Year 3 have continued focussing on ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes in our English lessons. So far, we have read all the way up to Chapter 4 of the book and have loved every second of it!

Year 3 watched a fantastic clip of the Iron Man illustrator, Chris Mould, who taught us how to draw the Iron Man ourselves at home. I wish I could show all of the drawings but here are just some of the amazing work we created of the Iron Man stepping over the hill!

In Chapter Two we read about how the Iron Man was lured into a stupendous hole as the farmers were sick and tired of their machinery being eaten. Using this information, the children wrote instructions on how to successfully capture the Iron Man using the chapter for ideas.

Year 3 have also been studying earthquakes and volcanoes. The children have explored how volcanoes are formed over time and how they erupt. Some children even went above and beyond by making their very own volcano and making it explode using only washing up liquid, food colouring, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. Check out Daisy’s experiment on our Twitter page where you will see her amazing experiment and commentary! We were amazed to discover that in the week we have been learning about volcanoes, Mount Etna erupted on Tuesday evening!

We have also been learning about earthquakes and how they occur around the world particularly around the pacific ocean. We looked at ways of measuring the intensity of earthquakes, such as the mercalli scale, and put these in order of intensity on our worksheet. Well done Year 3!

Happy Friday Year Five!

I would like to thank you all for another wonderful week of work. It has been jam-packed with lots of fantastic learning (at both home and school).

In our R.E. we have been looking at the work of Isaiah and in our Science lessons, we have been learning about States of Matter. We have also enjoyed some reading for pleasure sessions this week too!

Ellen produced this excellent work on relative clauses in our English lesson this week…

and Harry R.H. added all of his knowledge about relative clauses to produce this wonderful piece of writing from home:

I am so excited for next week girls and boys as we will be beginning our class text, Oranges in No Man’s Land by Elizabeth Laird.

See you all next week.

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Mrs. Forrest

Year 3 have had a fantastic week once again!

We started the week by learning all about the Jewish faith and designed our very own Torah mantle which is used to cover and protect the Torah scroll. We looked at the features of the mantle and noticed that the Star of David was often featured as well as expensive material and beautiful decoration.

In Science, we have been focussing on our topic all about ‘rocks’. The children in school and at home have been working extremely hard using Oak National Academy and have completed a range of lessons all about the formation of rocks and the rock cycle. We also studied how fossils are made and looked at real fossils – Mrs Patterson even brought in her very own fossil to show us all!

We have enjoyed recapping our knowledge of homophones in English, using our times-table knowledge in Maths and loved continuing to read our class book, ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. The children have worked so hard and I thank everyone who have helped to support them at home and in school. Well done Year 3, keep up the fantastic work and effort!

What a jam packed week we have had! We kick started the week with our Christmas party which we all absolutely loved! We played classic party games like pass the parcel, corners, pin the nose on Rudolph, musical statues and musical bumps. We also loved completing Christmas activities and enjoyed our lovely Christmas party food! On Tuesday, we were delighted to visit Lanchester EP School and be part of the wonderful Winter Wonderland. We learnt all about amazing birds of prey, how to roast marshmallows, drank hot chocolate (and squirty cream!) and even visited Santa Claus at his grotto – what a treat! We also enjoyed our pantomine on Thursday – the children LOVE The Wizard of Oz! Well done Year 3 for a fantastic term. You have all worked very hard and Miss Walker and Mrs Patterson wish you all a lovely Christmas and a happy New Year.  

Year 3 kick started the week by taking part in their music performance as well as their Christmas dance in Church which were both fantastic! In English this week, Year 3 focussed on a well-known Christmas Advert from 2014 known as ‘ The First World War Truce’ which retold the story of Christmas Day in 1914, when opposing British and German soldiers emerged from their trenches to exchange gifts and play football. The children were mesmerised by the clip and even clapped at the end after their emotional watch. We then imagined being in Jim’s shoes (the British soldier featured in the video) and created a mood board to show how we would be feeling across different stages of that day in 1914 as well as what we could hear and what we did – the children did a fantastic job.

On Thursday, we all wore our jolly Christmas jumpers and loved wearing our Christmas hats (we also had the pleasure of seeing Mrs Patterson’s turkey hat!) whilst enjoying our wonderful Christmas lunch courtesy of All Saints’ kitchen staff – yum, yum, yum!