Year 3

 

AUTUMN 1 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:

In Autumn 1 our theme is 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 science our unit is  called “May the Force Be with You”. 

We will be learning 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.

 

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Reading:

In Autumn 1 our 5 Reads books that we read in story time each day are:

Mrs Noah's Pockets by Jackie Morris

Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen

If I Were Prime Minister by Trygve Skaug

 It's Your World Now by Barry Falls

Change Sings By Amanda Gorman

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In Autumn 1 our class novels and books we read in story time are:

Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival

The Twits by Roald Dahl 

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PHOTOS:

 

Amazing Events we have done in Autumn 1:

 

We are having great fun In forest school.

In week 1 in forest school we picked and ate apples we had grown:

 

In week 2 in forest school we whittled sticks:

 

In class worship each week we discuss

our school values Love, Friendship, Creative and Respect:

 

We often visit our class library: 

 

We often go to the sandpit:

 

On transition day we wrote about ourselves.

We stuck the pieces together like a jigsaw to show we all fit together:

3J All About Me 2023

 

On transition day we learned about the street artist ThankyouX.

We designed our own cubes and stuck them together to make our own street art:

3J Street Art 2023

 

Our learning:

Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:

 

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 English we wrote and performed our own poems based on If I were King:

 

Here are our poems on display:

3j if I were King own version display 2023

 

In English we wrote a speech to apply for the position of school councillor

and then we read them out. We then had a democratic vote to choose our new school councillor.

We voted for Alisha. Congratulations Alisha:

 

In English we practised and then performed the poem

If I were King to our class:

 

In drama we acted out breaking the rules and what the consequences could be: 

 

In speaking and listening we played lots of games and discussed

how rules of the game need to be fair for all. We played Get and Go and Cabbages:

 

In dance we practised leading our partner

around the room and doing synchronised movements.

Some of us liked being the leader and some of us preferred to be the follower:

 

In maths we practised partitioning in different ways:

 

In maths we partitioned into hundred, tens and ones using the base ten equipment:

 

In maths we practised our timestables on TimestablesRockstars.

We are going to practise at home too:

 

In science we played with different items to try to decide if pushes, pulls, magnetism and gravity

were forces that acted with contact or at a distance:

 

In RE we are learning about the rules we should follow.

We imagined we were the King or Queen of England and

wrote our own rules for our citizens to follow:

3J RE If I was King 2023

 

In art we used the rule of thirds to draw a picture. 

The subject had to be on one of the points not in the middle:

3J Rule of Thirds 2023

 

In computing we searched for ourselves to check our digital footprint.

Thankfully we did not find any silly images of ourselves and our family members:

 

In computing we are learning about e-safety.

We read the story Chicken Clicking. 

We wrote a letter to Chicken telling her not to meet up with

an online stranger without telling her parents where she was:

3J Chicken Clicking 2023

 

In music we were introduced to the different samba instruments:

 

In music we played our samba instruments:

 

In PE in our gymnastics topic we practised different jumps and leaps:

 

In PE we practised different jumps and leaps off different tables and benches:

 

In PE we played dodgeball:

 

In PE we played lots of games with Mr Ainscow:

 

In PE we practised our ball skills:

 

 

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

                                                                    

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0   |        https://ttrockstars.com/                             |          https://readingeggs.co.uk/

SUMMER 2 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:

In Summer 2 we will cover the theme “Under the Canopy”. 

This unit is based on the rainforest

with a key focus on geography and history.

Pupils are comissioned 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.

 

Then we will cover the theme 'Lindow Man'

‘Lindow Man’ is a competency-based thematic unit with a history focus,

telling the story of prehistoric Britain, from the Stone Age to the Celts.

Pupils will learn all about their achievements and ongoing legacy.

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Reading:

In Summer 2 our 5 Reads books that we read in story time each day are:

What the Macaw Saw by Charlotte Guillain

How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson

Stone Age Bone Age by Mick Manning

The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein

The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone by Timothy B. Ering

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Our class novels we are also reading in English lessons and Class Novel time are:

The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin

Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

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PHOTOS:

Amazing Events we have done in Summer 2:

On Tuesday 11th July, we had Stone Age Day. Our visitors came to teach us about the timeline, 

show us artefacts and we did spear throwing.  We had a wonderful day:

 

On Friday 7th July we had sports day and had a wonderful time

racing against our friends and supporting each other:

 

On Friday 7th July it was music day we listened to the song

'In the Hall of The Mountain King’ by Edvard Grieg.

We moved to the music and drew pictures of our own monster:

 

On Tuesday 27th June, we went to Chester Zoo to look at the animals from the rainforests

that we had been learning about. (We also looked at our other favourite animals too!)

We had a fabulous day:

 

On Thursday 22nd June, some year 3 children went to Rivington and

Blackrod High School and took part in a colour run.

They had a fabulous time:

 

We made Father's Day cards for the important men in our lives:

 

On Friday 12th June we were lucky as a real author visited us.  We worked with her

and she gave us a copy of her book, An Alien Stole My Planet by Pooja Puri:

 

On Friday 9th June it was computer pioneer day and we learned about Ada Lovelace:

 

 In forest school we split into groups and had to creatively build a nest for a bird.

We had to to make them circular and bowl shaped and either ground level or higher up in a tree.

Do you like the finished nests? 

 

In forest school we made natural pictures:

 

In forest school we made mud flags: 

 

Each week we go to the library to read some lovely books:

 

Miss Manly has started a science club with some of our Year 3 children. At the end of the sessions, the children will earn a very special certificate and badge.

Session 8 - Journey Stick

The children found out about how some native Americans and some Aboriginal people used to used to tie/stick things that they find to a stick which would help them tell others about their journeys.  They had fun in the forest school creating their own journey sticks and discussing them with the group. 

 

Session 7 - Fantastic Fingerprints

The children read an article about the possibility of fingerprint technology being used in schools.  We looked at different types of fingerprints and looked closely at our own using phonoscopes.  We also talked about how detectives are able to lift fingerprints from a crime scene and find out who committed the crime.  The children  practised these skills and tried to find the best materials to use to do this. They even managed to lift their fingerprints from a piece of plastic and use tape to put on on paper to view easier. 

Session 6 - Disappearing Dinosaurs

The children read about poem about dinosaurs becoming extinct.  We all then had a discussion about the reason that dinosaurs no longer exist and considered a range of theories.  The children then carried out further research on the internet to try and decide on the most likely theory. 

 

 

Session 5 - Dog Napper 

The children looked at an article about a dog being kidnapped and held for ransom.  Using their knowledge of chromatography, they investigated which pen (which belonged to the suspects) was used to write the ransom note. 

Session 4 - Bridge Blunder

The children had to investigate which type of bridge is the strongest. They built models of bridges using card and paper and tested how strong they were using weights. 

Session 3 - Chromatography

The children had fun learning about chromatography and were surprised to find out black inks are made by mixing different colours.  They then used this knowledge and made book marks. 

 

Session 2 - Racing Rockets

The children investigated the best shape for a rocket.  They made paper rockets and then changed the shape and added fins etc to see which rocket would travel the furthest. 

Session 1 - Super Spinners

The children were investigating which size blades would be best for a helicopter.  They made and tested paper spinners. 

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Our learning:

SUMMER 2 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:

 

In Summer 2 we will cover the theme “Under the Canopy”. 

This unit is based on the rainforest

with a key focus on geography and history.

Pupils are comissioned 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.

 

Then we will cover the theme 'Lindow Man'

‘Lindow Man’ is a competency-based thematic unit with a history focus,

telling the story of prehistoric Britain, from the Stone Age to the Celts.

Pupils will learn all about their achievements and ongoing legacy.

 

Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:

We did Kahoots quizzes about our 'Under The Canopy' topic:

 

We did an observational drawing of 2 macaws in the rainforest:

 

We have been reading books to research about the rainforest:

 

We sorted leaves into rainforest leaves and forest leaves and described why they were different:

 

In PSHCE we talked about how all families are different

and made and described our families with cubes:

 

In science we have been learning about how plants grow.

We have set up an investigation to see exactly what a plant needs to grow:

 

Some of our plants started to grow:

 

We learned about photosynthesis:

 

We look at how water was transported in plants and dyed

a white flower blue using a blue felt tip in water. Try it at home:

 

In Science we acted out different ways of seed dispersal:

 

In RE we listened to the song 'It's a Wonderful World' and

wrote about what we thought was wonderful for a display:

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In Summer 1 we covered the theme “Out and About”. 

This is a unit with a focus on Geography, building on children's 

knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.

 

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Amazing Events we have done in Summer 1:

 

We read the most at home in Summer 1 and won a book prize:

3j sum 1 winners reading 2023

 

We had a lovely time in forest school:

 

On Friday 19th May, we  had a lovely time reading lots of poetry in different classrooms:

 

We had a fabulous time with out friends and family at the Coronation Picnic

on Friday 12th May 2023 to celebrate the King's Coronation.:

 

We had a Coronation lunch:

 

Some of Year 3 went to a football tournament and had a great time representing our school:

 

Each week we go in the sandpit to develop our speaking and listening and teamwork skills:

 

We made Eid cards to send to our friends and family:

 

On Tuesday 25th April we celebrated Eid by dancing,

playing party games, did some Eid colouring and shared a picnic on the grass:

 

In Forest school we made natural bracelets: 

 

On St George's Day we discussed St George and made a flag with a dragon on: 

 

For Earth Day we discussed how we can help the Earth and made promises to help:

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Our learning:

SUMMER 1 HALF TERM THEME OVERVIEW:

In Summer 1 we will cover the theme “Out and About”. 

This is a unit with a focus on Geography, building on children's 

knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.

 

Look at some of our photos of the things we have done:

 

We went for a local area walk to look at human and physical features. 

We decided that Halliwell was a good place for young people and

the elderly to live as there are lots of things to do:

 

At home we made 3D models of some UK landmarks:

 

In Science we dissected flowers to look at the parts of a flowering plants.

We used a microscope on the ipad:

 

In English we wrote a newspaper report about The Creakers for display: 

3j creakers newspaper report 2023

 

In English we wrote a nursery rhyme as a revolting rhyme like Roald Dahl did in Revolting Rhymes:

3j revolting rhymes 2023

 

In Science we did an investigation exploring which materials

were conductors and which materials were insulators: 

 

In French we followed instructions to make a jumping bean:

 

In PE we developed our fitness skills by completing obstacle races:

 

In PE we have been developing our fitness skills by doing relay races:

 

In PE we have been developing our fitness skills by skipping:

 

In PE we did lots of different fitness activities: 

 

In music we are continuing to practise our drumming

in preparation for a concert at the end of the year:

 

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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.

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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

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PHOTOS:

Amazing Events we have done in Spring 2:

 

Pierre and Aisha read the most at home in the Spring 2 term and won a prize:

3j spring read winners 2023

 

 

On Friday 31st March we did the Easter Egg Raffle and lots of children won Easter Eggs.

It raised a fabulous £378.90:

 

We decorated eggs at home for a competition: 

3j Easter egg home 2023

 

On Friday 31st March our site manager Mr Spedding retired after working at school for over 25 years. 

We did a special assembly for him and made a card to say thank you: 

 

On Friday 31st March we went to watch our violinists performed.

It inspired some of us to want to take up violin lessons:

 

We made Easter cards for our friends and families: 

 

On Wednesday 29th March we went to church as a school to celebrate Lent:

 

On Tuesday 21st March 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

 

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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 art we did some printing: 

 

 

In theme we did a Kahoots quiz to see what we had learned:

 

In theme we signed a safety agreement promising to stay safe online:

 

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:

 

We made a switch to turn a light bulb on and off: 

 

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:

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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.

 

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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

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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:

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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.

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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

 

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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:

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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:

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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.

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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

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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 September.

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: