Year 3 have worked very hard this week. In Maths, they applied their fraction knowledge to create mathematical art work . In English, they have published their  documentaries and created class word banks to support their narrative writing. In RE, the children wrote prayers to St Joseph to remember his feast day and were very reverent during the crowning of Mary this morning. Thank you for the generous donations of plants and flowers.

In Science, the children have enjoyed sharing their magnets and famous scientist home learning.

In PE, this week we continued to develop our tennis forehand and backhand. I am very impressed with how fit Y3 are – they have collectively run 96 miles during the daily mile this week!

Finally, the children painted their clay animal tiles which look fantastic.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

Home learning

Spelling – https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/108/31-Common-exception-words

French – please log onto duolingo https://www.duolingo.com/ and complete 20 minutes of activity. Passwords and log in details can be found on google classroom.

Reading – please log onto study ladder http://www.studyladder.co.uk and complete 20 minutes of activity.

Science  – Please paint or sketch a picture of a famous scientist.

We had a busy start to the week, continuing to find fractions of amounts in Maths and researching endangered animals in English. As part of our English topic we have adopted a giant panda through the worldwide wildlife fund (WWF) and will write our own animal documentaries and narratives, featuring an endangered animal, over the next three weeks.  It was also amazing having The Ark visit the school on Tuesday and have the opportunity to handle and learn about how we can care for different animals.

We focused on rallies in tennis and look forward to starting tennis with Mr Mills next Tuesday. For the rest of this half term children need to come to school in their PE on Tuesday and Wednesday. Next week they also need to wear it on Thursday as we have a cricket taster lesson. In computing we have been using scratch to programme and create avatars and musical jingles and in Science have started learning about magnets. Thank you Miss Lawlor for all your hard work, I forward to seeing Y3 on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

Home learning 

Spelling https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/10/3-The-sound-spelt-ou

Reading

Please spend 30 minutes on read theory and then read either independently or to an adult for at least 15 minutes and write a comment in your record.

Maths

Please log onto study ladder and complete the three fraction activities set.

This week we have been learning about Jesus’ Passion (suffering) according to Mark’s Gospel and finding out more about Holy Week.  On Thursday, the class watched Year 5 and 6 read, sing and act out The Stations of the Cross from Our Lady and St Vincent’s Church. 

Throughout the week we have participated in several Lenten Charity events organised by the Year 6 house captains, which were a lot of fun.  We have worked hard in PE to develop out fitness, speed and awareness of space. We have also enjoyed using the jungle gym and continue to complete the daily mile – which the children are very enthusiastic about.

Thank  you for sending in the milk bottles – we have had a lot of fun making woolly mammoth models after reading the book, ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’ – the children will bring them home after Easter as it was a little too wet outside this afternoon.  We have also created  Lenten gardens, which should bloom just in time for Easter.

Have a restful and blessed Easter holiday

Miss Pringle

We have been busy preparing for Advent this week by keeping our Advent promises, receiving Advent angles and making Advent wreaths.

In Maths we have learnt to find fact families – this can be practised at https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families and have started to use the column method for addition.

On Thursday, something very unusual happened in Y3, our chairs sent us a letter to say they had quit! In order get them to return we had to write persuasive letters.

We have played matches in Hockey and learnt to count to 10 in Japanese, while performing sequences in Karate.

Home Learning

Spelling – ous suffix

Please learn this spelling list;

Maths 

Please revise you number bonds to 10 and 20 using hit the button https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Computing 

The children have been set a sequencing task to complete for next Wednesday  – please see the sheet they have taken home this evening.

Thank you for your generous donations for the Christmas hampers.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle