Year 3

Miss Purewal

Email address: purewal.h1@welearn365.com

This term, pupils will take part in Swimming lessons at Southam leisure centre and have PE on Fridays. 

 

Learning Celebration - Sewing Skills Development

This week, Year 3 welcomed their parents and carers into school to help them develop their sewing skills! The children practised doing both a running stitch and a cross-stitch. This is so that they can create some bunting to promote taking care of the environment as part of their Rivers and Mountains theme.

Severn Trent Water Workshop

As part of our Spring Theme - Rivers and Mountains - Year 3 pupils have been learning all about the water cycle. A visitor from Severn Trent Water helped the children to conduct an investigation on how much water different families may use. 

Wellbeing Event

On Thursday, our Y3 pupils and our Y5/6 Wellbeing ambassadors took part in an event held at Newbold Comyn Leisure Centre. Children were invited to try out different activities that could help them feel happier and promote good well-being. 

Year 3 Christmas Service

Year 3 performed the end of year Christmas church service, retelling the story of the very first Christmas and encouraging everyone to show the values for family, respect, forgiveness and love this Christmas. They sung some festive carols which made everyone feel warm and Christmassy! Merry Christmas from Year 3! 

NRICH Rich Task - Strike It Out

Pupils took part in a Rich Task for Maths today. The children had to watch 2 people play a numbers game and work out what the rules are. Pupils then came up with a list of rules and played the game for themselves. They realised the game only ends when a player cannot complete their number sentence. 

 

Stone Age Visitor

On Friday, pupils were visited by The History Guy, who lead the children through a day in the Stone Age. Pupils learnt about the development of the early humans, handled artefacts and clothing from the Stone Age, created their own cave paintings using chalk and charcoal, and built their own Stone Age tools.

Science - Rocks Specialist Visit

In Science this week, Year 3 children welcomed Rock Specialist, Mrs West, to our classroom. The children enjoyed learning more about different types of rocks and fossils. They took time to handle and identify rocks, and draw and label fossils. They asked lots of questions to our visiting scientist!

Rich Task - Counter Design

The Children took part in an NRICH Rich Task for their Maths this week. Pupils had to use counters and make a design, and the rest of their team had to use their maths questioning skills to work to together and try to replicate the same order and number of counters that the designers had. The children really enjoyed working out the right questions to ask to help them figure out the sequence! 

 

Personal Best Festival 

Year 3 pupils attended the Personal Best Festival at the Kingsley School playing Fields - they enjoyed taking part in all the different sports activities that were ran by wellbeing ambassadors from different schools in the area. 

Forest School Masterclass

Half of our Year 3 pupils are currently enjoying the autumnal weather in our forest school masterclass! 

Learning Celebration - Planning a storyboard

Year 3 pupils held their first learning celebration of the year, where they told their parents/carers the story of Stone Age Boy. Children then used a storyboard to plan out a narrative about them going back in time to the Stone Age and what they would get up to. 

Theme - The Stone Age

Ever wondered how long the Stone Age lasted for? In our timeline lesson, the children demonstrated how long the Stone Age went on for compared to how old they are, using a whole roll of toilet tissue! Safe to say, the Stone Age was an extremely long period in time! Pupils learned that there are 3 main eras of the stone age. 

PSHE

The children have been learning about building relationships and working together as part of our PSHE lessons. Pupils played the name game, rolling the ball to each other and saying the name of who they would like to go next. Children also shared their favourite things to do/eat/visit in small mixed groups. 

Cooking and Nutrition Masterclass!

Some Year 3 Pupils took part in their first cooking masterclass of the year, with some fantastic and tasty results! Pupils excelled in their cutting and chopping skills. 

Off to a Great Start! 

Year 3 undertook their first RE lesson of the year where the focus is why nature and the seasons are so important when talking about religious worldviews. We discussed how nature affects us and what our favourite places in nature are and why. Children drew these places in their books.