What do you get if you add together Year 3, watery black paint, a straw, thick pink paint and a cotton bud?
The answer is quite simple – beautiful, individual cherry blossom trees 🙂
These are to be found on the front of the Mother’s Day cards that came home last week and also in the classroom.
Everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
The children then played the letters game. The groups of children each had a letter which they had to replicate using each member of the group. The letters spelt out family.
For Open my mind, a PowerPoint slide was shown of a family conflict. The children were asked to explain what they saw in the picture. It was explained that conflict in families is normal but everyone had the right to feel safe in their family.
On Tuesday 6th March Year 3 have received their postponed visit from the RNLI.
The RNLI stands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. It’s the charity that saves lives at sea.It was founded in 1824 and it’s saved 139,000 lives since then.The RNLI provides, on call, a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service – it has a fleet of more than 330 lifeboats plus a few hovercraft.
Lifeboats
Lifeguards
Year 3 continued to develop their understanding of water safety, this time at the beach.
These are some of the flags you may see at the beach, they all carry an important meaning to keep you safe.
Have a look at this image. Can you spot all of the dangers? Ask Year 3 if you are not sure.
For World Book Day this year Year 3 braved the snow and icy weather to travel by train to Waterstones the book shop in Birmingham City Centre.
Our day started with a brisk walk to Aston train station where the first train that arrived was very full but we decided to climb aboard. We found out that other passengers had been waiting over an hour for the train so we were very glad that we got on when we did.
The children’s department in Waterstones is on the top floor of the building so after many, many stairs we made it! We were greeted by ‘Mrs Weasley’ (all of the staff were dressed up as their favourite characters) who then shared a story with us – The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl. A firm favourite with Year 3.
After splitting into 3 groups, everybody had the opportunity to browse and have a quick read of some of the books, to colour World Book Day pictures and most importantly choose and purchase a book.
Every year, there are specially published books which can be exchanged for a World Book Day token and everyone in Year 3 came home with their choice of book that they can keep.
As you can see Year 3 are delighted with their choices.
A huge thank you to ‘Mrs Weasley’ and the other staff at Waterstones who made our visit so much fun, we hope to see you again for World Book Day 2019 🙂
Everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
The children then listed the good/positive about things that are the same and what is good/positive about the things that are different. The children were encouraged to see difference as something to celebrate.
For Open my mind, pictures of the royal family are placed on the white board and then we asked who are they? How are they connected? Then we looked at photos of other families which showed single parents, mixed race, etc to show how families are all different.
Everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
The children then listed the good/positive about things that are the same and what is good/positive about the things that are different. The children were encouraged to see difference as something to celebrate.
For Open my mind, pictures of the royal family are placed on the white board and then we asked who are they? How are they connected? Then we looked at photos of other families which showed single parents, mixed race, etc to show how families are all different.
This has been the final week of the Theseus and the Minotaur unit where Y3 have been planning and writing their own Defeating the Monster tales.
It all started with a simple story map to draw and then retell their own stories based around a ‘Defeating the Monster’ story.
Then came the BIG writing… both Zainab and Aisha have truly astounded Miss Groom with the quality of their story writing!
Zainab has followed her plan and the story arc to the letter and manged to complete her story AND go back and start to make changes and improvements with her purple polishing pen.
Aisha has included lots of accurate dialogue between her main character Theseus and his father, King Aegeus. She has also spent time using her purple polishing pen to make changes to punctuation and also to improve her vocabulary by using synonyms for said.
Yesterday in our PHSE lesson everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
Then we shared the lyrics of the Jigsaw song ‘Choices’ with the children. All them to think about what sort of choices they may need to make while they are
Finally the children their idea of a dream school and a nightmare school. The children then considered where our school fits….. Is it the nightmare school or the dream school?
As part of Child Safety Week, the children learnt all about ‘Pantosaurus’ and the NSPCC campaign. Classes from Reception to Year 6 enjoyed singing along and learning how to stay safe. Links for more information regarding the campaign, ‘Lets Talk PANTS’ can be found on the school newsletter or on the NSPCC website.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
