New year, new term

 

We are well into the new year and time is flying through our spring half term.  We’ve returned full of good resolutions and a determination to learn, learn, learn.  So far, so good!  We have learned so much about what gifts the ancient Greeks left us.  We have done lots of interesting and informative writing and the Greek myths we have written are fabulous.  We have worked as historians to look at all the clues the ancient Greeks left behind and piece them together to find out about their lives and what they believed in . And how much they have influenced our lives today.

The ancient Greeks loved art and making things look beautiful.  We have been looking at their mosaics and are beginning to create our own.  You will see them very soon on the hall walls, so keep a look out for them.  Here are some pictures of us hard at work on them.

 

In year 3 there are some fabulous readers and lots of people are up to their Silver Stamp Card, some people even up to their Gold!  and Lewis is up to his Platinum – amazing.

Well done everybody, a great start to the New Year.

P.S – More good news… Isla won the word search competition!!

End of term news

 

Wow we have had a very, very busy term.  We have finished a fantastic topic – Wolves and Woodcutters. We have learned lots and lots about fictional and real wolves. We’ve even had to turn detectives to investigate an alleged crime.  Mr Wolf had been accused of eating granny and we had to look at all the evidence and decide  who we thought was the guilty party.

Although we have worked very hard this term we have also had lots of fun and tried many new things.We  had a taster session with a Karate black belt…

We learned a brilliant dance for the Christmas performance.

 

And we had the best Christmas party ever!

So we have made a fantastic start to ks2 and we are looking forward to our Christmas holidays.

See you all in 2016.

 

 

Welcome to year 3

Wow, we’ve had a fantastic start to our new year.  Everybody has settled quickly and is so keen to learn.

Our new topic is based on the book Stitch Head by Guy Bass and it is turning out to be fantastic.  The book is quite scary and has some very strange characters in it but we are loving it.  In Literacy we have done all sorts of writing about it, for example we have written letters to the mad, bad Professor Erasmus, we have designed our own potions and lotions and even written recipes about how to actually make them!  At the moment we are learning all about non-chronological reports so that we can write a report about the creatures we are creating ourselves.

We’ve had all sorts of exciting things happen this half term.  We have had a squash taster session which was good fun.  We have also begun our weekly tennis coaching sessions with Kim.  Kim is really pleased with our progress so far but she’s also impressed with our enthusiasm to learn tennis.   We’ve completed the Grange North Rum even though it was cancelled due to the weather. We ran ours on a miserable, cold afternoon BUT everyone pushed themselves and tried their hardest to complete the run as fast as they could.  We have some very talented runners in our class and they have represented the school in the Northumberland SAA  cross country.  We have also begun weekly singing lessons with Mrs Knighton who teaches us all sorts of catchy songs.  We will perform our favourite, Sunshine, for you at the Harvest Assembly.

Well done to Emily, Catherine, Lewis and Oliver who have completed their bronze level Radical Reader stamp card and are already working on their silver award!