Living & Learning
This week’s Living & Learning statement is – I understand that rights come with responsibilities.
The class explored the word responsibility. We discovered that responsibility means that we have a duty to deal with something. We discovered that the word rights means we have an entitlement to have or do something.
Some examples of this statement included:
- I have a right to go to the toilet but I have the responsibility to go at an appropriate time like break time and lunch time, where possible.
- I’m responsible when I remember my swimming kit.
- I’m responsible for doing my homework on time.
- I have the right to an education. It is my responsibility to learn as much as I can.
- I have the right to a clean environment so I have the responsibility to do what I can to look after the environment.
School Council elections
In our whole school assembly today, we launched this year’s School Council election process. Our School Council is one of the ways that children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.
The election process allows children to develop an understanding of one of the British Values, democracy, with two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers.
Our current school councillors spoke about their role over the last year and the qualities needed to be an effective school councillor.
These included:
- use the 8 Rs for learning
- be respectful and polite
- help others
- be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)
- share and be confident with your ideas
- let others speak
- accept the views of others even if you don’t agree
- be friendly and approachable
- follow our school rules and make good choices in class and around school
Watch out for the whole school homework this week all about the election and democracy, ready for the elections next Thursday 25 October.
Remember…remember…
It’s a little early but, during our Time Travel topic, we’re hurtling through the history of Britain and we find ourselves in the year 800AD. In Britain, the Vikings are taking over. Meanwhile, in China, they’re creating an invention that will change the world: gunpowder.
This invention has had a huge impact on Britain and without it, the gunpowder plot in the 1600s would never have been formed. In topic, we’ve learnt all about the people involved in this devious (ask us what this means) plan and created some artwork inspired by it.
History of Britain…as an acrostic poem
After our visit from the Hobgoblin Theatre, we thought about how we could sum up a history of Britain and we decided to write acrostic poems. Our challenge was to rhyme and lots of us stepped up to this challenge successfully.
Enjoy!
Bike and run at the Brownlee Centre
The Brownlee Centre is a great facility on our doorstep.
These bike and run sessions, run by the Brownlee Foundation, are open to all children, any ability, aged 8-14. Why not give it a tri?
Ordinal Numbers
To learn about ordinal numbers, we took our learning outside. Racing in groups of five or ten, the children gained an excelling understanding of ordinal numbers. Plus, it was fun to take our learning outside and get active.
Time Travel
In our topic, ‘Time Travel’ the children have been learning about objects from the past and how they have changed over time. The children were given a picture of a vacuum cleaner and asked to guess what it was. After that, they were given other vacuum cleaners and asked to work together to put them in chronological order.
In this lesson, the children demonstrated that they could use the historical skill of recognising that changes happen over time.
Early Maths Workshop
What is Numicon? How do we subitise?
For answers to these important questions and more…don’t forget to attend our maths workshop on Monday.
Learn all about how we teach maths in Reception and how you can help at home.
See you there!
Investigating shape
This week we have been investigating, describing and naming 2D shapes.
Why not encourage your child to go on a shape hunt at home?
Terrific Homework!
Year 3 have produced some amazing homework this week. The homework was Creative and they were asked to reflect on their learning. This could have been learning from any subject from the week.
During our homework review session on Fridays, the children take turns sharing their homework and reflecting on their classmate’s work. Today, each child left a reflective comment in their friend’s books with a post-it note.
Have a look at some of the brilliant homework, below.
