5.1.26

Welcome back and Happy New Year.

The children have returned with a positive attitude and are straight back to working hard.

English / Reading

We are looking at a narrative called 'The Robot that Hated Water', and writing our own warning story. This links in with our new Makey Makey topic. We have generated some fantastic vocabulary, and planned our stories. 

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning about multiplication and division.  We are learning and practising multiplication and division facts for 2,4 and 8.

Topic - Makey Makey

We started of our new topic by looking at robots and where they originated. We then located these places on a map. We will be moving the topic into a more practical element next week when we begin to design and build our own pinball machines from cereal boxes.  Please send any empty boxes you have please!

RE

In RE this week term we are studying a philosophy strand.  This week we learnt about the differences between, facts, opinions and beliefs.

Science

This term we are learning all about forces, gravity and magnets ! We have some fun investigations planned and completed our pre-assessments this week.

This week we have not sent out homework as 'Homework Club' is not starting until next week.  We have sent out spellings and home reading as normal.  Thank you for listening to your child read three times a week and helping them learn their spellings and times tables.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

12.1.26

English

In English we have started writing our stories based on the story 'The Robot Who Hated Water'.  We are working hard to use paragraphs, inverted commas, pairs of adjectives and similes.  We need to remember our full stops and capital letters!

Maths

In maths we have been learning how to multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.

We partition the number into tens and ones and then multiply both parts of the number.  To make it easier, the children need to be fluent in their timestables, in particular 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, 4s and 8s.

Science

We began learning about forces this week.  We know that a force is a push, pull or twist. We carried out an investigation to find out which surfaces have more friction. 

DT

We have been using Makey Makey to set up circuits to play tunes on the bongos and piano.  We made a Banana Keyboard using conduction.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

 

19.1.26

In DT we made a playdough game controller using Makey Makey.  We had to connect the Makey Makey board to our playdough controller and then we used it to play online games. 

 

In English we wrote our stories based on the story The Robot that Hated Water. Our stories included: paragraphs, dialogue, pairs of adjectives, similes, sentence starters and conjunctions.  We then had to edit our stories to make improvements.  

 

In maths we continued learning methods for multiplication so that we can multiply a 2 digit number by a one digit number.  Next week we will be learning about division.  

                                                        

Next Week:

                                                                        

 

In science, we investigated magnetic poles.  We found out that like poles repel and opposite poles attract. 

                                     

 

Have a lovely weekend everybody! 

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

wc 26.1.26

In maths, we have been using a partitioning method to divide 2-digit numbers by 1-digit.   We partition the number and then divide the 10s and ones by the divisor.  Then add up the total. 

In English, we have been learning about persuasive leaflets and have planned our own leaflet to advertise a pinball machine. 

In Science, we have been exploring magnets.  We set up a scrapyard and used magnets to test out which objects are magnetic or non-magnetic.  

In music, we have begun learning our songs for the spring production.  We will be performing Oliver.

In DT, we have been exploring ramps, levers and pulleys and learning how a pinball machine uses these mechanisms.  We designed our own pinball machine and are looking forward to making them next week.  If your child hasn't yet brought in an empty cereal or shoe box, please send them in on Monday. 

Have a great weekend everybody!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

2.2.26 

We have a had a really exciting week; starting off with a visit from Rock Kids on Monday! We took part in music and dancing and listened to a very important message about 

We have been exploring ramps, levers and pulleys and learning how a pinball machine uses these mechanisms.  We designed our own pinball machine and began to build them! Next week, we will finish building our pinball machines by adding the levers and point catchers!

In science we have been investigating the strength of different magnets by exploring how many paperclips they can attract.

In English we planned and wrote our flyers to persuade people to buy our pinball machines.  We published them and made sure that they looked eye-catching and attractive.

                        

In maths, we have been using a partitioning method to divide 2-digit numbers by 1-digit. Next week in maths will be looking at fractions. In particular, we will look at understanding the denominators of unit fractions, comparing and ordering unit fractions and understanding the numerators of non-unit fractions.  

                                                         

 

On Friday we enjoyed NSPCC number day.  We participated in maths challenges around the school grounds called ‘Do its’, we enjoyed playing the maths board games in the afternoon and playing TTRockstars in the computer suite. 

                                                                                

 

Next week, we will begin reading a story called 'Rain Player' which will be basing our writing on over the following few weeks.

                                                                                     

Here is a link to the story being read if you would like to listen ahead of time! Tuesday - National Story Telling Week 2021 - YouTube

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

27.2.26

It was great to see everyone back after the half term break.  We have started our new topic:

'It's good to talk': a history of communication.  

In English, we have been writing a challenge story based on a book called 'Rain Player'.  This is a Mayan story about the God of Rain.  We used 'Talk for Writing' to retell the story and are using this to help us with our writing.

In history, we learnt about how people communicated in the Stone Age times using cave paintings, drum and smoke signals and story telling.  In Art, we created our own style of cave paintings using oil pastels.

In maths, we have continued our learning on fractions.  We have been comparing and ordering fractions along with finding equivalent fractions.

In science, we have started a new topic learning about light.  We have learnt that light is the absence of dark and have learnt about some different light sources.  We have also learnt about how to take good care of ourselves in the sun and we know that it is dangerous to look directly at the sun.

In computing, we have been learning about email.  We wrote draft emails to our friends and next week we will learn how to send the email.

In music, we are busy learning our songs for the spring production.  Please encourage your child to practise the songs at home.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

2.3.26

What a fun week we have had!

Aliens from the planet Zrag have come to visit our school to learn all about earth.  On Friday, we emailed some aliens from planet Zrag to tell them more about us and the earth. 

On Friday, it was also World Book Day where we were able to dress up as anything space related! 

This week we were also able to visit The Dome. When we travelled inside the dome we were met by wondrous sights. Inside, we learnt lots of amazing information about life in space and the possibilities of aliens. 

                                                                                                                                    

In English, we have written AMAZING challenge stories based on The Rain Player. We added lots of wonderful adjectives, adverbs and powerful verbs into our stories. 

In maths, we have been working really hard on learning more about fractions. We have learnt about subtracting fractions, finding unit fractions of a set of objects and numbers and finding non-unit fractions of a set of objects and numbers. We found finding non-unit fractions of a set of objects and numbers a bit challenging, but with hard work and perseverance we have made excellent progress. 

              

 

In science, we learnt about the solar system and made our own rockets!

          

In History, we learnt how people communicated in the Shang Dynasty. We then used our knowledge to carve into some 'oracle bones' (clay) using some symbols from the Shang Dynasty era.

                                                                      

Over the last 2 weeks, Holly class have been able to visit forest school. Over the next 2 weeks, Maple class will be able to visit!

      

                

                                                       

 We hope you have a lovely and restful weekend! We look forward to our school trip to the British Museum on Monday!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland

13.3.26

We have had a very busy week this week.  On Monday we had a wonderful visit to the British Museum.  The children enjoyed looking at all the different exhibitions of the history topics we have been learning about in Year 3 such as the Shang Dynasty, the Romans, the Vikings and Anglo Saxons and the Bronze Age.  They also exploring the Egyptians and the heiroglyphs.

We have also had our assessment week and the children showed a great growth mindset and resilience when tackling their assessments.

In Computing the children were able to send emails with attachments and in Science they carried out an experiment about the length of shadows.

Next week half of Maple class will have their Forest School session with Mrs Lovell on Monday afternoon and the second half of Maple class will have their session on Thursday 26th March.  The children need wellies, waterproofs and warm clothing.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland.

16.3.25

This week, in English, we have been learning about non-chronological reports. We read all about the Manchester Ridgeback. We then created our own dragons and next week we will be writing a non-chronological report about them. 

In maths, we had our final fraction lesson of counting in tenths. We have then been learning a length. We started by measuring in m and cm and then in mm.

                                                                                  

 

On Wednesday, we had a music performance by Mishra. They taught us about lots of different instuments and where they are from.

                                                                            

 

On Thursday, we were lucky enough to have a second music performance. This time, we got to see some of our school's very own bands from Rock Steady. The bands were amazing, and we were particularly proud of our Year 3 musicians who performed! 

Have a great weekend everyone and Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate!

Mrs Sheptuha and Miss McClelland