Year 3 Blog

Today we have had lots of fun. We have celebrated Mya’s and Emily’s birthday by having a party this afternoon. We may have had a lot of sugar so watch out! We might be a little excited at hometime. On a serious note, we know this is the last time we will see each other for a little while so …

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Here are your challenge submissions so far today. Keep them coming and check back here later for more updates!  

We’re so sorry that we won’t be seeing you all on Tuesday morning and we know lots of you will be looking forward to seeing your friends so we would like to set you a challenge that you will be able to share on our website.  At our school, being healthy and active every day is really important. In fact, …

Mrs Parlett has created 3 instructional videos explaining how we use google classroom in school and how your child can access this from home: Accessing Google Classroom via computer: Accessing Google Classroom via mobile devices: Using Google Classroom: Mr Graham is always available for technical help via email too: b.graham@stcuthbertsprimary.com

Today we had a taste of what it is like to do Judo. Adam came to show us some skills for new starters. We had great fun and some of us are really keen to join Judo classes.

On Tuesday, Adam Bushnell came to visit school. In Year 3, we had great fun describing animals without giving the name of the animal away. Some were really hard to guess.

Year 3 have enjoyed learning different techniques using watercolours this week. We used watercolour paint and pencils and practised techniques such as wet on wet, wet on dry, dry on dry, dry on wet, stippling and shading. We then painted our own choice of picture to try out our new skills. In the next lesson, we will be painting a …

On Thursday, Gail from Skipping School came to work with Year 3 and 4 on their skipping skills. She was so impressed with how well the children could skip and all the skills they had. Children were able to do the double bounce, speed bounce, hopscotch, side swing, cross over and pretzel to name a few. Over the next few …

This week in Art Club we have been looking at Valentines Day as a theme.  We are working on making Valentine’s garlands with our family photos to show how much we love and care for each other.

We are having lots of fun learning how to play tennis with John. This is only our second lesson and already we are making progress. Watch out Andy Murray!  

Year 3 are coming to the end of their science topic ‘Rocks and Fossils.’ In Thursday’s lesson, we looked carefully at various fossils and discussed what we thought we could find out about them from our observations. We discussed how palaeontologists used fossils to help them find out about living things from millions of years ago.

On Tuesday, Year 3 went on an educational visit to the Synagogue and the Laing Art Gallery. We have recently been learning about Judaism as part of our RE topic and Mrs Vandervelde was so impressed with how much we had already learned. The children had a lovely morning working with Mrs Vandervelde and her friend Kim. They were able …

This half term, Year 3 are learning how to type with speed and efficiency. They will be learning correct typing terminology and will practise improving their typing skills. We will link this to our Stone Age topic where children will write short stories or information texts about the Stone Age.

We launched a competition during Anti Bullying Week.  The children had to design a poster to be displayed around school.  The poster had to include the slogan ‘Change Starts With Us’, what to do if they see or experience bullying and an anti bullying message.  The competition was judged by Mrs McGann who is our Anti Bullying Governor. Here are …

Well done Isaac for Man of the Match. Isaac worked really hard last Saturday for his football team. He showed respect to the opposition and helped his team mates to win their game. Super work Isaac.

We had a fun start to our new science topic Rocks and Fossils. We had to study rock samples, getting to know the texture, colour and appearance of each sample we observed. We used magnifying glasses to study them carefully, then made observational drawings. We tried to make our drawings as realistic as possible. Using scientific observations and vocabulary, we …

A huge well done to Roman in Year 3, who came 1st in a dancing competition. Roman came 1st in singles dance, pairs dance and group dance when he went to a dance competition at Butlins during the half term holidays. He has obviously worked very hard. Congratulations Roman from your St. Cuthbert’s friends.

Well done Year 3 for your fantastic Nocturnal Animal projects. They were brilliant and we had a lovely morning sharing learning learning logs and projects. Keep up the good work.