Year 3 PE and Swimming
Hello!
Year 3 are swimming on Wednesdays this year. This will begin in the second week back on the 13th of September.
For swimming, your child will need to come to school in their PE kit and with these things ready in a bag:
- a swimming outfit
- a towel
- a healthy snack for afterwards e.g. fruit or vegetables
- goggles if needed!
Our other day for PE will be Thursdays. Please could your child come to school wearing their PE kit on this day too! If you’re not sure on the PE kit, please let me know and I can give you the school’s uniform policy.
Thank you!
Miss Birch
Looking forward to a new year!
Hello Year 3!
As you know, I’m Miss Birch and I’m going to be your teacher for the next year! I’m really looking forward to working with all of you. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer holiday and are raring to come back. I just know that we’re going to be a fabulous team – bring it on!
A fun-filled last week!
It has been a jam packed week in Year 3!
A highlight was definitely our school trip to Magna. The children loved exploring the four different pavilions: air, wind, fire and earth. A class favourite was definitely seeing the fire tornado!
We finished our go-karts and tested them in the hall. They all moved freely which met our design criteria.
Today, we propagated our much loved Swiss Cheese plant. We have placed our cutting in some water and hope that some roots have grown by the time we come back in September!
On behalf of Mrs Burgess, Mrs Maqbool and myself, thank you for a great year. Thank you all very much for our lovely gifts – we feel spoilt!
Have a great summer and see you in September!
Thank you to Roundhegians
We had a great sports day last Thursday and thanks go to Roundhegians Rugby Club for once again allowing us to use their great facilities.
Have a look at the options for rugby coaching available at the club.
We know the children appreciated it too.
Living and learning: Health Week
Last week was a themed week at Moortown – Health Week. Our whole school spent a week taking part in lots of different sessions about how to be healthy both physically and mentally.
We had a visit from Donna Russell at Active Schools who spoke to us about how to stay active and what a balanced diet looks like…
Katie from Skipping School helped us practise our skipping which we got to demonstrate to the rest of the school…
We competed in Sports Day…
And took part in a British Military Martial Arts session!
Help at home by asking your child what different types of food fit into these categories:
Carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables, dairy, fats and sugars and protein
Food technology
This week, Year 3 learnt how to make savoury scones in Food Technology.
We practised lots of practical skills such as chopping, grating and kneading!
The children loved trying their tasty treats and we hoped you liked them at home, too!
Go-karts using TechCard
In D&T, we have been making the prototype of a go-kart.
We have been using a construction material called TechCard to design and make the prototypes which must satisfy a number of design criteria.
The design criteria for our go-karts are:
- It has to roll freely
- It must carry a (toy) person
- It must contain an electrical component to make it move
Watch this space to see our finished products!
Being healthy themed week: bike safety
Thank you to Stu and Alex from Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative, based in Chapel Allerton, for visiting this during our Being Healthy week.
They were kept busy by checking lots of bikes to ensure they were safe to use. Thank you to everyone who brought their bike into school.
Then, Year 5 and 6 learnt some different bike maintenance tips to do on their own bikes.
Being Healthy themed week 10 July
Our next whole school themed week, based around Being Healthy, will be taking place from Monday 10th July. This is the second of two themed weeks in the year.
Living and learning: body image
In Living and Learning we are learning about body image.
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin, colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
We started our session by looking at adverts and discussing whether what we saw in the adverts was real or fake. We then talked about the implications that adverts/media can have on our self esteem and body image.
We talked about the fact that we are all different and therefore all look different. Year 3 discussed how we should be confident in who we are – love ourselves and our bodies and not comment on other peoples.
Year 3 also shared how although we can sometimes be aware of what we look like – it’s what’s on the inside that counts!
Help at home by asking your child what they like about themselves. This links to last week’s Living and Learning statement – I can say something good about myself.