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Year 3 Thursday 28th March 2024

Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 8:13am

Welcome to your Year 3 blog!

 

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This week we continued reading our novel Toro, Toro, written by Michael Morpurgo. We wrote some brilliant recounts of the bullfight and tried to use emotional vocabulary to describe how Anonito was feeling. We also read Ferdinand the Bull, a classic story from Spain about a reluctant bull. We watched the film and talked about the similarities and differences in the stories.

In Maths we learnt how to find and measure right angles in 2D shapes. It was tricky in parts, but we remembered our statistics learning from Autumn really well.

We have had lovely week remembering Holy Week in school. We had a visit from Father Michael and had a beautiful celebration in church on Thursday. Year 6 led a very thoughtful Easter liturgy and Year 3 joined in brilliantly with their singing.

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Check our our galleries showing some of the brilliant learning we have been doing this week.

 

On Thursday we finished out fabric and thread pieces. The children have shown great skill and resilience in completing these and they look amazing!. 

In French, we finished our colours learning. Everyone has joined in brilliantly in our french lessons this term. Miss Whiting has been very impressed! 

We have had a lovely half term and seen lots of progress in all areas of our curriculum.

We are looking forward to seeing you all next term!

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Have a lovely Easter break and keep reading!

 

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Year 3 Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 7:58am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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Home Practice

Continue with all your brilliant home reading. Everyone has made excellent progress with their reading this year and this is down to reading regularly at home. Keep it up!

Please count in 8's from 0 to 96 and back again.

For example 0  8  16 etc                 96   88   80   etc

Your Sumdog challenges are on all your times tables, addition and subtraction and your home spellings. This week we have been remembering to use syllables to spell independently in our writing.

Here are your spellings for this week. They are all compund words.

 

sunshine     goldfish      anymore    raindrop     myself     skateboard

seaside    gentleman     earring     jigsaw     overflow     eyeball

 

This week in Year 3

We have had a fab week in Year 3!

In English we read Toro Toro and learnt how to write newspaper reports. Everyone worked hard on their sentence structures this week. Well Done Year 3!

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In maths we revisited the formal written methods for addition and subtraction. We have set a challenge for you to practise these. We also used estimating to check our answers. Super maths this week!

On Wednesday, in our art lesson, we created the background for our final piece. Check out our gallery. We have made some beautiful landscapes.

Pathway: Cloth, Thread, Paint

We also finished our dance topic this week. We really enjoyed learning our routines and using gesture, stillness and travelling to create our own performances.

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In computing this week we explored branching databases. We used seesaw to create some simple databases and tried them out on each other. 

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Have a great weekend

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Year 3 Friday Blog 15th March 2024

Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 7:52am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a very active week this week with Freddie Fit, Dance and Netball with Mrs Cookson

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Home Practice

Continue to read every night and remember to change your books with Mrs Lancaster and Mrs Woof! We have loads of great books to read!

We have set 2 maths challenges on Sumdog, fractions and times tables. A little practice every night does the trick!

Please also practise your counting in 10's. Start at 0 and count in 10's up to 210 and back again. For example, 0  10  20 and so on. Then count back 210   200   190  until you get back to 0.

Your spellings this week are based on the different /aw/ sounds.

squawk      scrawny     spawn      drawn      audition     applaud     auction     applause     audience     saucepan     overhaul    astronaut

This week in Year 3

This week we have started our new novel, Toro Toro by Michael Morpurgo. We have been spotting similarities in the story and The Butterfly Lion and writing descriptive pieces about Antonio's farm and the cork forest. Some brilliant pieces and a real improvement on spelling this week! Keep it up Year 3!

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In maths we have been learning about volume and capacity and how to add 2 three digit measurements using the formal written method. Super learning this week!

In art we explored lanscapes in preparation for our final piece using fabric, paint and thread. Mrs Robinson was blown away by our work. Check out our gallery.

Pretty charming Painting by Zelie Alice | Saatchi Art

In geography we learned all about the United States and where it gets it's name. We used atlases and digital globes to locate some states on our maps. 

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On Friday, Year 1 came to read their Wild Things stories to us. Year 3 gave great feedback to the children. Great job year 1!

We have had a lovely couple of weeks with Yuri, one of our Japenese students. She made us some matcha tea and taught us a song called Totoro. Thank you Yuri for visiting us!

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Have a lovely weekend and a Happy St Patrick's Day

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Year 3 Friday blog 8th March 2024

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 8:09am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

 

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This week we have enjoyed World Book Day, Dance and Yoga. We also added to our brilliant Nature Journals!

Home Practice

Continue with your regular reading. At least 15 minutes every night.

Your Sumdog maths challenges are on the 4 and 8 times table and multiplication and division. Please complete both. Remember your 8 times table is double your 4 times table!   3x4=12 so 3x8 = 24

Practise counting forward and back in 8's or sing our 8's song.

Hit the Button is also a great way to improve fluency.

Your Home Spellings this week all begin with C or K. Look carefully to remember which words begin with C and which begin with K.

 

cabin   cob    cub    canter    coffee    client    course

kiln    kiwi     kerb    kelp     kiosk

 

This week in Year 3

We have had a brilliant week in Year 3! In English, we wrote police reports, retelling exciting parts of our novel from different perspectives and thinking about how the characters felt at different times in the story. We have seen a huge improvement in our presentation and spelling this week!

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In maths, we learnt how to divide using repeated subtraction. We also explored how we can use a vertical number line to find groups and remainders.

Division for Kids: Short Division & Long Division Explained

In science this week, we took the opportunity to spot signs of Spring with the improved weather. We added to our nature journals and created scientific sketches.

Oxbow At Home Nature Journal - Columbus State University

We have been very lucky this term to have visitors from South Ribble to help us with our dance learning and mindfulness though yoga. We have been brilliant and can't wait to show you our dance!

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We have loved having our Japanese visitors this week. We have been learning a new song and dance. We will also learn a little about Japanese culture next week.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy Mother's Day on Sunday

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Year 3 Friday Blog 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 8:10am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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What a busy week full of dance, DT, art, disco and even a triathlon!

Home Practice

Continue with the great reading at home. See the guide added last week for top tips on home reading.

We have set a fractions and x8 challenge on Sumdog this week.

Your spellings all have the wh spelling pattern, see below. 

 

wheels    everywhere    wheelchair    whirlwind    meanwhile    whack    whistled    somewhere    whispered    whenever

 

This week in Year 3

In English this week we have been learning how to use persuasive language in our writing. Year 5 came and read their persuasive pieces to us on Monday and we wrote our own persuasive pieces about visiting South Africa. We then reorded our writing onto Apple Clips to make an advert. Super work Year 3!

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In Maths, we learnt how to calculate fractions of shapes and numbers this week. We used our times tables and division facts to help us.

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In art this week we explored mark making by different artists. Have a look in our galleries.

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In Science this week we investigated reflections and how light sources and reflective objects differ. We had some great discussions and debates about how light works.

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We also had lots of visitors this week. On Friday, TriKids come to school and set up a triathlon for us to complete. Everyone gave it their all and supported each other brilliantly. On Thursday, we had a dance session, learning new dance skills and moves to Dance the Night by Dua Lipa! Check out our gallery!

Have a great weekend

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Year 3 Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 8:02am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a lovely time in Year 3 this week starting lots of new topics and making our Lenten promises.

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Home Practice

It has been lovely catching up with you all on parents evening and hearing about all the great reading at home. Keep it up. We've added some top tips below to help you support your child at home.

We have set 3 challenges on Sumdog for you to complete. You can also access the training to improve number and spelling fluency.

Your spellings this week come from the statuatory spelling list for year 3. 

actually   strange    forward     promise     possess     favourite      women     minute     straight    special     breathe     guard

 

This week in Year 3

 

We are loving our new novel Journey to Jo'burg! We have been looking carefully at our presentation this week as well as using vocabulary to up level our writing.  Have a look in our galleries for some of your writing. We will be sharing more in the coming weeks.

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In maths we have learnt how to use the compensation strategy to multiply by 19. We also solved word problems using the grid method. Super maths this week Year 3!

In Art we started our new topic of Cloth, Thread and Paint by exploring the work of the artist Alice Kettle. We watched her create some pieces and sketchbooked some ideas of our own. Check out our gallery! We have also added a gallery showing our clay models. Click the picture to learn more about Alice Kettle and her fabulous artwork!

In Science we started a new topic about Light. We sorted light sources and discussed what we already knew about the topic. Check out our posters below to see what we will be covering in this topic.

 

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Have a great weekend

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Year 3 Thursday 8th February 2024

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 4:35pm

Welcome to your final blog of this half term

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We have had a brilliant 5 weeks.

Please continue to read every night over half term. The Sumdog training features and all games will still be open over the holidays.

This week we started our new novel, Journey to Jo'burg by Beverly Naidoo. We met the main characters and learnt a little about South Africa in the process.

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In maths this week we learnt to tell the time to 5 minutes. We will revisit this after half term.

If your child can't accurately tell time to 5 minutes, there is a great app on the AppStore called 'What's the time Mr Wolf' that they can use to practise time.

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We finished our story telling art topic this week by painting our clay models - these models showed scenes from our favourite Roald Dahl books. They look great!

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We also completed our history topic about The Stone Age to the Iron Age. We thoroughly enjoyed this topic and learnt lots about Stone Age Britain. We will test our knowledge with a Kahoot Quiz next Monday! Next half term we will begin our geography topic about North America.

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Have a brilliant half term with your families and we will see you all soon

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Year 3 Friday Blog 2nd February 2024

Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 8:13am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

 

Home Practice

Continue with all your brilliant home reading. Everyone has made excellent progress in their reading this year and this is down to your regular reading at home. Keep it up!

Your Sumdog challenges are on x8, shape and your home spellings. This week we have been learning about homophones and how to remember them in context.

Here are your spellings for this week.

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This week in Year 3

This week we finished our novel 'The Butterfly Lion' by Michael Morpurgo. Next half term we have organised a live lesson with Michael Morpurgo who will talk about The Butterfly Lion and how he finds inspiration for his novels. We can't wait!!

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In maths we learnt some new strategies to multiply. We also learnt how to use our x10 method to multiply 2digit numbers by 3,4,5,and 8. Super work Year 3!

On Tuesday we had a yoga session with Amy who showed us some great poses and how to breathe for relaxation.

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We also retold some Roald Dahl scenes through the medium of clay in our art lesson.   Check out our gallery.

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This Friday we were introduced to Keynote to create some presentations on the Stone Age. We have used Adobe express and Seesaw so far in this topic and now will use our skills to create a presentation in Keynote. 

Have a fantastic weekend

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Year 3 Friday Blog 26th January 2024

Date: 26th Jan 2024 @ 3:32pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Continue to read every night and remember to change your books with Mrs Lancaster and Mrs Woof! We have loads of great books to read!

We have set 2 maths challenges on Sumdog. Addition and Subtraction and the 8 times table. A little practice every night does the trick!

Your Spellings this week are based on the double the consonant rule when adding suffixes.

begged   swimming    wrapping    snapped      splitting     grabbing      sitting

shopping    dripped    topped    skipped    skipping

Reminders

Online Safety

We have noticed that some children are using WhatsApp and other messaging services that are not age appropriate. WhatsApp has a 16+ rating and was designed for adults. Primary aged children have not developed the emotional maturity to use these messaging platforms, and we have found having round the clock access to their friendship groups is placing an undue pressure onto their wellbeing. 
 
Here is some guidance from the NSPCC and our WhatsApp guide for your information.      Is WhatsApp safe for my child?
 
This week in Year 3
 
In English this week we learnt how to start our sentences in different ways. We also wrote an exciting recount of Bertie Andrews' brave rescue on the front lines in WW1.
 
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In Maths we learnt to double 2 and 3 digit numbers and then used doubling to help work out our times tables. Well done Year 3!
 
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In art this week we started to plan our clay model story telling. We looked at characters from Roald Dahl stories and explored different scenes we'd like to recreate.
 
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In computing this week we added content to create media. Have a look in our gallery. Unfortunately the website has stretched our GIFs to fit, but they all look fab!
 
In Science we further explored magnetism and discovered how different materials react beside a magnet. Have a look in our gallery.
 
 
 
Have a fantastic weekend
 
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Year 3 Friday Blog 19th January 2024

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 12:45pm

Year 3 – Burghfield St Mary's Church of England Primary School

We have had a great week in Year 3!

Home Practice

Continue with your regular reading. At least 15 minutes every night.

Your Sumdog maths challenges are on the 8 times table and Addition and Subtraction. Please complete both.

Practise counting forward and back in 8's or sing our 8's song.

Hit the Button is also a great way to improve fluency.

You spellings this week all have the ou letter pattern making the /u/ sound.

young   touch   double    trouble    couple     country   cousin    courage    encourage     flourish     nourish    southern

This week in Year 3

In our English learning this week we have been using descriptive vocabulary in our writing to describe the characters and settings from The Butterfly Lion. Everyone has improved their presentation this week, looking carefully at their handwriting! Well done Year 3!

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In maths this week we have been revisiting our addition and Subtraction strategies and working on a number line. Everyone has worked hard on their explanations this week and used what they know to work out their problems. Number bonds to 10 have proved very useful!

In our History this week we learned all about how the Neolithic people began to mine for metal ores and created bronze. We explored the cause and consequence of this and how the discovery of bronze improved their lives.

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In Art this week in our Telling Stories through Drawing and Making topic  we learned some new sketchings skills from Quentin Blake. We drew some one line and straight line sketches and explored exaggeration to convey a message. Check out our gallery.

In RE we have been exploring the liturgical year. This week we learned all about Ordinary time in the Church calendar and what we celebrate during this time. We learned a little bit about St Oswald and how his feast day is on the 5th of August.

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In Science we started our new topic on Forces and Magnets. Have a look at our fact sheet below to see what we will be learning about this term.

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Have a great weekend!

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Online Safety January 2024

Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 4:14pm

With your children returning to school, it is a great time to review Online Safety in your homes and make sure we are all up to date with developments in the online world. At St Oswald's, all classes will be continuing with their Online Saftety learning where they will learn all about safe practices online in the following areas. 

Self image and identitiy

Online relationships

Online bulllying

Health, Well-being and lifestyle

Online reputation

Managing online information

Copyright and ownership

 

To access a huge range of information on the National Online Safety website click the link below and join our school online safety hub.You will get access to videos, training and guides to keep you informed of the best practices in keeping your children safe online.

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Year 3 Blog - Friday 12th January

Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 8:11am

Happy New Year and welcome to the Spring term.

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We have had a lovely first week back with a mix of new topics, tricky learning and great playtimes with our friends again!

 

Home Practice

Make sure you keep reading regularly and changing your school books. Mrs Lancaster and Mrs Woof have been very impressed with the progress in everyone's reading. Keep asking your VIPER questions to improve understanding.

For your Sumdog practice we have set 2 maths challenges. These each have 100 questions and should only take 15 - 30 minutes to complete. There is also training for times tables, counting and number fluency that your child can access at any time. We advise the children to do a little every night to build up fluency in number. The challenges are on division and the 3 and 4 times tables.

Your spellings this week are on how we use an apostrophe to contract words. Next week we will be revisiting possessive apostrophes and trying to use these in our writing accurately.

can't       it's       don't        I'm         you've         didn't          you're          we'll           couldn't            wouldn't          haven't          aren't

This week in Year 3

In English this week we have been reading Michael Morpurgo's The Butterfly Lion. We met the main character Bertie and learnt how he befriended a little lion cub. We have written some great character descriptions and recounts of the story so far.

The Butterfly Lion by Christian Birmingham – Art of the Imagination

Our maths learning has been very tricky this week as we have been introduced to new strategies to help divide by grouping. Everyone has improved their understanding with this. Just keep practising your times tables - fluency in tables will benefit you when meeting more complex learning.

 

This week we started our gymnastics topic. We recapped our travels and balances from Year 2 and learnt how we can transition from travel to balance and back again. We also discussed the word trust and worked in pairs to evaluate our routines. Have a look in our gallery.

Unforgettable Gymnastics Moments

We also started our new Art learning this week. We will be exploring storytelling through drawing and making. We met the illustrator Inbal Leitner who talked to us about how she creates her own sketchbooks. We had a go at exploring our own ideas related to our new novel, The Butterfly Lion, drawing animals, the compound and the waterhole.

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Have a lovely weekend

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Year 3 Thursday 21st December

Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:23am

Welcome to the final blog of this term

We've had a lovely last week of term in Year 3!

On Monday, we were visited by the All Hallows Roadshow in church. 

On Tuesday, we attended the Christingle service beautifully led by Year 6. 

We had a special assembly for Mr Mears on Wednesday. We all made a card to wish Mr Mears and his family the very best for their new life in Australia.

On Thursday, we had our final Golden Assembly of the term.

We also spent the last week creating some super Christmas cards and 2024 calendars, using some of our new art and DT skills. We hope you like them.

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We would like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas.

Over the holidays, remember to keep reading.

Thank you for all your kind gifts and messages. 

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We'll see you all again on Monday 8th January 2024

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Year 3 Friday 15th December 2023

Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 8:17am

Welcome to your Friday blog

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What a busy week we've had in Year 3! Santa Dash, stop motion animation, a visit from the Dogs Trust and an amazing workshop with the Rock Steady music company.

 

Home Practice

Keep reading every night with an adult or on your own. Talk about what you have read and explore new books, magazines and newspapers.

We have set two Sumdog challenges, one is practising division and the other is based on your times table target. We have seen a big improvement in fluency with times tables this week. Keep up the good work!

Your Spellings this week will have the dis prefix 

dislike     disuse     disown     disarm     dismay     disconnect     discover     disagree      disappoint     disappear     disengage     displease     disinfect     disable

 

Reminders

On Wednesday, we are having our Christmas Jumper day and our Grand Christmas post!

 

 

This week we have enjoying our Postbox mystery and used the story to write some brilliant newspaper reports. DIAMONDS STOLEN BY ALIENS!

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In maths we have learnt how to use grouping to solve division problems. We noticed that our answer was always how many groups there were.

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We also developed our own stop frame animations using toys from Reception. Have a look in our gallery.

In history we learnt how people in the Neolithic period started to farm and rear animals. We also learnt why they built stone circles - to track the seasons to help them grow their crops.

Have a lovely weekend

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Year 3 Friday 8th December 2023

Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 8:00am

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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Home Practice

This week everyone has changed their book at least once. The reading bug is alive and well in Year 3!

Continue with your regular home reading and make sure you explore new authors, there are some fantastic new books out there.

 

For your online practice, we have set 2 multiplication challenges. Everyone was given their own times tables target to practise this week (check your Sumdog challenge). Make sure you know them inside out!

Keep up with your counting practice. It will help with your times tables recall. x3,x4,x8

 

Your home spellings this week all end with -ly. We explored this spelling pattern this week and tried to use more -ly words in our writing.

completely, bravely, slowly, quickly, unusually, carefully, finally, totally, weekly, vividly, truthfully, successfully

Reminders

Next Wednesday is our final swimming lesson. Steve has been so impressed with the progress everyone has made and will treat us to a fun swim! Please don't forget your swimming kit!

Our annual Santa Dash is on Monday. Bring a Santa hat or costume. (We will have some spare)

 

In English we started our new novel, The Post Box Mystery by Robert Swindells. This is a classic mystery novel and the children are really enjoying it so far.

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In maths we have been using the grid method to solve missing number problems and word problems. We have seen an improvement in the children's times tables speed and accuracy. Well done Year 3!

 

On Thursday we were treated to a live production of the Snow Queen. The children were stunned by the show. A brilliant theatre experience!

 

In history this week we have been using evidence and our interpretation skills to find out what the people in the paleolithic and mesolithic ages ate. We also created our own cave art using collage and stencilling skills. Have a look in our gallery.

Stone Age Technology by Ahmet Çukuryurt on Dribbble

On Friday we had our very own dance festival at St Oswald's! Check out our gallery. The video should be on StOswaldsTV soon!

Have a great weekend

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Year 3 1st December 2023

Date: 1st Dec 2023 @ 4:09pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

Well done to everyone for their fantastic Advent Assembly! Everyone spoke and sang so clearly. What a lovely way to start the Advent season.

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This week we finished our Journey stories. The children worked so hard on these, making their writing look beautiful and making their sentences flow together. Year 1 and Year 6 were amazed when we visited them. We got some great tips from Year 6! Super effort by everyone. Have a look in our gallery.

In Maths we have been learning to use the grid method to multiply teen numbers. Year 3 have shown great understanding with this. It is so important that we know our times tables fluently. It really helps with applying our new strategies when we know them! Keep practising!

In history we have been learning a little more about life during the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. We explored some Mesolithic artefacts and talked about the difference between geologists and archaeologists. Have a look at your knowledge organiser below. We will be meeting all theses facts in the coming weeks.

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This week in French, we continued with learning the numbers to 20. The children remembered these very well! We recapped numbers to 10 using the Learn French Through Music song, which got faster each time. We also matched the numbers 11-20 to the correct word and listened to the Alain le Lait song to help us.

In music, we sang We will rock you, the Stone Age song, accompanying with rhythms on stones. We sang the song from last lesson, Hey Ho Nobody home, and clapped the rhythm from notation, using Ta, Ti-Ti and Ta-ah. We practised our Carols for Christmas – Starry Night and O little town of Bethlehem. We finished with a new rhythm game – Don’t tap this one back.

On Monday we investigated some new mechanisms and designed a new one using 2 loose pivots and one fixed pivots. We also learned how to use a bridge to improve our linkage.

Home Practice

Continue to read regularly and talk about what you have read.

You can access all our counting songs by clicking on the view all blogs on the class 3 page. This week we have set a x8 times table challenge and a multiplication challenge for you to practise. You will know a lot of these already. Try and remember the trickier ones!

Your home spellings this week all end in -il or -al. There isn't a specific rule for these so see what patterns you can spot. We have been very impressed with the improved spelling this term.

gerbil, devil, evil, anvil, pencil, fossil, medal, metal, coastal, material, hospital, animal

Have a fantastic weekend

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Year 3 Friday 24th November 2023

Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 3:44pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a fantastic week of learning this week in Year 3. 

In English, we have started writing our own versions of the Journey, story by Aaron Becker. We have been focusing on presentation this week as well as sentence structure. Next week we hope to take our stories to year one and year six and publish them to the website.

In maths, we will be learning new multiplication strategies, including using partitioning to help us with trickier problems. Everyone is showing great understanding with this this is down to great listening and concentration in class. Well done Year 3!

In music, we started with a new song, Hey Ho Nobody home. We looked at how the rhythm was written and clapped the rhythm from notation. We learnt to sing thethird verse of We will rock you, the Stone Age song, accompanying with rhythms on stones. We discussed the different parts of the song – verse, chorus and instrumental. We played a rhythm game – Forbidden Rhythm. We began to learn carols for Christmas – Starry Night and O little town of Bethlehem.

We have also been practising our assembly this week. We have given out everyone a line to practice over the weekend. We are looking forward to to perform on Friday.

In art, we have been completing our collages based on the story journey by Aaron Becker. Have a look at our gallery which shows some of our artwork and the pictures we have used for inspiration.

This week we also completed our RSHE and RE topics. In RSHE we looked at friendships and how we can mend broken ones. We also finished our Baptism learning. Next week we will begin our topic on Advent and Preparations.

Home Practice

Continue to read every night. We have seen amazing progress in everyone's reading this term. Well done Year 3!

All the spellings this week have the le or el spelling pattern. Remember to use all your strategies to help you spell your words independently.

apple, bottle, candle, middle, bubble, giggle, vowel, tunnel, squirrel, tinsel, travel, camel

We have set 2 Sumdog challenges this week. One will cover number facts  and the other will be to practice your multiplication strategies.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 3 Friday 17th November

Date: 17th Nov 2023 @ 11:55am

 

Happy Friday everyone!

Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are sleeping by the football pitch at PNE’s Deepdale Stadium this Friday 17th November. This is to raise money for a day centre called The Foxton Centre who provide food and warmth to the homeless people of Preston. Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter will sleep on cardboard and will only have with them what they can carry. This will give them an insight into how difficult it is for people sleeping on the streets, particularly as the nights are getting colder. We are all fortunate that we have food and somewhere warm to go to sleep every night, this is not the case for some people in Preston. Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are asking for sponsorship, any donation would go a long way to help Preston’s vulnerable homeless community.  

You can read more and donate here: 

https://www.justgiving.com/team/deepdaledreamers?utm_medium=proxy_team&utm_content=team%2Fdeepdaledreamers&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=pfp-email

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We have had a brilliant week this week! We have had a visit from Freddie Fit and been singing lots in preparation for our Advent assembly in two weeks!

In English we have been reading the Journey and Quest books by Aaron Becker. These books have no words so we have been writing the action to match the story. It has been very exciting. Next week we will be creating a comic book of the story, looking at bringing the pictures to life with our words. You can watch these stories in the videos below.

Journey: Amazon.co.uk: Becker, Aaron, Becker, Aaron: 8601418331124: Books Quest, written and illustrated by Aaron Becker

In Maths we have been learning how to use our multiplication facts to solve problems. We looked at different arrays and used these to solve tricky times tables. We have set a Sumdog challenge to practice these strategies.

In this week’s French lesson, we learned how to count up to 20! We started the lesson by reviewing how to count up to 10 and used the Learning French Through Music ‘French Numbers’ song to remind us. We then learned up to 15, and then up to 20. We put some actions to some of the new vocabulary to help remember them and listened to the Alain Le Lait ‘French numbers 1 to 20’ song to help us. After this, we practised the numbers 10-20 by saying the number shown on the screen and by counting some items to say ‘Il y a ______’ = There are ________.

We have started our new DT topic this week. We will be looking at mechanisms, pivots and levers over the next few weeks developing ideas to make a moving picture. In Art we have been exploring drawing with scissors. We looked at some of Henry Matisse's art work and started to create out own pieces. We are using the amazing pictures from our Quest story books as inspiration. Check out our galleries.

 

We finished our geography learning on mapping and the UK. The children have really enjoyed learning about the geography of our home country. Next week we are beginning our Stone age history topic. We can't wait!

Caveman | Animated gif, Animation, Cartoon drawings

We continued with music based on our upcoming History topic, The Stone Age. We learnt to sing the second verse of We will rock you, the Stone Age song, accompanying with rhythms on stones. We revised the note – Ta ah from last lesson. We finished with a new rhythm game – Forbidden Rhythm.

Home Learning

Continue to read regularly and talk about what you have read with an adult.

Complete the Sumdog challenges, this week we are practising our addition and subtraction facts and our multiplication strategies. Below you will find a song to practice counting in 8s. Have a go!

Here are your home spellings for this week

decided, taking, serving, writing, making, driving, shaking , baked, giving, tiled, stored, using

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team

 

 

 

 

Year 3 Friday 10th November 2023

Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 4:02pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had another great week in Year 3.

In English, we have written our own story based on the book Ice Palace, trying to use adjectives and similes for description and adverbs to make the story more interesting.  The children have enjoyed finishing this complete with illustrations and cover page.

Ice Palace by Robert Swindells-Planning | Teaching Resources

In Maths we have continued to work on addition and are now learning how to do subtraction using formal written methods.

Formal Written Methods

In Art we have begun a study of L S Lowry’s painting ‘Coming from the Mill’ looking at shapes, lines and colours.  We are going to use these to make a collage inspired by this painting.

Coming From The Mill, 1930 Art Print by L.S. Lowry | King & McGaw

In Geography we looked at the counties, rivers and hills in the North West of the UK and found where Preston was.

North West England Map

This week in French, we started our new topic of Numbers 0-20. We started the lesson recapping numbers 0-5 and then 0-10. We listened to KidsTV123 ‘Numbers Song in French’ to help count up to 10. We sang this faster each time! Our first activity was to find the correct number for the French words, our second activity was to count fruit, and our third activity was to say which number was missing. We also listened to Learn French Through Music ‘French Numbers Song’ which also got faster each time! To show we knew numbers 0-10, we drew the right number of fish in a fish bowl and the right number of spots on a ladybird.

 

Home Practice

On Sumdog there are spelling and maths challenges.  Your spellings for this week are:

Playtime, birthday, background, ballroom, baseball, cupcake, doorway, eardrum, evergreen, chairman, patchwork, driveway.

Don’t forget to keep up with the fantastic home reading.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 team

 

 

 

Year 3 Blog Friday 3rd November 2023

Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a great week back in Year 3 this week and the children have been very keen to continue their learning.

In English, we have been concentrating on the use of interesting vocabulary, using adjectives to add more detail to our writing and to show feeling and similes to describe landscapes.  We have used clues from the text and our imaginations to write predictions as to what we think might happen next in the story.  Now we have finished reading the book, we are looking forward to using these ideas to help write our own story.

Examples of formal written methods for addition, subtraction,  multiplication and division.

In Maths we have completed our work on bar charts and begun to look at addition and using formal written methods.

What is a Bar Chart? - Twinkl

In Science we have begun our topic on rocks and soils and in PSHE we are looking at keeping safe in the home and school; our bodies; hygiene; medicines and household products.  The children showed a good awareness recognising hazards that may cause harm or injury and what they should do to reduce risk and keep themselves (or others) safe.

Names of rocks and soils' Matching Cards | Twinkl KS2

In French, it was Halloween! We discussed whether some facts about Halloween in France were vrai o faux, we learned some vocabulary for typical Halloween things and were able to write the correct French word and English meaning for each picture in our books. We then played ‘What’s missing?’ and also had a chance to complete a French wordsearch with the Halloween vocabulary.

What Is Halloween? Origins, Meaning, and Traditions

Home Practice

On Sumdog there are spelling and maths challenges.  Your spellings for this week are:

after, father, improve, hour, eye, would, whole, many, busy, people.

Don’t forget to keep up with the fantastic home reading. Here is a reminder of the link to some Year 3 recommended reads if you want to extend your home libraries.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 team

Year 3 Thursday 19th October

Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 2:01pm

Welcome to your weekly blog.

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This week we have worked hard on our final artworks, using light and shadow to make some moody scenes. We showed these to Year 6 looked at their fantastic dog sculptures.

In English we have been enjoying the mysterious story The Ice Palace and following Ivan's journey through the ice forest. We will find out what happens in the next 2 weeks. This week we have been writing description and remembering our full sentences and careful spelling.

In our maths have been learning about bar charts and how we can use these to show information and solve problems. 

This week in our French lesson we finished our greetings conversation that we started writing in our books last week. This included saying hello, hi or good evening to someone, asking how they are, saying how they are, asking their name, saying their name, saying goodbye, see you later or nice to meet you. The children then completed a range of listening, reading and writing activities to show they have understood the vocabulary from this topic. Next half term, we will be ready to have some new sessions about numbers 1-20 (after we’ve learned about French Halloween!).

We also wrapped up our Science topic all on the human body and nutrition. We had a Kahoot! quiz and remembered lots of our learning from the past few weeks.

In our geography this week we investigated topographical maps which showed how high the land is in different areas. We explored the 3 peaks challenge and found lots of peaks from around the UK.

 

Home practice

 

Over half term continue to read regularly and access the Sumdog learning platform little and often.

Have a lovely, well earned rest and we will see you next half term.

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The Year 3 team

Year 3 Friday 13th October 2023

Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 12:47pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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We have had a great week in Year 3 this week. It was lovely chatting to you all about your children's learning at parents evening and I look forward to speaking to the reast of you next week. THe children are very excited to show off their learning.

 

This week we we have been reading deeper into the Ice Palace and learning how to add description and suspense into our writing. We have also been working hard on our presentation and sentence structure.

Robert Swindells: Ice Palace | Liszt Ferenc Zeneműbolt | Liszt Ferenc  Zeneműbolt

In Maths we have been learning about the perimeter of 2D shapes and started our topic on statistics. We have inroduced bar charts and compared these to the different charts we have met already.

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In RE we have started our new topic on Promises which will look at Baptism. The children came up with some lovely contributions about how they keep promises and why their actions are important.

We are coming to the end of our Art topic exploring charcoal. This week we used the pictures from our novel as inspiration, looking again at light and dark when creating a scene. Check out our gallery.

Home Practice

Keep up with the fantastic home reading. Here is a link to some Year 3 recommended reads if you want to extend your home libraries. You can also find our reading VIPERS in our galleries that will help you with your questioning when listening to your child read.

On Sumdog we have entered the class into the lancashire contest. This will run all week and cover a range of topics. We have also set some times tables practice on the x2, x5 and x10. With these focus on speed as well as accuracy.

Here are your home spellings for this week

 

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

Year 3 Friday 6th October 2023

Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 8:07am

Welcome to your Harvest Blog!

Harvest food Vectors & Illustrations for Free Download | Freepik

We have had a great week of new learning in Year 3 this week and had a lovely harvest celebration in church on Friday. 

In English we started our new novel, The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells. It is an enchanting tale of a boy called Ivan and an evil being called Starjik. We have looked at descrpition this week and using lots of different verbs to add feeling to our writing. 

Fantasy Ice Castle Images – Browse 4,569 Stock Photos, Vectors, and Video |  Adobe Stock

On Thursday we celebreated National poetry day looking at the poetry of Michael Rosen and his poem On The Move Again. The theme of this years celebration was Refuge. We wrote some lovely poems on welcoming refugees and listened to stories and poems on displaced people.

Pin on Pericles- TSC

In Maths we have been looking at shape and measurement, learning all about right angles, metres, centimetres and  milimetres. We also have been partitioning measurements eg. 94mm = 9cm 4mm, 152cm = 1m 52cm. We have set a challenge looking at length, weight and volume. Have a go and try your best.

In RE we finished our Homes topic and created some lovely posters on a recipe for a happy family. Have a look in our galleries.

In Science we learned all about the major food groups and what makes up a healthy diet. We looked at the Eatwell plate and talked about what makes up our favourite meals.

The Eatwell Plate - Forum Health Centre

This week in our French lesson we reviewed the greetings we have learned so far. This included bonjour, salut, bonsoir, monsieur, mademoiselle, madame, au revoir and à bientôt. We listened to the ‘comment tu t’appelles?’ song from Basho & Friends and then practised a conversation with our partners to ask and say their name. We then learned how to ask and say how we are feeling… Ça va trés bien / Ça va bien / Ça va moyen / Ça va mal.

Home Practice

We have been very impressed with all the book changing that has been happening this term. We have seen lots of progress in everyone's reading. Keep it up!

On Sumdog this week we have set 3 challenges. Do what you can with these. If you finish or find them too tricky, you can access Sumdog Training which will set questions to practice weaker skills.

Your spellings this week are on the linked air/are/ear sounds. Your spelling challenges include unknown and tricky words to encourage your children to apply strategies we have taught in school. They also include your home spellings as it is also important your children learn to memorise some words to increase their spelling fluency.

We have introduced a new song this week to help learn your 4 times tables. Have a sing along at home to practice counting in 4s.

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Year 3 Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 3:52pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We've had an amazing week in year 3 this week. We've learned lots of new things in maths, Science and Geography.

In English we have finished reading our book and written our own stories, describing how Muggle Wump outwitted the Twits. We published these and read them to Year 1. Have a look in our galleries.

In maths we have been learning to add and take away on a number line. We found this tricky, especially bridging through the next 10. We have set a number facts challenge on Sumdog to practise number facts to 20. 

In Geography we learned about the physical features of the UK and how maps differ from satellite imagery. We used Google maps and atlases to investigate some of the main physical features in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.

In Science we explored some animal skeletons and tried to identify the different bones. We also learned the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates.

Home Practice

Continue to read every night. The children are getting much better at remembering to change their books. Well done Year 3!

All the spellings this week have the 'or/aw/au/ore/oor'  sounds. Unfortunately we are unable to set a spelling challenge on Sumdog this week so please have a go at some of the other practice ideas on the card.

We have set 2 Sumdog challenges this week. One will cover number facts to 20 and the other will be to practice your times tables.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

 

Year 3 Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 12:55pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had an amazing week of learning in Year 3. Everyone is showing a brilliant attitude to everything we do and we are very impressed! We are really improving our listening skills and independent learning. Keep up the hard work!

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We have been looking at descriptive writing this week. We visited the Twit's home and garden and wrote some fantastic descriptions. Everyone has been trying to improve their handwriting and presentation, remembering to write on the lines and form our letters correctly. It makes a huge difference when our writing looks beautiful!  Amazing effort everyone!

The Twits - The House, The Tree and the Monkey Cage

In our maths learning this week we have been learning how to add and subtract 10s and 100s to three digit numbers. Next week we will be learning new strategies to add and subtract. Make sure you go on the Sumdog challenge as it is a warm up for the coming week's learning. 

In Science this week we explored the muscles in the arm and investigated how muscles can contract and relax and sometimes work in pairs.

Did you know there are over 600 muscles in the human body!

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In Art we looked at chiaroscuro, which is an Italian art form exploring light and dark. We used our charcoal to create depth and form in our pieces. Check out our gallery.

In PE we practised our throwing and catching as well as feinting passes as part of our invasion games topic. We learned lob, chest and bounce passes and discussed when was best to use each. Have a look in our galleries.

In computing this week we explored different digital devices and what they can be used for. We debated whether it was best to use a digital or non digital devices in different scenarios.

 

Home Practice

Keep changing your books regularly and read for at least 15-20 minutes every night! 

Well done to everyone who completed their Sumdog challenges and even had some time to practise on the Sumdog Training. Three new challenges have been added today. Remember, little and often every night will benefit your children with their learning in school.

Try and do a little counting at home as well. This will promote number fluency and understanding. There are lots of counting games here at ictgames.com that we use in school. You will also find lots of counting songs on YouTube.

We have given out your home spellings to practice for next week's test. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been breaking our words into syllables to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words.

Here are your spellings for this week.

 

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Have an amazing weekend!

The Year 3 Team

 

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