Our blogs
The Gruffalo week, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 10:04pm
Our theme this half term is 'who is Julia Donaldson'. This week we have focused on the story The Gruffalo. We have been thinking about words and what they mean......astounding. We are focusing each week on a number, this week it is number 1.
Take a look at some of our fun.
Parents in class, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 9:25pm
It was lovely to welcome our visitors to the elephant tribe yesterday to observe our Jigsaw lesson. We enjoyed showing you some of the activities we do and hope you enjoyed the session and taking part in some of the games.
Our lesson was to think about how we are similar to others and we started to make some gingerbread men showing this on T-shirts. We think they look fantastic.😊
Welcome back, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 5:24pm
What a busy start to the term! Yesterday, Mr Allcock came to share his expertise on Space. He explained the phases of the moon, what gravity is and helped us to order the planets in our solar system.
Thank you to the parents that came into class to see our Jigsaw lesson.
Parents in class - Jigsaw, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 7:38am
Thanks you to all the Parents who joined us for our Jigsaw lesson yesterday, The children loved having you in class.
Firework Poster Competition, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 31st Oct 2018 @ 7:34am
Thanks you to everyone who entered the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Firework and Bonfire Safety competition.
They have been submitted to Leyland. Fingers crossed we have a winning entry amoung us.
I was very impressed with the entries.
The next 2 weeks ahead, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Oct 2018 @ 9:27pm
In the lead up to Remembrance next Friday we will be focusing on WW1 and having a themed 2 weeks. This work will also form part of our Class Assembly which will be on Thursday 8th November at 9am.
Maths - This week we will focusing on our times tables.
Jigsaw - Families (Parents in class)
English - Stories - Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo, Peace Lily, Flo and the Somme, Where the poppies now grow. Learning the poem 'In Flanders' Fields'.
Grammar - Present perfect forms of verbs.
P.E. Swimming, Dance - Last Post.
WW1 areas we will explore - Animals, Nurses, first aid, pocket bears, Homefront - jobs of the women and children.
Stainglass window art. Painting a commemorative pebble.
Parents in class - Tuesday, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Oct 2018 @ 9:12pm
Tomorrrow afternoon parents are invitied into class to share in our Jigsaw Lesson.
This half term our Unit of work is all about Celebrating Difference.
This week's lesson will focus on Families.
Hope to see you tomorrow, 2-3pm.
Buddhism Day, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Oct 2018 @ 2:48pm
On Friday we spent the day learning all about Buddhism. Watching Jakata tales and thinking about the messages they were giving. Drawing pictures of a Buddha. Researching and making posters about the ferstival of Wesak. Discussing what we think different Buddhist saying might mean and how they might relate to our own lives. Making a wesak lantern.
Football news, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Oct 2018 @ 3:28pm
The past 3 weeks we have been attending school football matches representing our schools A team . There are two teams A@B so far we have played 6 games won 3 and lost 3 😞 . We will also be playing after February for another 3 weeks because we will have our winter break .
The B team have been working hard and the team has been rotating every week. We have all enjoyed the games and kept going.
by Mason and Oliver B 🙃
Wow!, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Oct 2018 @ 11:51am
Wow what a week the Bongos have had!
We had another wonder moment this week . During an English lesson the children watched a short clip from Wednesdays BBC documentary Without Limits: Australia. A short lesson thinking about empathy turned into an epic wonderful writing activity. The reluctant Bongos asked to write! A real wonder moment for myself and Mr Kennedy. And boy have they written! Each veteran in the film will be receiving a letter from a child in the class. Dean from Australia has already tweeted us to say thank you for watching the programme.
Friday morning has been circuit building and recording using symbols learnt earlier in the week. There is a real enthusiasm in the room today. Well done Bongos.
Homework is the holiday passports, most of the children must still have them at home so please can they be done and returned to school in early November.
Happy Half Term
A few photos of the week, by Miss Leigh
Date: 19th Oct 2018 @ 9:07am
It’s been a busy half term. Here are a few photos from the term.
Have a a great half term, Tigers. You’ve worked super hard this term and we are proud of you.
Enterprise, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 8:07pm
Thursdays are busy days in year 3 but we still managed to make 100 marshmallow kebabs.
Thank you to everyone who bought one, sorry if we ran out and you didn't get one. We had bought out all the local supermarkets supply of the marshmallows.
We made just over £80. The children will now have to discuss and decide what they would like to spend the money on.
thanks again.
PSHE Jigsaw - Carrot cars, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 8:01pm
This week we developed our team work skills by joining ideas and making a carrot car to race across the hall. We also had to deal with disappointment if our team's car fell apart.
Cheese tasting, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 7:57pm
Each week we have been looking at a different food group. This week we focused on dairy - cheese. We found out all about how cheese is made and then tasted different types of cheese recording their strengths, colour, texture and whether or not we liked them. I was really impressed with their 'I'll give it a try attitude'.
Not many pictures as we were too busy eating!
Christmas card designs, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 7:55pm
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 7:53pm
I have been so impressed with all the projects, you have obviously put a great deal of thought and time into them. Well done.
Maths - measuring, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 7:47pm
We took advantage of the nice weather and practiced our measuring skills outside.
Are science week , by Miss Reynolds
Date: 18th Oct 2018 @ 3:14pm
This week we have been doing science experiments and it has been eggcellent. (Don’t you get it .) On Tuesday we did an egg experiment. We had to boil eggs from 0 to 11 minutes and see which one made the most damage. We dropped each egg and the egg that was boiled for 0 minutes had the least damage, it didn’t even break! The next day,we learnt a lot of s word ,here are a few. Solvent, suspension ,insolation ,salute ,Solvent ,suspension and solution.
here is a rap that Jolie and Saskia.Solvent is a liquid salute is a solid you better get that in your head so you remember that yeah. On Thursday we Worked with electricity and Conductivity.Try to find out which materials electricity flows through and makes energy.
by Saskia and Jolie
Fun at the Brickcroft, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 16th Oct 2018 @ 5:48pm
We had a lovely walk to the Brickcroft this morning. We were great at spotting signs of Autumn and found some lovely coloured leaves. We fed the hungry ducks and then we had a feed too ( of course the chocolate biscuit was the best bit!)
A big thank you to all our helpers who came along too.
Exploring Longton , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Oct 2018 @ 3:50pm
We enjoyed helping Jigsaw Jack find out all about Longton today, we even went to the park.
We are looking forward to telling him all about the Brickcroft tomorrow and feeding the ducks of course!
Harvest 2018, by Mrs Brown
Date: 14th Oct 2018 @ 11:56am
Thank you to everybody who joined us for the Harvest Service and also for the generous donations. All the food items have now been shared out between local residents, resdidential homes and the food bank.
Reading, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 12th Oct 2018 @ 4:37pm
In guided reading this morning we were searching for new vocabulary and trying to work out the meaning of the word using the text and the root of the word. We have decided to use some of these new words in our writing next week. Some of us were reading for pleasure.
Have a good weekend and try and find some time to read for pleasure.
More senses fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Oct 2018 @ 9:09pm
We did some fab sketches of the Mona Lisa by Da Vinci , we remembered how to sketch the face parts and used our skills and our drawings were amazing.
We had a great time today tasting different foods and deciding what we thought it would taste like. Some were nicer than others!
We were also busy clopping up and preparing vegetables to make a delicious curry, We tasted it this afternoon and it was fantastic!
No pencil Wednesday , by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Oct 2018 @ 8:42pm
For 3 lessons today the children were not allowed to use pencil, paper or any other writing implements. The first session involved lining up as a class in response to different criteria such as month of birthday. The tricky part of this was that no talking was allowed . The Bongos rose to this challenge magnificently and communicated through gestures and by guiding each other into position. Real teamwork in action. The next lesson was English. After watching clips of storytellers in action the children worked in pairs to tell stories. They used picture books and stories they were familiar with and videoed their efforts on iPads. The final session involved one person describing a shape which their partner had to identify. Once correctly identified a counter was placed on the shape mat.
Discussing the day the children said that they had missed being able to plan their stories with a pencil but they felt they had used other skills such as listening, teamwork and speaking really well.
