Welcome to 3Sparrows' Class Page 2022/23
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STAFF:
Teachers in our class are Mrs Johnson, Miss Rostron, Mrs Jones, Mrs Boyd, Mrs Buksh and Mrs Berry.
UPCOMING EVENTS...:
Wednesday 29th March: Easter Service in church
Thursday 30th March: Last day to send in entries for the Decorate an egg competition.
Friday 31st March: Easter Egg Raffle
Friday 31st March: Finish at 1pm
Half the class did Forest School on a Monday afternoon in Spring 1
and the other children will go to Forest School in Spring 2.
Every Tuesday morning at 8.40am we would like to invite parents
into class to read with their child for 15 minutes every Tuesday.
The sessions will finish at 8.55am.
We are looking forward to seeing you at these reading sessions.
Thank you to all the parents who have attended so far.
PE DAYS:
PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays. Please bring your PE kit in on Mondays and Wednesdays only.
READING:
Please bring your reading book to school every day so we can read with you.
Please read a few pages at home every day and ask an adult to sign your reading record.
CURRICULUM LETTER:
Here is our Spring curriculum letter so you can see what we were learning about this term:
y3 spring curriculum letter 2023
SPELLINGS:
Here are our spellings for Spring 2 half term.
There are three groups for spellings and your child should know which group they are in.
Spellings are tested each Friday with the dates shown on the sheet:
year 3 spelling spring 2 2023
EXTRA LEARNING:
Here are some apps our children have logins for at home. These apps will help support their learning in school. The times tables are particularly helpful to help improve speed at their times tables, ready for the Year 4 test in June.
MATHSFLEX TIMESTABLE ROCKSTARS READING EGGS
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https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 | https://ttrockstars.com/ | https://readingeggs.co.uk/
SPRING 2 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:
In Spring 2 we will cover the theme “Lightning Speed”.
Lightning Speed” is a thematic unit based around the history
and development of the internet and World Wide Web,
with a focus on computing. It primarily looks at how computers communicate,
the importance of networks, how email works and how the internet enables collaboration.
Reading:
In Spring 2 our 5 Reads books that we read in story time each day are:
The Sea Saw by Tom Percival
Gorilla by Anthony Browne.
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
Scissorella by Clare Helen Welsh and Laura Barrett
The Zebra’s Great Escape by Katherine Rundell
Our class novels we are also reading in English lessons and Class Novel time are:
The Creakers by Tom Fletcher
The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin
PHOTOS:
Amazing Events we have done in Spring 2:
On Tuesday 21st it was World Downs Syndrome Day so we wore odd socks
to celebrate the day and brought in donations:
On Tuesday 21st March we went out litter picking for the Keep Britain Tidy campaign:
On Friday 17th March it was Comic Relief Day. We wore red clothes and brought in £1 to raise money
for people all over the world. Some of us also made red noses at home:
3j red nose 2023
On Friday 17th March we made cards for our mums for Mother's Day
to show them how much we love them:
On Tuesday 14th March it was Science Day.
We investigated if taller people have bigger feet than shorter people.
We measured our heights and feet sizes and did a bar chart to display our results:
On Wednesday 8th March we did our class assembly on Respect in front of our parents.
We acted out The Good Samaritan Story, talked about how we show respect
and that we should respect everyone. We sang When I needed a Neighbour.
It was an emotional assembly with a strong message.
Thank you to all the parents that came to support our assembly.
Every week we go out and have a fabulous time in Forest School.
We go out whatever the weather and have great fun exploring and learning in the great outdoors:
Tree spirits:
Whittling:
On Thursday 2nd March it was World Book Day.
We dressed up as book characters, read lots of books and wrote book reviews.
We shared the story Perfectly Norman by Tom Percival.
We wrote about things that we are wonderful at on a snowflake and
celebrated our similarities and differences.
We made book characters out of potatoes at home and Adun won:
3J WBD SNOWFLAKE DISPLAY 2023
Our learning:
Theme: Our theme unit in Spring 2 is called Lightning Speed.
In this unit we will look at the history and development of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:
In Theme today we have been learning that servers for the internet are all over the world.
We learned how to send an e-mail and receive an e-mail.
Then we looked at how Mrs Johnson puts information on the school website:
In PSHCE we discussed e-safety and how to stay safe online.
We did a quiz to check our understanding:
in PSHCE we discussed secrets and how we would feel if our secrets were stolen:
We made a human LAN to illustrate how the network works
and the job role of the server, switch and devices:
We identified the difference between the internet and the WWW:
We went on a network hunt around school
looking for evidence of the school's LAN. (Local Area Network):
We discussed all the different ways we can communicate:
3j communicate 2023
In Science we are learning about electricity.
We explored the equipment and made a complete circuit to make a bulb light up:
In RE we are exploring the sadness and joy of the Easter story.
We made palm leaves and acted out the Palm Sunday story:
In RE we thought about emotions throughout the Easter story:
3J EASTER DISPLAY 2023
In PE we are developing our fitness skills:
In PE we are working on net and wall games:
Week 1: fancy footwork:
Week 2:throwing and catching:
Week 3: racket skills:
Week 4: practising our forehand:
In PE we did some yoga:
In Computing we are developing our coding skills using the website CS First.
We took our sprite for a walk, added sounds, changed the background and lots more:
In music we are still developing our drumming skills:
In maths we have been working on statistics:
SPRING 1 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:
In Spring 1 we spent 2 weeks finishing the theme “A World of Difference”.
“A World of Difference” was a thematic unit based around world religions.
It looked at the following faiths:- Buddhism, Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, examining aspects such as
places of worship, holy books, core beliefs and important festivals.
Then we did a 3 week theme unit called "Three Giant Steps."
“Three Giant Steps ” was a thematic unit based around three contrasting locations, with a key focus on geography.
We continued to develop our sense of place in the world by studying three focus places:-
Dover, France and Canada (The French Connection!).
We identified the position of all three places in the world, along with climate, capital city, time zone,
population and area. We will also learn about the human and physical geography of each place.
Reading:
In Spring 1 our 5 Reads books that we read in story time each day are:
The Green Ship by Quentin Blake
Elephant Island by Leo Timmers
Small in the City by Sydney Smith
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Never Tickle a Tiger by Pamela Butchart
Our class novels we were also reading in English lessons and Class Novel time were:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin
PHOTOS:
Amazing Events we have done in Spring 1:
On Friday 17th February we wore our own clothes
and brought in £1 to help raise money for those affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria:
Turkey own clothes day
On Tuesday 14th February every child received a heart that said something lovely about them
and then we sent our own hearts to people we love:
On Thursday 9th February we celebrated Children's Mental Health Week.
We read the story The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
and discussed who we are connected to. We
then drew pictures to show who we were connected to:
On Tuesday 7th February we took part in Safer Internet Day.
We discussed online issues and talked about how to stay safe online:
NSPCC Number Day: Friday 3rd February
We took part in a TTRS assembly. Asad represented year 3 and
did a fabulous job answering questions in front of the whole school.
We all wore our best rockstar outfits and took part in a TTRS competition online:
On Tuesday 31st January we represented our school and did a
showcase Commando Joe session for some visitors. They were very impressed with us:
Every week half of us go out and have a fabulous time in Forest School.
We go out whatever the weather and have great fun exploring and learning in the great outdoors:
Our learning:
Theme: Our first theme unit in Spring 1 is called A World of Difference.
In this unit we will look at different religions and compare them.
Our second unit in Spring 1 is called 3 Giant Steps.
“Three Giant Steps ” is a thematic unit based around three contrasting locations,
Dover, France and Canada, with a key focus on geography.
Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:
In English we read the story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and did lots of work based on it.
We then watched the film to see how it compared with the book:
In class worship we have been discussing creativity:
3j class worship creativity 2023
In theme we did our own research about different cities in Canada:
In theme we found out about the Tour De France.
We then in groups researched 5 cities in France and presented our findings to the class:
In theme we learned about Dover. We then did some art work of the White Cliffs of Dover:
3j Dover display 2023
We continue to go in the library each week to celebrate our love of reading:
In theme we looked at diversity and discussed how important it is. We discussed how everyone is unique.
We looked at Google maps and found where different places of worship were in Bolton.
We then looked at the world and found how many Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists
and Jews are worshipping in the world and some of the countries in which they worship:
In theme we looked at Jewish festivals. We sang a Hannukah song in Hebrew
and we tried to do the traditional Jewish Horah circle dance:
In English we are learning about instructions.
We followed instructions to write our own rice krispie cakes:
We then wrote our own instructions for others to follow:
Instructions jan 2023
In Science we learned the words opaque, translucent and transparent and
did an investigation to find out which material would be the best for curtains and why:
In Science we investigated what happens to a shadow
when we change the distance away from the light source:
In Computing we are using a website called Computer First to develop our coding skills:
In PE on a Monday we are developing our fitness skills by doing a circuit.
We completed lots of different activities using different equipment in a circuit.
In PE on a Wednesday we have been making dances based on natural disasters:
Earthquakes:
Emotions:
Natural disasters:
Tornadoes:
Tsunamis:
Volcanoes:
In RE we are learning about the prophets and how they were called to God.
We made a burning bush to show the time God spoke to Moses:
Burning bush jan 2023
In Music we are still developing our drumming skills:
In maths we used paint to develop our maths skills:
AUTUMN 2 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:
In Autumn 2 our first theme was called “May the Force Be with You”.
It is a scientific theme unit where we learn about forces and magnets. We will learn:
A. To know how things move on different surfaces
B. To know that and observe how some forces need contact between
two objects and some forces act at a distance
C. To know that and observe how magnets attract or repel
each other and attract some materials and not others
D. To describe magnets as having two poles
E. To predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other,
depending on which poles are facing
F. To compare and group together a variety of everyday
materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials.
In Autumn 2 our second theme was called “A World of Difference”.
“A World of Difference” is a thematic unit based around world religions.
It looks at the following faiths:- Buddhism, Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, examining aspects such as
places of worship, holy books, core beliefs and important festivals.
Reading:
In Autumn 2 our 5 Reads books that we read in story time each day were:
The Proudest Blue by Malala Yousafzai
Lights on Cotton Rock by David Litchfield
Hortense and the Shadow by Lauren and Natalie O'Hara
You're Called What? by Kes Grey
In Every House on Every Street by Jess Hitchman
Our class novels we are also reading in English lessons and Class Novel time were:
Zoo by Anthony Browne
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin
PHOTOS:
Amazing Events we have done in Autumn 2:
Aisha K read the most times at home and won a book prize:
3j aut 2 reading winner 2022
On Wednesday 21st December we did some Christmas artwork:
On Tuesday 20th December it was our Christmas party day.
We played pass the parcel, musical bumps, musical statues, musical chairs and corners.
We had a dance competition.
We sang Christmas songs.
We ate party food.
We had a fabulous time:
On Monday 19th December we went to The Octagon Theatre.
We watched A Christmas Carol:
On Friday 9th December we went to visit the Shree Krishna Temple in
Bolton to look at a Hindu place of worship.
It was a beautiful place to visit and we learned lots:
On Thursday 8th December it was our Christmas Fair.
We had a wonderful time playing games and meeting Father Christmas:
On Tuesday 6th December it was our reading afternoon in the library.
Thank you to all the mums, dads and grandmas that came to read with their child.
It was brilliant to see:
On Friday 2nd December we wore our Christmas jumpers to raise money
for Save the Children then we went to the Victoria Halls to the Mayor's Christmas Concert
where we listened to and sang Christmas songs with an orchestra and a choir. It was amazing:
On Thursday 1st December it was Christmas Dinner Day.
We shared lunch with our friends and our teachers:
On Wednesday 30th November we went to church
to celebrate the start of Advent:
On Friday 25th November 8 children from Year 3
attended a dodgeball tournament and had a great time:
On Monday 21st November we made Christmas cards
to give to the elderly people in our local care home:
On Friday 18th November it was author afternoon.
Years 3 and 4 had a lovely time going into different classrooms
looking at and doing different activities about 4 non-fiction books:
England Rocks
As part of Maths Week we participated in a KS2 competition on
Monday 14th November to Wednesday 16th November.
Unfortunately we were not the winning class.
On Friday 11th November we attended a Youth Summit Workshop
about the Power of Creativity. It was very interesting:
We attended a Houses of Parliament talk and debating workshop on Tuesday 8th November.
We had a great time and learned lots:
On Tuesday 8th November year 3 participated in a debate in the style of a discussion
in the Houses of Commons and had great fun:
Our learning:
Theme: Our first theme unit in Autumn 2 is called May the Force be with you.
In this unit we look at forces and magnets.
Our second unit in Autumn 2 is called A World of Difference.
In this unit we will look at different religions and compare them.
Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:
In class worship each week we discussed our value Love:
3j class worship love 2022
In theme we took part in a Buddhist Meditation.
It was very calm and relaxing:
In art we found out elephants were important to Hindus.
We drew a picture of an elephant and decorated it.
Then we painted a sunset background and put them together:
In theme we found out that Hindus believe in reincarnation.
We imagined what we would be if we were reincarnated.
In computing we wrote about it and inserted an image:
In computing we made an insert for a Christmas card using Word.
We made Christmas tree Christmas cards using our paint and our fingers:
In science we are learning about light.
We investigated how we need light in order to see something:
We investigated which materials are reflective:
We looked at how mirrors worked and reflected light using a mirror.
We then used a mirror to draw a self portrait.
It was quite difficult and the writing was reversed!:
In science we are still learning about forces and magnets:
3j science working wall forces 2022
In science we did an investigation about gravity and
explored what impact weight had on falling time:
In science we did an investigation looking at different poles on
bar magnets and if they attracted are repelled each other:
In English we are reading Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
We acted out a news report about what had happened so far in the book:
We watched the film the Iron Giant and compared it to the Iron Man book:
In English we read the story Zoo by Anthony Browne
and discussed if zoos are good or bad.
We wrote a letter to Rishi Sunak asking him to improve the zoos in England:
In maths we are learning to tell the time on an analogue clock:
In maths we are learning to do column addition and column subtraction
after we did them practically first:
In RE we are learning about how Harvest is celebrated in our lives,
in the UK and around the world.
Look at this website to find out more:
http://www.harvestfestivals.net/harvestfestivals.htm
In RE we learned about the Jewish festival of Sukkot.
We made our own Sukkah shelters:
Sukkot 3j 2022
In music we used some of the samba instruments to follow a rhythm:
In Music we played our bamboo tamboos to a Christmas song:
In PE we are learning about invasion games.
We practised different tactics for playing an invasion game:
We practised dribbling:
We practised overhead chest bounce passes:
We practised attacking and defending:
We practised hockey skills:
In French we were learning the song 'Deux petits oiseaux'
and made finger puppets of Fifi and Blanche to help us sing the song:
Commando Joe: We are developing our independence and resilience with Commando Joe.
With Commando Joe we had to lead our blindfolded
partner over an obstacle course. It was quite tricky!:
With Commando Joe we had to use lots of different resources
to make a map of the world:
With Commando Joe we had to use lots of different resources
to make a bridge across the river that the whole class could stand on:
With Commando Joe we worked in groups to
design and build a model of the Eiffel Tower:
With Commando Joe we made a plan of a pyramid that
had our treasures inside like the pyramids in Egypt. We set up
traps to try to protect our treasures:
With Commando Joe we had to work in teams.
One team had to collect the missing equipment
and the other team was blindfolded
and had to try to stop the equipment being taken:
AUTUMN 1 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:
In Autumn 1 our theme was called “Law and Order”.
It is a thematic unit, based on the concept of justice, with a key focus on citizenship.
Pupils will look at the importance of leadership and the meaning of democracy and its origins, before
moving on to how this applies practically in communities, both school-wide, locally and nationally.
It finishes by recognising issues of justice, rights and responsibilities in their own setting and the wider world.
In Autumn 1 our class novels and books we read in story time were:
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Murpurgo
PHOTOS:
Amazing Events we have done in Autumn 1:
We did a Creative Challenge at home based on
what we had learned in our Law and Order topic:
3j law and order creative challenge 2022
Aisha K read the most times at home and won a book prize:
3j read at home winner aut 1 2022
On Monday 17th October we were lucky to have the Mayor of Bolton
visit our school to tell us all about his role in Bolton Council:
On Thursday 6th October it was National Poetry Day we shared an acrostic poem called Pollution
teaching us about how we should look after the environment.
We read it, added actions to it and performed it to each other:
On Wednesday 5th October we went to church for our Harvest service:
We had a fabulous time at the Anderton Centre on Tuesday 27th Spetember.
Here are some photos of us climbing trees:
Here are some photos of us doing archery:
Here are some photos of us paddling our boats on the reservoir:
We watched a fabulous music concert by some music teachers:
Each week we visit our class library:
We did two pieces of work on transition day which
we stuck together to show we are a team and we all fit together:
3j all about me displays 2022
Our learning:
Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:
In class worship each week we discussed our value Friendship:
3j class worship friendship 2022
Theme: Our theme unit in Autumn 1 is called Law and Order.
In this unit we have look at rules, leaders, democracy and keeping safe.
In drama we explored being the leader and the follower and discussed which one we liked to be and why.
We then discussed what qualities are needed to be a good leader.:
In drama we practised what would happen if we broke the rules:
In PSHCE we planned a teaching experience and taught the class something.
Some of us found it difficult to be the teacher and some of us loved it:
In art we followed the rule of thirds to produce a lovely piece of art:
3j rule of thirds display 2022
Science: We were learning about forces in science.
In Science we did an investigation to find out
which surface had the most friction for a toy car:
In Science we explored different materials with a magnet
to find out which materials are magnetic:
Computing: We were learning about e-safety in computing.
We looked up ourselves online to make sure we were bring safe online:
Music: We do drumming every week with Mr Simpson.
We learned how to copy a rhythm:
We learned how to follow the beat:
PE: We were doing gymnastics in PE.
We learned how to do forward rolls:
We learned how to do different jumps:
We learned how to do squat jumps and vaulting:
We learned how to do handstands and cartwheels:
We learned how to do gymnastic sequences:
RE: We are learning about what rules we follow in RE.
We imagined what rules we would make if we were the King or Queen of England:
3j rules to follow display 2022
English: In English we were reading the poem If I were King by A. A. Milne,
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo and
The Twits by Roald Dahl.
We ordered the words of the poem If I were King.
Then we added actions and performed the poem:
Then we wrote our own version of the poem If I were King and acted it out:
3j if I were king poem display 2022
In English we did some hot seating to practise
asking questions to characters from The Butterfly Lion story:
Maths: In maths we are learning about place value,
addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.
In maths we used resources and pictures to practise making three digit numbers:
In maths we used resources and pictures to practise exchanging ten ones
for a ten when adding a 3 digit number and a single digit number:
In maths we used resources and pictures to practise exchanging ten ones
for a ten when subtracting a 3 digit number and a single digit number:
Commando Joe: We are developing our independence and resilience with Commando Joe.
With Commando Joe we had to be brave to try to
go under a rope to get a ball without being caught:
With Commando Joe we had to follow a trail
blindfolded to make their way to the South Pole:
With Commando Joe we had to work as a team
to make a boat that floated for 20 seconds:
With Commando Joe we had to work as a team
to complete an obstacle course:
Archived Documents from 2022-2023
MEET THE TEACHER AUTUMN 2022:
Thank you to all the parents who attended the Meet the Teacher event in school.
It was lovely to meet you all. For those who did not manage to make it,
here is a copy of the powerpoint that was shared:
Y3 MEET THE TEACHER AUT 2022
Here was our Autumn curriculum letter so you can see what we were learning about in Autumn:
Y3 AUT TERM CURRICULUM LETTER 2022
These were our spellings in Autumn 1:
Year 3 Spellings
These were our spellings in Autumn 2:
3J 3R Spellings Autumn 2 2022 all 3 groups
These were our spellings in Spring 1:
year 3 spellings spring 1 2023
Have a look at all the wonderful, exciting things 3Sparrows Class of 2021/22 got up to:
Here was our Summer curriculum letter so you can see what we were learning about:
Year 3 Curriculum Letter Summer term
Here are our Summer 2 spellings so you can practise them at home:
Year 3 Spelling Summer 2 2022
Here is a video of our drumming performance on 14th July with Mr Simpson:
Y3J Drumming
Have a wonderful, safe Summer!
Remember you can go on Reading Eggs,
Timestable Rockstars and Mathflex.
Don’t forget you can join Bolton Library,
borrow and read 6 books to get a medal
as part of the Bolton Library Summer Reading Challenge.
Summer 2:
This half term our topic was called “Ug!”.
“Ug!” is a thematic unit, based on the sequence of Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, with a key focus on history.
Pupils will be looking at what life was like then and comparing similarities and differences over the three consecutive periods.
Amazing Events we have done in Summer 2:
On Thursday 21st July we attended a zoom meeting to find out
about the Bolton Library Summer Reading Challenge:
On Wednesday 20th July a dental nurse came to teach us the importance of brushing our teeth properly,
eating healthy food and visiting the dentist. We then made our own posters to tell everyone what we had learned:
On Monday 18th July, a local author Sean Perkins read us his story Oscar and Ben. It was brilliant:
On Tuesday 12th July we met with James Naughton, a local artist.
We looked at his art work and then he helped us create our own pieces of art:
On Monday 11th July we had a a fabulous day for Stone Age Day.
We did spear throwing:
We learned about timelines:
We dressed up as Stone Age people:
We explored artefacts:
On Friday 8th July we discussed the problem of plastic in our oceans.
We made posters about how to protect our oceans:
On Monday 4th July it was our Year 3/ 4 Sports Day.
We had a fabulous time working in teams to complete different challenges
and it was lovely that our parents came to watch:
On Thursday 30th June we took 8 girls to play tag rugby.
They had a fabulous time:
On Thursday 24th June we took 8 children to a Colour Fun
Run at Rivington and Blackrod High school. We got very messy and had great fun:
On Tuesday 21st June we went to the Bridgewater Hall
to listen to, sing and play with the Halle orchestra.
We had a fabulous time. Here are some photos:
Here are the songs we sang:
On Friday 17th June it was Year 6 Fun Day.
We had fun with our friends and family at the event:
On Friday 10th June we went to our whole school art exhibition
to look at everyone's amazing art work at the end of art week:
On Tuesday 7th June we had an art day.
We explored different ways to make marks using pencils, watercolours,
chalk, pastels, felt tips, wax crayons, blowing paint through straws and printing.
We made marks on different paper, paper plates, the floor, the table and the walls.
We looked at real art work in an art gallery
and talked about each piece with a friend.
We reimagined a piece of art using our own choice of media
using our imagination and the skills we had practiced throughout the day.
We had a fabulous day:
Our learning:
Our theme unit in Summer 1 is called Ug.
In this unit we have looked at the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
We have looked at animals in science.
Look at some of the things we have done:
Thank you to the children that did the creative challenge
at home for our theme unit Ug! Here are some of our creations:
In art we made cave paintings using pastels:
In drama we acted out how caveman would behave
when experiencing stones, sticks, animal skins, bones and fire.
We were only allowed to communicate with grunts and gestures:
In English we are reading the book Stone Age Boy.
With a partner we pretended to be Om and the modern boy
meeting for the first time. We asked our partner questions about their
lives, thoughts and feelings throughout the story and they answered them:
In English we are writing explanation texts so we looked
at the life cycle of a plant and acted it out in groups in preparation for writing our own explanation text:
In Science we worked in groups to sort animals into different groups using our own criteria:
In music we did our last practice before we play with the Halle orchestra:
In drumming we are now back to doing rhymes and rhythms
on our samba instruments:
In PE we practised lots of sports day style racing.
We had a great fun balancing bean bags, doing the egg and spoon race
and doing the three legged race:
it is our turn with Commando Joe:
Look at some of the things we have done:
We had to work as a team to get a disc
from one side if the field to the other without getting hit by the ball:
We had to build a shelter with our team:
We had to work as a team to move balls from one side of the river to another:
We had to work as a team to remember a route across the
minefield without getting blown up:
We had to complete circuit activities with our team:
We had to make a natural shelter using natural materials in Forest School:
Summer 1:
This half term our topic was called “Under the Canopy”.
Under the Canopy is a thematic unit, based on the rainforest with a key focus on geography and history.
Pupils are commissioned to work for a fictitious organisation called ‘Roots’ in helping two adopted
children find out about their Mexican / Mayan heritage.
Through this project, they will learn about the importance of the rainforest.
Amazing Events we have done in Summer 1:
Alif, Adam, Atina and Sally read the most at home
during Summer 1 and won a prize:
3j sum 1 readers 2022
On Friday 27th March some of our class represented
our school at a football tournament and did a great job:
On Tuesday 24th May we had a family and friends picnic on the field to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
So many of our family came and shared a picnic and had lots of fun.
We sang songs including the National Anthem.
We danced to party songs and had a really good chat with each other:
On Thursday 19th May we went to Chester Zoo.
We actually got to see lots of animals from the rainforest in real life
like tapirs, sloths, tarantulas, spider monkeys, jaguars and lots more.
We also saw other animals that are found in different areas too
like elephants, giraffes, penguins and flamingos.
We had a wonderful time:
On Wednesday 18th May it was National Numeracy Day.
We took part in a World Record attempt for the most people
watching a TTRS livestream and we were successful!:
On Friday 13th May we went to Bolton library and
read some of the books we could borrow:
On Friday 13th May we celebrated Christian Aid day
We looked at how farmers need to be treated fairly.
We measured the length of chocolate bars.
We designed our own cupcakes.
We did some mindfulness colouring:
On Wednesday 4th May we had an Eid party.
We played musical bumps and statues,
We learned some Bollywood dance moves and
danced to Go Noodle dances and Just Dance.
We shared party food and had a great time:
On Monday 2nd May 2022 Sayem, Shifa, Zahra, Harun and Jannati
appeared on Newsround talking about their experiences of Eid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeSFIQPD_4
On Friday 29th April we made Eid cards for our
friends and family and sent them home:
On Friday 23rd April we listened to the Bible story of the widow who served and made a display about it:
3j widow 2022
On Friday 23rd April we listened to the story of St George
then we coloured in some pictures of dragons:
On Wednesday 20th April we went litter picking in our local area to tidy up our community:
Each week we play in the sand pit and have great fun:
We made dens with Commando Joe:
Our learning:
Our theme unit in Summer 1 is called Under the Canopy.
In this unit we have looked at the Mayans and rainforests.
We have looked at plants in science.
. Look at some of the things we have done:
Thank you to the children that did the creative
challenge at home for the theme unit Under the canopy.
Here are some of our creations:
In science we dissected a tulip and looked at the different parts.
We learned their names and their functions:
In Geography we are learning about the rainforest.
We learned about the four layers of the rainforest;
which animals live there, what the climate is like and what the plants are like.
We then acted out each layer to help us remember it:
In art we looked at photos of different animals and plants from the rainforest.
We then did an observational drawing of 2 macaws using pastels:
In History, Geography and Art we found out about different tribes that live in the rainforest
and talked about the face paintings and tattoos they have
and the significance of the different colours and patterns. Then we designed our own:
In History we looked at the Mayan maths system:
In Science we looked at how plants have adapted to live in different environments.
We sorted leaves into rainforest leaves and not rainforest leaves:
3j rainforest leaves 2022
In Computing we looked at how to do effective searching
using key words on a search engine:
In RE we have been learning about how Jesus changed lives.
We found out about Zaccheaus:
On 21st June we will be going to the Bridgewater Hall to listen to and play with the
Halle orchestra so in drumming this half term we are learning the songs and music for the concert:
In Design Technology we made a crocodile grabber to sell in a toy shop
using a scissor mechanism and pivots:
In PE we are developing our skipping skills:
In PE we did some relaxing Cosmic Yoga:
In PE we are busy practising for Sports Day:
In PE we danced to Just Dance songs and got very hot and sweaty:
Spring 2:
This half term our topic was called “Lightning Speed”.
It is a thematic unit based around the history and development of the internet and World
Wide Web, with a focus on computing.
It primarily looks at how computers communicate, the importance
of networks, how email works and how the internet enables collaboration.
Amazing Events we have done in Spring 2:
It is our turn in Forest School on a Friday! Please remember your Forest School clothes.
Look at what we have done so far:
Brilliant Den Building
Friday Fire in Forest School
Worm finding Competition
Loving our first forest school session
Alif, Harun and Ilhan read the most at home during Spring 2 so they won a book prize:
3j spr 2 reading winners 2022
On Friday 1st April we had an Easter egg raffle and Easter hat competition.
Shifa's hat won a prize:
On Thursday 31st March we discussed the joy and sadness felt at Easter.
Then we made Easter cards with the cross on:
On Wednesday 30th March we shared the Easter story and hymns with the whole school:
3j Easter assembly 2022
On Friday 25th March we made Mother's day cards for our wonderful mums:
On Wednesday 23rd March we went on the climbing wall.
We were so brave and had a fabulous time:
On Friday 18th March it was science day. We had great fun being scientists:
We investigated which was the best biscuit for dunking:
We made our shaving foam clouds rain just like real clouds:
We made the sugar on our skittles dissolve with warm water and made a lovely, colourful pattern:
On Friday 18th March it was Comic Relief Day.
We dressed in mismatching clothes, odd shoes, odd socks, wacky hair and wore red noses:
On Wednesday 16th March it was British Values Day.
We discussed the British Values.
We then discussed what a hero was.
We then discussed the heroic NHS and made posters about them:
On Thursday 10th March it was History Day.
We learned about a local legendary steeplejack Fred Dibnah and drew pictures of him:
On Thursday 3rd March it was World Book Day.
We read the book The Barnabu