In the last two weeks our wonderful Year 3s have been working their socks off and the results of their efforts are definitely showing! Over the last fortnight we have been completing various Maths and Literacy assessments in line with our school calendar. Our children have shown such commitment and dedication to their learning, working exceptionally hard to give their best in all subjects. It is therefore so lovely to say how well each and every one of our pupils have done in making their own personal progress and they should be so proud of their achievements!
In Literacy, we have continued with our recent discovery of a Bronze Age settlement, in preparation for writing our own newspaper. The class have been busy exploring different features of newspapers, their functions and beginning to develop and secure their understanding of the 5 W's. In our SPAG focus we have looked at using speech punctuation to record quotes and recapped the use of subordinate conjunctions to add detail. Last week we celebrated International Women's Day. The class began by being asked to draw illustrations of different occupations e.g. firefighter etc. We found on reflection that the majority of the job roles were drawn as male but during our whole class discussion, we realised that anyone can do these job roles. As such we discussed what the purpose of International Women's Day was and why it was so important to celebrate the equality of men and women. This week, nationally schools have been celebrating Science and Technology week. This has been no different in Team CB. This year, we worked on the theme "Growth". To capture the theme, our class looked more specifically at their own personal growth as a result of COVID-19. We discussed the ways we have grown - becoming braver, more independent, resilient, able to manage change etc. As well as celebrating personal growth skills such as being able to use the toaster, learning to horse ride, fastening shoelaces. To capture all of our amazing personal growth, we created our own posters which are to be entered into a Science competition by Miss Fury. Continuing with this theme, we then completed our own science investigation into optical illusions and how our growing brain can use rules to make guesses about the way things look rather than the true experience. The class loved exploring different illusions and even created their own optical illusion from 2 10cm lines! In Technology, the class have started to use the Design, Make, Evaluate process to document their project of creating a roman chariot; with a focus on wheels and axles. The class showed brilliant teamwork skills when designing their chariot, thinking carefully about the materials used and how their work could be constructed. Well done Team CB! So as I'm sure this post reflects, another wonderfully busy, brilliant week for all in Team CB! Keep it up superstars!
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What an exceptionally brilliant start we have had after the half term! Team CB never fail to amaze me at the fantastic accomplishments they achieve. Since returning from the holidays, the class have worked tirelessly in all aspects of their learning and we are certainly very proud of each and every one of them.
In our Maths this week, we have been busy investigating division using the formal written method (bus stop). The class have shown brilliant skill at seeing this method for the first time, practicing it and applying it to their own problems. What absolute superstars you are! They have been busy solving problems involving sharing without carries, and beginning to look at carrying over in some division problems too. Next week, we will be exploring what happens when a number does not divide exactly. Our Literacy this week has been a SPAG focus on prepositions. The class have been creating their own prepositional phrases linked to images, recognising the different prepositions they can use. We have worked hard to apply this into our writing too which has had a World Book Day focus. As you may be aware, on Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. What a treat it was to see our children dressed up as their favourite book characters. To celebrate the day, we took part in lots of exciting activities, including creating our own Supervillain and escaping the Library through solving SPAG and Maths based problems. The class even went on to have an exceptionally arty afternoon linked to our acclaimed author Roald Dahl. The class created mirror image portraits of Roald Dahl and they are absolutely outstanding! They are so good in fact that Mrs Fitchett it submitting some to an art exhibition. What an achievement Team CB! Elsewhere, this week we have also had a Spanish food tasting afternoon. We tried lots of traditional Spanish delicacies including Tapas, Gazpacho, Churros, Paella and Spanish omelette. The children were so passionate about this session and committed well to trying almost everything. The winners of the day were Churros and Paella although the same could not be said for the Gazpacho. We have also completed some more of our Music syllabus where we have been practicing the Dragon Song. We are working on singing lead and second vocals for the chorus currently, as well as using the glockenspiels to accompany the chorus. In our computing, we have completed our coding work this week and created our own interactive scenes. The children have done an astonishing job at this and have included alert commands, timers, repeat commands and collision detections to name but a few elements of code. Like I say, it has been an incredibly busy week back and I cannot wait to see all the fantastic things we achieve in the coming few weeks of Spring 2. |
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