Sports Day has arrived. This afternoon we will be taking part in sports day and are really looking forward to having lots of fun and cheering on our team. I'm sure the children will have lots to tell you when you come and pick them up. Thank you to those parents who took our advice and sent your child to school with a full PE kit and drinks bottle.

Art Week

As requested by some parents, here are some pictures of Year 3 working very hard during art week.

During term six, as well as continuing our learning on 'Habitats', we will also be learning about

'Ancient Greece'.

In particular, we will be learning about ancient Greek art but will also cover other areas within this e.g. Olympics, food, clothing.......... Please give time for you children to carry out further research at home to expand their knowledge and share with their peers in school. Your support with learning at home is much appreciated.

Art Week

We had a fantastic art week where we focused on animal art to link in with out topic on 'Habitats'. I hope you enjoyed seeing the artwork we had produced when we brought some of it home. One piece of artwork produced in particular this week was:

 We worked on the theme 'Excellence', and joint up our individual ideas with an artist called Nick to create this fabulous piece of work. It will soon be displayed between the year 4 and 5 classes so keep an eye out.

Literacy

In Literacy we have been focusing on poems for the last two weeks. Our poems have all been about creating an animal through descriptive sentences and verses. Each verse needed to create a particular part of the body. We have wrote them up in our literacy books, followed by publishing them into a video. See some of our fantastic work below.

Folly Farm

Year 3 had an amazing trip last Friday to Folly Farm. We had lots of fun and thoroughly enjoyed our day. It all started with Pond dipping where the children were able to catch pond life and learn facts about these creatures. We then moved up into the woodlands to create a habitat for some Mammal Blood (Blackcurrant) where the children used the resources around them and their imagination to build a warm shelter. My group came 2nd but well done to the team that came first. After a well deserved lunch, we ventured further into the forest to look for woodland mini beasts. The children had a memorable experience and a fantastic day. Thank you to all parents who contributed their money for the cost of the trip. Please take a look at us having fun below:

As you may be aware, we are currently learning about 'James and the Giant Peach'. The children are very enthusiastic about this story and are enjoying there Literacy learning. This week we are changing the story to support us in being creative. Our new story title is 'James and the Giant Banana'.

Welcome back, ready for term 5. We are looking forward to the exciting term ahead where there will be lots going on. Today you will receiving a letter about our class trip to Folly Farm. This links directly to our Habitat topic and should be both fun and interesting for the children. We will also be doing lots more learning, which you will find out about in the parent overview that will be handed out next week.

Keep up the hard work you do with the children at home.

Next week is parents evening on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Thankyou to those paretns who have already signed up. I now have only a couple of spaces left so if you havent signed up please do so in the next couple of days. I will be delighted to update you on your childs progress during year 3 so far.

We had a great time during Book Week, especially dressing up. As our author focus was Roald Dahl, we were given the chance to bring in our Roald Dahl books from home to read during moring skills work, for one week only.

As asked for by a few parents, please see below a couple of pictures from our Indian dance assembly. We had a great time both practising and performing our dance, not only to KS2 but the whole school. We will be continuing to learn about India during the last week and a half before half term arrives.

 As I'm sure you are aware, we are celebrating World Book Week in school and tomorrow is World Book day. We will be visiting the book store where your child will be able to use there book token to exchange for a book to bring home.

Please don't forget that it is also our character dress up day. In Year 3, our author focus is Roald Dahl and we are encouraging children to drees up as character from one of the authors books.



India

As I'm sure lots of you are aware, our current topic is focusing on India. We have been learning about a small village called Chembakolli as well as famous landmarks e.g. Taj Mahal. We have also been creating our own rangoli patterns. Take a look at some below.

 

Happy New Year

Welcome back to school to begin the start of the spring term, term 3. I hope everyone has a great year ahead of them.  

Our new topic for the next two terms will focus on India and well done to all of the year 3's who carried out extensive research on India over the holidays. I am very impressed with the the homework that has been completed.

Thank you to all parents for their support so far and i am looking forward to the continuing year ahead in partnership.

Miss Johnson