Year 3 Class News

Big Walk and Wheel final position

Posted on Tuesday 26 March 2024 by Mrs Taylor

After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.

In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 20th place out of 459 schools with an average of 89.81% active journeys to school. We achieved the highest national (20th) and Northern England (3rd) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.

With a total of 1655 active journeys across the two weeks, this is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.

Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.

 

PE – dance!

Posted on Thursday 21 March 2024 by Miss Birch

Year 3 are exploring dance in their PE lessons and the first session was all about ‘space’. How can we use the space? How can we move across the space? How does the music change our dancing?

We danced to ‘I Got You (I Feel Good)!’ by James Brown which is an older song from 1964 so some of the children hadn’t heard it before! The tempo is quite fast and it’s very upbeat with different instruments and singing. This guided the children to move with the beat or to the trumpets.

They thought about if their movements were curved, angular or free form.

Here’s some pictures of the children creating their routines.

Help at home by dancing to the song around the house. Can you do partner work or create a routine?

Big walk and wheel update

Posted on Sunday 17 March 2024 by Mrs Taylor

We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.

After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.

To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.

The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.

Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.

 

Living and Learning – I know friends and family are important.

Posted on Friday 15 March 2024 by Miss Birch

During our Living and Learning lesson, Year 3 talked about friends and family and how they are important. Friends and family support us and care for us throughout our lives and we discussed how we can also show our love and support back!

Being kind to people that we meet and spend time with, is important even if it’s people that we see all the time.

For example: if you have a sibling, sometimes you might argue or have a problem with them because you spend so much time together. We reassured each other that this is normal! As long as you come back together and are kind to each other afterwards.

How can we show our love and appreciation to family and friends?

  • Hug them!
  • Give them a compliment when they do something well.
  • Apologise if we’ve done something wrong.
  • Help them!
  • Spend time with them.

Help at home by encouraging your child to do one kind thing for a family member or friend each day. Can you tidy a room in the house? Can you give your sibling a compliment about a talent they have?

Leeds Rhinos ticket offer

Posted on Thursday 14 March 2024 by Mrs Taylor

As part of our partnership, and as a thank you for all the great work that the children have been doing this year, Leeds Rhinos would like to offer children and their families an amazing opportunity to attend a match at AMT Headingley Stadium at a special discounted schools rate.

Date – Friday 5th April 2024

Kick off  – 8pm

Opposition – Warrington Wolves

Venue – Headingley Stadium (LS6 3BR)

Tickets can be booked now through the school via School Gateway. Please note that tickets will go off sale at 10am on Monday 25th March 2024.

We look forward to welcoming Leeds Rhinos for an assembly next week too.

Food technology!

Posted on Friday 08 March 2024 by Miss Birch

Year 3 have made pitta pizzas! Miss Kidd took 3 groups to make them this morning and they all did a fantastic job.

They practised using their bridge cutting skill to cut the tomatoes and mushrooms. They also used tablespoons and teaspoons to measure out the tomato purée and herbs. They’re really simple to make so have a go at home! The children have been sent home with the recipe and we would love to see your creations. Can you use different toppings?

Cross country

Posted on Wednesday 06 March 2024 by Mrs Taylor

Well done to the children who represented school at the Leeds Schools Sports Association cross country race at the weekend in typical cross country conditions!

Thank you to parents who supported and transported children to this event.

It was incredibly muddy and very cold and wet. I was really impressed (as always) with the children who ran in such tough conditions and supported each other all the way.

This was the last race of the season. However, local Park Runs continue weekly at Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam.

 

The Secret Garden

Posted on Monday 04 March 2024 by Miss Wilson

It was a pleasure to welcome M&M productions to perform ‘The Secret Garden’ for us. It’s a classic story (written in 1911!) about resilience and friendship. They gave it a modern twist with some familiar songs – it was very entertaining!

What a start to the week it was! Keep your eyes peeled for what we get up to on World Book Day, this Thursday.

Help at home by discussing what your child liked about the performance using the pictures above! Can your child retell the story?

We loved it!

Y2 – I really liked it because Master Colin was able to walk. He believed in himself.

Y6 – It was funny and had all the things a play should have. I’ll definitely be checking out the book from the library.

Y3 – The sign language song was cool and interesting!

Y5 – I liked the show because they had a creative way to change the scene. They had a great voice projection.

Maths – Length

Posted on Thursday 29 February 2024 by Miss Birch

Year 3 are getting stuck into their new maths unit – length!

We recapped our knowledge of centimetres and metres by measuring each other’s heights and ordering these from least tall to tallest. We even measured Miss Birch’s height which was approximately 171cm or 1m and 71cm tall because there are 100cm in 1m.

We then starting measuring in millimetres which are tiny compared to metres! There are 10mm in 1cm. We chose objects in our trays to measure and again ordered these from shortest longest

We then began finding equivalent lengths (which means equal lengths) and converting them from one measurement to another.

For example:

43cm is equivalent to 430mm because I know there are 10mm in 1cm. 43 x 10 = 430!

Help at home:

While at home, think about what the most suitable way to measure a certain object would be, either metres, centimetres or millimetres. “I would measure an apple in centimetres and I would measure the length of the park in metres.”

KS2 Cross Country event

Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2024 by Mrs Taylor

This weekend is the final Saturday cross country race of the season. Please sign up online or inform the office ideally by tomorrow Thursday 29 February if your child would like to take part.

LSAA Cross Country race Saturday 2nd March Woodhouse Grove school, Apperley Bridge, BD10 0NR

We are pleased to invite KS2 children to compete in an upcoming cross country race as part of the Leeds Schools Athletics Association cross country programme of Saturday morning races. Children will compete against pupils from other Leeds schools.

The race will take place on Saturday 2nd March Woodhouse Grove school, Apperley Bridge, BD10 0NR.

This race is an afternoon race at 1pm. Limited parking is available so please car share where possible.

Please note, parents/carers are responsible for taking and supervising their child/children at the event. There will be a parent representative at the event.

There are opportunities for Year 3 and 4 girls and boys (under 9) to race 900m and Year 5 and 6 girls and boys (under 11) to race 1500m. Once your child has completed their race, you are free to leave the event.

We look forward to pupils representing our school at this event.