Year 3 Blog

Last week, Key Stage 2 were visited by local author and artist Kylie Dixon. The children listened to a book reading of Kylie’s new book and were shown how to draw some of the characters that appear in the story. Kylie also brought some of her artwork to show the children different techniques with different media. She shared some great …

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As you may have seen recently, many refugees have been uprooted and relocated from Afghanistan to the North East of England. The SVP society at St Cuthbert’s House are collecting donations for these families. Our Mini Vinnies group in school are appealing for toiletries, games, toys, scarves, hats and gloves for adults and children.  Mrs Strong and our Mini Vinnies children …

Instead of parent meetings in school, we will be phoning parents for an update this term. Please click on the link below for your child’s class and select the time slot you would like.  PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THE TIME YOU SELECT WHEN YOU SELECT IT. Office staff do not have access to these forms so will be unable …

In Tuesday’s club, we explored LINE. How can we create different lines? Thin or thick? Straight or wavy or spiky? Solid or dotted or dashed?  We enjoyed creating these autumnal zentangles with sharpies then filling them with watercolour to make them look more 3D.

Our PE lesson today was SAQ (speed, agility, quickness). We had 4 stations set up outside, worked in groups and spent time at each station. We used a ladder which helps us to improve agility by moving through it in different ways e.g. side step, two feet together, hopscotch etc.  The cones were set up in different ways to work …

Today was the first time we played the violins. We were all very excited! Mrs Sellers is amazing! She showed us the different parts of the violin before showing us how to hold it correctly. Once we mastered that, we got the chance to play. At the moment we are just learning to play using our fingers. We practised using …

How lovely to be all back together this week for whole school assemblies!

Return To School Information September 2021 When we return to school in September, many of the COVID restrictions we have been working under since March 2020 will be removed, however schools still need to bear in mind that local are restrictions may be put in place. The policies below have been updated in light of these changes and include daily …

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Year 3 are learning  to use the bow during violin lessons. Mrs Sellers and I are so impressed with how hard the children are trying. It’s quite tricky, however I think we’ve definitely got some budding violinists. Well done Year 3!  

A huge well done to Year 3 for fantastic some Ancient Egyptian homework. I am so proud of the standard of work brought in.  Doesn’t our display look amazing? A big thank you to the grown ups for helping too. Well done.    

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Please follow the link to a video which explains how our remote learning for Y1-Y6 pupils is organised and has some visuals that will help explain how and why we do things as well as how you can access and share your child’s work. EYFS parents have received separate information about tapestry for our Reception Class pupils. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJWBL-zMfnDoz7p9qphY4fdpgv0lS0uC/view?usp=sharing You can …

Year 2 and 3 have enjoyed learning how to sign to ‘Somewhere in my memory’ with Durham Music Service. Click here to view our amazing video.