Year 3 Class News

Living and Learning: Staying Safe information

A variety of safety related information will be sent home during this themed week.  Have a look through the information with your child to support and reinforce this learning at home.

Living and Learning: Staying Safe week begins

Our Staying Safe themed week started today with a launch assembly by Leeds City Council’s road safety team.  This included some key active travel and safety messages.

The trainers worked with a number of classes throughout the day.

• Year 3 pedestrian training
• Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 scooter training
• Year 6 Speed Indication Device – checking vehicle speeds in the 20mph zone on Shadwell Lane

Another visitor, Richard from One Day Creative, has worked with three classes today to deliver e-safety themed drama workshops. Other classes will take part in this learning tomorrow.

Ask your child what they have learnt so far based on our four main objectives for the week:

• Staying safe online
• Staying safe at home
• Staying safe at school
• Staying safe in the environment

Thank you to those parents and carers who attended the e-safety session at the end of the day.  We hope you found it useful to learn more about your child’s e-safety learning.  To help with practical support with devices at home, O2 in partnership with NSPCC offer a free service over the phone, 0808 800 5002, or in one of their stores.

Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day so there will be lots of in class learning on this subject.  Have a look at our e-safety end of year expectations for your child’s year group.

Volcanos

On Tuesday, Year 3 and 4 made volcanos!

We started our day by learning about a crutial skill we would need to succeed at making volcanos: teamwork.

First of all, we talked about what bad teamwork looks and sounds like. Then we compared it with examples of good teamwork.

Edris and Evie– “Bad teamwork is if you were writing a story, and not sharing resources or ideas . Good teamwork would be working together and sharing ideas taking turns.”

Sukhmani  & Madison – “Bad teamwork is when you don’t work together but good teamwork is even when you’re not friends you can still work together.”

Harman and Ashton – “If we were fighting over resources we wouldn’t be working as a team. Instead, we could share.”

We talked about different jobs where teamwork is really important: footballers, doctors, professional dancers, the Royal Air Force and firefighters.

We then worked in our teams to put the instructions, on how to make a volcano, back together.

Have a look at some of the pictures from our volcano making, below.

Have a look at the finished results:

Well done Year 3 and Year 4 – you’ve really impressed us with your teamwork and communication skills!

Living and Learning: Parent/carer workshops Staying Safe themed week

Thank you to all the parents/carers who have signed up to the workshops on offer next week during our Staying Safe themed week.

There are a few places left if you would like to come along.

Living Streets new badge design competition

We are proud to work with Living Streets to support our aim for active and safe travel to and from school.

WOW is Living Streets’ year-round walk to school challenge and every day our pupils log their daily journeys to school on the WOW Travel Tracker. Those that make an active (walk, bike, scoot or park and stride) journey to school at least once a week for a month earn a WOW badge. There are 11 to collect across the year all of which have been designed by pupils in their annual badge design competition.

Can you draw an elephant?

In Year Three, have some super-talented artists!

We started our art session today with an appreciation of other people’s art. We discussed the visual and tactile elements within art; specifically commenting on line, form, colour and pattern.

We then progressed to discussing the types of lines we use. We focused on how we could create a thick or thin line by using varying pressure with our pencil. We discussed the need to be able to correct our sketches and agreed to use light, faint lines when sketching elephants. Have a look at the results, below:

Maths

In Maths, we have moved on to division of a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.

So far, we had been using our times tables and partitioning knowledge to solve questions such as: 66 ÷ 3 = ? Or 44 ÷ 4 = ?

We have been using Base 10 and counters to support this learning; see pictures how we do this, below:

1. 46 ÷ 2 = 23:

2. 99 ÷ 3 = 33:

Today, we took a leap forward and looked at division where we need to reorganise our number (shown in 10s and 1s counters) in order to be able to divide and share into equal groups. For example: 48 ÷ 3 = ?.

First, we made 48:

Then, we exchanged one 10 for ten 1s. We discussed that these have the same value so we are still showing 48 in total:

We were then able to share 48 into three equal groups:

We counted up how many counters were in one group, and had our answer.

For a quick video on the formal, written calculation that we are working towards, please check out this link for more information. Any extra times tables practise (2s/5s/10s/23/4s/8s) you can do at home will support your child’s learning in class – especially division!

Great Maths, Year Three!

Show and Tell us about your secret talents!

On Wednesday, we had a fantastic Show and Tell session where members of the class shared their secret talent: a form of sign language. We discussed who and why people need to understand and communicate in sign language. Some members of our class made links and gave examples that linked to their own lives. Have a look at the code, below:

Some of the pupils even had a message for you, reading this class news post! See if you can interpret the message, below:

The first letter of the word:

The second letter of the word:

The third and fourth letter of the word:

And the fifth letter of the word:

Ask your child if you’ve cracked our message!

Living and Learning

Our Living and Learning statement this week is: I know what a drug is. Today, we were lucky enough to have a visit from d:side to learn lots about smoking and the drug that is found inside cigarettes. We learnt lots about smoking, how it affects our bodies and the law concerning smoking.

First we found out about public places, like school, train stations and coffee shops. We learnt that smoking isn’t allowed in these places as smoke can drift over and therefore we can breathe it in without even realising. We learnt this can be called passive smoking – where you breathe it in accidentally. It can also be called second-hand smoking.

We talked about all the things adults can do to prevent second-hand smoking. Some suggestions, from Year Three, included: Adults  can smoke outside and we can go outside for fresh air with permission from our parents.

We then learnt what a cigarette is and what is inside a cigarette.

The class learnt that the drug inside a cigarette is called nicotine. Can they tell you what other harmful substances can be found inside a cigarette?

We also learnt about e-cigarettes, what they are and that they still contain the dangerous drug Nicotine.

How can smoking affect the body? We learnt that smoke follows the same journey as fresh air does when we breathe in; it goes into the lungs. Can your child give you any of the following affects that smoking can have on the body?

• It rots the teeth; teeth can go yellow or drop out.
• You can develop a cough.
• The tips of your fingers can be stained yellow.
• Tar can turn the colour of lungs – a healthy pink  – to a grey/black. This makes it difficult to breathe.
• Blood can become thicker which makes the heart’s job of pumping the blood harder and even damage the heart.

Well done for being such brilliant listeners, Year Three!

Gymnastics 

On Monday morning, we had another brilliant session of gymnastics. We worked on our balance and coordination skills. See some pictures, below:

I wanted to say a big well done to Year Three for being so focused on their learning during this week’s Gymnastics. Great job, Year Three!