3P ARCHIVED 2018-19

Ukulele Music Concert: The children took part in a concert for their families. They demonstrated how much work and effort had gone into playing their instruments by their superb performance; they were all amazing! They're now ready for Extraffordganza next week!

George Ezra 'Shotgun'

George Ezra 'Shotgun'

K'naan 'Wavin Flag'

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'I wanna be like you'

The Lumineers - Ho Hey

James Brown 'I feel Good'.

Practising for the concert.

Here are our fabulous Role Models chosen for their superb manners and for always following our school's Golden Rules. And our Merit Award winners for always trying their hardest and being the best they can be as well as their articulate letter writing and art work this week. Well done to all four superstars!

Artwork inspired by the artist Paul Klee.

In English this week the children learnt about the structure and layout features of informal and formal letter writing.

Wow! Look at this wonderful artwork that took 3 months to complete!

Performance poetry with instruments.

Having fun with our favourite Boogie Friday song.

A frighteningly ferocious Mars!

A Performance Poem based on 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', but with a decidedly Roman edge to it.

Fierce Celts!

Julius Caesar!

God of Mars!

Here are some Sports Day pictures from last week.

A slightly different selection of Awards this week. Three Role Models were awarded for superb all round manners, attitude, behaviour and for their wonderfully confident 'We're Going On A Roman Hunt' performances.

Science: In Science this week the children looked at the effect of UV light and the damage that it can cause. They then designed their very own sunglasses.

What fun they had making them!

Don't we look cool!

Performance Poetry

Practising

Performance poetry

Congratulations to our super Role Model this week, she’s been chosen for being such a very kind, thoughtful and helpful member of the class. She always follows our Golden Values and is a friend to everyone! Well done to our Merit Award winner for his superb attitude towards his work and for all his wonderful ideas in English this week, I can’t wait to read and hear his performance poem! And to our other Merit Award winner for her fabulous work ethic and the huge amount of progress she’s made in her work.

Performance Poetry

RE: Needs and Wants

Reflection

Science: the children were given an assortment of pictures which they had to separate into light sources and non light sources.

They were given 5 feely bags with an object inside and had to draw it just by feeling.

Science: The results

Well done to our fabulous Role Models for being such amazing School Ambassadors on our school trip to Chester. You both demonstrated impeccable manners, behaviour and enthusiasm. And to our Merit Award winners who have come back after their break and shown that they really can do it!

Geography: Deforestation Effects

History: Mapping Hadrian's Wall

Maths - problem solving in groups. The children were given a sheet of number sentences and had to try to collaboratively workout the patter. Finally after much discussion and team work each table managed to solve the problem and verbalise how they'd reached their conclusion.

Beating the Barbarians

Learning to fight the Barbarians but failing

Becoming Roman soldiers

Marching through Chester

Roman Dewa trip: Inside the museum

Having lunch!

Out on patrol.

Well done to our fabulous Role Model for her consistently outstanding behaviour, attitude and manners. It’s been Test week and her focus has been amazing in all subjects. Our first merit Award goes to our superstar Hand Writer who has the most beautiful stylized writing which is a pleasure to read and mark as well as his fabulous ideas and super vocabulary during our class myth writing; it certainly wouldn’t have been the same without it! Finally, to our Merit Award winner for his fantastic focus and superb test results this week, he’s definitely trying to be the best he can be and should be very proud of himself. Huge congratulations!

Our Groovy Friday Dancers!

Enjoying the running track.

Thank goodness it's Friday!

RE: Learning all about World Vision and the impact it can have on communities.

History: having learned all about Roman roads, why and how they were made, the children used atlases to be able to map and draw some of them.

Star Writer – for making fabulous use of a structure strip to retell the story of Theseus and The Minotaur, using senses, similes, great vocabulary and for having written five paragraphs; it was a pleasure to read! Such beautiful handwriting too!

Computing and Geography: using the internet to research animals of the rainforests and their habitats. Recapping on last week’s lesson all about the layers of the rainforest and reflecting on how and why various animals live in the different layers. Once the children had made a fact file, they presented their findings to the rest of the class.

In Science the children were learning about the different ways in which seeds can be dispersed. Each table was given one form of transportation and decided which seeds could be transported in this manner. They then had to act out their mode of transport for the other children to guess.

Exploding:

Eaten by Animals:

Wind:

Water:

Catching a Lift:

Our Role Model this week has been chosen for her organisational and administrative skills! She’s a super Class PA! Always Ready, Kind, Safe and Respectful as well as being thoughtful and trying her best in every subject. Her presentation is always of the highest standard. Well done! Our first Merit Award winner has been chosen for her fabulous work ethic and attitude in Maths especially in Problem Solving which has been a huge focus this year in class....trying to explain in words how you’ve managed to get the answer is no easy feat by any means but she’s certainly smashing it!! And to our other Merit Award Winner for her super learning and motivation to really try her hardest; get her head down working and an amazing participation in class discussions especially in our ‘Myth’ work in English this week. What fabulous ideas you have!

Wow what a fabulous end to the week! Our Boogie Friday winners were chosen by the whole class this week!

Computing: Programming a LEGO snail using blue tooth and starting to create a code to change its light.

Science: Learning all about the parts of a plant by dissecting a lily.

French: Days of the week to warm-up!

Geography: Layers of the rainforest. Here the children are demonstrating: Emergent, Canopy, Understorey and Forest Floor.

The children learnt about the different features of the rainforest layers, the different plants and about the animals that live there.

The final Stone Age projects. They've been amazing to see and to hear the children talk with such enthusiasm. They've definitely enjoyed the topic and have learnt a lot about the Stone Age!

Well, it’s girl power this week! Two Role Models chosen for their impeccable manners and behaviour and always adhering to the school’s Golden Rules: Ready, Kind, Respect and Safe both in and out of the classroom. A huge congratulations has to go to our very worthy Merit Award Winner for the amount of progress she’s making which is down to her fantastic focus and attitude towards her learning. Brilliant Maths and English this week. Well done to all three of you.

Friday Boogie Groovers!

After a very close vote here are our two new Class Representatives for the following year. No doubt the rest of the class will be giving them a lot of ideas to take to their meetings!

Well done to our fantastic Star Writers of the week, both chosen for the huge progress they’ve made this school year!

Following on from Geography and learning about rainforests the children in Guided Reading have read The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry, not only have they enjoyed the text, the illustrations are beautiful as well as the message the book conveys.

Great concentration, focus and complete silence whilst answering the questions and referring back to the text to support their answers.

In Geography this week the children have been looking at the climate and weather conditions of rainforests. Each table was given a destination and then as a group they had to present a weather forecast to the rest of the class.

Thursdays projects and presentations:

Wednesdays projects and presentations:

Tuesday's projects and presentations:

Monday's projects and presentations:

Each day this week the children were allocated some time to 'Show & Tell' their homework projects. To start us off we had a very talented, future film animator, come in and show his 'Lego' Stone Age project: we were all very impressed!

What a very full on week we’ve had; the children have all come back rested and ready for their last term in Year 3. Huge congratulations to our wonderful Role Model, she may be very quiet and incredibly well behaved with lovely manners, but she always follows the school’s Golden Rules and is a great friend to all. Well done to our Merit Award Winners for coming back to school with such a fabulous attitude and have produced some great work this week. One for his fabulous Maths work and superb Stone Age project and the other for his concentration and focus, great participation and superb hand writing. Well done to all three of you.

French: learning to count to 100 the fun way.

Enjoying the running track! Even Mrs Pope was seen running!

Science: The new topic this half term is Plants. After having done a diagnostic test to check how much and what they know, the children looked at the parts that make up a plant and started to learn about their functions. Each table worked together to set up an exploration and observation investigation to find out what plants need to grow well. They had to choose a question, make a prediction, state why they thought this and write about the method they would use.

To help the children to remember the 7 life processes of a plant, they have found a friend to remind them - Mrs Nerg. Although her name sounds a bit strange, the letters in it stand for the life processes - movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration and growth.

Maths: Place Value.....great concentration and a little friendly competition between the tables to see who could get through their Maths within a set time and not make silly mistakes....

Computing: Using the internet to research and find information out about a rainforest.

Role Model and Merit Award Winners: Huge congratulations to our very mature, kind, thoughtful, dependable and reliable Role Model. How amazing to be able to possess all these wonderful qualities at such a young age: an amazing ambassador for our class and school! Well done to our super Merit Award winners who are definitely trying to be the best they can be. They are always smiling and happy, tell funny jokes and cheer everyone up. In addition to having been chosen as Star Writer for a super playscript and for their determination and focus. Well done to all three of you!

To round off a super term, the children had an Easter Egg Hunt! 3P were definitely the fastest they managed to find the most eggs in the allotted time!

Practising their play-scripts ready to perform.

The Three Little Pigs

Eating Stone Age jam.

What a sticky mess!

Star Writers: Play-script 3 Little Pigs

On Thursday the children went up to church for the Easter Service and were all beautifully behaved.

RE: Resurrection – reflecting on artwork around the crucifixion of Jesus and discussing the mood and feelings portrayed and how Mary must have thought having discovered that Jesus’s body was no longer there? Whilst the children were reflecting, they listened to Stabat Mater music which is a hymn to Mary, Jesus’ mother, and portrays her suffering during her son’s crucifixion.

Our RE Scrapbook - Reflection: iSingPOP and Resurrection.

DT: Making Stone Age Jam: wild berries and honey.

Computing: Scratch Coding

Observing our wormery...the worms look happy and have been busy eating the food.

Science – investigating the permeability of different soils.

Wow, what an end to an amazing week! Double Merits and Role Models this week!! Well done to our all our Role Models and Merit Award Winners for their amazing attitudes, perseverance with their learning and infectious enthusiasm both in class and in church this week.

Times tables dance winners!

Huge congratulations to our Star Writers for their fabulous adventure stories. Their writing was full of all the writing features taught over the last few weeks as well as starting to develop a sense of pace to pull the reader into their story. Well done to both of you!

RE: Resurrection

Easter basket making.

Evening performance at church.

Very excited to perform in front of their parents at church: Fighting For Love.

iSingPop at church

See Those Hands

JOY

We're All One

JOY

Closing scene and song.

It's a Hard Enough Life

The Little Princess

RE: Our class RE scrapbook is coming together nicely - Salvation:

Science - learning all about soil and what's in it. The whole of Y3 came together to make a wormery! Worms supplied courtesy of Mrs Pope's garden and constructed by Mr Cunliffe. The children will make careful observations over the next few days by taking photographs and making notes.

Day 2

Boogie Winners!

Our favourite Boogie Friday song!

Star Writer - chosen not only for his beautiful handwriting but for his fabulous vocabulary and descriptive phrases in his 'Search for the Magic Ring': 'he ran as fast as a cheetah speeding across the savannah' and 'his heart was pounding and beating like a drum'.

Recording Day

JOY

A taste of one of the songs the children have been learning this week with iSingPop.

It's sounding good!

Huge congratulations to our Role Model who's always, Ready, Respectful, Kind and Safe, not only has she got the most amazing smile, she possesses all the qualities a Role Model should have and has beautiful manners. Well done to our Merit Award Winner for an amazing contribution during our Stone Age Day (you're a walking encyclopedia of facts). And to our final Merit Winner for her persistence, perseverance, determination and fabulous work ethic!

Star Boogiers!

Crazy Hair Day!

Golden Time

In Maths this week the children have been doing fraction work. Here they are playing fractions dating where they had to find their perfect partner to make a whole.

Each of them found their perfect partner!

Writing up our Pirate Adventure stories: not a peep could be heard!

Congratulations to our super athlete who helped the school team to come overall 3rd in Trafford and he's only in Year 3!!

RE: Salvation – the children listened to the story about Zacchaeus and how he found Jesus, said he was sorry and changed his ways. Taking it in turns to be Zacchaeus in the hot seat asked him some questions before he found Jesus and then afterwards.

Zacchaeus's attitude before he found Jesus:

Zacchaeus's attitude after he found Jesus:

On Tuesday the whole of Year 3 (in the rain) went to Tatton to experience life in The Stone Age. None of the children allowed the weather to dampen their enjoyment. It was a fun-filled educational / hands-on activity day and all the children came away thinking they’d learnt even more about their topic. Some of the activities were: farming, tool making, clothing, hunting and how to make a shelter.

To begin their day the children had to order and make a timeline of key events from the dinosaurs through to the present day.

Part 2 of their timeline:

RE: Forgiveness

RE Reflection Book: Forgiveness. The children worked in groups and discussed how Peter might have felt before and after his betrayal of Jesus.

Our Role Models this week have been chosen for stepping out of their comfort zones and for perseverance. They should both be very proud of themselves for definitely being the best they can be this week as well as being kind and thoughtful to others: all such great qualities. Our Merit Award Winners have been chosen for their superb Pirate Adventure story planning this week. Superb use of grammar, vocabulary and exciting sentences as well as creating a sense of pace and atmosphere; their writing certainly managed to grip and pull the reader in which is not an easy feat to achieve!

Boogie Friday winners!

Our Role Model's choice of song and routine....

Thank goodness for Boogie Fridays!

Setting up our Science enquiry this week.....the children wanted to know which rocks were permeable? As a class they made a plan, set up their investigation and observed what happened. To do this they submerged a variety of rocks with different properties in water. They were quite amazed by the results and how some of the rocks reacted, especially as one of them actually floated! They then wrote up what they observed and the results of their investigation.

In RE this week the children learnt about the parts that Judas and Peter played in betraying Jesus making links to life today through the words: trust, forgiveness, betrayal and reconciliation. They acted out what happened when Peter denied Jesus three times and then in groups they used body outlines to write down all the feelings Peter must have had before and then after denying knowing his friend Jesus.

RE: Here they are acting out Peter's betrayal:

World Book Day

The children all came in very quietly this morning and proceeded to read their books before Church Assembly.

Not a peep was heard...the power of reading!

We were lucky enough to have 8 Year 6 boys come and read with the class.

Firstly, a huge well done to the whole of 3P! You’re all superstars and all deserve to have a Role Model and Merit Award this week; you should all be very proud of yourselves for putting on such an amazing cross curricular assembly all about The Stone Age. Fabulous clear voices, great use of the microphones, superb acting and great dancing!

Singing, clapping and banging away to I Will Rock You, but with Stone Age words!

Our Stone Age Assembly:

Our RE Book of Reflection: in RE the children are taking charge of their learning by writing their thoughts and prayers which are being compiled and put into a whole class book. This week the children wanted to write and share their memories of Mr H.

Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Racing - what fun Year 3 had! Even the teacher's raced one another!

Well done to our gorgeous Role Model for definitely being the best person she can be, always smiling, trying her hardest, being a great friend but above all else consistently following our 4 Rules! Two Merits go to super mathematicians, writers and artists this week. Each day they have come in and got on with their work with an amazing attitude and great focus. And then finally to our super ‘Star and Hand Writer’ of the week for a fabulous recount of an adventure story written and presented beautifully. Well done to all 4 of you! You are all 'Bucket Fillers'!

Well, what a busy and very packed week 3P have had. Not only have the children been practising like crazy for their class assembly next week they’ve also taken on board Mrs Hudson’s Monday assembly ‘Can you fill a bucket today?’ with huge enthusiasm. Everyone in the class has managed for the first time to get to GOLD on their class target board! Which means they’ve also followed all of the 4 School Rules: Ready, Respectful, Kind and Safe. Keep up the great attitude!

Our amazing 'Boogie Friday' dancers and singers!

For DT the children have researched what they may have worn as jewellery in The Stone Age from what archaeologists have discovered. They then designed and made their own beads and teeth from clay and presented them as a fashion item.

Our new Science topic: Rocks! The children will be studying Rocks which fit in very nicely with our Stone Age theme this term. Our Science Working Wall and Investigation Station.

The children have loved using our Science Enquiry Box, they also have a Science Enquiry Book to write up what they’ve discovered and to write questions about what they’d like to find out!

For their first lesson the children did a diagnostic test to find out what they know and then they thought of questions that they’d like to find out. They then learnt about the different kinds of rocks and how to group them. Here they are looking closely at them.

Here's our wonderful 'Star Writer' and 'Hand Writer' of the week - fabulous work!

QUACK – our new problem-solving checklist is proving to be a huge prompt in helping the children to QUACK their Mental Maths. Look at our Maths Working Wall with a Stone Age theme!

History: grouping different foods. They were given photos of different foods and had to say what it was, in which Age it was eaten, whether we’d eat it now, how they’d have found it and how it would have been prepared?

PE: Here they are acting out the elements of: Earth, Air, Fire, Water in time to the rhythm. And finally coming together in prayer and refection.

Cleaning the stones.

From another angle:

Chipping the stones:

PE: Stonehenge in the Hall.

What a busy half term we’ve had! Well done to our wonderful Role Model for her resilience and perseverance, for always smiling and ‘lifting’ the class with her infectious smile and being a beautiful friend to all. To our Merit Award Winners whom have been noted for embracing our four school rules: always respectful, ready, kind and safe. As well as being amazing movers in PE, what great rhythm and timing you have! Finally to our Star Writer of the week for a superb Explanation Text all about Skara Brae: managing to incorporate both De:De and N,www sentences in every paragraph of writing. What a fabulous attitude you all have to your learning. Well done!

Friday Boogie Winners!

A fun way to learn our 8x tables!

Stig in the Dump den: the children had lots of fun turning our class tent into Stig's den, then playing in and around it. They made a window out of bottles and even used tin cans to make a chimney just as Stig did!

Cave painting art work....getting ready for our class assembly...

Cave Art in progress:

Our Star Writer of the week:

Working with a partner in Maths to solve addition pyramids.

In English this week the children have been learning all about Skara Brae, then using De:De and N,w,w,w sentences wrote an Explanation Text:

A combination of PE, Dance and Music: IMoves: Stonehenge. Here they are cutting, chipping and cleaning stone:

Here they are trying to move the stones:

Winter Solstice: Here they are acting out the elements of: Earth, Air, Fire, Water in time to the rhythm.

And finally coming together in prayer and reflection.

A beautifully illustrated and very well written Stone Age Report:

A huge congratulations to our Role Model, who is a role model every day and every week: for consistently outstanding behaviour, attitude and manners. And for delivering so brilliantly in every single one of her tests this week! Then to our Merit Award Winners for their superb focus and love of learning, having taken everything on board and being the best that they can be. Well done to all three of you for shining so brilliantly!

Our fabulous Star Writer of the week, chosen for the huge amount of progress she's made since September - well done! She's also our Hand Writer of the week too!

Congratulations to this week's Boogie Friday winners!

Mr King: Y3 were extremely lucky to be treated to an afternoon talk all about Extreme Weather from an expert. They were all very well-behaved and asked some rather interesting questions which even got Mr King thinking...

Mr King teaching the children about tornadoes using two bottles to create a vortex.

Geography:

On Thursday morning the children came into class immediately as it was very wet, cold and rainy. Their Maths ‘Challenge’ sheets were out and very quietly they got on with their work before assembly. However, unknown to them an alarm would be sounded.....would they know what to do?.......NO!!!!

2nd attempt!

The alarm was paused, and the children then learnt about earthquakes; how they happen, their scales of magnitude and impact and what to do when they hear an earthquake siren. 2nd siren....

Cave Art: the children were given a selection of different medium in natural colours and had a go at drawing Stone Age animals.

We will always have 'Pond Memories' of Mr H.

Remembering Hr H in our prayers.

Our Y3 waterlily pond for Mr H.

Our crazy socks!

Playing outside and having fun, just as Mr Hamblett would have wanted.

Our huts.

Mr Hamblett Day. In our classroom: making waterlilies and ponds in memory of Mr H.

Mr Hamblett Day. In Mr Cunliffe’s classroom: making dens.

Playing in their dens.

Around the campfire, a scout's song.

Mr Hamblett Day. Finally in Miss Harrison’s classroom: making Stone Age dwellings.

Illustrating their information texts whilst listening to Chapter 3 of Stig in the Dump.

English – Stone Age Information texts – don’t they look great!

Maths – measuring weights and comparing units of measure. The children had to estimate the weights of everyday items found in school. They then used scales to see how accurate they were.

Our wonderful Monet 'pond' sandpaper pictures.

Well done to our Role Model for being the best person he can be this week. Trying especially hard in making the right choices and decisions. Hos hand is always up and is a very useful walking encyclopaedia of knowledge! And to our Merit Award winners for their sheer enthusiasm and love for learning especially in Maths – they’ve certainly QUACKed their problem solving! ConQUACKulations and well done to all three of you: you certainly have achieved GOLD this week!

Boogie Friday winners!

We celebrated our last week of swimming by having a water polo game. Red team won 7-5!

Peter Pan - dancing to one of our favourite Boogie Friday songs!

On Thursday the children were in for a real treat as Peter Pan came to school!

Activating our brains!

History – Art – sketching cave drawings in their sketchbooks whilst listening to Chapter 2 of Stig in the Dump!

Our Star Writer - who wrote in paragraphs and used 2Ad sentences - well done!

An adjective warm up before our Big Write all about Stone Age Boy.

Geography – Discussing ‘For’ and ‘Against’ living near a volcano.

Our volcano experiment: water, bicarbonate of soda, food colouring, washing liquid and vinegar!

ICT – Coding – Scratch – fabulous concentration and focus!

In Art the children have been inspired to make some pond and poppy pictures using wax on sandpaper in memory of Mr Hamblett ‘We will always remember him’.

In RE the children carried on learning about The Kingdom of Heaven and looked further into the meaning behind The Parable of the Sower and the Seed in greater detail. They wrote their thoughts on sticky notes before writing up about the different types of grounds and then decided which they were more alike and why.

What a superb week we’ve had with such wonderful manners and behaviour from all the children: our Golden Rules are having a huge impact! Our Role Model is a young lady who always epitomizes this role, always Ready, always showing Respect and always Kind. She not only demonstrated these qualities daily, she is a true friend to all in our class. Our Merits go this week to a very happy mathematician, who sometimes finds her work difficult but through perseverance and determination she’s succeeding and is starting to believe more in herself! Our final Merit has to go to our fabulous ‘Note Taker’ of the week: his hand has rarely ben down, participating so enthusiastically and demonstration a real ‘I can do it’ attitude. He’s also an amazing swimmer! What a fabulous week to all three of you.....keep it up!

Brilliant Boogy Bashers!

Column addition. Learning Maths the fun way!

Well done to our fantastic Star Writers of the week: not only have they been chosen for their superb conversion of note taking from a broadcast into beautifully written reports about Stone Age weapons, but their hand-writing has progressed tremendously too! Keep up the great work!

Geography: learning how to remember the layers of The Earth: A Rap about the layers of the earth.

In History the children learned how to order a timeline.

In RE the children have begun to learn about The Kingdom of Heaven. They discussed what a parable is and then watched a short film.

This week we looked at the meaning behind The Parable of the Sower & the Seed. Through discussion and visuals, they began to understand what it was about and why Jesus told it. Through reflection they wrote about the importance of having an open mind and heart to enter The Kingdom of Heaven.

What a great start back. Our Role Model this week has been chosen for his participation in discussions both on the carpet and in assembly. He is always ready, respectful and kind which are three of our four golden words in the class. There are two ‘Star-Writers and Hand-Writers’ of the week, who both wrote a fabulous Recount of their Christmas Holiday using paragraphs and time connectives – they were chosen for the progress they’ve made since the beginning of the year. Well done to all three of you!!

Our Boogie Friday Winners!

Look at our wonderful elephants we made and designed in DT (Design & Technology): they are simply amazing; a lot of hard work and effort went into them.

A class set of elephants!

This term our main topic is The Stone Age which will be linked across most subjects: History, English, Geography, Science, Art and Guided reading. Stig of the Dump by Clive King is our class choice of reading this term. The class have already listened to Chapter One most intently and are enjoying it very much.

Our Guided Reading Wall: each week the children will be either adding to it or will choose a selection of extension or challenge work.

French: learning the days of the week.

French: learning the months of the year.

Our Star-Writers looked at their very first piece of holiday writing (in September) and then compared it to their Christmas Recount and couldn’t believe how much their writing had improved.

The children wrote a recount of their Christmas holidays, using paragraphs and time connectives: here is an excellent example.

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Welcome Back 3P and a very
Happy New Year!
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And finally..........

Having fun with our games!

Well done to all of Y3P for all your hard work and supper attitudes. What a great term we’ve had and there’s lots more to come! Here are our final Role Models and Merit Award Winners of 2018. A Huge well done to everyone in the class. HAPPY CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR XXX

All the children are so pleased with their Christmas Books – they do look absolutely wonderful!

Monday: Efred, Elfis and Candy Cane decided to have a jacuzzi together in Miss Harrison’s class along with their new found friend Dazzling Ducky...a lot of bubble bath and crazy soap was used! Tuesday: Hanging out to dry! Wednesday: Hanging on our number line.....nobody wanted to move him to where he should be? Thursday: Snow angel fun. Friday: And finally Elfred has had the last word before his departure by completely messing up the classroom!!

And finally to our Merit Award Winners for being such wonderful writers. Year 6 looked through all the Christmas Books and found it very difficult to choose: two beautifully presented books but they did and here they are - Merit Award Winners and Star Writers all in one. Well done!!

Well we’ve finally made it to the end of the first term. As well as working hard and settling into The Juniors, we’ve also had a lot of fun! Congratulations goes to our last week’s Role Models for their amazing attitude, fabulous focus and magnificent manners!

One of the many pages in our Christmas Book.

Quick draw: Baby Jesus, Mary & Joseph and the Three Wise Men. Look at our amazing drawings!

A huge congratulations to our ‘Star Writers’!! This is our first for her fabulous ideas and illustrations – well done! Then to our next for his amazing play with words! And then to our super Acrostic poem writer!! Well done to all 3 of you!

Our Christmas party! Boogying on down! Fabulous food and friends: yum yum!

Baby Shark!

Before their Christmas party, the children heard Michael Morpurgo reading Coming Home and then watched a short film of the book before embarking on a round robin of activities: painting, storytelling, shape poems, descriptive writing and word searching. All their hard work went into their Christmas Books.

Our finished robins.

Finger painting our Robins!

Having enjoyed the draw along we decided it’d be fun to draw some of the nativity pictures – aren’t they just wonderful?

Earlier on in the week we watched Virtually Live by Puffin which is an author and illustrator show exploring storytelling genres. The children participated in The Snowman Draw-along which was read out to them by Michael Morpurgo (who’s put the original pictures by Raymond Brigg into words) and the illustrator Rupert Shaw. They were all totally captivated!

There are two fab Role Models this week, chosen for being a pleasure to have in the class: one who has had his head down and has performed amazingly in every subject, has been totally focused and shown a huge sense of maturity, with his learning, his attitude and exemplary behaviour in class. Then to our second Role Model who couldn’t be any kinder or nicer if he tried. Someone who everyone wants to be friends with and someone who definitely ‘lifts’ the class. Then to our super Merit Award Winners for their fantastic work ethic in class, they are both ‘Hand-Writers’ for this week as well as last week for work not just in their English books but across all their subjects: always producing the most amazing work which is a pleasure to read, mark and so well presented. Well done to all four of you for making us all smile, be happy every day and for making Y3P a lovely place to be!

Friday Boogie winners - such fabulous movers and groovers!!

The Elf Chronicles: Monday: Cheeky Elfred decided to sleep in the manger and put the nativity scene into The Worry Monster’s mouth! Tuesday: all the Elves decided to have party with The Worry Monsters, Buzz Light Year, Woody and the Christmas Nativity! Wednesday: Fizz, Whoosh, Crackle, Bang! They’re taking off!!! Thursday: The naughty elves were invited to a dinner party in Candy Canes classroom. Friday: Some rather upset stomachs after eating too much chocolate yesterday!

Here are our fabulous Christmas cards displayed across the classroom.

English – Word Play. The children looked at all sorts of different poems and poets and learnt how you can play with words. For our main lesson they focused on The Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan and together wrote a class one before embarking on their own.

The ending......

Here are some examples of their superb Nonsense Poems.

Our fabulous Science Working Wall and Investigation Station. The children have really loved being able to experiment with the magnets and come up with their own questions to investigate.

Elf on the Shelf - quick draw.

Followed by drawing up our Elves on Shelves!

Our final pictures....how different they all are?

A huge congratulations to the very youngest pupil in the Lower Juniors who competed in The Bebras Challenge and got the highest mark in the school in her category! The whole of Y3 are very proud of her – a super analytical mind in the making!!

Wow! What a fabulous Christmas Carol Service...the parents were treated to a fabulous evening of beautiful singing and readings.

This week we’ve been very busy getting ready for our Christmas Carol concert, here we are up at church on Tuesday. Fabulous behaviour walking up and down as well as inside the church.

Wow what a busy week we’ve had in Y3P! Everyone’s been working really hard so it’s been very difficult to choose a Role Model....however, huge congrats to two such focused, helpful, polite young men who are a dream to have in the class. And then to our Merit Award winner our Maths problem solving Einstein...fabulous focus and concentration! Well done to all three of you for being a pleasure to have in the class!!

The Elf Chronicles: Monday: Our Elf has the name Elfred and has told the class that he’s watching them. Tuesday: Elfred had a few worries on his mind! Wednesday: Having fun in the Christmas tree, it took a while before the children spotted him. Thursday: Elfred decided it would be fun to wrap Ziggy up in loo roll and hide him in the tent! Friday: Mischievous Elfred thought it would be fun to draw on our Role Model and Merit Award Winners even changing their awards and tried unsuccessfully to blame The Worry Monster!

After a long battle....here are the winners of our Friday Boogie session!

Yellow (Perpendicular) working with the Maths Wall.

Our Maths Working Wall has changed from Fractions to Multiplication and Division. The children are finding it very useful / beneficial to be able to use the wall and share their learning and thoughts, they’re beginning to realise how much they know and are able to learn from one another. They’ve taken it in turns to go up and have a go at some of the many challenges and problems with some very interesting discussions taking place.

Our Maths Working Wall.

Our completed cards, don't they look fabulous!

Making our Christmas cards.

DT - our beautiful elephants and sewing are coming along nicely.

Practising for our carol concert.

Learning ‘How to Code’ in Computing.

Having fun at coding.

English: writing a Christmas acrostic poem focusing on great descriptive vocabulary and hand-writing.

In Science the children observed how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others by designing and making a magnetic game. Next week they will evaluate them and explain what they’ve learnt.

One of many of the fabulous games: If you look at the last photo on the previous posting you can see exactly the aim of the game. What a fabulous idea and also a great way to learn your tables. Definitely a DT (cross-curricular - Science and DT) idea that could be developed: perhaps we have a future educational games designer in our class?

Well done to our super Role Model for always trying his hardest and being the best person he can be. To our Star Writer for her fabulous instructions on how to make her favourite sandwich which included not only an introduction, ingredients and equipment, step by step points and a tick box, but also had a web address for further ideas – Wow!! And finally to our wonderful ‘Hand-writer’ of the week who also has the most amazing work ethic!

Our fantastic super spinning, head banging groovers!

The whole of Y3 was in for a huge shock during their class assembly this morning as someone / something had been caught on video flying over the school and had dropped off a surprise for each class along with a letter direct from The North Pole.

Congratulations to our super 'Star-Writer'!

Maths Working Wall: the children are really benefiting from and enjoying using the wall. It's great for group work and discussion as well as helping them with their problem solving!

Our fabulous Firework display.

Art - learning how to use a paint brush and mix water-colour paints for our next art project.

In our Science topic this week the children learnt about the magnetic poles. The aim was to describe magnets as having two poles and to predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing by making a compass and follow the clues to hunt for hidden treasure.

Hunting for the treasure!

Discovering that a compass always points north-south.

Recapping the compass points before following a set of directions to discover where the treasure's hidden.

RE: Our Year 3 'Thankfulness' display.

Our Role Model of the week has been chosen for always being the best person she can be, trying her hardest and for consistently outstanding behaviour in attitude and manners not only in the last week but the whole of Year 3 so far. Our Merit Awards go to a fabulous improvement in problem solving, which is by no means an easy task! And to our Star Writer for his amazing ‘Recipe for Christmas’ which was not only beautifully written, full of wonderful vocabulary and instructional features but he also impressed his old teacher when she came into class earlier in the week. Well done to all three of you!

Our Boogie Friday winners!

Thank goodness for Fridays!

Our amazing firework pictures.

And the winner of the Bowdon Spotty Bake Off for the whole of Y3 is:

Wow, what a fabulous cake, we cut it open to discover a treasure trove of surprise sweets and even the sponge was spotty!!

French: naming the parts of the body.

French: here they are once they were a little more confident!

On Thursday the children visited the Hindu Gita Bhavan Temple in Manchester and were treated to a wonderful morning which consolidated all the learning that had been taught this term so far. Their manners and behaviour were impeccable!

Our fabulous 'Star Writers':

In English following the theme of instruction writing the children wrote ‘A Recipe for Christmas’ having followed a model. Here is some of their amazing work:

In RE this week the children have been learning about God and what he means to them. They looked at various pictures and symbols, matched bible quotations to pictures and then designed their own images using symbols and colour and had to describe what their meanings were.

Super shape drawing and angle work!

Maths: here they are giving out directions.

Art - looking at Mhendi patterns.

Our beautiful Mehndi hands.

Maths: 2D shapes - prel-learning: the children looked at pictures and identified shapes as well as singing along to a catchy tune.

In Science this week the children set up an investigation to observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others by testing the strength of different magnets. The children are beginning to ask questions and use appropriate scientific language which is wonderful to see!

Double Role Model and Merits this week! Well done to our wonderful Role Models for their superb attitudes and manners both in and out of the classroom and for being wonderful friends to others in the class. Our Merit Awards go to our new member of the class for settling in so well, being awarded ‘Star Writer’ for her Instructions on ‘How to Assemble the Iron Man’ as well as ‘Hand Writer’ of the week. The other Merits were awarded for focus, perseverance and participation in class and for trying their hardest in their work. Well done to all 6 of you!!

Boogie Friday Movers and Groovers!

Our Star Writers!

Here’s our fabulous Math’s working Wall. Each week the children will have the opportunity to think, pair, share, order, work out and problem solve to help them with the Maths focus of the week. This week it’s fractions and the children have certainly found The Wall helpful.

Using the Maths Working Wall as a tool:

Children In Need Day

RE: God. The children used words to describe what God means to them.

English: the children watched an adventure with Moz and then created their very own monster adventure focusing on various table targets.

The children certainly enjoyed writing about their Monster Adventures.

Fraction Song

The Bebras Challenge – 40 mins of complete focus!

Our UV experiment: the effect of UV light on coloured paper, designs inspired by the artist Matisse.

In Science the children compared and grouped materials according to whether they were magnetic or not.

The fun way to learn about the numerator and the denominator.

The children created their very own fraction kits which proved to be a great way to get them exploring equivalent fractions and acquiring a deeper, more conceptual understanding of the topic they were going to do in the week ahead.

A great way to learn the parts of a whole.

Pre-learning: Fractions

Don't we all look wonderful in our First World War outfits standing outside by our Y3 'Poppy' board!

World War 1 Centenary day.

'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke - 1887-1915

The children learnt the poem by Rupert Brooke as homework and practised it in class, before all coming together in one class to recite it.

Here they are completing the poem.

Boogie Friday Dancers

A starter for our creative writing

Here the children are, miming whilst Mrs Pope reads an excerpt from chapter one as the Iron Man teeters on the edge of the cliff: this was used as a warm up before the children wrote a set of instructions on how to assemble the Iron Man.

In English this week the children have been looking at Instructions and to help them remember which kinds of verbs to use they’ve been singing along to an Imperative Verb song.

DT: Our elephants are coming along nicely!

Celebrating Diwali: Praying and Aarti.

Making our Diwali lamps

Time out for reflection before lunch on Diwali Day.

Practising for the Bebras Challenge next week - total concentration and focus!

Counting in seconds.

In Maths this week the children have been very busy learning how to tell the time. Here they are using our class clocks and problem solving.

Here the children are trying to estimate how long an actual minute is!

Art: Mehndi hands. The children learnt all about Mehndi; when it is used, how it is applied and the designs which are traditionally used before designing their own.

In Science this week the children compared how things move on different surfaces by investigating the speed of a toy car over different surfaces.

Well done to our fabulous Role Model for really coming out of her shell and shining in all subjects this week with a huge smile on her face! Definitely being the best person, she can be; keep up the hard work as it’s really starting to pay off. Our Merit Award Winners have stood out for their amazing firework poetry, full of exciting and ambitious vocabulary (beautifully illustrated) & for huge perseverance in Maths especially in their times tables.

Half term Holiday Homework: fabulous examples of amazing projects which were a delight to read, full of interesting facts and beautifully presented!

The Friday Boogie Groovers are:

Our amazing Star-Writers of the week: superb descriptive firework poems. Great descriptive language, alliteration and similes both on the carpet and in their work!

Writing out their poems in their best handwriting thinking very carefully about presentation!

Firework Poems: Onomatopoeia

To inspire the writing of their Firework poems the children acted out onomatopoeia words with great enthusiasm during a ‘Prezi’ presentation.

Class Assembly - The First World War Centenary - reflection and prayer time.

Fabulous Firework Art

Firework Art in chalk.

Whole school poppy painting.

A warm up to a Firework song.

Using interesting words and sentences to describe fireworks using all the senses.

The children watched a video of fireworks and wrote words on their white boards to describe what they were seeing and hearing:

Fireworks: Descriptive words.

Our new Science topic: Forces and Magnets. The children acted out pushing and pulling forces on their Science tables: SUNSTONES

EMERALDS

SAPHIRES

AMETHYSTS

RUBIES

Science - new topic: Magnets & Forces

Having done a preliminary assessment of what the children know and then discussed what they'd like to find out about their new topic the children had fun acting out pushing and pulling forces.

Starting off the week with a 4 x tables workout.

Our first half term has whizzed by! Well done to 3P for settling so well and for having made lots of new friends. This week our Role Model goes to someone who’s shown tremendous perseverance in his learning and always has such a huge smile on his face. His manners and behaviour are superb, and he shows great maturity in carrying out jobs in and out of the classroom. A Merit Award goes to our amazing ‘Problem Solver’ of the week: great articulation in his reasoning, which at the beginning of term he was really struggling with. Well done to our ‘Super Scientist’ of the term: a fantastic set of scores in our end of unit tests. And finally, to our Merit Award winner for their fabulous descriptive writing of a room of wonders in a palace. Superb use of adjectives and similes which created a real mood and setting. Our theme in awards this week goes to perseverance and a great ‘If I can’t do it straight away, but eventually I will’ attitude.

Our 'Boogie Friday' King and Queen!

Super adjectives! A SPAG warm up!!

Guided Reading: The Iron Man. Having been studying adjectives, the children used a Thesaurus to come up with as many powerful adjectives as they could to describe the Iron Giant which they put on our English working wall.

RE: Hinduism: this week the children compared a Hindu Place of Worship to a Christian Church of Worship, which was linked to their Geography Local Study topic. They looked at similarities and differences between our local church St Mary’s with the Gita Bhavan Hindu temple in Manchester and used sticky notes with their thoughts which they then placed on the board.

After focusing in on making the right choices in circle time the children did a fun work out to refocus on their RE.

Geography: to consolidate the learning of the topic The Local Area the children made a leaflet describing what physical and environmental features there are in Bowdon.

Congratulation to our Star Writer of the week for their fabulous descriptive writing of a room in Buckingham Palace. Great use of amazing adjectives to convey a sense of how luxurious, palatial and huge the room is.

Some of the completed poppy pictures. Medium used: paint, oil pastels and a light water-based wash.

On Tuesday the children had a very busy afternoon, painting poppies and completing their Indian architecture pictures as well as learning how to stay SMART safe whilst using the internet.

Our Role Model of the week goes to a very hard-working young lady, who is always focused and has a great attitude to school life; she has been a fantastic helper this week too! And to our Merit Award winner for being a Times Table Queen, she can complete her 140 questions not in 10 minutes but in an amazing 6 mins! Wow!! She also has a beautiful smile! Finally, well done to our Merit Award Winner for showing such great leadership skills in helping the class walk up to church so sensibly and for being our ‘Star Writer’ of the week: fabulous descriptive writing with the choice of some wonderful adjectives to convey mood and feeling.

What fantastic Boogie Friday winners!

In Science the children investigated how muscles work.

Our fantastic Star Writer who applied all the features she’d learnt into three different descriptive settings in 10 minute bursts.

Leaning how to count to 10 in French.

Harvest festival: what amazing mature behaviour and fabulous singing from Year 3!

In Maths this week the children have been looking at statistics and analysing data in pictograms. To consolidate their learning, they had to make a tally chart and illustrate their findings with pictures using a key of 1 car to represent 2 cars of the same colour.

They had to concentrate and look very closely as some of the cars moved across the screen quite quickly!

English: Settings. The children were given a variety of different pictures and had 10 minutes per image to write a short descriptive setting using VCOP to convey mood and feeling.

To help them concentrate they listened to music by Enya.

Our Autumn poems on display around our class screen.

Show and Tell: sharing family experiences from the First World War with the class.

The Times Tables Challenge: 140 questions in 10 minutes! The answers read out by our times table’s superstar.

Art – Architecture; designing Indian palaces, having researched Indian culture and buildings on the internet.

Our fabulous portraits are now on display!

3P’s School Council representatives.

Well done to our super Role Model for always being the best person she can be and for showing such empathy and kindness to others in the class – you are a true friend to all! And to our other Role Model for not only being our Star Writer for his superb recount of the story of Rama and Sita, but for his fabulous manners and behaviour in and around school. And finally, to our Merit Award winner for his great growth mindset ‘I will be able to do this’. Fabulous attitude and determination shown this week. Keep up the hard work!

Congratulations to this week's Boogie Friday winners!

English: Narrative writing – the children have been looking at the features that writers use to engage a reader. Having looked at different texts the children were given a picture which they had to describe using the features they’d learnt this week and apply them to their writing. As part of their LO they had to use 2AD sentences.

To help them concentrate they worked to music, which certainly helped as the standard of their writing was fabulous!

In Maths we’ve been looking at Verbal Reasoning of Mathematical problem solving. The children have been busy learning all about units of measure this week and can now identify and are able to show what 1mm, 1 cm and 1 m looks like; which and when each unit of measure should be used and being able to give a reason for their choice.

Our class read is the Iron Giant which the children took turns in reading out to the class this week, they loved being able to sit on Mrs Pope’s swivel chair!

Well done to our Fabulous Star Writer for his amazing recount of the story of Rama and Sita!

Measurement: once the children had become familiar with the basic measurement terms the children had to estimate and then measure various items around the class.

In Computing the children consolidated their learning of Word, using our school prayer and learnt how to insert a picture. Then as a class started to learn how a search engine works and what to look out for - before doing a search on Indian Architecture ready for our next Art project.

In Science the children warmed up by recapping the scientific names of the human skeleton before moving on to look at the functions of the body. They then learnt which parts of the skeleton protect the body, which parts support the body and help it move and how different parts of the skeleton work: identifying the different types of joints.

Our Role Model of the week has made an incredible start to Year 3, always focused and constantly helpful. She possesses all the qualities a Role Model should have. Well done to our two Merit Award winners for an amazing attitude as well as super attainments in their assessments and finally to a very well deserved Merit for being incredibly helpful and thoughtful, such wonderful qualities. Well done to all four winners!

And our fabulous ‘Boogie Friday’ dancers are:

Boogie Friday!

Saying ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ to one another in French.

Singing along to our French Song.

In art the children sketched themselves for ten minutes, looking at class pictures that had been taken. They were then taught how to divide the face looking at proportion and had another go in pencil and then coloured them in oil pastels. The whole class did an amazing job and were delighted with the results.

Here are the finished portraits!

We played a game of guess who with the portraits!

After a long assessment week and a treat the children had fun singing along to: ‘The Baby Shark’ song.

Geography: in our Local Study topic the children have been learning how to map read, looking at the amenities and planning a route from A to B. They had to choose two routes and then decide which was the quickest and why?

Mrs Hudson took all Year 3 down to visit Isaac’s Garden. She explained to them how and why it is such a special place. The children now know that they can go there to pray, show their respect, reflect, sit quietly or even take a book to read.

In Science the children had to construct a human skeleton and then label it identifying and naming the main bones.

To consolidate their learning and to complete the lesson the children enjoyed singing along to ‘The Funny Bone Song’.

Well done to our fabulous Role Model who has consistently shown what a superb attitude she has to both her learning and her behaviour both in and out of the classroom. To our Merit Award winner for showing true perseverance and determination during swimming and for showing the utmost respect and listening intently for the whole duration of their lesson. And to our other Winner for her fabulous attitude and focus, always listening and for writing the most amazing Autumn Shape Poem – she is also our Hand-writer of the week!

Here are our Boogie Friday Dance winners.

Dancing to 'The Greatest Show', from The Greatest Showman.

'A Million Dreams'.

The children were all beautifully behaved both on the coach and during their swimming lesson. What great ambassadors for BCS!

Congratulations to our Star Writers of the week. Beautifully written Class Rules and Autumn Shape Poems!

Handwriting practice!

Look at some of our fabulous Autumn Shape Poems! We’re all really proud of our work!

This week in Maths the children have been doing multiplication and division. To consolidate their learning the children divided themselves up into three Groups: A, B & C, they had to work together to solve the questions. Well done to Team A for working and conferring with one another so well. They, therefore managed to answer the most questions correctly!

Computing: Having written and typed up our Class Rules we’ve applied everything we’ve learn about Word to make them as colourful and as interesting as possible!

After concentrating so hard; having been tested on the whole of the Year 3 & 4 statutory words (which can be found under ‘Resources’ on our Class Page), the children had a quick run around the playground to get rid of some of their excess energy and be ready for the next lesson!

Having a break from working so hard! What great exercise!

In English we’ve been writing Autumn shape poems using all the features we learned so far, including similes, alliteration and some adventurous adjectives!

In RE we went down to the front of the school to look at our beautiful stained-glass window and read the quote underneath: Jesus said: ‘I have come that you might have life and have it in abundance’. We spent time discussing and reflecting what this means. We then learnt what our School Mission Statement is, which we discussed: Pursuing excellence together, secure in the love of God. We thought about it and discussed what it means to us. As a class we decided that each of us will try to be the best person we can be knowing that God loves each and every one of us.

Science: Animals and Humans. This week we’ve been looking at types of skeletons and sorting them into their different classifications.

Wow, we’ve had a very busy week and everyone has settled in very well and quickly, which made it very difficult to choose a Role Model and the Merit Award winners. Huge congratulations go to our wonderful Role Model for her superb focus and attitude to learning: great listening skills and gorgeous manners. In Computing we started to write our Class Rules using Word and she went home that night and typed up them up using all the things she’d learnt! To our Merit Award winner for his superb mathematical reasoning skills, which is not easy to master but his explanations and thinking were most impressive! Finally, to our other Merit Award winner for her amazing Growth mindset of ‘I can do it’. She has consistently been focused and tried her hardest, listening intently which has already had an impact on her Maths work. What a fabulous attitude!

Boogie Friday Fun!

Boogie Friday Winners!

BOOGIE FRIDAY

As our reward for working extremely hard this week, we all had fun dancing to The Role Model's choice of song.

French - The Meet & Greet song!

French: The children have been learning how to greet one another.

SWIMMING!

As a starter in Geography this week we consolidated last week’s lesson by using the eight compass points to describe the location of cities within the UK. We then went on to use Atlases and maps to locate various rivers and seas.

In Design and Technology, some of our parents came to help with our DT project. For the majority of us it was the first time we’d ever used a needle and thread.

In English we've been looking at Shape Poems and on Tuesday we made our own Calligrams: we even acted the words out to help us design them!

A huge congratulations to our 1st fabulous Role Model of the Year who, within the first week has shown she has all the qualities a Role Model should possess. Amazing manners, a great attitude and outstanding behaviour!