Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! It’s the end of our first half term of 2021. I can’t believe how quickly it’s flown by!
Scroll down to see these excellent pieces of Y3 home learning from this week.
Come back on the first Friday after half term to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
Some beautifully presented spelling and vocabulary learning by Hafsa
A piece of work accurately using conjunctions as openers by Saif
Some wonderful work using possessive apostrophes by Penelope
Some very useful corrections of must dos by Kian – well spotted!
A marvellous mould fossil has been made here!
A wonderful superhero drawing and accompanying mask by Amelia
Another marvellous mould fossil!
Some beautiful handwriting on show here whilst practising her spellings by Evie
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
Please keep sending your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
It’s the fourth week of our new style of home learning – check out the work from our Home Learning Heroes this week!
Scroll down to see these different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
A very scary looking monster and some great descriptive vocab to go with it by Javier!
Some amazing statement sorting in our Geography learning by Theo!
A typed up character description and very scary accompanying drawing by Kian!
A great character description using some lovely vocabulary by Inaaya!
Some awesome reading skills shown by Amelia!
Two marvellous quotes in Saif’s newspaper report – fantasically punctuated!
An amazing model volcano by Edith!
A beautifully presented piece of science and writing work by Kian!
A wonderful newspaper report by Evie!
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Newsworthy writing
From Mr Catherall, who is leading the Y3,4 home learning writing sessions…
Hi everyone
I hope you’re all happy, healthy and safe. I wanted to share with you – and celebrate – some of the awesome writing that’s been sent in by children across our federation. Home learning is tough. There are many challenges, for children and adults, but these superstars have been ready, resourceful and resilient learners. (Can you remember the other 8Rs for learning?)
In the Y3,4 phase, we spent last week building up to writing our own news report about a (made-up) volcanic eruption. This links to our geography and science learning.
Here are a small selection of the wonderful examples we’ve been sent in from all three schools. If you’d like to send yours in, I’d love to see it (send me an email – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org).
From my class at Scholes (Elmet)… I love the varied sentence starts in this one (Late on Friday night, On Saturday, In the escape).
We’ve got a budding journalist at St James’ CE… I really like the news report structure here.
Back to Scholes (Elmet) for some another great piece… This time, I really like the main news section (the first paragraph in bold) because it’s exactly like you’d read in a newspaper or online.
Some amazing writing from Moortown… I love the expanded noun phrase (the orange, glowing liquid) and the vocabulary (predicted, nightfall, terrified) in this one.
Another super piece of writing from my class at Scholes (can you tell I’m proud?!)… There’s a lot to celebrate here – particularly the vocabulary (menacing, catastrophic, awoke, ear-splitting, historic)…
Back at Moortown for another great example of journalistic writing… I particularly enjoyed the use of questions to engage the reader and the way this writer has presented their news report in the style of a newspaper.
Another impressive report from Scholes… In this one, I love the vocabulary (citizens, fled on foot, vast amount).
Whatever writing you’ve managed to do at home, well done! After the last lockdown, writing was one of the few areas that we noticed children hadn’t progressed in. Try to help by completing at least one of the writing lessons each day (and always keep a focus on handwriting).
Three peaks in eight weeks- walking challenge!
The Sphere Year 3/4 Team would absolutely love you to be part of this awesome challenge this February and March. We want to get you walking or running (or scooting!) as much as you can over the next two months.
Every time you do a walk or run, add the distance completed (and your time taken to complete this) in your chart. We will be adding up everyone’s distances each week to see how many of us can ‘climb’ the National three peaks. In topic this week and next, we will be learning about some mountains in the UK, so what could be better than a virtual mountain climbing challenge!
The three mountains in the challenge are the highest in each country in the UK:
- Snowdon, in Wales (1085m) Distance: 7 miles / 11.75 km
- Scafell Pike, in England (978m) Distance: 5.5 miles / 9 km
- Ben Nevis, in Scotland (1345m) Distance: 10.75 miles / 17km
You can record your steps taken (paces). The whole route is 37.75 kilometres long, and the average human step (or pace) is 0.75 metres. So you have to take 50,333 steps in total to complete the Three Peaks. Recording steps (paces) taken is easy – you can use a Fitbit, pedometer or just count your steps. A phone can track how many steps you take and how far you walk all by itself, if you walk with an adult who has a phone.
The idea is to make this as much fun as possible, to motivate you to get outdoors and maybe encourage as many of your family and your friends to do the same thing.
You don’t have to do the whole route. Maybe you can choose to ‘walk’ just one mountain, or two – it’s up to you and what you can achieve.
Throughout the month, we will share photos and graphics of the distances you’ve travelled. From this, we can show who has travelled up the peaks and what location we can reach together. Hopefully, we can find ways to help you during this challenge and through this you can share stories, pictures and videos with those joining in this challenge. All ‘Three peaks in eight weeks’ challenge walkers will receive certificates for effort and participation:-
Mountain 1 = Bronze; Mountain 2 = Silver; Mountain 3 = Gold.
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
It’s the second week of our new style of home learning – check out the work from our Home Learning Heroes this week!
Scroll down to see these different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
Welcome to our first Home Learning Heroes post in Y3!
Scroll down to see different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
Well done to everybody for their amazing attitude towards their learning and wellbeing! Keep it up.
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Home Learning
Happy New Year, Y3!
I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas holiday and that you are all happy and healthy!
Click on this video to see what your home learning will look like over the coming weeks.
Email me at oliwain@spherefederation.org if you have any questions.
Thank you from Mr. Wain & Mrs. Maqbool!
Dear parents/carers,
As we can’t send Christmas cards this year, Mrs. Maqbool and I have decided to write a class news post instead!
We want to thank you for all the support you have shown both your children and us over the last term – it is massively appreciated and the children have done extremely well! We are so proud of them.
Thank you as well for all the lovely gifts that you have bought us! It’s so kind and thoughtful and we are extremely grateful! We have both decided to open our gifts on Christmas Day – we can’t wait! Thank you again!
We hope you all have a lovely, well earned, Christmas break and enjoy seeing off what has been a trickier year!
Thanks again for all the support you give all the time – see you in 2021!
Mr. Wain and Mrs. Maqbool
A Christmas Visit from Y3!
Last week, in Y3, we prepared a couple of christmassy things for parents and carers to enjoy!
Our first christmassy video shows Y3 reading a famous poem: A visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore.
After we had performed this, we enjoyed singing along to our favourite carol as voted for by the class – Jingle Bells.
Click on the links above and enjoy!
Muffling Sound!
In our science lessons this half term, we have been learning all about sound.
Last week, we learnt about how sound travels in waves and that it has to travel through a medium to reach our ears.
Most recently, we have been learning about which materials muffle (make quieter) sound the best – these are called sound insulators.
Here are some pictures of us muffling the sound of a buzzer using different materials such as foil, cloth and a plastic box.
After we had observed what happened when we muffled the buzzer with the different materials, we measured the number of decibels the buzzer produced before and after we muffled it.
We recorded these using the Numbers app and then made our own bar charts to show the data.
Ask your child if they can remember which material was the best sound insulator and why!
As an added challenge for your child, see if they can remember what medium and sound source mean!
