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!

As it was the start of Advent last Sunday, Year 3 have been reflecting on their Advent promises and learning about the visitation, when Angel Gabriel visited Mary to tell her that she was going to have a baby boy called Jesus. The children then imagined what it would have been like to have been Mary and to be visited by an angel unexpectedly. Lots of children thought she would have been frightened at first but pleased that God had chosen her to have the son of God. Year 3 then wrote a diary entry from Mary’s perspective and they all did a fantastic job! I wish I could show all of the children’s work but here is just one example. We have also been busy practising our lovely Christmas dance (the children can’t wait to perform it!) and making our Christmas crafts this week. We have really enjoyed learning how to cross stitch and really appreciate Mrs Patterson’s help working with small groups to introduce the children to the method of cross stitching.