Welcome to Year 3
The staff in Year 3 are:
Classteacher Mrs Noble (Mon-Thurs) Mrs Butterworth (Fri)
Support Assistant (1-1) Miss Richardson
Year 3 Information
Long Term Plan
Computing
The children have really enjoyed learning how to code programs through Scratch. This week the children used their plans to remix code that already exsits. They were able to change sprites and backgrounds, add text and sounds and use loops to repeat parts of their code. The children also began to debug their programs if it wasn't working the way they wanted it to by using decomposition. Here are a few examples of the remixed code.
Religious Education
Today, we continued learning about how religions express beliefs and looked at how some faiths do not allow pictures of prophets or leaders and express their beliefs through other forms of art.We learnt that in Islam, patterns, and calligraphy are often used to express spirituality and reflect the natural world. The children were surprised to learn that within the Islamic geometric patterns there is often a deliberate mistake as it is believed that only god is perfect. The children produced some fantastic Islamic tiles using geometric patterns.
French
For our last French lesson before Christmas, the children preformed the nativity. Here is a snap shot of the fantastic performance with some lovely French accents and beautiful singing.
Computing
Today, we started our new unit on Scratch. The children used what they had learnt in Year 2 about ScratchJr to help them explore the new application. The children were able to change sprites and backgrounds and began to tinker with how to create code. They are very excited to explore and create new programs.
Religious Education
Today, we started our new topic looking at how we express our beliefs. We looked at what spirituality means and how people express themselves through worship, prayer, mediation and creative arts. Today's task was to create a visual symbolisations to represent themselves.
Reindeer Run and Christmas Jumper Day
Today, the children were very excited to be wearing their Christmas jumpers and to take part in the reindeer run. They ran around the playground wearing antlers while chasing Santa carrying an elf, to rise Money for Wakefield Hospice.
French Spelling Bee - Round 1
I am so proud at how many children took part in the first around of the spelling bee this morning and Madam Bex was amazed at how well they all did. Everyone should be very proud of themselves! The children that made it through to the next round were Dempsey, Oscar, Videept, Harper, Mia and Fatima. Well done!
Children In Need
Today, the children enjoyed coming to school in yellow, spotty or Pudsey clothes to help raise money for children in need. The children learnt why Children In Need is so important and even took part in a Pudsey workout with Joe Wicks.
Music
This half term, we are learning all about traditional Indian music. So far the children have learnt about some traditional instruments such as the Indian flute, tabla and sitar. Today, the children learnt that the tune in traditional Indian music is called the rag and that it is create by using a set of given notes. This afternoon the children improvised their own rags on a glockenspiel, first they became confident with the notes they could use and then had a go at making their own rag.
Religious Education
This week it was Interfaith Week. In RE, we learnt all about a different faith called Humanism. The children learnt that some people beleive in a god or godess, some believe in many gods or godesses and some people don't beleive in gods but still celebrate important events in their lives such as births, deaths and weddings. The children learnt that Humanists beleive that everyone should look after our world and you should treat others the way you would like to be treated.
French
This week it was Anti Bullying Week. In French, the children learnt how to say the qualities of what makes them who they are in French. First, the children had to go around the room ticking words they thought related to others in the classroom. They then got to see what everyone else thought were their best qualities and made a poster showing what made them who they are.
All Around the World Day
Today, the children learnt all about Japan as part of 'All Around the World Day'. The children learnt lots of interesting facts about Japan, such as, where it is, it's capital city, the main religion and some of its famous landmarks and traditions. The children even learnt how to say and write their numbers to 10 in Japanese! Some of the children's highlights of the day, were making their own origami bookmarks, learning about Yayoi Kusama and of course trying some traditional Japanese foods. Some of the children were a little unsure at first, but they should be very proud of themselves for trying something different. A lot even found out that they actually, really liked it!