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Year 3 Friday 31st March 2023

Date: 31st Mar 2023 @ 8:06am

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

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This week we have finished our RE topic on Listening and Sharing and our PSHE learning on communities. The children's ideas and contributions have been wonderful and we have had some really rich discussions in class. 

In English this week we have written our reports on the bullfight using some fantastic vocabulary and sentence openers. We have just reached the part of the story when Antonio's home is bombed by fighter planes. We will be exploring his thoughts and feelings in the week ahead. 

In maths this week we have been revisiting our column addition and subtraction. We also learned how to estimate totals using rounding to the nearest 100 and the nearest 10. Everyone did really well with this and showed brilliant reasoning. 

As part of our Ancient Egypt topic, we are looking at the Egyptian gods and how they were depicted in wall art. We learned all about Ra, Sekhmet and Bastet and why the Ancient Egyptians prayed to them. Below we have attached a video we watched about some of the other Egyptian gods. There were over 2000! We practiced sketching them ahead of our fabric art next week.

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On Thursday we had a brilliant St Oswald's World Book Day. You all looked great in your costumes and we had a visit from Mrs Novak who shared some of her Revolting Rhymes.We had a wonderful world Assembly reading a story about an artist called Tyrus Wong who worked for Disney. The story was called Paper Son and it explored the challenges he overcame as a Chinese immigrant. Check out our gallery!

Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist : Julie  Leung, Chris Sasaki: Amazon.co.uk: Books

In Science, we looked at the plant investigation we set up last week where different plants are deprived of one of the requirements for growth eg light, water.  We took measurements and recorded our observations. Then we learnt how water and nutrients are transported around the plant. We set up another investigation to dye celery stalks and white flowers to prove that water/dye travels up the stem to the leaves and flowers. We'll see what happens over the next few days. 

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We have attached a new online safety guide 'What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Age-Inappropriate Content'. Please Read.

Home Practice

The reading bug has hit Year 3. It was lovely to see everyone bringing in their books this week and swapping them with their friends. Also a huge thank you to Holly who brought in some Roald Dahl books for the class!

Keep reading your school books at home every night for at least 15 minutes.

We have set some number fact practice to improve fluency this week. These might seem a bit easier than normal but we have noticed that some need to increase their speed and accuracy with their number bonds to 20.

Spellings this week all begin with the prefixes super-  or auto-. There is a sumdog challenge with these words. Do what you can.

supermarket

superstar

supersonic

supervision

superhero

superimpose

autograph

automatic

autobiography

automated

autocue

automation

 

Have a great weekend

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Year 3 Friday 24th March 2023

Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 4:04pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

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This week we have been working hard on our writing presentation and enjoyed reading our new story, Toro! Toro! We have also been exploring our Ancient Egypt learning and writing our own hyroglyphics.

In English we have met Uncle Juan the Matador and Antonio has gone to his first Corrida. We wrote some responses as Antonio, exploring his feelings and what we would have done in his shoes. We also have planned a report on the bullfight ready for next week. Everyone has worked hard this week to make their writing look beautiful on the page.

 

In Maths we have been revisiting our column addition and subtraction. A lot of our learning from last term was remembered and lots of good reasoning was explained along the way. We also revisited our angles learning and learned all about parallel and perpendicular lines. 

In French, we learned that feminine nouns usually end with the letter e. This helped us decide whether we need un or une as a determiner.  Then we recapped lots of animal words, focusing on whether the noun is masculine or feminine. We then revisited J'ai and Je n'ai pas de to find out who had which animals in class. 
 
In our Plants topic, we looked at the seeds we planted in different soils. They have grown very tall and leggy so we discussed what we should do to help them grow more healthily. They have been planted outside! Then we talked about the requirements for growth of plants and set up an investigation to deprive plants of one requirement to see what happens. Each table has a plant and we will be recording our findings over the next few weeks. 
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In PSHE we have been talking about online communities and how we can be kind when we meet our friends online. We used the guide below to make our own posters.
 
In DT we made some complex mechanisms. We gave the children some more freedom and they had to use their learning from the past weeks to make their own. We introduced bridges and revisited our input, output and process words from computing last term.
 

Home Practice

Continue to read every night for at least 15 minutes. 

Check out our Sumdog challenges. This week we are practising our addition and subtraction. Continue to access the Sumdog Training tool. We have recently reset everyones account so that they are challenged on their hard skills. Well done on those who are practising regularly, we have seen a massive improvement in tables accuracy!

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In our spellings, the children have been revisiting our spelling rules for past tense verbs. Knowing these rules will help your children to spell words more accurately. Here are your home spellings for this week.

begged

swimming

wrapping

snapped

splitting

grabbing

sitting

shopping

dripped

topped

skipped

skipping

wrapped

begging

snapping

We are also revisiting our OO,EW and U-E sounds spelling as some of us aren't totally accurate with these just yet. 

Have a great weekend

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Year 3 Friday 17th March 2023

Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 8:46pm

Happy St Patrick's Day and Welcome to your Friday blog

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This week we have enjoyed reading our story Toro, Toro and learned lots about bullfighting. We wrote some information texts using what we learned to write our sentences. We also wrote a lovely piece as Antonio, the main character, when he learned that his best friend, Paco the bull might have to fight in the corrida.

In Maths we learned all about angles and 2D shapes. We revisited our learning on right angles and remembered our 2d shapes from last term.

In our History learning this week we learned all about Ancient Egyptian society and what jobs people had at that time. We also investigated some Ancient Egyptian wall art and tried to identify the people in the picture. It was interesting to work as historians and use our evidence and interpretations.

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In PSHE we further explored diversity and community with the Premier League's Primary Stars programme. We loooked at some vocabulary and described what these words meant to us.

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In Science, we looked at the results of the investigation to find out which soil is best for growing different kinds of seeds. We've realised that sand does not have any organic matter in it and the seeds have not grown so this must be important for germination. We then continued to research the functions of each plant part. Finally we had a visit from the chicks - amazing!

We also had a great time with Freddie Fit this week. He taught us all about keeping a balanced diet and an active lifestyle. You can see our pictures on the school Twitter.

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Home Practice

Keep up with the regular reading with your children. We are meeting a lot of texts in our curriculum this term and reading fluency is key to accessing lots of new learning.

We have set some new challenges on Sumdog today. Some of you are still not aceassing the platform regularly. If you'd like some help with accessing Sumdog, let is know and we will help where we can. 

Continue to count with your children at home. Sing our songs and quiz your child. What number comes next? What is the missing number?

Our Spellings this week are

decided  

taking

serving

writing

making

driving

shaking

baked

famed

giving

tiled

stored

using

dancer

server

 

Have a fantastic weekend and a Happy Mother's Day for Sunday 

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Year 3 Friday 10th March 2023

Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 4:15pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

What a fantastic week of learning we have had. Our Japanese visitors have been amazing and taught us so much about their culture. On Tuesday we learned all about the traditon of Mamemaki, where houses ward off evil spirits by chasing away an ogre called Setsubun with soy beans. We also used chopsticks to count our age in soy beans. It was great fun. Have a look at our photos here. On Friday we performed a dance called The Swallow - ???. Check it our in our galleries.

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Our Japanese students now return to Japan. We would like to wish Minori well and give her a huge thank you!

Thank You from Japan by Tallon on Dribbble

 

In English we have finished our novel, journey to Jo'burg. We thoroughly enjoyed this story as a class and created some lovely pieces of work. Next week we start Toro, Toro by Michael Morpurgo, a tale about the relationship between a young boy and his bull Paco. 

In Maths we have been reading scales and solving problems with capacity and volume. We used our estimating and rounding skills to explain our thinking. Everyone has really improved with their use of mathematical vocabulary in their explaining. Well done Year 3!

 

In our History learning we learned all about when the Ancient Egytpian era began and how to order event chronologically using BCE and CE. We learned about common time and how archeologists can date artefacts by how close they are to the surface. Here is some of the key vocabulary we will meet in the coming weeks.

era, artefact, chronology, scribe, hieroglyphs, polytheistic, obelisk, temple, preserve, prepare,

pyramid, chamber, Egyptologist, chariot, invade, bronze, archer, trade, expand, monarchy, empire

Egypt Pyramids by MRusta on Dribbble

In Science, we observed the soil shakers that we made last week, noticing that the different parts of the soils have settled into layers. This really helped us to identify what soil is made of and how different soils can be. We then looked at the seeds we planted in the different soils to see which had grown best. Only the mustard has germinated so far but we were able to see that the seeds in compost have grown best. The children said why they thought this might be. Then we moved on to identifying the different plant parts and began to reserach the function of each. 
 
 

Home Practice

Continue to read your school books and have a go with your questioning. Practising these skills will ensure your children continue to improve as readers.

On your Sumdog challenges this week we have set times tables practice and an addition and Subtraction challenge. 

Keep practising you timestables on Sumdog and one minute maths.

Your spellings this week have the -ce spelling pattern.

absence
advice
arrogance
balance
ceiling
cemetery
confidence
difference
influence
produce
received
sacrifice
 
Have a great weekend
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Year 3 Blog Friday 3rd March 2023

Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 3:36pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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This week we have done some amazing learning and have been spotted by lots of staff for our lovely manners and behaviour in class. 

We have been enjoying our story and been learning alot about what life was like in South Africa during Apartheid. The children have asked some thoughtful questions and included some lovely ideas in their writing. We also have been planning a news report on the 'pass raid' at the train station. Next week we will be finishing our Journey to Jo'burg and completing our news reports.

Beverley Naidoo - writer, author, novelist, children's author, Journey to Jo 'burg, UK, SA - journey to jo'burg

In Maths we have been learning some new strategies to divide numbers into groups of 3,4,5 and 8. We have learned about remainders and how to use repreated addition to find how may groups are ina number. Have a go at the questions we have sent home and the Sumdog challenge.

We have also started our new topic, Mechanisms and Linkages in DT. We looked at some of the mechanisms created by last year's Year 3 class and talked about what we already know about mechanisms. We had a lot of interesting answers. We also met some new vocabulary. Here is the vocabulary list for this topic.

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In French this week, we learnt how to say 'I have' and 'I have not' using the pencil case vocabulary we learnt last week.  We were able to say, read and write these sentences - well done, Y3. 
 
In Science, we compared different soils, discussing what was the same about them and what was different. We then chose some seeds to plant in different soils to see which soil is best for growing. We also made some soil shakers - jars of water, each with different soils in. We shook them up and watched them settle into different layers. We will leave them to settle for a week and observe next week to see if this helps us see what soil is made of. We also had a look at an amazing rock collection belonging to Isaiah in Y6 who kindly it brought it in to show us. What a busy afternoon!

 

Home Practice

Continue to read your school books and have a go with your questioning. Practising these skills will ensure your children continue to improve as readers.

We have set a spelling, maths and times tables challenge. Try to complete these as they link to our learning in school.

Your spellings this week are all adopting different spelling rules and strategies. Talk about how you remember these words and wht strategies you could use to spell them.

 

counting

river

thirteen

dragged

healthiest

holiday

march

angrier

staircase

 

Have a lovely weekend

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Year 3 Blog Friday 24th February 2023

Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 1:34pm

Welcome back to your Friday Blog

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In our English this week we have been acting as characters in the story and writing some accounts of their experiences on the road to Jo'burg so far. Everyone is working hard to improve their writing. Well done Year 3!

In Maths we have finished our fractions learning and next week we will be learning new division strategies. We have been learning to find fractions of amounts and solve word problems with these. It has been tricky! This week we have set a Sumdog challenge to get ready for your learning next week.

In PE we have been learning how to play a new sport, handball.  We have used our skills from our invasion games learning earlier in the year and have enjoyed the new challenge. We have also started our gymnastics topic with Mrs Wood. This week we practiced some balances and animal travels. It was good fun. Over the next few weeks we will be perfecting our gymnastic skills and creating our own routines.

Gymnastics Girl by Mohamed Shone on Dribbble

In our Geography learning we explored climate zones in Africa and used atlases to find out what the different climate zones were. We learned some great new vocabulary too!

temperate    tropical      desert       grassland / savannah

In Music we have been continuing learning our Egyptian songs, exploring rhythm with our percussion instruments and using glocks to improvise our own compositions. Have a look at our gallery here.

Egypt Pyramids | Planets art, Egypt, Landscape illustration

Home Practice

Continue to read your school books and have a go with your questioning. Practising these skills will ensure your children continue to improve as readers.

On your Sumdog challenges this week we arae looking at division to get ready for next week's learning. We have also shown the children how to access the training and tables practice features.

Another great app for practising your number facts is one minute maths by the White Rose Maths team. It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. 

Your spellings this week are all homophones. Have a good go at learning them and using them in context.

there     their       they're       bury      berry        break      brake    to      too       two

Have a lovely weekend

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Year 3 Friday 20th January 2023

Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 2:39pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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This week we have enjoyed our new story The Butterfly Lion. We have been describing Bertie's home and retold the story where he saved the little lion from the hyenas. Everyone has been working hard to improve their writing this week and taking care with their presentation.

In our maths we have been learning a new strategy to add more efficiently. When adding 19, we can add 20 and take away 1, when we add 39, we can add 40 and take away 1. We have also been practising our x8 tables. Keep working on these as well as our x2, x5, x10, x3 and x4.

In Art, as part of our textiles learning we have been exploring African patterns and colour. Inhis topic we will be experimenting with different fabric paints and dyes. We will be designing and creating our own African cloth bag. Have a look at our gallery here.

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In Science, we compared rocks to decide which would be best for making a patio outside the classroom. The children had loads of ideas of the properties that a good rock for a patio should have and tested the different rocks for hardness, permeability, slippiness and appearance when wet. They then used their results to decide which rock was best. Most children thought granite was best - a good, if expensive, choice! 
 
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In PE, we have been exploring movement and dance in our new Superheroes topic. We have been using poses and actions as our own superhero. Well done Year 3!
 
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Home Practice

 
Continue to read every night. It has been lovely to see everyone bringing in books to share with the class. Dogman is proving popular as well as some exciting books about rocks and space. Everyone is enjoying their reading!
 
On Sumdog we have set some challenges. Continue with the regular practice, our mental maths and explanations have really improved this year. Well done!
 
Your spellings this week all begin with the dis- prefix. 
 
disuse      dislike     disarm      disconnect     discover     disagree     disappoint     disappear    disinfect    disable

Year 3 Blog Friday 13th January 2023

Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 4:06pm

We have had another great week in Year 3! 

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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!

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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.

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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.

Year 4 create their own Map of Africa – Penpol Primary School

 

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.

8 Times Table Song (Cover of Rolling In The Deep by Adele) - YouTube

 

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.

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Year 3 Friday Blog 6th January 2023

Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 12:21pm

Welcome back to your Friday Blog and a Happy New Year!

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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.

The Butterfly Lion | Chichester Festival Theatre

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.

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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.

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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!

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Year 3 Blog Friday 16th December

Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 2:14pm

Happy Christmas Everyone!

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Have a lovely break and we wish you all a peaceful Christmas

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Year 3 Blog Friday 9th December

Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 3:42pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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This week we have enjoyed watching the Nativity performance, enjoyed our Christmas Bingo and watched an amazing drumming masterclass from year 4 and 5. 

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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

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Year 3 Friday Blog 2nd December 2022

Date: 1st Dec 2022 @ 9:13pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog!

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Year 3 Friday Blog 25th November

Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 8:55pm

Happy Friday!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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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!

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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!

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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.

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team 

 

Year 3 Friday 11th November

Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 3:33pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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

 

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Have a great weekend

The Year 3 team

 

Year 3 4th November 2022

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.

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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. 

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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! 

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

 

Online Safety Update

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

 

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Year 3 Friday Blog 14th October 2022

Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 3:54pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

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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.

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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!

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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!

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On Friday we visited Fr Michael for morning mass. The children were fantastic and sat beautifully throughout their first mass in the juniors.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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. 

 

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Have a lovely weekend 

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

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Year 3 Blog 16th September 2022

Date: 16th Sep 2022 @ 1:33pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

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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. 

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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

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Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Online Safety Update

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.

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Year 3 Friday 9th September 2022

Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 3:42pm

Welcome to the first Friday Blog of the school year

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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

 

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