St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 3: Blog items
Year 3 Blog Friday 13th January 2023
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 4:06pm
We have had another great week in Year 3!
In English, we have started reading The Butterfly Lion By Michael Morpurgo. We are really enjoying this book and are learning lots of new ways to write our sentences. We have been using ideas from the story and stealing some fantastic vocabulary. Well done Year 3!
In Maths we have been exploring 3D Shape. We have been lusing our mathematical vocabulary to describe our shapes (faces, edges and vertices) and used artstraws to make prisms, cubes, pyramids and lots more. We also started our new topic on place value and number this week. We have set two challenges on Sumdog, one to recap on our shape learning and one to prepare for next week's lessons on place value and subtraction.
We also started our new RE topic on Journeys. We discussed what our journey through the year looks like and what special events we look forward to. We also linked this to our PSHE learning on families. The children came up with some really thoughtful ideas about family and special times.
In Geography we started our new topic on Africa. In this topic we will be looking at three countries. Egypt, Ghana and South Africa. This week we used our atlases to locate these countries on the map and described their location using the points on the compass. We also created some new bookmarks using african prints as inspiration.
Home Practice
Read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes, tell them all about the different characters and places in your stories.
Spellings
Practise your spellings every night. This week, your spellings have the -ness and -ment suffixes.
happiness loudness sloppiness darkness sadness enjoyment disappointment excitement improvement
Counting
Counting out loud is a great way to embed number fluency.
Count out loud in 10s from 81 to 181.
Count out loud in 4s from 0 to 48.
Count out loud in 2s from 40 to 20.
Times Tables
This week we have told the children their times table focus this week. You can use the times tables training on Sumdog and this will also pinpoint weaker areas.
In class we are continuing to practice the 8 times table. Here is a song we have been learning, with a little help from Adele.
Sumdog
Access the Sumdog challenges and training. These are essential to practise and prepare for what we are learning in school.
You will be tested on your spelling and times tables next Friday.
Have a lovely weekend.
Year 3 Friday Blog 6th January 2023
Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 12:21pm
Welcome back to your Friday Blog and a Happy New Year!
This week everyone has settled back into school really well, ready for a busy term of exciting learning.
In our English this week, we finished the Post Box Mystery by Robert Swindells. It had a very exciting ending and we wrote our own newspaper article, reporting on the alien incident. On Friday we had a go at word processing these and publishing them onto our proud wall. Well done Year 3! Next week we will start our new novel, The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.
In Maths we have continued learning about telling the time, this time in one minute intervals. This is always a tricky concept to learn and it takes a lot of practice to get it right. Here is the online resource we used this week if you want to have a look at home.
In our PSHE we started our families topic. We read the classic story Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and discussed what makes a family special.
We also continued our Geography topic, looking at physical geography of the North West of England. We used digital maps to explore the region and found lakes, rivers, hills, forests and much more.
Home Practice
Continue to read every night for at least 15 minutes. The regular reading you have been doing is showing in the progress your children have been making in all areas of the curriculum!
This week we have been learning how to use adverbs in our writing. Your spellings this week are
loudly quietly carefully sadly quickly slowly
happily bravely slowly clearly
We have sent home some times tables practise booklets to have a go at as well as the Sumdog challenges. Do what you can. Regular practice will help your children achieve fluency in their number facts.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Blog Friday 16th December
Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 2:14pm
Happy Christmas Everyone!
We have had a great week in school this week. We had our Christmas post, Christmas lunch and finished our DT and Computing topics.
In Maths we started learning to tell the time to 5 minutes and had a go at telling the time in 1 minute intervals. We will revisit this in the new year.
In English we read a bit further in the Postbox Mystery. We found our that the postbox had been invaded by some aliens. We wrote some great descriptions using our newspaper sentences.
We had a great time creating our football stadiums / shell structures in DT. We had to work as a team with a project manager, construction supervisor, tape dispenser, photographers and builders. Everyone worked well in their roles and made some super constructions. Great work Year 3! Have a look at our designs here.
On Wednesday we explored temperature on our winter walk. Mrs Quilliam was very impressed with everyones questions and scientific vocabulary.
On Friday we completed our animation topic with some great final pieces. Everyone used their skills to create a stop frame animation with their own toys. Here are some of the final videos.
Over the holidays make sure to continue to read and access the Sumdog learning platform.
Here is the latest edition of the Learning Times, created by our Year 6 class.
Have a lovely break and we wish you all a peaceful Christmas
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Blog Friday 9th December
Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 3:42pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
This week we have enjoyed watching the Nativity performance, enjoyed our Christmas Bingo and watched an amazing drumming masterclass from year 4 and 5.
In our English this week we have been exploring the features of a news report. We wrote our own reports of the Postbox Mystery and shared them with Year 6 who have also been writing news articles. Have a look at our gallery here.
In our maths we have been learning to solve divisions with remainders. This proved very tricky and is a difficult concept to grasp. Have a go at your Sumdog challenges and division practice to help with understanding.
This week we have started to design and construct our sports stadiums. Everyone has been using their skills to evaluate their designs and decide what 3D shell structures will be best to add to their design. Next week we will be assembling our final construction. Super DT Year 3!
In French, we used bilingual dictionaries to look up nouns to write a letter to pere Noel. We managed really well to change the definite article (le,la or les) to an indefinite article (un, une or des). Tres bien, Y3!
Home Practice
Continue to read every night for at least 15 minutes.
Check out our Sumdog challenges. This week we are practising our x3.x4 and x8 related facts. Continue to access the Sumdog Training tool. We have recently reset everyones account so that they are challenged on their hard skills.
In our spellings, the children have worked hard this week to use simple words to construct compound words. This strategy will help children to spell longer words more accurately. Here are your home spellings for this week.
mouse trousers fountain grouse hound browse trowel powder shower tower howl blackout
We are revisiting our OU and OW sounds as some of us aren't fluent with these just yet. We have added a few extra ones to have a go at on Sumdog.
Have a great weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Friday Blog 2nd December 2022
Date: 1st Dec 2022 @ 9:13pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog!
We have had a brilliant week in Year 3. Everyone was a amazing on Thursday afternoon at our Advent parent assembly. Well Done Year 3!
This week we have also enjoyed reading The Postbox Mystery by Robert Swindells. We have been working hard on our sentence writing this week and added some more pieces to our Proud Wall.
In maths we have been looking at division and been practising our grid method learning from last week. Well done to everyone who has been practising these at home. There has been some great understanding and explanations in our class this week!
In PE we have been learning some new hockey skills including passing, dribbling and trapping the ball. This is part of our invasion games learning. Have a look at our gallery here.
In RE we started our new topic for Advent. It is called Visitors will look at family, preparations and the Christmas story.
We also revisited our computing learning on Friday. We learned how to use onion skinning to make our animations run smoothly. Next week, can we have some toy models to create our final stop frame animations. Two characters and one prop max. This can be a toy car or a train or small setting.
Home Learning
Continue to read regularly for 15-20 minutes every day. Here is a helpful poster for ways you can help your child with their reading.
Maths - We have set 2 Sumdog challenges. One looking at the relationship between multiplication and division and one on our x8 times tables. We can see lots of regular practice is going on at home and it is making a huge difference for everyone in our maths lessons.
Have a look at our counting by 8 song here.
Your home spellings this week are...
playtime birthday breakfast ballroom cupcake chairman
sunflower dishcloth doorway patchwork
We will be learning how to use words we know to spell compound words. Practise these on Sumdog or by having a go of some of them activities on your spelling sheet.
In school we have been learning how to use syllables more effectively in our writing and looking carefully when we spell our words. We are seeing a great improvement in our spelling. Well done Year 3!
Unfortunately we have had an issue with our printer in school and are unable to print out the spellings and maths sheets. We will send these out on Monday.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Year 3 Friday Blog 25th November
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 8:55pm
Happy Friday!
This week we have finished reading the Ice Palace and really enjoyed the ending. Here are some examples of the fantastic writing we have done from the story. Next week we are reading another Robert Swindell's novel, The Postbox Mystery. We will be exploring news papers and writing some articles.
In our maths learning this week we have been learning the grid method and everyone picked it up really quickly. Super listening was the key! We did find that not knowing our times tables fluently slowed us down a little but we are definitely getting quicker and more accurate. We have sent home some grid method practice to help embed this learning.
In our RE learning we have been completed our Promises topic. In this learning we explored Baptism and the role of parents and Godparents. Everyone contributed to these lessons and shared some lovely thoughts on their own experiences. Well done Year 3!
As part of our PSHE learning on keeping ourselves safe, we have been exploring how to prevent the spread of germs. We had a great discussion and learned some reasons why we need to wash our hands and bin our tissues.
In our Science, we used our results from our pattern seeking investigation last week to work out what they told us. We wrote what we had found out. After this, we recapped all our learning so far about bones and muscles. Next week we will move on to find out how invertebrates move without a skeleton like ours. Mrs Qulliam was very impressed with our knowledge adn ideas.
In French, we practised saying some words with the an/en sound and we continued to learn the verb etre, to be by listening and reading. Our language leaders have done a great job this week at asking everyone the french question in the mornings. Fantastique!
Next week we invite you to come to our Advent assembly. We have sent home some words to learn and you can use the songs below to practise together.
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 here.
We have given out your spellings to practice for next week's test. We are looking at the -al and -il spelling pattern next week. In our spelling lessons this week we have been revisiting our spelling strategies. We have been stretching our words into sounds to help us spell more accurately and using what we already know to spell new words.
Here are your spellings for this week.
petal mental pedal cereal hospital pencil devil anvil gerbil pupil
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Friday Blog 18th November 2022
Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 4:06pm
Happy Friday everyone!
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 our English we are really enjoying the Ice Palace. It has been a bit spooky and strange but has everyone on the edge of their seat. We have just arrived at Starjik's Palace and we meet him next week! We have been using words and phrases from the story to improve our writing and everyone has written some amazing pieces. We will share some of these next week.
In our Maths we have been learning how to use our times tables to solve problems and and how to sort numbers into Carroll and Venn diagrams. The children are showing great understanding and their explanations are improving every day.
As part of our Big Draw Art, we have been revisiting our collage making skills. We looked at all the countries taking part in the World Cup and looked at their flags. We then used coloured paper to recreate the flags, including some intricate designs. They've turned out brilliantly!
This week in our PSHE learning, we have been exploring how we can keep ourselves safe at home. We listened to some scenarios and assessed the risk they posed. We had some fantastic discussions and very sensible answers. Everyone was able to describe risks they have noticed and how they can keep themselves safe. Well done Year 3!
This year we have been looking at diversity in our Wonderful World assemblies. We listen to a story that makes us think about others in our world and then respond in our own class book. Everyone has enjoyed these stories and written some some thoughtful ideas. Here is a peak at our class book.
On Tuesday, We were visited by Freddie Fit! He put us through our paces and reminded us all about how to keep healthy and stay fit. Have a look here.
Home Practice
Continue to read every night for at least 20 minutes.
This week in our spelling we have been practising words that have the or, aw,au,al, oor, ore sounds. We talked about how we can spot patterns to help us remember how to spell these words and to look carefully when writing them.
Here are your spellings for this week!
record enormous dinosaur assault hawk squawk floor door score ignore chalk wall
We have also been learning about possessive apostrophes and when to use them!
For your maths challenges we have included a mix of x3 and x4 times tables and some number fact practice. We are seeing a huge improvement in number fluency lately. Keep up the regular practising.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 3:33pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had an amazing week of learning in Year 3. Everyone is showing a brilliant attitude to their learning and we have been very impressed!
In our English learning we have started our new novel, The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells. We been looking at vocabulary to improve our ideas and how to use decriptive phrases to imropve our writing. Everyone created some fantastic descriptions the spooky forest.and of Ivan's dramatic escape from the wolf pack. On Friday as part of our Remebrance day commemorations, we heard the story of Walter Tull, one of the first black officer's to serve in the 1st Word War. We wrote some letters to Walter and asked him some poignant questions about the time he served in the army.
In our Maths learning we have been learning how to use our times tables to solve tricker problems. Through partitioning and regrouping, the children have been multiplying 2 digit numbers by 3 and by 4. We found this new learning tricky to start with but we have been very impressed with everyone's resilience. Well done Year 3!
In our Computing learning we have been having a go at making our very own stop frame animations. We used some of learning from last week and made some stickman sports.Have a look at some of our attempts here.
In DT we have continued our learning about shell structures. We really improved on our attempts from last week and created a 3D house. For our upcoming project, can you please send in a small shoe box with your child next week. We will be designing and making our own football stadiums for the world cup. Thanks in advance.
We have continued to explore Lancashire in our Geography. This week we had a go at being cartographers and drawing our own maps. We included the M6 and the major cities in our local area.
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 been singing these this week...
We have given out your spellings to practice for next week's test. We are looking at contactions and how to use apostrophes. 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.
don't didn't won't can't couldn't we'll they're we're she'll it's
Have a great weekend
The Year 3 team
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 4:02pm
Welcome back to your Friday blog. We have had a fantastic week back in school and started lots of new learning and exciting topics.
We have been writing our Quest adventure stories this week and on Friday afternoon we visited Reception and Year 1 to read our stories. Everyone made a huge effort all week to make their writing look beautiful on the page and used some fantastic sentences to excite the reader. We have been working hard on sentence structures this week and found out different ways to develop our ideas.
This week we have started our Geography learning. We have been exploring maps and will be studying our local area and Lancashire. We looked at differntly scaled maps and talked about what human features we could find. We spotted cities, towns, villages, motorways, airports and much more!
In maths we have been practising all our strategies and learned when we need to use formal written methods. We have sent home some times tables practice sheets as we will be focused on Multiplication and division from next week on. When practising times tables at home work on recall and speed as well as accuracy. The Sumdog times tables training is a great way to practice the individual times tables the children need to work on.
In French this week we have been learning the vern etre - to be. It was tricky but everyone gave it a good go. We finished with some spooky halloween songs.
We have also started our new computing topic on animation. Today your child will have brought home their first attempt at flip book animating. Everyone did very well at improving their designs as we struggled at first. Great perserverance Year 3! Next week we will be using the iPads to create our own stop frame animations!
Home Practice
Continue to read every night for at least 20 minutes. We have seen a huge improvement in everone's reading habits during silent reading time. Well done!
Spellings - This week we have been learning how to spell our homophones. A little practice every night does the trick. For these words, writing them in short sentences is a good way to remember them in the right context.
their there our are to too two break brake were where
Continue to access the Sumdog platform for a little time everyday. We are seeing huge improvements in accuracy across all maths skills. Keep it up!
We have set a 3 digit number challenge as well as a times table practice. Do your best!
Have a super weekend and enjoy the fireworks! And remember to keep safe.
The Year 3 team.
Year 3 Blog Thursday 20th October
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 1:05pm
Happy Half term everyone!
Well done for completing your first half term in the Juniors. We have had a busy half term with lots of fantastic learning! We learned all about Stone Age Britain in History, texture and shade in Art, friendships in PSHE, health and nutirion in Science and so much more. We have been adding lots to our proud wall and made huge improvements in our handwriting and presentation.
Today we have braved the elements and taken our learning outside. We created some leaf animals using the vast selection of leaves around our school grounds. Have a look here.
We also have finished reading our Diary of a Killer Cat story and had a look at the wordless story Quest by Aaron Becker. The children wrote some fantastic words to go with the story. Super descriptions and action everyone! You can watch the story here.
In Science this week, we consolidated our learning about staying healthy by making a poster to show what we've learnt. Then we moved on to the start of the next topic on Skeletons and Muscles. We researched and labeled a human skeleton. Fascinating!
We also explored inside a computer monitor as we have been learning about digital devices this term. We opened it up and had a good look inside. We heard some fantastic vocabulary and ideas, have a look here. We have some future engineers in our class! Well done Year 3.
Have a great half term and well see you all next Monday!
Keep reading and training on Sumdog!
The Year 3 Team!
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 1:52pm
Welcome to your latest Online Safety Update
At St Oswald's, we regularly discuss online safety with the children to find out what they are experiencing in their online spaces. We find out what new games and platforms are trending and if any of our children have worries or concerns about what they experience online. A lot of children continue to access YouTube so we have added a refresher guide on the platform.
In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as connecting with strangers, inappropriate content and high visibility.
We have also spotted that some children have the new FIFA 23 football game for the PlayStation and XBox. Gaming has changed massively in the past few years with social connection now becoming an integral part of the gaming experience. We have added the latest guide for this game also.
Below you will find a link to join the National Online Safety platform and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primar-school-pr45eb
Year 3 Friday Blog 14th October 2022
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 3:54pm
Welcome to your Friday blog
It was lovely meeting you all this week and talking about how well everyone has settled into Year 3. We have seen huge progress in everyone's attitude and good learning behaviours. Well done Year 3!
This we week have continued reading the Diary of a Killer Cat and wrote some fantastic diary entries. We also explored caves and wrote some fantastic stories about a dramatic cave rescue. The children have used some fantastic vocabulary in their writing this week. Well done!
We have also seen massive improvements in everyone's presentation and handwriting. We had to show this off to all our visitors, so here is a peak at our Proud Wall.
In our maths learing we have been learning how and when to use the formal written method for addition and subtraction. Everyone found this at little tricky at first but with some super listening and concentration we cracked it. We will continue to practise this next week.
In our Science learning we have been exploring the health benefits of regular and varied exercise. The children made some super posters to link their learning this week with their work on a varied diet and nutrition so far. We will publish these next week!
In French, the children have been learning how to say he and she (il and elle) and how to prounce some new words. Tres bien Year 3! Our language leaders have also been fantastic asking their French questions to the children every morning and to the adults on Monday and Tuesday. Be ready to show off your French next week!
On Friday we visited Fr Michael for morning mass. The children were fantastic and sat beautifully throughout their first mass in the juniors.
We also continued to explore texture in our Art learning this week. We looked at 3 natural materials nad had a go at rectreating them in our sketch books. Great effort!
Home Practice
This week we have set a high frequency/common words spelling challenge on Sumdog. This is to further embed these words and increase spelling accuracy when writing at length.
The children will still be tested on the oo, ue, ew, u_e words on Friday.
used refused rulers loose moose rescue glued cruel grew screw
It was lovely to hear about all the great reading that is going on at home. 20 minutes a night will make a huge difference to your child's learning journey at St Oswald's and beyond. Keep it up!
We have sent home a x3 spelling sheet for practice as well as the sumdog challenges. These are optional but a good way to improve number fluency.
Please also practise counting regularly to build up number fluency.
Count forwards and backwards in 3s, 30s, 5s, 50s.
Have a fantastic weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Friday 7th October 2022
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:51pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Happy World Smile Day!
We have had a great week in Year 3! Everyone has been woring hard on their listening skills and their independent learning. We have had some outdoor learning in between the showers and been practising our dodgeball skills with Mrs Cookson.
In our English we have been reading The Diary of a Killer Cat. The children have enjoyed hearing about Tuffy's antcis and what he thinks about everything. We have had some great writing about the story. We wrote letters to an animal shelter to take Tuffy off our hand and we learned about speech sentences and speech marks.
In Maths we have been learning about bar graphs and pictograms. The children have been very good at showing their information on bar graphs and using them to answer questions. A huge well dont everyone who entered the Sumdog Lacashire competition. Our class finished 4th in Lancashire with a score of 251! Amazing effort Year 3!
In our Art learning this week we have been exploring texture in our outdoor area. Have a look at some of our work here.
On Thursday we celebrated National Poetry Day. As we are learning about friendship in our PSHE learning. We read lots of friendship poems and used our learning so far to write our own poems. We then performed them to eachother in our outdoor theatre. Have a look here.
This week we have been learning about how computers are connected. We learned about servers, network switches and wireless access points. Once we had looked at how networks pass information around we had a go ourselves and shared messages and sound files through Seesaw. We thought about where the messages went before they came onto our iPads. Super learning Year 3!
Home Practice
This week we have noticed most children in the class could improve their recall speed of number facts to 10 and 20. We have been using the number bonds to 10 to solve trickier problems and to be fluent, the children have to be quick and accurate. We have sent home a sheet to practise these number facts. Have a go.
Hit the button is a great game for practising number facts and times tables. Click the picture below to access the game.
We have also set a number fact Sumdog challenge and a statistics challenge to help embed the learning from this week.
This week in our spelling we have been focussing on how we can use our phonics knowledge to help spell words. The children have been revisiting their vowel sounds and looking carefully to make sure all our letters are in the right places. Here are your words for this week.
light might flight cried spied dried chime spike stride compile
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team!
Year 3 Blog Friday 30th September 2022
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 2:56pm
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 have finished reading The Twits now and can’t wait to start reading The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine next week. We loved writing about The Twits and have been improving our writing by looking carefully at our spelling and presentation and by writing in paragraphs.
Everyone is trying their best to improve their writing. Amazing effort everyone!
In our maths learning we have been learning to measure cm and mm and and calculating the perimeter of 2D shapes. Your Sumdog challenge this week is based on this learning. We have also been practising our adding, subtraction and difference on number lines. Everyone is improving their understanding with this method. Spot some super working out here.
In our computing learning we explored computer networks and different connections. We also looked at sending information and the importance of a network switch. Have a look at our gallery here.
In our PSHE, we had a great discussion on what we should do when our friendships aren't working out. We had some great ideas and everyone listened respectfully.
In history we stepped into the past and told the story of a day in the Stone Age. We told this in both super sentences and with a cave painting. Everyone was excited to go hunting for their dinner!
Home Practice
This week we have sent home two sheets to practice number facts to 10 and 20. This is an optional task but fluency in these (speed and accuracy) will help with all future number learning in Year 3.
Your Sumdog maths challenge has a perimeter and space focus. 50 questions! Do your best!
We have also entered the class into the Lancashire maths contest. These questions will be based on what skills your child needs to build fluency in.
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 -al pattern. Have a go at some of the other practice ideas on the card.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Friday Blog 23rd September 2022
Date: 23rd Sep 2022 @ 4:07pm
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!
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!
In our maths we have been learning to measure using a ruler and convert centimetres into metres and centmetres. We all picked this up really quicky. Super listening is the key! We also looked at drawing shapes using geoboards. We also revisited lots of vocabulary we'd met before.
Right angle, quadrilateral, 2D, centimetres, metres
In our computing, we explored the uses of digital devices and how they can make our lives easier. We explored if this was always the case and if non-digital devices were sometimes easier or more straightforward to use. We had some great ideas. We then tested this by using a whiteboard and and iPad to compare drawing with digital drawing. Have a look in our gallery here.
In our PSHE learning this week, we discussed friendship and how some qualites are more impotant than others. The children were very thoughtful and know exactly how to be a good friend.
In science we have started our Health and Nutrition topic. If possible, can you please send in some food packaging so we can compare the nutritional values of different foods. The children have been very curious about what goes into their food and how it helps them stay fit and healthy.
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 spellings to practice for next week's test. We are looking at the -le and -el spelling pattern next week. 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.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Year 3 Blog 16th September 2022
Date: 16th Sep 2022 @ 1:33pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
This week we have been working hard in all our subjects and are continuing to shine as juniors!
We have been enjoying The Twits and have been looking at speech in the story. This has helped us to write in full sentences, remembering to write one idea at a time. The children acted some scenes out and even wrote their own scripts.
In maths we have been learning how to use a number line and partition to add and subtract 2 digit numbers. This has been tricky but everyone has worked hard and made super progress with this new strategy.
In our PE we have been learning some new tactics and strategies to pass the ball in a game of netball. We explored bounce, chest and lob passes. Have a look at our gallery to see us in action.
In our Stone Age learning we have been asking some great questions about life in Stone Age Britain. We also had a go at telling some stories about ourselves through cave paintings. Have a look in our gallery here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read every night for at least 20 minutes. Regular reading is a great habit to get into. It will make all the difference as your children move through the juniors, allowing them to access more and more of our curriculum.
Spellings
Your children will have brought home a spelling card with their spellings to practise.
We have been learning to apply our phonics knowledge to our spellings and finding patterns. Eg. If I can spell corn, I can spell born, torn, worn.
We have also added some ideas on how to practise these at home. They are also available on Sumdog, little and often is the key!
Maths
We have set two maths challenges this week on Sumdog. Please practise the two times tables to improve accuracy and recall speed. We have also set a challenge on reading and counting three digit numbers.
Please also practise counting regularly to build up number fluency.
Count forwards and backwards in 10s from any 3 digit number.
Eg. 157, 167, 177,187, 197, 207
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 5:42pm
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 beginning 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
We will blog regularly to keep you updated with developments in the online space, sharing platform guides and links to expert training for you to keep your children safe when exploring the internet. Below you will find a guide on some back to school online safety tips for children.
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.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb
Year 3 Friday 9th September 2022
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 3:42pm
Welcome to the first Friday Blog of the school year
We have had a great first week back at school. Everyone has settled in so well and enjoyed all our learning this week.
We have started our new story, The Twits by Roald Dahl. We wrote our own character descriptions and planned some pranks for our writing next week. Everyone is taking great care with their presentation and spellings.
In our maths we have been looking at 3 digit numbers and place value. Everyone has had a good go and joined in with our whole class discussions. Have a look at our learning here.
Mrs Quillliam kicked off our Science this year with a super outdoor session exploring plants around school. We will be learning about plants throughout the year, using our Nature Journals. Have a look at our gallery to see some of our fantastic outdoor learning. Next week we begin our topic on Health and Nutrition.
We also started our history topic, The Stone Age. We read some Horrible Histories and talked about when the Stone Age was and what it was like to live then.
Thank you for attending our Meet the Teacher meeting on Thursday. We have attached the PowerPoint below.
Today, Fr Michael visited us and blessed us for the coming year. Everyone was very thoughtful and shared some lovely ideas.
We had a very special Golden Assembly as we took some time to pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We had a minute silence and said some prayers for the Royal Family at this difficult time.
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Home Practice will begin from next Friday. Sumdog is still available and continue reading your new books!
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 11:10am
Happy Holidays
We have had a brilliant last week to end our school year. We have created some more animations, using all our skills and creativity. We have also been reading the playscript of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The children have loved finding out what happens to Harry after he leaves Hogwarts.
Over the holidays, continue to read every night and the Sumdog platform will remain open for practising all your maths and spelling.
Well done for an amazing year of hard work and lots of fun. You have done such a great job during your first year in the juniors and should feel extremely proud!
We'd also like to say a massive thank you for all your support throughout the year. Your children have been amazing and have had a great year of learning experiences, making some wonderful memories along the way. We hope you all have a lovely summer break and enjoy the sunshine.
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 4:35pm
DT and PE Stars!
We have had a brillant week of learning this week. Thank you for all supporting our DT event. The children were amazing and had a fantastic time designing and preparing their very own afternoon tea. They showed off their DT skillls and enjoyed keeping you all busy with their active playtime.
This week we also finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The children have been emmersed in a world of wizardry of the last few weeks and created some stunning pieces of writing. Well done everyone!
In our Maths learning this week we have learned how to use partitioning to help us bridge 10 and 100. We also looked at using this strategy when finding the difference.
As part of our computing topic on animation, we have been creating some whiteboard animations. Keep and eye on our galleries for some of our creations. We have started to plan our own animations using toys, action figure, doll or lego. The children have been asked to bring in 2 'characters' to star in their animation. If these could be sent in by Wednesday as we will start filming that afternoon. If you don't have something, we can use some of the figures we have at school.
Home Practice
Continue to read regulary, especially over the holidays. A daily 10-15 minute read is the key!
Continue to access the training feature on the Sumdog platform for maths and spelling. A little practise everyday helps to embed learning and promotes fluency in both spelling amd maths.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 3 Team.
Date: 8th Jul 2022 @ 12:40pm
Happy Friday everybody.
We have had a lovely week in Year 3. We loved showing off our amazing work on Thursday afternoon. Thank you for the amazing turnout. It was lovely seeing the children show off the work they are proud of. We will send home some books at the end of year so don't worry if you missed out.
We have finished planning our wellbeing afternoon. We have brought home the ingredients which we need to buy. We spoke about changing ideas if we need to if shops don't have what we need or we change our mind. Our wellbeing afternoon will take place on Thursday 14th July at 2pm. We are looking forward to preparing afternoon tea for somebody, teaching them some exercises and doing some mindful colouring.
In our PSHE this week we have been talking about different ways to be active on a daily basis. We know that it is important to be active because it keeps us fit and healthy and also helps us to feel happy and confident.
We had a very exciting morning on Wednesday for our Moving up morning. We spent some time in Year 4 and loved it.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.
Counting
Count out loud in:
4s from 0 to 48 and back again.
40s from 0 to 480 and back again.
Times Tables
Choose a x table you don't feel confident with out of 2, 3, 4, 5, 8. Practise every day.
Spellings
Have a practise on the spelling training on Sumdog. It will give you the spellings your child needs to work on. 5-10 minutes practice a night is plenty.
DT
Remember to get your ingredients for your afternoon tea.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Date: 30th Jun 2022 @ 6:50pm
Happy Friday everyone!
We have had a lovely week in Year 3. Lots of us enjoyed a dance and a boogie at the summer disco.
We have enjoyed our new maths learning this week. We learned how to use partitioning to help us to bridge 10 more easily and lots of us have been practising our skills on Sumdog. Well done Year 3!
We have started our new topics in PSHE, DT and science.
In PSHE we have been thinking about why it is important to keep active and sleep well. We talked about how exercise can make us feel happy and confident.
In science we are going to be learning all about plants. So far we have told each other what we already know and then we went outside to look closely at the plants in our school grounds. We sketched and labelled what we could see. We are looking forward to carrying out some investigations to find out more about plants.
Our DT topic is all about a healthy and varied diet. We looked at some products from supermarkets to find out what ingredients they had in them. We discussed how healthy they were by looking at the different food groups. We are going to use our evaluations to plan and make our own healthy afternoon tea. Have a look at our gallery here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes every night. Talk about what you have read and retell the story in your own words. We know how much our Year 3s love their reading. Here is a huge list of recommended reads for children aged 7-8.
Counting
Count in:
8s from 0 to 96 and back again.
10s from 63 to 163 and back again.
50s from 0 to 500 and back again.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the challenges, these are to practise times tables, spellings and skills that we will be practising in our learning.
Times Tables
Practise the division facts for the 4x tables.
Spellings
Here are the spellings for this week: science scene discipline fascinate cresent scissors ascend scented scenery descend
DT
Start to think about the different ingredients you would find in an afternoon tea. Look at sandwiches, wraps, fruit, and snacks in shops and cafes. Think about which you like the look of and which you think are healthy.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Year 3 Blog - Friday 24th June
Date: 24th Jun 2022 @ 12:11pm
HAPPY FRIDAY!
We have had a very hot and very exciting week in Year 3.
In our maths learning we have been using a column method to add, subtract and find missing numbers. It has been really tricky but everybody has persevered and done a fantastic job. The Sumdog challenges this week will help us to practise these skills.
In English we have been writing about trolls and about Quidditch in Harry Potter. We described the trolls (they are not very nice creatures), wrote instructions for how to defeat a troll and made a leaflet all about Quidditch.
We did some orienteering in our PE lesson which was great fun! We all got into pairs and worked together to navigate around a course using a map. We had to follow a route around different cones and add up the numbers written on the cones. We also practised throwing and catching and batting in our rounders games.
On Friday afternoon we painted our clay models of canopic jars. We then put out our clay models alongside replicas of ancient Egyptian artefacts and had our own little museum in class. We acted like historians and used the artefacts to learn what life was like in ancient Egyptian times. Check out the galleries on the class page.
Online Saftey Update - Live Streaming
Many of our children access YouTube and TikTok as their primary source of online content. Live streamers are becoming ever more popular with children and young people.
Live streaming is the term used to describe the broadcast of a real time video from a mobile device, tablet or games console. Many live streaming apps have functionality for interactions from viewers, such as commenting, live chats and sending reactions during the broadcast.
In this guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as online grooming, privacy & security and online reputation. Also, be aware of age ratings on any platforms you allow your children to use.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every night for 10 minutes. Explain what you have read in your own words.
Spellings
Here are your spellings this week. They don't follow any specific rules so we just need to know them.
truly duly coyly shyly slyly happily daily publicly fully wholly
Counting
Count out loud in:
1s from 190 to 210.
5s from 955 to 1005.
10s from 63 to 163.
Times Tables
Practise the division facts for the 3x tables.
For example:
1 x 3 = 3 3 ÷ 3 = 3
2 x 3 = 6 6 ÷ 3 = 2
Sumdog
Access the Sumdog challenges - try to do 10 minutes every night.
Have a fantastic weekend and well done for your hard work all week!
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 12:10pm
Happy sunny Friday :)
We have had such an exciting week in Year 3.
We have been researching the game of Quiddich and using the library at Hogwarts to find our all about the sport. We have all written some fantastic reports on how the game is played and what equipment is needed.
On Monday we were looking at real animal bones in our science lesson. We tried to identify which animal the bones came from and what the bones were used for. We used some of our scientific vocabulary we have learnt in this topic - vertebrate (an animal with a spine) and invertebrate (an animal without a spine).
Click here to see us in action.
On Tuesday afternoon we had the best time taking part in Year 3 Sports Day. Everybody earned house points for their house, cheered each other on and had a brilliant afternoon. Mrs Wood told us that our behaviour was outstanding!
Watch our video to see how much fun we had.
We had a super day on Thursday at Cuerden Valley Park for our school trip. The sun was shining and we all had a fantastic time. We enjoyed going in the river in our wellies to do our river studies. In the afternoon we did some Harry Potter themed activities including orienteering and potion making. We finished off the day with a game of Quidditch which was very exciting.
Take a look at our gallery here.
Home Practice
Read out loud every night for 20 minutes. Try to spot conjunctions and how they are used (as, because, although, even though, so, when, if).
Count out loud in:
30s from 0 to 360
50s from 0 to 600
40s from 0 to 480
Sumdog
Access the Sumdog challenges - try to do 10 minutes every night.
Times Tables
Practise the division facts for the 3x tables.
For example:
1 x 3 = 3 3 ÷ 3 = 3
2 x 3 = 6 6 ÷ 3 = 2
HAVE A SUPER SUNNY WEEKEND!!
Date: 10th Jun 2022 @ 2:48pm
Welcome back to your final term in Year 3!
It has been lovely having everyone back ready for a busy last half term. Next week is our Sports Day and we are very excited to go on our trip to Cuerden Valley.
This week we have been reallly enjoying our novel. We explored Hagrid's home this week and wrote some fantastic recounts of the first flying lesson. Everyone is taking great care with their presentation and using their think pinks to improve their writing. Well done Year 3.
In maths we have been learning how to add and subtract fractions. This has proved tricky but everyone has shown great resilience in their learning. Lots of you have clearly used the Sumdog fractions challenge to refresh what you already know. Keep it up!
In our Egyptology learning we researched Gods and Godesses, exploring how they were depicted in Egyptian art and why they were worshipped. Have a look at some of our brilliant fact files here.
We also continued to design and create our very own canopic jars to house the organs of some mummies. We used what we know about the diffferent gods to help design the jars and used clay to carefully sculpt them. We will paint and glaze these next week.
Home Practice
Continue to read every night for a least 20 minutes. Regular reading will improve comprehension and fluency as well as unlocking a world of learning in all subjects. We have loved seeing all the books on Egypt and the Queen over the past few weeks!
Spelling and Maths challenges have been set on Wednesday. If you have completed these, access the training features to practise tricky skills. Theses are tailored to your child's learning needs. Regular practice of these will help boost spelling and number fluency.
You can also access the whole range of videos and games we have set over the year by clicking on 'View all blogs'.
Online Safety Update
This week, our update is focused on how to set up devices for children. Read our short guide below for some useful tips to safeguard young people against online risk.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 3 Team