Over the half term holidays, 3R were asked to design and make their own robots out of junk. I was so impressed with the effort children put into making their designs, they look fantastic!

Bee Happy day was on Thursday 7th February, we wrote thank you cards to people to show them that we appreciate everything we do for them and to make them smile.

On Wednesday 6th February, Anthony came in to deliver skipping workshops to Years 1,2,3 and 4. We learnt the basic rules for skipping and then each class learnt a trick which we performed to all the other classes in an assembly at the end of the day.

On Friday 15th children came into school wearing red for valentines day and were asked to bring £1 to raise money. Children were entered into a raffle to win some prizes!

On Friday 7th February, 3R had a class book sale to raise money for our class charity Cancer Research. Children brought in their old books from home and other children from the were given the opportunity to buy these books for 20p, 50p or £1. We raised £22.50 for Cancer Research!

On Thursday 14th February Year 3 had half an hour of wellbeing in the KS2 hall with Mrs Dobrovolski, The children had so much fun playing games, dancing and singing along to music.

On 1 February, the Year 3s performed an asssembly that told the story of presentation of Jesus in the temple. The children enjoyed their different parts and singing songs about light. This linked with their presentation in church the week before. Now year 3 will begin to prepare for their next step of the sacramental programme, which is Reconciliation.

This half term in PE we are looking at a new sport, Lacrose. This week we learnt four different techniques to pick up the ball with our sticks.
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In The Netherlands children celebrate St Nicholas on 5th December.  Mrs Murtin is from The Netherlands so we decided to learn more about their traditions.  St Nicholas stopped by and asked us to put one of our PE pumps out he so he could leave us a present.  We learned that in The Netherlands children leave a shoe out for him and he puts a gift in their shoe!

This week in our topic lesson, Year 3 have been learning about Stonehenge. In groups, we used different biscuits to build our own Stonehenge models. We planned our designs first on paper, thinking about how we could represent the different stones used to build Stonehenge.

This week on Friday we had attended our first class mass as year 3. In topic we recreated cave paintings on brown paper using charcoal. We carried out our art work under the table to help us imagine what it would be like in a cave for Stone Age people.

On Wednesday we carried out an experiment on shadows in science. We looked at how shadows changed position and size at different times of the day.  We also wore yellow on Wednesday for Hello Yellow day raising awareness for mental health. 

To support our topic about the Stone Age we have been learning more about being an archeologist.

This week in SPaG we looked at contracting words using apostrophes.

In PE we started to learn how to play tag rugby. We focused on being an attacker where we had to try and grab our partner's bib or a defender where we had to protect our bib from our partner trying to grab it.

This week in science we carried out an experiement investigating whether objects were opaque, transparent or translucent. We used torches to see how much light could pass through each object.

This week we looked at a timeline from the Stone Age to try and give us an idea how long ago the Stone Age was. 

We also started our French lessons with Mrs Sloan where we learnt numers1-10.