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Wow! What a fantastic first term we have had in Year 5! We have done so much learning and been so proud of how Year 5 have persevered even when things were tricky.

This week we were able to celebrate:

Our Star of the Week-  Elliott (Willow Class)

Our Reader of the Week-  Artem (Maple Class)

Our St Barnabas the Encourager award winner – Harley P (Maple Class)

Our Ambition value award winners – Robbie (Willow Class)

Mr Hooper (Willow Class) and Miss Welsh (Maple Class)

Year 3 had a great time at sports day this afternoon.  Everyone took part in at least one race with most children taking on 2 or 3 challenges!  Here are some photos of our afternoon.

What a great day our Jubilee Picnic was! Lots of dancing and singing and some great artwork inspired by Andy Warhol was displayed too.

This week we have enjoyed hearing all about the Easter holidays and started to learn all about smuggling!

We celebrate:

Our Star of the Week- Oscar (Maple Class) 🎉

Our Reader of the Week-  Lily P (Willow Class) 🎉

Our St Barnabas the Encourager award winner-  Ella  (Maple Class) 🎉

Our respect value award winner-  Lily P (Willow Class) 🎉

Well done everyone on a fantastic week living out our School Vision, we can’t wait to see what you can do next week!

Mr Hooper (Willow Class) and Miss Welsh (Maple Class)

It is great to have everyone back in class after a well-deserved half-term break.  We have a wonderful new term of learning ahead, many aspects of which are focused around our topic of India including our history and geography, art, music and English.  In computing, we will be taking a journey inside a computer, whilst in science we are investigating different forces including friction and magnetic forces.  In RE, we will continue our focus on Christianity looking at Holy Week and what happened at Easter. We also have a Roman workshop day planned – thinking back to our learning last term.

In addition to this, we also have World Book Day (part of our Book Week activities) and Science Week to squeeze in too!

We are looking forward to sharing all our wonderful learning with you over the term.

You can download PDF copies of our termly overview and maths KIRFs (key instant recall facts) here:
Term 4 Overview – India (PDF Download)
Maths KIRFs – 8x table (PDF Download)

Throughout term 3, the children have been learning about the Romans.  We have written stories based on the mythical tale of Romulus and Remus, created posters for a Roman Army recruitment campaign and finally we wrote an information text all about the army.  Here’s a selection of their information texts for you to browse through.  In term 4, we will be having a Roman workshop day at school which the children are all looking forward to.

This term in art, our theme is formal elements of art looking at shape and shading.  Our first 2 lessons focussed on shape and the children spent time looking at pictures and going outside to find simple shapes such as circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, cuboids, cylinders, pyramids, in everyday objects. After practising this skill during our first lesson, the children were asked to draw a drink can, starting by making light sketches of the simple shapes they could see – rectangles, ovals, straight lines – then building on the detail of the actual item, adding colour where time allowed.

The results are wonderful and the children should be really proud of their efforts.

This term we have lots of new learning to look forward to. Our history topic this term is The Romans and we will also be learning about Roman mythology in English.  In Science, we are also looking at a new subject – Rocks, fossils and soils. Below you will find an overview of all subjects for the term along with a PDF download option in the link below the picture.  This is looking to be an exciting term and we can’t wait to get started. We will share our learning with you both here on the website and also over on ClassDojo in our class stories and in children’s individual portfolios.

Term 3 Overview – Romans (PDF download)

The Year 3 Team