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    Year 3 Blog

    Year 3 26.3.21

    March 26, 2021/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    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 […]

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    Year 3 19.3.21

    March 19, 2021/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    As part of our Design and Technology unit of work. The children analysed existing sandwich products and plotted their findings on graphs. Next week we will be testing different flavour and food group combinations to use for our healthy sandwiches. We have continued with our 5 ways to Wellbeing and explored the power of laughter. […]

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    Year Three 12/3/21

    March 12, 2021/1 Comment/in Archives, Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    It has been a wonderful to welcome all the children back into the classroom. We have spent the week focusing on our Wellbeing; learning the  5 Ways to Wellbeing: Connecting with others Learning new things being Active Noticing the world around us Giving to others. We have enjoyed connecting with each other again and have […]

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    11.12.20

    December 11, 2020/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    We have had a busy week in Year 3, writing letters, gardening, making cards, identifying Advent symbols and meeting Santa! It has been a lot of fun. Next week we plan to finish our letters for the residents of The Grange and Elm Court Care Home and roast the vegetables we have harvested from our vegetable […]

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    Autumn 1 Week 5

    December 4, 2020/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    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, […]

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    Autumn 2 Week 4

    November 27, 2020/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    This week we read The day the Crayons quit by Drew Daywalt and explored the different emotions of each character using freeze frames. We have also made predictions about what some of the Crayons might enjoy if they were to quit and created some colourful crayon art. Next week,  we are going to look at […]

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    Autumn 2 Week 3

    November 20, 2020/0 Comments/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    This week we have finished our dragon writing, using alliteration, similes and noun phrases. They are wonderful! We have also painted our dragon eyes, which are very impressive too.   In Maths we have been adding 0ne and two digit numbers to three digit numbers, while in RE we have learnt to find Bible references […]

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    Autumn 2 Week 2

    November 13, 2020/1 Comment/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    This week has been all about dragons! In English the children have written descriptions of their dragons appearance and described their special powers. They have also been busy in art making a class dragon as well as origami and clay dragon eyes. In maths the children have been reading scales. Please revise counting in 3 […]

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    Autumn 2 Week 1

    November 6, 2020/1 Comment/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    Year 3 have been busy designing their own dragons this week, which they will be writing about next week. There are some very imaginative and magical ideas developing, which I am very excited about! In maths the children have learnt to round to the nearest 10 and 100. This rhyme has really helped the class […]

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    Week 8

    October 23, 2020/1 Comment/in Year 3, Year 3 Archive /by Margaret Joyce

    Year 3 have been learning about India  for One World Week 2020. We used google maps and atlases to locate India, its surrounding countries, major cities, mountain ranges and major rivers. We’ve learnt to read toe figure grid references and investigated the different ways that the river Ganges is used. Most of the children decided […]

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    • Year 3 Assembly 6th November 2020November 6, 2020 - 1:33 pm
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    • Year 4 Assembly 9th October 2020October 9, 2020 - 12:28 pm
    • Year 5 Assembly 2nd October 2020October 2, 2020 - 1:43 pm
    • Assembly 25th September 2020September 25, 2020 - 4:52 pm
    • Assembly 18th September 2020September 18, 2020 - 9:32 am
    • 11th September Whole School AssemblySeptember 11, 2020 - 3:02 pm
    • Summer 2020 Support For LearningJuly 23, 2020 - 8:30 am
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    Pope Paul News

    • Friday 18th December 2020December 18, 2020 - 9:57 am
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    • Music concerts 2020December 17, 2020 - 5:52 pm
    • KS2 Advent Reflection 2020December 11, 2020 - 4:21 pm

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