We are physicists!
Today, Year 3 continued their learning about magnets.
We learnt that magnets are a non-contact force. We also learnt that magnets having a north pole and a south pole .
We then conducted an experiment to see which poles attract (pull together) and which repel (push apart).
Help at home by asking your child if they can remember which poles attract and which repel!
Basketball
City of Leeds Basketball, who provide our after-school basketball clubs, have a range of sessions for children of all ages.
Visit their website to book.
Living and Learning: healthy eating
Over the past few weeks, Year 3 have been learning about healthy eating and how to make healthy choices regarding food.
As a school, we promote a happy and healthy lifestyle. Eating and drinking healthily doesn’t necessarily mean only eating fruit, broccoli and peas but it means having a balanced diet.
As part of our lesson, we discussed this pie chart called the Eatwell Guide. It shows us how much of eat food group we should aim to be eating in a day.
Aiming to have at least five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day means that our body is getting the important nutrients and vitamins that it needs.
Help at home by challenging your child and see how many different fruit and vegetables they can name!
We are physicists!
This half term, we are physicists. Our topic is all about forces and magnets.
Last week, Year 3 explored which objects were/were not magnetic using magnets.
After careful observation, we concluded that some metal objects were magnetic.
We then recorded this information in a table in our books.
Help at home by asking your child what a metal needs to contain for it to be magnetic.
Coronation Day!
Yesterday, we celebrated the King’s coronation!
We came to school dressed in the colours of the Union Jack: red, white and blue. At lunchtime, we came to the hall to have an indoor picnic. We then spent the afternoon making crowns, decorating bookmarks and making coronation collages!
Living and learning: Sun safety
This half term in Living and Learning, our topic is ‘healthy me’. We are learning about the different ways we can keep our bodies healthy.
Last week, Year 3 learnt about sun safety and the positives and negatives of being out in the sun.
Have a look at some of Year 3’s suggestions for how to stay safe in the sun!
Help at home by asking your child how they can stay safe in the sun this summer.
Rounders!
This week in PE, Year 3 welcomed in the summer term with their first PE lesson playing rounders!
We practised our batting and fielding skills whilst getting to grips with the rules of the game.
Year 3 loved the PE lesson and we look forward to developing our rounders skills as the summer term progresses!
History: Carnival
Welcome back Year 3!
This half term, we are historians. In this topic, we will be learning about some different carnivals around the world, including Leeds West Indian carnival. We’ll find out about its links to The West Indies and slavery in the past.
Here is our vocabulary for our topic this half term:
Help at home by asking your child what vocabulary they have learnt in class during the week. See if they can remember what word vocabulary means!
Coronation celebration – Themed Menu 05 May 2023
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu for the Coronation Celebration on Friday 05 May 2023. See the menu here.
Please contact the office, in the next few days, if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
Big Walk and Wheel final results
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 24th place out of 514 schools with an average of 91.14% of our journeys to school being active. We achieved the highest national (24th) and Northern England (5th) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
We hope these active journeys continue as 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.