Year 3 - Autumn 2 - Week 3

Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 7:18pm

Smiles and laughter have warmed our heart this week during Kindness Week. This week, we raised awareness of Kindness Day, Children in Need and Anti-Bullying Week, alongside Road Safety Week. It has been wonderful to see children being extremely kind to their peers, teachers and staff around the school. We had lots of fun baking, creating posters, writing messages expressing love for our family and performing in front of our family members.

 During Collective Worship this week, we had a lovely visit from Reverend Mark who helped us to think about the different definitions of the word ‘peace’. We all created our own recipes for peace on the symbol of a dove.

 In RE this week, the children assessed their learning from the Harvest Unit and began learning about their new unit:  "Christmas, God with Us."  During our introduction to this topic, the children learned that Jesus is always present and we discussed ways that we can feel his presence.  Moving on to the Christmas story, the retelling focused on the angels' and the shepherds' point of view and the part they played when Jesus was born.  To summarise our learning for RE on Tuesday, the children created a poster of pictures, words and phrases surrounding the word "Emmanuel" which means God with us. They listened to a guided meditation to imagine what it would have been like to be in Bethlehem the night Jesus was born to help plan which pictures and words to use.

 In most English and Maths lessons this week, the children have been completing their autumn assessments. They have all given their best efforts and demonstrated excellent focus. Next week, Mrs McRae’s groups will return to lessons as before: in English, we will complete our hedgehog reports and in Maths, we will continue our work with addition and subtraction. Next week, Miss Lucas’ group will be continuing our work on Winter’s Child in English and developing our addition and subtraction methods further in Maths.

 On Wednesday, we had another educational session with Dom from Active Sefton; this time focusing on the sugar content in some of our most popular drinks. The children were astonished to see the exact amount of sugar in each drink bottle. There were lots of surprised faces and excellent discussions taking place throughout the session. We linked this nicely to our science work all about the body.

 On Friday morning, we spent time within our Houses; Mark, Matthew, Luke or John to prepare Christmas crafts ready to be sold on our TSP stall at the Formby Christmas Lights. It was lovely to see the whole school working together and taking care of one another getting into the Christmas spirit.

 Have a wonderful weekend. We wonder if anyone will be putting up their Christmas trees?See you on Monday!

Reminders:

• Next week the Read Write Inc Spelling programme will commence
• Please remember to bring a healthy snack for morning break
• We are learning about the Stone Age in History, if anyone has any interesting topic books at home they would like to share with the class please bring them in