Mr Applegate

It’s been very busy in Year 3 over the last couple of weeks. The children have been enjoying reading the Iron Man and have started creating a newspaper linked to his eruption out of the ground. In D&T the children have tested, designed and are beginning to make a maze for the Iron Man to get around the scrap yard. This also links to our Science topic of magnetism and forces. We look forward to sharing our mazes with the Year 1 children once they are finished.

Spelling Shed 

In the back of the children’s reading logs, they will now have a password to access their weekly spellings on Spelling Shed. Spelling Shed will help children to practice spellings through a simple game. The game gives four different degrees of support in the form of difficulty modes; Easy, Medium, Hard and Extreme. Higher levels allow a higher score to be achieved but children can practice as much as they like on lower levels before trying to gain high scores. The scores achieved give a league position and each class has its own league position within a school league and our world league.  We hope the children enjoy learning their spellings.

Reading challenge

We have introduced a reading challenge for the children in Year 3. Each Monday we will be checking the children’s reading logs to see how many times they are reading at home. We shared some facts of the importance of reading daily. The children will get raffle tickets depending on how many times they read each week. These raffle tickets will then be drawn out in our year group worship weekly, where 2 lucky winners will get a prize. The raffle tickets will then build up over the half term and we will draw a winner of a bigger prize just before Christmas. So please help your children to complete lots of reading at home! This week we celebrated all those children who read 7 times! Well done.  Our first two lucky winners were Cara and Iremide.

I hope you have been enjoying the children’s singing as they are learning the songs for our choir performances. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Year 3

Today in Year 1, we enjoyed learning lots of new facts about polar animals and the Polar lands. We enjoyed listening to Andy, who visited us to talk about the different animals that live in the poles. We found out that a polar bear’s paw is as big as a dinner plate and that a blue whale has a heart the size of a car! We were also lucky to hear from Mrs Stonehouse, who shared her experiences of the Antarctic and the penguins found there. The children loved hearing experiences from people who had visited these places and were buzzing from the knowledge they learnt.

Year 1 Team