Year 3A (Blue)
Mrs AbbasWelcome our class blog!
In class 3A we are taught by Mrs Abbas.
We are supported by our wonderful teaching assistant’s Mrs Poad & Mrs Tones.
In Year 3 we love to learn together in an exciting, safe environment.
Please visit our blog on a regular basis we would love to share our journey through Year 3 with you and also please send your comments and photographs of learning outside of the classroom.
We would love to hear from you so feel free to comment on our exciting posts and updates as we learn and grow during our time in Year 3!
Happy blogging!
Our Class Blog
RSPB Bird Watching Week 🦅
Nursery children have took part in RSPB Bird Watching Week. We have listened to lots of stories, sang 2 Little Dickie Birds. We made bird feeders to feed the birds in our nursery garden, practising threading skills placing Cheerios onto pipe cleaners. To observe the...
Families magazine – January/February Issue
Here is the LINK to the January/February issue of Families magazine for your information.
Brilliant Basketball
The Year 3 and 4 Basketball team were outstanding recently when we visited Whickham to compete against other local schools. Their passion, skills and great sporting attitude meant that they came third overall! It was so much fun!
This Is The Way We Brush Our Teeth 🪥
This week we have been talking all about oral hygiene and visiting the dentist. We have learnt how to keep our teeth healthy by eating less sugary foods and practised brushing our teeth with our own tooth brushes. We enjoyed listening to the story Alan's Big Scary...
Investigating wheels, axles and chassis
Today we investigated how vehicles move. We found out that wheels are attached to vehicles by axles. We worked hard to attach fixed axles and rotating axles to different chassis and decided which we preferred and were more secure. We also enjoyed testing them to see...
Snip, Snip, Snip ✂️
We have been practising how to hold our scissors properly and used them to cut paper, card and tissue. We cut along straight lines, wiggly lines and enjoyed doing small snips to make an octopus.
Shape Time
Year 4 have been working hard to learn more about 2d shapes. Ask us about angles, polygons, vertices and shape names. We have lots to share!
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch
We have enjoyed sharing the story as a class of ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ as well as investigating other light sources, building our own pulley system and baking lighthouse biscuits.
Bee Netball
Well done to our year 5 and 6 students who took part in a competitive netball tournament at Gateshead Leisure Centre, competing against other Gateshead schools, finishing in 4th position. There was a mix of boys and girls and all players experienced playing in...
5,4,3,2,1 Blast Off 🚀
One of our nursery children was lucky enough to see a real rocket launch and shared it with us all on our online learning journal Tapestry. This inspired us to play all things rockets🚀 We listened to different stories including Roaring Rockets, Whatever Next...
How to achieve goals
Today we were working out how we can achieve goals that we set best, thinking about a step by step process to the goal as well as listening to our peers. We spoke about how we learn most effectively too. We worked together to successfully complete the goal of making a...
Tens and ones
We looked at how many tens and ones in different numbers using part, part whole models to represent them. We used the terminology ‘partition’ to show how we found the tens and ones.