Christmas Cracker Competition

In Computing this week, Year Three put their skills to the test and entered the 'Heart and Soul' Christmas Cracker Competition -

Mr Spracklen was blown away with the Year Three designs that have now been submitted to the judges. 

Please see below for a small selection - 

Spencer -

Seth -

Sam -

Nellie - 

Nathan -

Esmee -

GREAT WORK YEAR THREE!

PE Kits and Christmas Production

 Hi Year Three Families,

Firstly a reminder that all children must have a PE kit in school, we have a significant number of children who do not have one. As the weather is getting colder, we will continue to do PE outside in dry weather I would heartily recommend adding a pair of tracksuit bottoms into your child's PE Kit to ensure they stay warm. 

More excitingly, we are beginning to think about our Christmas production. This year Key Stage Two will be doing an adapted version of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. We are thrilled to bring such a beautiful story to life. Children have already started to rehearse the songs, however we need to cast the parts. 

Children have been given information about this today and a copy of a short piece of script to practise if they wish to take part in our very informal and relaxed auditions at the start of next week for the main parts.

 If your children does not wish to have a speaking part they have been encouraged to discuss this with me, however we have made sure that everyone who wants a speaking role can have one.

We are particularly fortunate this year as Miss Gosling is an experienced dancer and she will be our choreographer, which means we are also able to incorporate some dance elements to our performance, if you child would like to be one of our dancers they will also have the opportunity to discuss this with me.

We are all extremely excited to bring this incredible story to life.

Ms Evans and Miss Gosling

Busy Times in Year 3

 Hi Year Three Families,

Goodness me, we have had a busy start to Autumn 2 in Year 3. In History we are learning about The Stone age to the Iron age, we started by designing some tools or weapons and we've also learnt about the three different ages of the Stone Age.

In English we have complemented our History focus by using The First Painting as our text. Children will finish this module this week by writing a story in the first person. We made some amazing Freeze Frames this week!

We have started a new art focus and are focussing on Sculpture, we have been studying the environmental sculpture Maya Lin and we have been busy designing our own sculpture.  

In Maths we have continued our focus on column addition and subtraction. If you would like more timetable paper copies please do let me know.

In Science this week we were learning about the human skeleton.

Most excitingly this week we received letters from Australia, we are hoping to establish a pen pal relationship with Blue Mountain Grammar School in Wentworth New South Wales, all children replied to their letters and we await their reply. To compliment this activity home learning is a child led research task on Australia. Children can present this information anyway they choose, they might like to do a poster. 

As ever please do get in touch if you have anything you would like to discuss.

Ms Evans, Mrs Scott, Mrs Thomas and Miss Gosling

A Wonderful Harvest Week

 Hi Year Three Families,

Wow what a lovely week it has been, thank you for celebrating harvest with us this morning and it was wonderful to have you in class with us trying our seasonal tarts!

This week we have been busy contributing to the whole school Harvest banner, completing our DT projects and enjoying lots of faith inputs!

We also really enjoyed our trip to Thomas Hardy, listening to Jack Meggitt-Philips, we have some Jack Meggitt-Phillips based homework which is due back after half term.

Please can reading records and folders come back every friday, we need the folders to ensure that all the letters and home learning comes back in an organised way, each child brought one home at the beginning of term.  PE kits should be kept in school please, we still have a few children without PE kits in school.

Next week is our final week until half term, it has flown by!

Have a great weekend

Ms Evans, Mrs Scott and Miss Gosling.

Reminder!

 Hi all,

We have a meet the author trip tomorrow at Thomas Hardy, the weather forecast is for rain please ensure that everyone has a coat and appropriate shoes for the weather!

Food and Nutrition, Maps and a trip to the farm.

 Hi Year Three Families,

We've had another busy week in Year 3, we started by a lovely visit to Maiden Castle Farm, this visit we focussed on grain and how crops are planted and harvested, the whole class enjoy this lovely trip.

In Science we introduced a new topic; Animals including Humans. We've started with a focus on Food and Nutrition, we were learning about the 'traffic light system' which helps promote making healthy choices. We also learnt about how much sugar there can be drinks. This week for home learning we are continuing this focus. 

In Geography we have continued our learning about the Polar Regions and have used Atlas's to further our knowledge.

We also had fantastic inputs from Sherene as part of Food Faith and Farming Fortnight and a lovely visit from Ashton Galloway for World Sight Day.

Looking forward to the week ahead,we will be starting a new book in English called The Heart and the Bottle and will continue this focus until half term.

We are busily preparing for our Harvest assembly and we are looking forward to seeing you on Friday.

This week Miss Gosling will be joining us until February as part of her teacher training, we can't wait to be part of her exciting  journey!

As ever please do get in touch if you have anything you would like to discuss.

Ms Evans