Year 3 Week 2 13th September

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Year 3 Week 2 Friday 13th September
Our first full week in Year 3!

Apologies for teacher sickness and for having to reschedule
*Meet the teacher meeting on Thursday 19th September at 8:45am*

R.E.
The focus this week was on Apostle Paul. The children discussed the role of the Apostles as messengers and considered how we can be messengers of faith in our own lives. They also made their own faith journeys of ways they can share their faith, just like Paul.

 

English
The children enjoyed exploring their first story unit called ‘The black hat’. They role played during the drama lessons and showed fantastic expression to help them understand the character.

P.E. days are Tuesday and Friday
This week the children had their first introduction to PE. They enjoyed being back in the hall and using the space outside. They focused on how to use the space independently, follow instructions, listening out for the whistle and how to keep themselves and others safe. The topics for this half term are Gymnastics and Invasion Games.

 

Reminders:
• Year 3 curriculum, expectations and home learning will be fully shared at the Meet the teacher meeting on Thursday Friday 19th September at 8:45am. Slides will be uploaded to the class page after the session.
• Please provide your children with a morning snack if they would like and a water bottle daily.
• We welcome boxes of tissues please.
• We would also like any unwanted houseplants to enhance our classroom environment please. Thank you for the donations so far! We will share a picture soon as the children recommend we also draw pictures to display too.

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,
Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
M, T & W and  Th & F

We look forward to when full attendance allows us to update our whole class pictures.

Welcome to the Autumn Term Year 3

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Hello and welcome to the autumn term in Year 3. 

The children enjoyed their first few days back and welcomed two new children to our class.

The children were excited to explore their new seats, books, resources and navigating the stairs up! They worked well to write and share recounts of their summer break.

The children studied our mission prayer to fully understand what we mean when we say it daily and shared fantastic ideas on the qualities we show.
They transformed the R.E. learning and reflection space to reflect our new year. They were amazing at untangling the fairy lights!

Reminders:

  • P.E. days starting next week: Tuesday and Friday to come in full P.E. kits for outside P.E.
  • Please provide your children with a morning snack if they would like and a water bottle daily.
  • Year 3 curriculum, expectations and home learning will be fully shared at the Meet the teacher meeting on Friday 13th September at 8:45am. Slides will be uploaded to the class page Friday afternoon.
  • We welcome boxes of tissues please.
  • We would also like any unwanted houseplants to enhance our classroom environment please.

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,

Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
Mon, Tu & Wed                 Th & Fr

We look forward to next week when full attendance will allow us to update our class pictures.

 

End of the Summer Term 2024

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Not to be different to any other week, Year 3 had a busy week with the highlight being the end of our Design and Technology Unit on Making a Wallet/Purse!

It has been amazing to see how this Design and Technology unit has inspired so many of Year 3, with them sewing eagerly at home.

The children embraced using needles, threading them and sewing using the running stitch and backward stitch.  They also embraced how to attach a button to their designs!   The children really enjoyed spending time this week sewing, all of them were absorbed and engrossed and worked really hard.  Well done everyone!

   

 

Today, we also said“goodbye” to Mrs Vieyra, who has been part of our school community for many years. She has assisted your children this year in class and running our reading intervention programmes.  We will miss her.

Thank you parents for the support you have given your children over this last year.  They have worked so hard and grown so much during their time in Year 3 and we have enjoyed being part of their learning journey.

Thank you also for the generous gifts you have given to Mrs Lines, Mrs Vieyra and myself.  We really appreciate all the kindness you have shown us this year.

Lastly, THANK YOU to our lovely class making us proud every single day.  The funny, sweet, inspirational moments that we share every day with your children make it the best job in the world.

Wishing you all a lovely summer!

Mrs McNamara, Mrs Lines and Mrs Vieyra.

 

Friday 12th July 2024

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This week, the clear highlight was Fun Day. The children had a fabulous time playing games, getting tattoos, bouncing on the bouncy castle, go karting and eating treats! We played bingo with an interactive app.  Click here for the link as the children asked me to post this.  Snakes and Ladders was a firm favourite also alongside the dice game that was played too.  The children also used their timetable and division knowledge to solve the football themed challenge.  The class have also been working on their wallet/purse designs and learning how to sew using the running stitch and backstitch.  We also had Giovana with us these last few days as she has been on her work experience week.  As a past pupil, the children were delighted to hear she came to the school and had chosen to come back here for this week.

 

 

Next week, school finishes at 1pm on Friday 19th July. We will be sending home books and various art projects so please send your child in with a strong bag from Monday.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Lines and Mrs McNamara

 

 

Friday 5th July, 2024

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Another busy week in Year 3 this week!

It was our whole school photograph this morning so the school was buzzing with excitement. Also, thank you so much for your chocolate donations today.  If you have forgotten, please bring in your donation early next week.

In Science the children have explored how water is transported to the different parts of the plant. They first worked in groups and created a human model of how water is taken to the flowers and leaves. Next, they did an experiment to find out how they can ‘see’  that water is sucked up through the stem and then the stem passes water on to the leaves and flowers.

 

 

Unfortunately, only two children remembered to bring into school their sunflower that they have been growing at home.  Please can your child bring to school ON MONDAY their sunflower as we would like to measure how tall they have grown.  Thank you! They will be sent back home with your child.

In Maths, we have continued to look back at division and multiplication, practising the inverse to check our answers. English this week has continued to build final pieces for a Gregory Cool sequel.  In RE the children have been looking at what it means to be a follower of Jesus; in RSE they have looked at considering financial stewardship through budgeting activities and discussions about the pros and cons of different payment methods, and learning about financial risks. In PE the children have continued with their lessons in tennis, learning how to improve their serve.

On Wednesday we were treated to a guitar concert. Well done to Hugo for representing Year 3!

 

Wishing you a wonderful weekend.

Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines.

Home Learning:

For those children who need some more time to complete their Home Learning from Thursday, please bring in your final pieces by Tuesday.9th July.

arithmetic Year 3   Complete the arithmetic using the link provided.

TTRS – log on and complete the 4, 8 and 10 timestables.

spellingshed- spellings and SPaG.

Friday 5th July, 2024

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Maths

 

Click below for your Maths Learning

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Friday 28th June 2024

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We’ve had a lovely, if not sweaty, week in Year 3!

In English we have continued our unit based on Gregory Cool. This week we planned a sequel and worked on ensuring our speech punctuation skills are accurate. Their characterisation was impressive and I’m sure this will reflect in their final written pieces. In Maths we have now moved onto revisiting multiplication and division, solving problems involving these operations.  In Fluency we are continuing to revise our understanding of time and addition and subtraction.

In PE, Mr Mills improved their skills so they can begin to volley a ball. Their overall control is really improving as is their accuracy. Far fewer balls are finding their way into the Peace Garden and Great Slades!

Our RE learning has been looking at the idea of what it means to follow someone or something. The children identified that we can follow teams, media channels, TV shows and people. When considering how we follow Jesus, the children were able to think of ways we can do this in everyday life. They had lots of ideas around helping out at home, including helping make dinner and tidying up.

In Geography, we discovered why New Zealand have so many earthquakes. The children made poplets about tectonic places and layers of the earth to help explain.

We look forward to meeting with you next week. If you have not yet made an appointment, please do so.

I am sure that you are aware via the newsletter but congratulations to our Year 3 finalists who took part in the HfL (Hertfordshire for Learning) Maths Challenge last week.  One of the Year 3 groups got through to the final heat in which 165 schools participated.  We were informed on Monday that our group – Lucas, Noemi, Dafne, Christian and Hugo did extremely well achieving second place!  We are SO proud of them – a difficult challenge to undertake and to come in the top three above the other schools is fantastic!

 

Have a great weekend

 

Mrs Lines and Mrs McNamara

 

Home Learning

Spellings and SPaG on spellingshed

Mathletics and TTRs

Read and remember to bring in your reading book and reading log on your allotted day!

Friday 21st June, 2024

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This week has whizzed by!

As part of Other Faith Week, we focused on The Greek Orthodox faith and on Monday afternoon visited The Twelve Apostles Church in Brookman’s Park.  Fr Demetriano made us feel very welcome talking to us about the lovely church and the special icons etc that we saw there. The number of paintings, stained glass windows and icons were  magnificent.  The children gazed at them in wonder and awe.  The children learnt that the area where the priest celebrates the majority of the services lies beyond the icon screen (or Iconostasis) and is the Sanctuary. This is where the Altar Table is situated, as well as the Table of Oblation, where the Holy Gifts are prepared before their Liturgy begins.

This morning after assembly, Fr Demetriano visited our school to talk to us about the similarities and differences between our faiths.

On Tuesday we celebrated Sports Day in the afternoon.  Alongside the fabulous weather the children took part with enthusiasm and were full of energy and fun. A huge thank you to all of the staff who helped ensure that the afternoon ran as smoothly as possible and a special shout out to Miss Pringle who organised a very successful Sports Day.

 

 

The children are doing their Plants Topic in Science for the remainder of the term and have started to grow sunflowers.  Please encourage your child to keep a record of the height of their sunflower each week and I would like them to bring their sunflowers back into school on Monday 8th July to see how they are growing and to compare results with the rest of the class!  They will of course be returned to your homes to be cared for and replanted in your own gardens.  In Maths, we are moving onto a new area of learning.  The children have worked hard on their understanding of time over the last few weeks -please use as many opportunities for them to practise what they understand about this area of learning. They have been working hard to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and the 12 hour and 24 – hour clocks. We also revisited our work on digital devices this afternoon and as part of the work we chatted about cyber attacks and about when criminals try to steal our online information without our permission.  They were introduced to a website that introduces them to a password checker tool.  T`he children asked if I could post the link we used to check to see what makes a secure password. The link is here.

                                                                                               

 

 

Have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy the sunshine!

 

Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines

Home Learning:

Mathletics

TTRs

Spelling Shed

Keep a record f the height of your sunflower for the next few weeks.  (Please return your sunflower to school on Monday 8th  July)

 

 

 

 

Friday 14th June, 2024

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This week has been ‘Healthy Eating Week: Give it a Go!’ and in Year 3 the class have been busy on following the themes of:

  • Get at least 5 A DAY
  • Stay hydrated
  • Move more
  • Focus on fibre
  • Reduce food waste

On Wednesday the children designed their own smoothies and created a smoothie that contained apple juice, banana, apple, spinach and wild berries.  We were impressed that many children tried all ingredients!

 

In Maths the children have continued to revisit addition and subtraction work in fluency ensuring they can check their answers to calculations using the inverse and in our main maths work, we have returned to reading the time displayed on both analogue and digital clocks.

In English, we read the text Gregory Cool. It is a story about a boy who goes to spend four weeks with his grandparents in Tobago. We discussed character feelings and built up our inference skills.

In RE the children have started their topic work on Discipleship learning about Mark the gospel writer.

In our light topic in Science, the children also recognised that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by a solid object.

We received the results from last week’s Hertfordshire’s Maths Challenge. Well done to Noemi, Dafne, Christian, Hugo and Lucas who are now going through to the next round!

Wishing you and your families a good weekend.

 

Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines

 

Home Learning:

Mathletics

TTRs ….practise 3, 4, 8 times tables please.

Spelling shed- spellings and spag activity.

Friday 7th June, 2024

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This week has been a busy one upon our return from half term.

The children have embraced their learning well.

In Maths the children have been learning about 3-D shapes and they have had many opportunities to create 3-D shapes and describe them using vocabulary such as faces, vertices and edges.  We have spoken about a cuboid, prism, sphere, cylinder, square-based pyramids to name a few and each day the children have had the opportunity to make their own 3-D shapes.

Photo Album 3D shapes

In RE our focus has been the Blessed Sacrament and the children have spent time learning about St Dominic Savia (who had a deep devotion to the eucharist) and Blessed Imelda (who longed to receive the Eucharist from the time she was a very young child).  The children have designed their own monstrances, learning that the monstrance is an important part of Eucharistic Adoration and today, they had the privilege of leading the Blessed Sacrament Procession to the church.

Blessed Sacrament Procession ppt

 

Yesterday, two teams of children from Year 3 took part in the Hertfordshire Maths Challenge.  This is a friendly, online, inter-school competition that gives the children the opportunity to apply their mathematics knowledge and teamwork skills to solve problems and answer challenging questions, putting their reasoning skills to the test. Well done to the two teams.  We await their results from the Hertfordshire Maths Team.

From next week, our PE days will be Tuesdays (Tennis) and Thursdays,  so the children need to come in PE kits on these days please.

Tuesday, 11th June 2024 is Sports Day. Your child will need to be in their PE kit, wear a sun hat and have their water bottle! Ks2 events start in the afternoon and finish shortly before the end of the day @ 3.15pm.

Next week is also Healthy Eating week, so the class will be participating in daily events as well as food tasting and will learn about the 5 ways of keeping healthy. Contributions towards these events can be made via School Comms.

 

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines

 

Home Learning:

Mathletics

TTRs – please log on and practise your timestables.

Spelling Shed

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