Year 3 Class News

Writing a promotion – Venice and York

Year 3 have written a promotional piece about either York or Venice.

A promotion persuades and tries to sell a product or experience.

These were our R2s:

• present tense
• adding connectives
• alliteration
• rhetorical questions
• commands

The children researched what they wanted to talk about in their writing. For example, specific landmarks or places tourists could visit.

Here are just a few fantastic examples:

The vocabulary they’ve used it great and reading them definitely makes me want to visit York and Venice!

Living and Learning – health and prevention

Year 3 have been learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy. For example, we have learnt about what germs are and how to prevent spreading them.

We started off the lesson by talking about the different types of germs there are; bacteria, viruses and fungi. These can be all around us and some are helpful and some are harmful.

The children then discussed how quickly and easily germs can spread. Wetalked about the need to wash our hands to help prevent this spread. We could use soap or hand sanitiser and to make sure we’ve washed them thoroughly enough, you could sing happy birthday twice while you do it!

Help at home: Discuss other ways we can stop germs from spreading.

Summer term after-school clubs

Science – How does the distance between the object and light source affect the shadow created?

Enquiry question: How does the distance between the object and light source affect the shadow created?

Scientific enquiry type (how we are being scientists): I can set up a fair test.

Predictions: What do you think? Have a go at home!

I predict the shadow will become ______ when we move the light source closer.

I predict the shadow will become ______ when we move the light source further away.

What will we need to answer our question?

• torches
• opaque object
• pencil
• ruler

What will we measure?

We will measure the width of the shadow.

What will we change?

The distance between the object and the light source.

What will we keep the same?

The distance between the object and wall.

Here’s our fair test. We drew around each shadow with a pencil and then measured the width with a ruler.

Our findings:

Conclusion: The larger the distance from the light source to the object, the smaller the shadow became

Maths – fractions and times tables!

Hello! I hope you all had a lovely break and are ready and raring for the Summer term.

Year 3 are getting stuck into their fractions this half term.

What is a fraction?

Fractions are parts of whole things.

e.g. a part of a whole object
a part of a whole shape
a part of  a whole amount or number

We started with elephants!

“The tusks are a part of the whole elephant.”

Then shapes…

“There are 4 parts and one is shaded.”

Then numbers!

Times tables

Year 3 made amazing progress in their times table checks before the holidays. To keep this ball rolling, your child should be practising their times table for 5 minutes every day or 10 minutes every other day!

This practice can be on Times Table Rock Stars, handwritten on a piece of paper or I can provide you with a times table pack for at home.

Please let me know if this would benefit you and your child!

Thank you, Miss Birch

Big Walk and Wheel final position

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!

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

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.

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

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.