Year 3 have been very busy this week – they have shown fantastic listening and team work skills in all areas of the curriculum – helping each other round three digit numbers and write noun phrases that include contractions!

In science they have been investigating what soil is made of and what types of soils we have in different areas of the school. They have played different games in class to help them learn their spellings, they have all performed well in their tests – thank you for your continued support to learn these at home. Mr Dugan challenged them to solve some very tricky problem solving this afternoon – they had to be very resourceful and resilient.

In RE we have been been focusing on how and where we see God in others and in nature. They were also very creative with their lego models of the Tabernacle and have sketched and painted some fantastic pictures of Pope Paul VI. We would like to say a special thank you to Michael for coming in on Wednesday afternoon and teaching us the hymn ‘All things bright and beautiful’ we really enjoyed singing with you.

Home learning

Please continue with the science home learning project set last week (due in next Wednesday) and practice the week 4 spellings. I haven’t set any matheletic activities but please encourage them to practice their 2, 3, 4 and 5 timetables and rounding skills. I have attached a rounding and ordering question as a challenge – please post your answers on this blog. Please read over the weekend and remember reading records next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

We have had a very productive and fun time in Year 3 this week. Our class book is George’s Marvellous Medicine and on Thursday we took part in lots of fun activities, based on this book, to celebrate Roald Dahl day. What a wicked Grandma George has!

In English we have written informal letters based on the book The Day The Crayons Quit. We will be editing and performing them in class next week. The children have been very creative with their ideas – well done everyone.

We have continued to develop our understanding of place value in maths and have completed tricky missing number puzzles. Mathletic home learning tasks are based on this topic.

Our RE topic, ‘Beginning with God’, has lead us to explore what The Sign Of The Cross means and how our faith influences our actions and words. Next week we are going to be studying the story of The Burning Bush.

The class have also been learning about where sedimentary rock can be found in the UK and how it is formed – they have used their map skills to locate these places in the atlas. It has been great to see their own rock collections and hear how enthusiastic they are about this topic.

We have also looked at Stone Age tools and objects, which inspired us to make clay thumb pots and necklaces.

During Thursdays PE lesson we prastised our dodging skills, while learning a new invasion game and today Mr Dugan led us through lots of different team building activities.

The children have been given a home learning pack today, with activities and information about passwords, reading days and tasks inside. If you have any questions please speak to me on Monday. If you were unable to attend the meeting on Tuesday please don’t worry, all the information will be added to our class page on the website.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

 

It was lovely to see so many of you at our Year 3 celebration this Thursday, where the children had so many happy memories from this year and shared their hopes for Year 4. I hope you enjoyed their homemade cakes and singing.

World cup fever led to us writing motivational speeches (as Gareth Southgate) in English and we have also looked at how we can keep healthy over the summer.

In maths we have been recapping our mental maths strategies – our mathletic champion this week is Emily.

The children have enjoyed introducing themselves to their new teachers this week – they will have another session in Y4 next week.

There isn’t any home learning this weekend.

Enjoy your weekend,

Miss Pringle

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the carnival on Sunday – the children looked great in their printed t-shirts – we hope you enjoyed seeing our art work at the exhibition.

It was also lovely that so many parents and grandparents joined us for our class Mass. I’m sure you’ll agree that the children read and sang with reverence.

Thank you for supporting Gloria in year 6 by wearing purple and making a donation to JIA.

The children have been combining their ICT and maths skills this week – identifying different types of angles and using QR codes to check their answers and create their own codes.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Pringle

Home learning – Spag and mathletics online.