We are now taking bread bags!

Thank you all so much for all of the recycling items. I am happy to announce that we will now be collecting empty bread bags. Just a reminder that recycling can be placed in the large grey box just outside the front of school.

Amazing swimmers!

Well done to all of our Year 3 children who took part in the Dorset school games swimming gala. You  were amazing and showed perseverance and determination.

A fantastic community litter pick!

Thank you to all of the families that collected rubbish from our community as part of the nationwide 'Keep Britain tidy'.

There were over 5 black sacks full of rubbish! The Prince of Wales School can proudly say we are involved in making Dorchester not only a plastic free community but also cleaner. 

The children involved even got to choose a book from Mr Spracklen's wall. 

If you would still like to take part in the clean then there is an organised litter pick on Saturday 30th March in the Borough Gardens, Dorchester. 

Y3 Spring farm trip

We have had a beautiful trip to the farm this morning. We were lucky enough to see a lamb born in the field on the way. We looked at the lambs and even saw a sheep who had four lambs!

After this we saw the cows, chickens and pigs. 

Thank you so much to Hazel, the children are so lucky to be able to visit Maiden Castle Farm. 

Y3 are awesome!

Well done to all of Year 3. A fantastic performance this morning! Thank you to the parents for some great costumes!

Just a reminder that on Tuesday we will be going to the farm to see the lambs. Normal farm trip clothing please with a spare pair of shoes in school for after the trip.

Next week also sees the launch of the big pedal competition. We will be competing against other schools in the area to show how ‘green’ we are. If you can please do try and ride, scoot or walk for the next fortnight.

Have a lovely weekend

Y3- Dr George McGavin visits our school

Today Year 3 were lucky enough to be involved with the Dorset Wildlife Trusts 'Get Dorset Buzzing' event. We all went to the garden and planted our own sunflower seeds (courtesy of Poundbury Gardens). The children should have bought these home with them today. These can be planted in your gardens. In time these beautiful flowers will attract bees and other pollinators to your garden. 

All of the children got to meet Dr George McGavin who then lead the assembly on the importance of hedgerows and wildflower gardens. He even said that 1/4 of your garden should be left to help wildlife. We have over 200 species of bees in this country but some are becoming extinct due to pesticides and over building. I showed Dr McGavin around our Forest school area. He has made some suggestions on how to improve the wildlife in this area. This will be something we will focus on in Forest School. 

Eco shed recycling news... please read!

Mrs Thorpe and the Eco team have been very busy over the last couple of weeks sorting out all of the recycling in our Eco shed. Thank you all so much for your donations. A couple of things have been highlighted by the Eco team.

First of all we would like to remind everyone that we do not take all plastics (none of the things in the picture above). We have had a lot of plastic containers and plastic lids placed in the tubs. We have also had coffee wrappers, mug shots and multi pack of crisp wrappers. All of which we do not accept.

At the moment we are suspending our intake of eco bricks. Although we still encourage people to make these, we will not be accepting any of these at this time. This is mainly because the majority of the eco bricks we are receiving have not been correctly weighed, registered and logged with the eco bricks website before being dropped off. This means that the eco team unfortunately don't have enough time to go through them all as there are rather a lot!

The last bit of information that we want to share with you is a new way to drop off your recycling. We now have a grey storage bin just outside the main entrance door (underneath the office window) which you can use to drop your recycling in to. This will then be emptied and sorted by the children, allowing us to put the recycling in to the correct bins and throwing away anything that we is non-recyclable.

Thank you all so much for your continued support with making The Prince of Wales School even more green and for helping us to look after our wonderful planet. We welcome any suggestions on items you think we should be recycling. The more we recycle the more points we will get to buy additional learning resources for the school.

We will add a list of the things we now take below:
-Silver lined crisp packets (any)
-Pringle tubes
-Old toothbrushes and empty toothpaste
- Biscuit and cracker wrappers
-Baby food pouches
- Lids and pumps off the spray bottles
-Empty baby wipe wrappers (not the plastic lids)
-Empty anti bacterial wipes wrapper
-Plastic air fresheners and the wrappers
-Used pens
-Bottle tops

Y3- Information about our assembly next week!

Next week is our class assembly. The children have discussed what they would like to do and have come up with some fantastic ideas. Over the next couple of days we will be sending their lines home to practice. We are also requesting some different items of clothing. 

If you do not have any of the items of clothing do not worry we can try and sort out something for your child to wear. 

Y3- Talent show information

Year 3's slot for the Comic Relief talent show will be on Thursday and Friday lunch time. We would suggest that most of the children come ready to do the show tomorrow. 

 However if your child is part of the football tournament then Mr Gibson would like to do some football practice tomorrow lunch time. This means that those children who want to take part in the talent show will need to do this on the Friday. Please can the children involved in the tournament bring their football kits tomorrow. 

Y3- Brilliant home learning!

Thank you all so much for your hard work with your totem pole home learning. We all discussed what the children had found out about totem poles. In Forest School we plan to make our own totem poles. We will also use the information in our story writing over the next couple of weeks.

This week we are taking part in a Mathletics challenge. So this week we will be logging on to Mathletics and earning lots of points to try and get us on to the national leader board.

Have you got any of these in your garden that you do not need?

Year 3 have started to build a new bug hotel in the Forest School area. We are after some more resources to fill it up! Do you have any of the items in the pictures below that we could have please? If you do have anything lying about in your garden please give this to Mrs Thorpe in Year 3.

Year 3 - March Maths Challenge - 8th March 2019

Next week we are taking part in the Mathletics March Maths Challenge.  We have entered into this competition against other children across the world who use Mathletics.  It runs from Monday 11th to Sunday 17th March.  If we can get onto the leader boards we stand a good chance of winning a prize for the school.  So get logged on and lets see how many points we can earn!  Points earned at home as well as at school all count, so go Mathletics Mad!

Y3- Home learning 6th March

Today in Year 3 we have learnt about the rocky mountains. The children had a set out questions that they needed to research using google maps and kiddle. It was interesting to hear that we have many family members living in Canada!

Year 3 Home Learning- 6.3.19

As part of your home learning this week we would like you to research about totem poles.

What animals can you find on them? Do they represent anything? What else can you find out about them?

On the sheet attached can you draw and label your own totem pole.

This home learning will be collected in on Monday 11th March.

Mrs Thorpe's + Mrs Bishop's spelling list- 5th March.

Below are the spellings that Mrs Bishop will be testing the children on Thursday. On Thursday the children will then get new spellings.

impatient

impossible

imperfect

immature

impolite

All the children should have a hard copy of this. If they loose them we have spares in the classroom. 

Many thanks

Mrs Thorpe + Mrs Bishop

Y3- The start of book week

Welcome to book week! Today we had the privilege of listening to an extract of David Solomons up coming book that hasn't even been published yet. We saw David and the town Mayor open our library. This week we will spend some time changing books and making sure all of the children are up together with their AR reading. These quizzes can be completed at home by following the links on our school website. The children have done this many times now and can show you the links. 

This afternoon all of Year 3 worked on their green for growths on their non chronological Stone Age reports. These were fantastic pieces of writing. If you want to have a read of them please feel free to ask your child to show you their books in the morning. 

Congratulations all of our award winners last week. It was brilliant to hear them all talk enthusiastically about winning the awards today. I would also like to congratulate our dancers and gymnasts as there are have been a couple of competitions recently. Well done to everyone that has performed in these! 

Finally, just to let you all know we are off to The Thomas Hardye School tomorrow to learn about rocks!

Y3- Collecting these resources please

Hello everyone. For an upcoming Art/Literacy project  starting on the 11th March, we would like to start collecting cardboard tubes (kitchen rolls, pringles type tubes) and also and large tins with lids such as the large coffee tins, maybe you have one at work? It has to be able to hold water. 

We look forward to sharing our creations in a few weeks time!