: Blog items
Mondays excerise challenges, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 5:01pm
Here are a few photos from our jigsaw work. We had a go at several exercise challenges, timing how many we could do in 1 minute or how far we could jump etc. We worked hard to practise and see if we could improve our scores.
Week Beginning Monday 16th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:45pm
Hello all,
I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend.
Here is how the week ahead looks:
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Maths |
We are learning about subtraction within twenty and fact families. |
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English |
We are reading The Kiss that Missed by David Melling. We are using joining words in our writing about it. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are learning about silent letters in words. Mrs Coxhead's group are reviewing graphemes that we have found tricky in Phase 5 phonics so far. |
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Guided Reading |
We are working on our inference skills this week. Books will be changed on Friday as normal. |
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PE |
We are continuing to work on our throwing and catching skills and developing bouncing skills. |
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Jigsaw |
We are continuing our relationships topic. |
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Class Assembly |
Thank you for beginning to learn lines for our class assembly. We will be practising this ahead of the performance on Wednesday 25th April (apologies for the confusion with this). |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Mrs Coxhead
Families, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:33pm
In our Jigsaw lesson, we were learning about what makes a family. We started by finding the rest of our animal family by only making animal noises (no words).
Castles Research, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:25pm
We researched some information about castles. We looked at photos, illustrations and books.
Easter Bonnets, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:11pm
Look at our wonderful bonnets. Apologies for the delay - it’s still seasonal though!
Picture News , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 11:07pm
Dear parents
Picture News is a resource we use in our assemblies to share and dicusss with the children.
This week our assembly was titled, 'Who does the World belong to?' This also linked with our assembly about 'Earth Day'.
A Picture News - home resources is attached to this blog. Please look out for a parent mail giving you more infomation and look back at the blog each week to find out more about the news topics we will be exploring in school.
Mrs Catterall
The SUMMER term, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 10:57pm
Welcome back to our final term of Year 3. I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable Easter holidays, I'm looking forward to reading all about them in your holiday apssports this weekend.
We have had a lovely week back in class, writing newspaper reports on Jack and the Beanstalk and a description of a robot, addition, subtraction multiplication and division in Maths, suffixes in spelling and reading an extract from Stig of the Dump and ordering biography information about its author Clive King. In the afternoons we have been completing our Jigsaw unit on being healthy, lots of sports activities on Monday, discussions about medicines and smoking as well as keeping safe in our homes.
I have uploaded our curriculum overview and Summer term letter to the main class page. They can also be found on the parent notice board in the classroom window.
Trip information was sent out via parent mail this week and letters were also put in homework bags.
Mrs Catterall
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 4:10pm
As part of our geography work we read the story Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. In the story the it rains orange juice,snows mashed potato and storms hamburgers! We discussed what this would feel like and thought ,sounds good but maybe not! Especially when it all goes wrong and the food becomes huge and stays the same. We designed our own Island of Stew and used a key to add things, we came up with some great ideas.
We also really enjoyed looking on Google Earth at Longton, we zoomed in on the school, the park and the Brickcroft as well as the village itself ,discussing what we could see. They were all super to keen to find their houses but obviously weall could not. Have a go at the weekend exploring Google Earth and see what you can find out about where you live.
Pe fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 9:59pm
The Penguins enjoyed an afternoon outside practising their catching and hand eye coordination skills. Some good skill and lots of enthusiasm!!
Anyone for tennis?, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 9:53pm
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Well done to the Year 3 and 4 tennis teams who took part on Wednesday in a tennis tournament at Sourh Ribble tennis centre. We had a mixed bag of results with some wins, draw and losses. They all said they had really enjoyed it and they showed a good competeitive streak and excellent team spirit. Well done again👍🙂
Buddy time, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 12th Apr 2018 @ 3:31pm
We had a buddy time this afternoon. We had free choice and then meditation.
Writing fairy stories, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Apr 2018 @ 6:59pm
This weeks story is 3 little pigs. So we've all had a go at writing the story. We are also making a castle for the giant in Jack and the beanstalk.
Welcome back after Easter, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 11th Apr 2018 @ 6:56pm
Hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday. We've a fun filled half term all about fairy tales planned. We've been number crazy and having fun take a look.
Welcome back!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Apr 2018 @ 7:07pm
I hope the children have all had a good rest and most seem to be fully recovered from all their coughs and colds , thank goodness!
This Week the children have been enjoying the story The Monster Machine and have been busy creating horrible monster recipes which, when put in a machine, makes monsters. We had fun today drawing and describing the types of monsters that they had created. Tomorrow we are going to think about the monster land where they live.
In Maths we have been adding, using our knowledge of number bonds to try to help. Tomorrow we will be adding 2 digit numbers together by partitioning.
We started our Geography work on weather today, looking at the different types of weather, what we can do in that weather and what our favourite weather is.
We also looked at a map of the United Kingdom and discussed the 4 countries that make it up and also the 4 compass points. We had fun acting out different weather, using props for others to guess what the weather was and why. Can you guess?!
Week beginning 9th April, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 8th Apr 2018 @ 5:47pm
I hope you haave all had a lovely break.
The curriculum overview for this half term is on the class page for you to see. Below are a few highlights for the week ahead.
This week we will be using the book The Moushole Cat by Antonia Barber as the stimulus for our English lessons, starting on Monday revising noun phrases.
Our spelling focus is words ending in cian, sion, tion, ssion
Maths this week will be looking at equivalent fractions and decimals
We will be learning about rivers in readiness for our trip to Cuerden Valley next week.
As well as PE, ICT,RE, Art and Jigsaw we will be rehearsing our production.
It is going to be a busy wekk.
Week Beginning Monday 9th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 7th Apr 2018 @ 5:05pm
Hello all,
I hope you had a happy Easter!
Here's the plan for next week:
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Maths |
We will be reasoning using addition and number bonds. |
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English |
We will be reading Good Knight, Sleep Tight by David Melling. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group will be reviewing alternative pronounciations for 'ou' and learning alternative pronounciations for 'e' and 'ey'. Mrs Coxhead's group will be learning about 'soft C' and an alternative pronounciation for 'g'. |
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History/Geography/Art |
We are researching castles, locating castles in the UK and recreating Paul Clee's Castle and Sun. |
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We are catching balls and developing travelling skills. |
Look out for topic letters in book bags this week. Also, I may send home lines for class assembly so look out for those too.
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.
Many thanks,
Mrs Coxhead
Science Week, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:45pm
Our Science week was full of exploration. Our theme was rocks. Here are a few photos to show what we got up to.
Maths - shape activities, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:43pm
Vote, pupil,voice, issues which are important to us., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:41pm
In class we have been discussing issues in the news. As part of this work the children had to create a poster to campaign for an issue that was important to them, something they would like to see change. The children had some amazing ideas, I am very proud of their commitment to understand some big issues in the world and care about how these will effect them in the future.
Our Stone Age presentations., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:33pm
We have thoroughly enjoyed our Stone Age topic this half term. The children worked in groups to research an aspect of Stone Age life and then presented it to the rest of the class.
We had making of Stone Age clothes, a Stonehenge PowerPoint, Stone Age recipe books, some painting of Stone Age animals, a model of a camp etc.
Rock cake baking, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 29th Mar 2018 @ 9:29pm
Our Spring term baking was linked to our Stone Age topic. We made rock cakes, we adapted the recipe to add red jam to make it more Stone Age. I'm sure you can imagine what it represented! There was plenty to go around and we enjoyed a great rock cake feast.
Science friday, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 9:27pm
This morning we thought about and read the Easter story. Then we looked at the spring flowers that Mrs Hothersall had brought into class. We thought about what they needed to grow......then we put the flowers into water with a few drops of food colouring and watched in amazement as they drank up the water and changed colour.
Football , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 12:45pm
Yesterday the A team played in an inter school tournament, we won 2 and drew 1,there was a great team spirit. We have one more round after Easter we will keep you updated.Nicholas an the team
Fun Friday, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 12:37pm
We finished our fantastic plants today and wrote instructions on how to grow them.If you want a chocolate tree, unicorn tree or a pond tree ,see the Penguins!
We also had fun designing a lab coat for a scientist.
Hope you all have a good break, enjoy your Easter eggs and are all cough free next term!
Science Week Day 5, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 10:51am
After our last session of orienteering we have turned back into scientists. This morning we are investigating accidental discoveries. We are learning about artificial sweeteners and Coca Cola!
