Year 3: So proud!!!

Wow what an AMAZING assembly the children performed today (twice!) They performed with such confidence and grace. They really have loved learning about the Celts and Romans. 

This afternoon the children performed the assembly to the rest of the school and it is safe to say that they thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Thank you all so much for your support with getting the children to learn their lines and of course for their brilliant shields! 

Now let the festivities commence!!

Tomorrow we are going to be having our next reward for filling up our house points. This time it is 'decorate a biscuit'. 

See you all in the morning

Mrs Thorpe and the fabulous Year 3 team 

Year 3: Clay Iron Men and musical breaks

We have been busy bees this week filming and practising for the assembly tomorrow. We can't wait to see you all in the morning at 9.20am!

Today the children used clay to make their very own Iron Man as inspired by the whole class text that we are reading by Ted Hughes. They learnt how to manipulate the clay and smooth over the cracks, adding texture. We were really impressed by the figures and these will be coming home once they are dry. 

This afternoon we were treated to an amazing musical showcase of many songs on the piano. Very brave and confident to perform in front of everyone.

I've had lots of children asking to play their musical instrument to the class. I am sure over the next few weeks we can schedule some times for musical breaks :)

Year 3 Spellings for this week

 

Year 3: Let's battle!!

 We've had a great week carrying on our learning about the Romans and Celts. At the beginning of the week the children did Now, Press, Play based around the story of a Roman soldier.

We have been doing some really tricky Maths today using the bar model to work out our answers. Congratulations to all of the children that received Mathletics certificates today! 

Today we finally did our battle! I can confirm that no Celts or Romans were hurt in the battle! 

More video footage of this to come next week during our assembly! Just a reminder that this is on Thursday 25th at 9.20am. This weeks home learning is to practice their lines which they have taken home today. If you don't have them then I can email you.

And finally today the children did their sponsored mile backwards! 

In Praise assembly today Jensen and Henry W got certificates for their great persuasive writing and Ava was praised for amazing effort in her spellings. 

We hope you have a great weekend. I've said that if the children get a chance to have another look at the Horrible Histories Boudicca song which we will be doing next week! 

Mrs Thorpe and the Year 3 team 

Year 3: End of the week

 On Thursday the children took part in the 2 minute act of remembrance. They learnt all about remembrance day and had to form full sentences from the facts they had read. 

Yesterday, in pairs, they finished their writing and research about Roman soldiers. Using Kiddle and 'I wouldn't want to be a Roman Soldier' book, the children had a question which they had to research and write about. For example one of the areas that they had to look at was what Roman soldiers used to wear, what their training was like and why they were at Hadrian's wall. 

In computing we discussed age ratings on games and movies. We spoke about what it is you need to do if you see anything inappropriate on a game or if you hear or read anything. The children were very good at reasoning about this topic. We talked about the online games and websites being accessed at home and the importance of not talking to strangers online and how they would react to someone contacting them that they didn't know. 

Yesterday afternoon in Science the children were experimenting to find out which material a car would travel the furthest over. 

In groups they then had to put their data into a block graph. 

We've had a very busy week with some amazing learning taking place. 

We hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Mrs Thorpe and the Year 3 team 

Year 3: Home learning and spellings 12/11/21

 For this week's home learning we have set Miss White's Maths competition

Year 3 - Children in Need Reminder

Yesterday the children will have brought home Children in Need sponsorship forms if they were in school. Please support them to fundraise for our Year 3 team mile, which we will complete by moving backwards! If you need a form let us know on the door or email please.

Here is a reminder of the fun-filled events we have taking place next week in aid of Children in Need.

Bake Sale! Friday 19th November. 3:30pm.

• Please can families bake or buy cake/ treats to contribute.

• Bake sale goodies to be brought into school on morning of Friday 19th November.

• *All cakes/treats/food must be labelled with ingredients and contain no traces of nuts*

Pudsey Goodies

• Items will be for sale for the whole Children in Need week at the office and in the playground.

Fancy Dress Day.

• Come to school on Friday 19th Nov in Spotty or Sporty clothes!

• Suggested £1 donation for coming in fancy dress please.

Sponsorship Forms

• Please can these be returned to school with any fundraising the by Friday 26th November.

Year 3: Forest school pouches

 

Today in Forest School the children have started to make leather pouches. They had to hammer the holes using a metal punch. We will carry these on next week. We also made bird feeders for the trees. 

In Science today the children were taught about friction and many questions were asked about whether or not a surface is better having more/less friction. On Friday we will do an experiment on this. 

Year 3: Roman Soldiers and reading books

Good evening everyone! 

Today the children started to research about Roman Soldiers. We are going to compile the information that they find out to make a non chronological report. 

In Power Maths we have been estimating numbers and rounding numbers to the nearest 100. For example if the number was 322 then the children had to write the nearest 100 (300). 

Please could we have all reading books in school. Lots of children have many books out, some that they haven't brought back for a long time. 

Finally, thank you so much for your support. The children's home learning has been absolutely amazing and we really appreciate it. The shields are phenomenal! We will be doing the 'battle' next week. 

The Year 3 team 

Year 3: Home learning 5/11

 

Year 3: End of the week Science, Art, reading and praise assembly!

 Yesterday we had a fantastic Science lesson based around forces. The children were able to question and reason around the topic and show which way the contact force was being put on an object. 

In Art we looked at how we can use oil pastels to make a firework picture with a reflection over water. These were really impressive! 

We spoke about firework safety and the importance of being sensible around sparklers.

We then had our praise assembly. Congratulations to:

William- Resourceful Rose award for making links to prior knowledge related to our forces work

Elliott-Celebrating difference award for being such a supportive friend in the class

Edie was praised for her fantastic inference question linked to our new book The Iron Man. 

We started to read this book yesterday. Please could I ask that the children don't purchase this and read this at home. We spend our time making predictions and inference questions about the text. If they have already read this then it makes it a little difficult. We have shared the following texts this week:

We hope you have a safe, fun filled weekend. 

The Year 3 team 

Year 3: We found a hedgehog! Forest school afternoon

 

This afternoon we thought we would get our grounds ready for the winter. We collected in our hedgehog houses ready to refill. However in this one we already had a littler visitor who was hibernating! We were very careful and quiet and put them back safely. 

 We then collected leaves and filled the two other hedgehog houses and hid them in the undergrowth again. 

After all our efforts we decided we should cook some popcorn. Whilst the kernels were cooking the children had a go at making a spark with the flint and steel. 

This morning I took some of the eco team on a question and answer session about COP26 with Chris Packham. School in the Southwest asked him questions on BBC Radio Solent. Unfortunately he ran out of time to answer our question, but we have tweeted him and hope he might answer soon!

Year 3: Learning about COP26

 This morning the children watched two very interesting videos that explain what COP26 is. They then worked with a partner to access google classroom where I had set a number of questions. Using the links in the classroom they needed to read the documents and answer the questions in full sentences in their books. 

They then watched a clip about making a pledge to support COP26 and how they were going to do this. We had a number of different pledges from promising to not waste their food to reusing items and turning off lights. 

This afternoon the children had a workshop with 'The Happy Puzzle Company'. 

They had to work in teams to solve puzzles and games. This is a great example of how the children are using their BLP Reggie the resilient tortoise skills in action! 

And finally at the end of the day they had golf with Mr Treble. An action packed first day back!