Hello,

This week, the children have enjoyed taking part in lots of activities as part of their curriculum learning.

As mentioned in our previous blog post, Year Three participated in a PDL session on British Values. They produced a beautiful display about Mutual Respect, along with their own prayers for the victims of the Manchester and London attacks. Please see the photos below:

In Guided Reading, Year Three have been studying the play, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The children have learned about stage directions and narration. They have also been taught a variety of other organisational features within play scripts. During the week, the children rehearsed a scene from the play with their peers, then performed it in front of their classmates! Please see the photos below…

In English, the children have drafted and edited their ‘healthy eating’ stories. On Thursday and Friday, the children were then able to publish their picture/story books. We were very impressed by the children’s beautiful handwriting and presentation – there are some excellent examples on our class WAGOLL board! (What A Good One Looks Like).

In Maths, the children have continued to learn about portion sizes as part of their ‘Healthy Eating’ topic, through fraction work. For instance, they have been calculating unitary and non-unitary fractions of amounts e.g. 1/10 of 20 bananas, as well as 3/6 of 18 apples. Can you calculate fractions of ‘amounts’ at home, for example 2/3 of your story books or even 2/5 of your colouring pencils?

We hope you all have a brilliant weekend,

See you on Monday!

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week, the children have been enjoying their work on ‘Healthy Eating’ across the curriculum. For English, Year 3 have been starting to learn about the picture and story book, Doug Lugg Boy Slug, by Peter Bently. In pairs, the children participated in role play and generated a piece of dialogue for their own version of the healthy eating story. They also worked as a team to produce a class word bank filled with a rich variety of verbs, adverbs and expanded noun phrases. Year 3 have produced a selection of engaging character descriptions and dialogues. Well done Year Three!

In Maths, the children have continued their cross-curricular work for our new ‘Healthy Eating’ topic. For instance, they have been learning how to represent fractions and decimals on hundred squares and identify the following: tenths, hundredths, equivalence and ‘equal parts of a whole’. Year Three have enjoyed calculating the size of different farmers’ vegetable patches  (e.g. ‘0.1 of a field is filled with fresh carrots, 2/10 of the field is being used to grow sprouts – how much of the field is being used altogether?’). We were very impressed by the children’s use of problem solving and reasoning during these tasks.

On Thursday, the children enjoyed their PDL session on British Values. Having watched a series of news reports on CBBC’s Newsround, the children were then able to share ideas during group activities and later participate in a class Q and A session about recent events in the UK. The children produced a beautiful display about Mutual Respect and made collages to represent their own cultural identity, along with speech bubbles containing prayers for the victims of the Manchester and London attacks. Photos to follow in next week’s blog post!

We look forward to seeing you all next week,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin.

Hello,

This week, the children have really impressed us with their use of the learning values, Creativity and Collaboration.

In English, the children have enjoyed planning, drafting, editing and publishing a Dragon information page. They have worked very hard to ensure that their writing is detailed, factual and concise. We are very proud of Year Three because they have taken meticulous care with their handwriting and presentation. It has been lovely to celebrate the children’s successes in class – our ‘Wagoll’ board (‘What a Good One Looks Like’) is almost full! Well done Year Three.

In Maths, Year Three have been learning about multiplication and division. They have become more confident in using mental strategies as well as the grid method in order to solve a series of challenging word problems. The children have particularly enjoyed comparing and discussing their workings, as well as deciding upon which methods were more or less efficient and why. Next term, we look forward to learning more about fractions as well as the use of fractions as numbers (e.g. 0.75 = 3/4 ).

On Friday afternoon, the children dressed in bright and colourful non-uniform in order to celebrate the cultural diversity within our school. Please see the photo below…

Thank you to everyone who has produced a range of Dragon Home Learning this term. Please see the photo below for some excellent examples of what the children have created…

We hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable half term,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week, students have been working very hard to improve the presentation of their work across the curriculum. The children have shown pride in what they have produced and have enjoyed celebrating their successes within class. We are very proud of the dedication and commitment that has been demonstrated across both classes this week, very well done Year Three!

In English, the children have been learning the skills required to produce a factual and detailed Dragon information page. They have shown confidence in using fronted adverbials, subordinating conjunctions and technical vocabulary. We have been delighted by the range of key words that the children have included within their writing, and now look forward to planning, drafting and publishing our own Dragon information pages next week.

In Maths, the children have been learning how to convert between the 12 hour and 24 hour clock. Across the week, Year Three were also taught how to calculate different intervals of time, within and across the hour. The children were then given a series of word problems which provided a challenging opportunity to apply the skills taught. We were impressed by the collaboration shown by the children as they worked in pairs to convert between digital and analogue times for each Maths problem.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing more of the children’s Dragon Home Learning next week,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week, the children have continued to explore their new Dragons unit across the school curriculum.

In English, Year 3 visited the ICT suite in order to publish their detailed newspaper articles about a local Dragon sighting. It was clear to see that the children had thought carefully about the 5Ws in their writing: who, what, where, when and why. They have now started to explore their new English unit: writing a Dragon information page. The children were excited to watch factual documentaries, listen to radio podcasts and even create a detailed Dragon key word bank. We look forward to applying the new Dragon vocabulary we have learned within our sentence work next week.

In Maths, the children have been learning about different units of measure. At the start of the week, the children were given the challenge of estimating and measuring the weight and length of different items around the classroom. They have also had the opportunity to apply what they have been taught when solving word problems based upon measurements. For example, the children have been comparing the difference in weight between different Dragon snacks!

It has been lovely to see the detailed Dragon home learning that the children have produced – please see the link below for a copy of the task that the children need to complete this weekend, for Monday:

DRAGON design

We hope you all have a peaceful weekend,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week, the children have taken part in lots of group and paired work in order to support and enrich their learning.

In Maths, Year 3 have continued to learn about shapes. With the support of interactive activities, online videos and measuring tools including angle-eaters, the children have become confident in their classification of lines (horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular). The children have also enjoyed using Geoboards and elastic bands to design shapes that meet a specific criteria, in terms of the type and number of angles required (e.g. right angles, acute and obtuse angles). Both classes showed excellent collaboration when exploring right angles and programming a set of instructions for their beebots. Well done Year Three!

In English, the children have continued their learning about informative newspaper articles. This week, they have been learning about the key elements of a newspaper article (specific detail, direct speech, conjunctions and a chronological order of events). Year Three have now planned, drafted and edited their newspaper articles – they look forward to publishing them on the computers next week!

Today, we have distributed new home learning pyramids for our Dragon topic – please see the link below for the master copy.

Home learning dragons

We hope you have a brilliant weekend,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin.

Hello,

Welcome back to St. Peter’s Catholic primary school! We hope you have all had a lovely Easter break and that your feel refreshed for the new Summer term…

This week, the children have been exploring, experimenting and investigating throughout their learning across the curriculum. In Maths, Year 3 have enjoyed learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Both classes have had many opportunities to explore shape through videos, songs and even card games including Top Trumps. The children were excited to work in teams to produce potato prints of 3D shapes – this helped them to study and compare the number of faces, edges and vertices of each 3D shape. Please see the photos below:

In Science, we have started our new topic called Light and Shadow. During the week, the children worked in groups to conduct an experiment and investigate which classroom materials were the best at blocking a path of light. We were very impressed by the scientific vocabulary used by the children as they were collecting their sets of results! Well done Year Three.

In English, the children have begun to explore their new Dragons topic by learning how to produce an informative blog post and newspaper article about a local dragon sighting! Having found a precious dragon’s egg within their classrooms and watched a series of news reports, Year 3 have confidently produced an informative and detailed account of the key events they witnessed.

We hope you all have a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week the children have enjoyed a range of different activities across their curricular learning.

In English, Year Three have drafted and edited their public speeches as a Roman governor. The children were then given an opportunity to perform the persuasive speeches in front of their peers, taking care to vary their use of facial expressions, gestures and tone of voice so as to engage the audience.

In Maths, the children have enjoyed learning about equivalent fractions and how to represent them in a variety of ways e.g. number lines, drawings and shape pictures. As the week progressed, the children began to study the relationship between the numerator and the denominator. They were then able to apply what they had learned to a range of tricky division bar models.

On Thursday, we had our Year Three D&T day. The children had a brilliant time researching, designing, building and decorating their own Roman forts. We were impressed by the children’s creativity and determination. In particular, Year Three collaborated effectively to saw their wooden batons and build them into secure cubic frames to support their forts. Well done Year Three!

3H Lions Roman Forts

3H Lions Roman Forts

3A Hippos Roman Forts

On Friday, Year Three took part in 6C Day. The children attended an assembly in the morning about the wonderful work of the Hampshire Air ambulance services. In light of the assembly, all of the students visited different classrooms to explore a range of different problem-solving and collaborative activities. Please see the photos below of the Origami Stars challenge…

6C Day origami stars

6C Day origami stars

We hope you all have a lovely Easter. Please see the link below for our weekly RE newsletter.

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See you next term!

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week, the children have been given lots of opportunities to apply the skills they have been taught to a wide variety of challenging contexts.

In English, the children have enjoyed learning how to make a public speech. They have planned their own speeches, as a Roman governor, and now look forward to publishing and performing them with their peers next week! We have been very impressed by the persuasive, engaging and emotive language that has been used across the children’s writing. Well done Year Three!

In Maths, we have looked at how to add, subtract and compare fractions with the same denominator. In particular, Year Three have used fraction walls, number lines and fraction bars in order to show their workings in a variety of ways. Towards the end of the week, the children were able find the difference between two fractions and even solve a series of complex mastery problems. Great work, Year Three!

We would like to thank all of Year 3 for the commitment and creativity that they have shown for Home Learning. It has been lovely to see the children produce models, maps and diagrams to illustrate what they have been learning about the Romans. 

Above: a Lego model of Hadrian’s Wall

Please see the link below for our weekly RE newsletter.

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We wish you all an enjoyable and restful weekend,

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin

Hello,

This week the children have enjoyed a wide variety of Roman challenges across the curriculum.

In English, the children watched Boudicca’s battle speech and then explored a variety of persuasive techniques including exclamation sentences and rhetorical questions. Towards the end of the week, they planned and drafted their own version of Boudicca’s speech. Well done Year Three for producing lots of engaging and persuasive writing!

In Maths, the children have continued to work on addition and subtraction. Specifically, the children were taught how to check the size of their answers and whether or not they had been reasonable (be it through rounding numbers to estimate, or using the inverse to check their answers). Year 3 showed commitment, determination and success when they were given some challenging Roman Maths problems to solve.

We are delighted to see that so many of the children have been excited by their Roman Topic. This is clear to see from some of the detailed and creative Home Learning that has been produced so far…

We look forward to seeing you next week. Please see the link below for our weekly RE newsletter.

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Wishing you all a brilliant weekend.

Miss Honeywell and Mr Austin.