Week Beginning 14/12/15

I'd like to start the final blog of the term with a massive thank-you to everybody for making this term such a wonderful start to to the academic year. Together we have all learnt lots of new skills, made new friendships and had lots of laughs. Thank-you for all the support from home; from reading to homework, joining in with reading cafes and supporting extra curricular activities and other events. 

Here are a few photographs from the final week of this term...

Enjoying our time and sharing our skills with our reading buddies from Year 4. 

Making marshmallow snowmen...Mmmmm!

 Learning about Spanish Christmas traditions. Ask us about the curious Christmas Spanish tradition we discovered involving these little woody critters! 

 Making Christmas cards and crafts.

 Learning to use our bows in Music. 

Finally, a big well done to Iwan for joining the Headteacher's tea party this week for all his hard work throughout the term. Merry Christmas! 

Week Beginning 7/12/15

The Year 3 class blog this week is brought to you by Mia, Lucia and Ella; with a little help from Miss Palmer!
 
 
Maths
In maths this week, we have been measuring the perimeter  of 2D shapes. We also learnt
to use a ruler accurately by putting the ruler straight up against the object or line and making sure it starts at 0.  Also, we learnt to measure using decimal points. It looks like  a full stop. Miss Palmer taught us some actions to help remember the units we measure in. A mm is really small, a cm is small, a metre is quite big and a km is very long. We learnt to do adding with calculators which we enjoyed.

 

 

Literacy

We have been extending and adding description to sentences this week. We have been learning how to improve boring sentences. Our advice would be to:
1) Find a boring sentence.
2) Swap any words in the sentence with more powerful ones.
3) Then put in adjectives and adverbs.
4) Finally, if possible, add connectives and verbs to add more detail. 

We have been watching short animations like 'The Bear and the Hare' to inspire us with our work. We have also been learning the different uses for commas.

Geography

This week we learnt about physical and man-made features and how different areas have different features. We matched pictures of some famous features of the UK , like the Angel of the North and the Forest of Dean, with their names and then located them on a map using Google Earth.

 

Music

 

Music this week was very exciting as we got out our bows for the very first time. We learnt to hold them correctly by practising on a pencil. We could show you our holding technique at home! 

 

In other news...

The wring competition has been extended for an extra week, so get writing Year 3! We have had lots of story writing practice this half term. I hope to see some fantastic Year 3 entries.

Also, next week is shaping up to be an exciting week in the run up to Christmas. We are looking forward to watching the Early Years and Key Stage 1 Christmas performance next week and our school Christmas dinner on Wednesday. Also, we will be visiting the church on Thursday, so make sure you are wrapped up nice and warm for the walk down the road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Week Beginning 30/11/15

This weeks blog is brought to you by Lucia, Ella and Miss Palmer.

Maths

In maths this week we have been telling the time.We have learnt to tell the time using analogue and digital clocks. We are now well on the way to being able to tell the time to the nearest minute digitally and work out time differences.

Literacy

This week we have written a whole story! We have written it using paragraphs and fronted adverbials. Our stories had a clear structure and lots of description. Also we watched Pingu to help us with our work! We have been replacing words for said. e.g roared, shouted, screamed, bellowed and lots more. Also, we have been learning how to use speech punctuation correctly. Miss Palmer came up of a game to help us remember which words to include in the speech marks.

Art and Geography

We have been combining our geography and art work this week whilst studying the work of Patrick Heron. We have been looking at maps and satellite images to create abstract paintings (using thick acrylic paint) in bold colours. 

Reading Cafe

This week was also our first reading cafe and what a fantastic turn out! Thank-you so much to all that came. We really enjoyed having the chance to be creative with our family and we produced some stunning, imaginative dragons. 

In other news...

Don't forget that this weekend is the last opportunity to write stories for our story writing competition. All entries must be in this Monday. 

Also, a massive well done to our Year 3 gymnasts for achieving second place in the inter-schools competition. 

Week beginning 23/11/15

This week 3P's class blog is brought to you by Bethanie, Sam H and Miss Palmer.

Maths

What an exciting week in maths! We have been working in groups to solve problems, explain ideas, convince sceptics and develop our growth mindsets. This week was called inspirational maths week.
On day one we were working together in groups to see how many numbers we could make using the number 4. Then we looked at symbols that represent numbers and we also looked at Pascal's triangle and spotted lots of patterns . We liked doing this.

Next week will be moving on to our new topic of time and measure.

Literacy

In literacy we have been designing and planning our own version of the story Icky Doo Dah. We have been creating our own mischievous monsters. We have gathered all of our ideas, practised some skills and we are now all ready for our big write next week.
   
Music

In music we have been continuing to play the viola. But also this week we were very lucky to have Jeff Rich, an amazing drummer from States Quo, come to our school!

We learnt about the history of the drums and even had a quick jam session, playing percussion to his funky beats.

P.E

We had yet another special visitor came to our school. His name is Sean Rose an inspirational Paralympic medalist. We were amazed and inspired by his achievements and all that he has done before and after his accident.  

We enjoyed doing the activities even though we got a bit tired in the end!
 

We all came up with interesting questions to ask him and got the chance to see his medals.


In other news...

A big thank-you to all who made donations to the Christmas fair chocolate raffle. We are pleased to announce, that we were the year group with the most donations and won a tub of chocolates for the class. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the FOSA Christmas fair next Wednesday 4.30pm-6.30pm.

Also we hope you all received your invites to our reading cafe next Tuesday. A lovely opportunity for a parent, carer or a family member to enjoy stories and a craft activities with us child in our learning environment.  

Week beginning 16/11/15

Our class blog this week is brought to you by Bethanie, Charlie and Mia.

Maths

In maths this week, we have been organising data. We created our own characters and used the characters from the game 'Guess Who' to suggest different ways to group the data. We also discussed who this information would be useful for.

We have also been displaying data on bar charts and pictograms. We also have been solving problems using the information shown. We enjoyed doing this and making a human pictogram.

Literacy

In literacy, we have been working hard on improving our descriptive writing. We have been creating metaphors and  similes and writing descriptive paragraphs about Michael  Morpurgo's Blodin the Beast. We have also been creating and describing our own mischievous monsters, drawing inspiration from Simon Murray's Icky Doo Dah books.  That lesson was our favourite!

We are starting a new unit in spelling this week and are beginning to focus on suffixes. This week we learnt the rules for changing the root word with the suffix 'ous'.

Science
  
In science we have been learning about the bones and muscles in our body. We have made some skeletons and learnt some of the scientific names for the main bones.

We even beat Miss Palmer in a Catchphrase quiz.

R.E.

In Re we have been learning about Christian baptism. We have been looking at two different types of baptism called  Infant baptism and Believers baptism.


P.E

We were very excited to use the big equipment in P.E to practise our jumps and learn how to use it safely. We will be combining this knowledge to adapt our routines with balances and rolls to different equipment.

In other news, well done to Courtney and Annabel for achieving their pen licences this week and those who have received their Read to Succeed t-shirts. Keep up the good work.

Many thanks to those who have already brought in a chocolate donation for the school fair. We will still be collecting donations all of next week.

We are looking forward to an action packed week next week full of visitors and workshops (professional drummers and athletes) and exciting learning opportunities such as planning our own creative writing adventure stories and a school wide week of inspirational maths.

Week beginning 9/11/15

This week, class 3P's blog is written by our class publisher. 

Maths

In maths we have been adding and subtracting fractions.We have been ordering fractions from highest to lowest. Also, we have started our new unit all about data and we have been timing ourselves doing different activities. We recorded our results by drawing a table. We found out when we were estimating  how many times we could do the activities in 30 or 60 seconds, we were much closer them the second time round!

Literacy

In literacy we have been continuing poetry. We looked at a new poem called No Word of a Lie by Jackie Kay and added some more lines. we enjoyed this a lot as we were allowed to argue in class!


Geography

In geography, we have enjoyed looking at different places on maps in the ICT room. We typed in our towns and villages and even tried looked at our  school and our own houses.

Science 

Based on our new topic, Growth and Movement, we have been learning about the inside of our bodies. We have had fun making models of skulls. We all got surprised when we found out their mouth moves using a hinge joint. We also made a model  of an arm with rubber bands as muscles. We also enjoyed moving them as well. 

P.E

Congratulations to Charlie, Bethany and Mia who took part in the cross country running this week.