written Work book, but I have selected some children's work to be photocopied and put on the display board.
Please do come to take a look at this work to find out more about our class trip - and to see the hard-work the children are putting into their writing.

DM

"Home Learning" - Year Three – Week from Friday 30th September

Year Three – Week from Friday 30^th September
Complete the simile with something suitable?

 

As frightened as (a)

 

As brave as  

 

As green as

 

As deep as

 

As fast as  

 

As bent as

 

As new as  

 

As cold as

 

As hot as

 

As soft as

 

As wicked as

 

As clever as

 

As wet as  

 

As happy as

 

As a still as

 

As empty as  

Can you make up some of your own similes?

Successful Maiden Castle Farm Visit (30.9.16)

The children in Year 3 enjoyed their visit to Maiden Castle Farm this morning.
Our thanks to Hazel for talking to us about the different crops that have recently been harvested.

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We particularly enjoying meeting Thomas's new pigs.

DM

Year 3 - Maiden Castle Farm visit - tomorrow morning - Friday 30th September.

MAIDEN CASTLE FARM  -  YEAR 3

 Year 3 will be visiting Maiden Castle Farm tomorrow  morning

- Friday 30th September. 

The children will need to wear old jeans/trousers with their school Polo shirt and Sweatshirt, a warm/waterproof jacket if rain is forecast, and bring Wellington boots/walking boots.

We will be back for lunches as normal

I apologise for not getting this blog/information letter out sooner.

Duncan MacBean

Sunday 25th September 2016 Literacy links for all!

Sunday 25th September 2016 Literacy links for all!

If you would like some literacy based activities or ideas that you can do together with your child at home why not try this website.
Either google the National Literacy Trust and access the parents/families section or search
http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk

Have fun exploring!

Mrs. Johnson

Year 3 - Successful Trips to find out about local rocks and the Abbotsbury Railway

The children in Year 3 enjoyed their trips out on Monday and Friday when we found out about local rocks and the Abbotsbury Railway. We went to lots of different places of interest over the course of the day. For more information, we intend to put a display of the children's work. (I'll let you know when that is ready.)
Our sincere thanks to the parents who came along to help out on the two days. I hope you enjoyed yourselves too. A special "Thank you" for Odette's Dad, Thomas, for driving today.

The children were able to compare some old photographs taken of the Abbotsbury Railway with what is there today.

Our last stop was at Hardy's Monument (made from stone from Portesham Quarry - where we had our picnic).

DM

 

Year Three - Praised in Assembly Friday 23rd September

Today in our School Praise Assembly, I selected these children for a special praise for their work in specific areas of the curriculum:

-         Skye and Avril for their hard work in Literacy.

-         Megan and Finley for their hard work in Mathematics and particularly in their  “Reasoning Journals”

-         Joseph and Henry for their concentration and listening to instructions during this week’s Swimming lesson.

DM

Home Learning – Year Three - 23rd September

Following our “Poetry Focus” this week, we are asking the children in Year 3 to have a go at “learning a short 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).

Many Thanks,

Duncan MacBean

This Friday 23rd September is "Scoot to School Day".

This Friday 23rd September is "Scoot to School Day".

Our SUSTRANS cycling officer, Jonathan Dixon, is running a "Scoot to School Day" and we are encouraging as many children as possible to come to school on their scooters.
We will be counting the scooters and sending our tally to Jonathan to contribute to his South Dorset challenge.

DM

Fun at the South Dorset Ridgeway Project Festival of Schools.

On Tuesday we had fun at the South Dorset Ridgeway Project Festival of Schools. Mr. MacBean took a selection of Year 3 and Year 4 children to represent the school and to take part in the festival held at Little Bredy. We had a chance to take part in a number of interesting workshops and find out about the fascinating heritage of our local landscape.

DM

 

Year 3 Home Learning - Friday 16th September (for Friday 23rd September)

Dear Parents, I have give the children in Year 3 the challenge of measuring various things at home as their "Home Learning" activity this week: 

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 set.(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 cereal/soup bowl was full, how many ml of liquid could it hold?

  DM

Year 3 Praise Assembly - Friday 16th September

Today in our School Praise Assembly, I selected these children for a special praise for their work in specific areas of the curriculum:

-         Rohanna, Charlotte, Alfie, Lewis, Oona, Erica, Scarlett, William and Edward for the effort and detail they put into their Rocks Posters.

-         James and Nicole for their hard work in Mathematics over the course of the week.

DM

Year 3 - Mr. MacBean's school email address

Dear Parents (Year 3),
If you would like to contact me, then please feel free to do so via email at the address below:

d.macbean@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

You may also wish to send in the children's "home learning" activities via email.
Yours faithfully,
Duncan MacBean - Year Three Class Teacher
 

Year Three Home Learning Activity (9.9.16)

   Year Three "Home Learning" 

Friday 9^th September (for next Friday)                 

 1.     Following on from the work we did in class - create an informative poster to show “Rocks Are Really Useful”. Your poster should include labelled pictures/diagrams of some of things we use in our daily lives that are made from rocks.

 2.   Stone buildings can last a very long time. For an extra “Home Learning” activity this week, perhaps you could find the names of some famous buildings around the World that are over 1000 years old.

DM

Year 3 - Praised in the School Assembly (9.9.16)

Year 3  -  Praised in the School Assembly                 (9.9.16)

I would like congratulate all of the children in Year 3 for their fantastic start to the Autumn Term. They have all shown lots of enthusiasm and interest in their schoolwork.

Today in our School Praise Assembly, I selected these children for a special praise for their work in specific areas of the curriculum:

-         Rosa, Odette, Katherine and Jamie for the detail they put into their stories.

-         Emily and Amalia for their hard work in Mathematics over the course of the week.

-         Andrew and Kitty for their enthusiasm in our first Swimming Lesson

DM 

Year 3 "Spellings- Home Learning"

Year Three  -  Spelling “Home Learning”                 (7.9.16)

Every Wednesday, 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 Wednesday.

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. 

Spare copies of the “Spelling Lists” are available in the tray by the classroom door.

 Duncan MacBean – Year 3 Class Teacher

Year 3 Class Charter

Today the children in Year 3 had a discussion about our classroom rules. They had to decide on some simple rules to help us to learn effectively and happily.

We have collected their ideas and simplified them into these 6 rules:

Year Three Class Charter

Be the 7 Cs and think the 7 Cs.

We treat everyone with kindness and respect.

We do our best, even when it’s hard.

We listen carefully to everyone.

We work and play fairly and include everyone.

We enjoy ourselves by doing the right thing.

Swimming Lesson - Year Three - Thursday 8th September

Year Three Swimming - Our first Swimming lesson is this week on Thursday 8th September.

The children in Year 3 have their first Swimming Lesson this Thursday.

We will be leaving the classroom to walk to the pool at 8.30 am, so all children who would like to walk up to the pool with us must arrive at school by that time.
For any children who live near to the pool who would like to meet us there, please wait outside the entrance so that we can all go in together at 8.45.
Children will all need their swimming costumes, a towel and a swimming hat. Goggles are optional.
Please can girls wear a one-piece costume (rather than a bikini-style costume). Boys should wear swimming shorts or trunks (rather than Bermuda-style shorts). We are able to provide children with arm-bands and swimming "biscuits" if they need them, but they are welcome to bring their own if they wish.

If you have any concerns please contact me.
Many thanks,
Duncan MacBean

Welcome to Year Three

Welcome back to the Autumn Term in Year Three! I hope you have had a fantastic holiday.

We have had a great Monday!

I am really pleased with the excellent start the children have made today. They have settled in very nicely and are showing lots of enthusiasm and interest.

Today we did some Story-writing, Mathematics, Computing, Reading, "Phonic Focus" and French.

The children have been given a new “Reading Record Booklet" and a “Guided Reading” book. Please can they keep these in their book bags.

Duncan MacBean