Welcome to Year 3!

The Class Teacher is Miss Holt and the
Class Teaching Assistant is Mrs Grierson.

Class information 

PE Days are Monday and Friday 

- Children can come to school wearing PE kit on these days. 

Times Table Rockstars and Spelling Shed log on's

can be found in your child's green Reading Record. 

This term our Class Stories will be 'The Moomins' and 'Flat Stanley'.

This term we we will be learning the poem 'When I Swing' by Matt Goodfellow 

Year 3 had a super Advent Preparation Day, we wore purple to celebrate!
We made our own Bambinelli using chalk pens on pebbles. Later in the term, Father Patrick will bless them. We learnt about the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, named “Luce,” which is Italian for “light.” She has been designed to look like an anime character. For our Tree decoration, we made our own anime version and added objects that represented us, like animals, books, footballs and bright colours. Even though it was a chilly morning we went to forest school to gather branches to make our own Jesse Tree!

As we get ready for Christmas, there’s so many things to do!
I’m trying to remember Jesus, that it all comes back to you.
I am part of your family, a branch on this Jesse Tree.
Help me listen to this story, and what it is saying to me.
Amen.

Remembrance day 2024 

For Remembrance Day some children came to school in Guiding and Scout uniforms. 
We are proud to be, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides,
Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. 

 We have learnt how to play tabs and the G, C, Am and F chords! 

We are learning…
Thunder' by Imagine Dragons,
‘Shake it Off’ by Taylor Swift,
‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana and
'Seven Nation Army' by The White Stripes. 

Catherine and Robert came to visit us today from Mary’ Meals we learnt that the charity has been supporting children who are hungry for 22 years and they now support 17 countries. We learnt that just 10p can help feed a hungry child. All money we raise will be added to our class porridge pots, all our money will be donated to our partner school in Bo, Sierra Leone.

Thank-you God,for the food that we will eat today. 
We pray for the children who will be hungry today because their families don’t have enough money to buy food.
Please help Mary’s Meals to reach the next hungry child and help us to share what we have with others.

Amen

This week is Multi-Faith Week, and we are excited to explore the rich traditions and beliefs of different cultures and religions. We will be learning about Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism, discovering their unique practices, values, and stories. This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen our understanding, promote respect, and celebrate the diversity that enriches our school and world. 

For World Porridge Day, We learnt about 'Mary's Meals' who provide mugs of porridge for children who do not have access to regular food, in 17 countries around the world.
 

During our Prayer and Litugry, we played a game to show us that gathering and getting food isn't always easy. During reflection time we decorated a mug, we have been challenged to fill a mug with loose change at home. All money will be added to our big school porridge pot, all of our money will be donated to our partner school in Bo, Sierra Leone. 

During our trip to the Botanical Gardens, we had an animal handling experience, we met a range of exotic animals, we got to meet and hold a Corn Snake, Rambo the Bearded Dragon, Peter the Skink, Kevin the Giant African Landsnail, Loki the Lesser Madagascan Tenrec, a Madagascan Hissing Cockroach, and two Sunny Stick Insects! We learnt about vertebrates and invertebrates and the special adaptations that these creatures have developed and what habitat they live in.

We explored the gardens which had 10,000 different plants from all around the world. We noticed the humidity in the Tropical House and spotted some Orchids which some of us have at home, we especially liked the carnivorous plants in the Subtropical House. Our favourite plants were the Cati, pricky pear plants and water lilies in the ponds. We also got to explore the Bonsai tree collection in the Japanese rock garden.

During our Science Topic 'Rocks and Soils' we have begun to learn about Fossils. We learnt how Fossils are made, the different types of Fossils palaeontologists have found. Then we made our own Mould Fossil using clay.

This week we have started our Sculpture topic in Art, we are still looking for donations to support our learning.
We need, toilet rolls and other card tubes, thin carboard boxes, for example, cereal and ice cream boxes! Thank-you!

During our first Ukelele Lesson, we learnt the parts of the Ukelele and how they work. We learnt how to place our Ukulele in resting position, how to hold the ukulele correctly. After this, we learnt the names of the strings G, C, E and A and the rhyme to help us remember,
Good, Children, Eat Apples
and the Chords Am, C and F.
After some practice, we got the chance to perform the 3 chords to our friends. The first song we are going to learn is ‘Thunder’ by Imagine Dragons.

During our Child led Prayer and Liturgy, our focus was Jonah and the Whale and taking responsibility for our actions. We gathered to the sound of crashing waves, we Listened to a Bible reading of the story of Jonah running away from his responsibilities and ignoring God’s message. We thought about the things we were responsible for and if it was easy to always do the right things. We responded to this by making our own whales which we will display around our ENTRUST values to remind us to always try and do the right things even if it is difficult. We ended our Prayer and Liturgy by reading our class prayer which we wrote together during our ENTRUST day we took the Prayer home to share with our families.

We took part in ‘Picture News’ Assembly. Over half a million children joined this assembly about how communities have helped each other in a time of need and how our behaviour, actions and words can affect others in a positive way.  As part of a whole school art project, all the children sketched a self-portrait to show we are all part of God’s family. We thought about the values we needed to be successful.

We wrote a class prayer to help us and others make the right choices with the help of God.

We shared our class prayer in our ENTRUST Day showcase assembly and we will use our class prayer during our Class Prayer and Liturgy.  

Dear Holy Lord,

We ask you Lord to guide people who are lost and need help
making the right choices.
Help us Lord to be responsible, in our learning journey,
even when it is difficult, and we do not make the right choices like Jonah.
Please give us a second chance.

Amen