Year 3 Class News

Christmas Party!

Posted on Thursday 15 December 2016 by

Dancing – then statues!

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The Witches

Posted on Wednesday 14 December 2016 by

On Tuesday, we had a brilliant time at West Yorkshire Playhouse watching The Witches.

Both classes had a great time and enjoyed seeing Roald Dahl’s famous story come alive.

There’s always lots on at the theatre – why not take a look? https://www.wyp.org.uk/about/whats-on/

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School Meals

Posted on Monday 12 December 2016 by Mrs Taylor

Our school dinner menu is usually changed on a termly basis but this is now changing to half yearly.  Our new menu will therefore be from February 2017.

When we return from the Christmas holiday, we will start on Week 3 of our current menu until the new menu is introduced.

School Saving Club paying in session

Posted on Wednesday 30 November 2016 by Mrs Taylor

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Our next paying in date for School Saving Club account holders is Thursday 08 December 3.15-3.45pm. If you can’t make this date, the next one will be on Thursday 02 February at 3.15-3.45pm.

Children must be accompanied to the sessions.

Alternatively, you can bring money to the office in a sealed envelope marked School Saving Club for the attention of Miss Hale.

School Saving Club accounts can still be opened.  Please ask at the office for an application form.

Children who are in currently in Year 3 will have their account credited by Leeds City Council with £10 once opened.

Physical activity – the facts

Posted on Wednesday 30 November 2016 by Mrs Taylor

In August 2016, the Government released its Childhood Obesity Strategy. This document outlines actions which will address the rising rates of childhood obesity.

Yorkshire Sport Foundation have produced the following poster with statistics and key information from the strategy.

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We continue to monitor and improve our physical activity provision (see our current PE Provision Plan (pe-and-sport-premium-2016-2017) and our previous PE Provision Plan (pe-and-sport-premium-2015-2016).

Packed lunches

Posted on Sunday 27 November 2016 by Mrs Taylor

Struggling for ideas for a healthy packed lunch?

Change4life have some great tips and easy to prepare ideas based on the Eatwell Guide.

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Also make reference to our Packed Lunch Guidance.

 

Food Science

Posted on Friday 25 November 2016 by

Lucy from Marks and Spencer’s came in and taught us about the science that goes into their famous melt-in-the-middle puddings. We learnt about emulsifiers and the role these play in the pudding. I think our favourite part was the taste test. What a great job that would be!

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STEM Project

Posted on Friday 25 November 2016 by

The following pictures sum up our project. After finding out how elastic band cars work, we designed and planned our own. The children had to make decisions about the size of the wheels, type of elastic band and the style of the frame. Each group planned something different which was good to see!

We began making the frame and then added the mounts for the axles. When we tested out the axles, we discovered a problem – can your child tell you what it was? So we found some different axles to use and carefully measured, marked and sawed these. After some gluing of the wheels, the cars were ready for their power source – the elastic band. Can  your child explain to you how the elastic band makes the car work?

We were so excited to test the cars! Unfortunately, they didn’t work as well as we had hoped. There were many things wrong including wheel-spinning, glue stopping the wheels from spinning, axles which were too short, wheels falling off…

However, Year 3 were resilient and resourceful and managed to fix all these problems themselves and improved the performance of the car! I was so proud of how well they worked together to solve these problems.

When they were finally ready, we had a competition and the winning team’s car went over one and a half metres!

Well done, Year 3!
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The end of our ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ topic

Posted on Monday 21 November 2016 by

To finish off our topic, we designed, made and played ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ board games.

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Gymnastics

Posted on Thursday 17 November 2016 by

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Last week, we learnt how to make different shapes using our bodies. We practised these on the floor. This week, we transferred these to off the ground. Some shapes were a lot harder to make off-ground! The shapes we learnt are: Pike, Straight, Arch, Dish, Straddle, Star and Tuck. Can your child say which shapes they can see above?

Moortown Primary School, Leeds
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