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
What are Mezuzah?
Gateshead Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
Lots of families are in need of support around mental health and well-being, and so Gateshead are keen to alert people to the range of services available in the area. Please see the attached leaflet to find out more. [pdf-embedder...
Mystery Readers… who are you?
Reception love finding out who our Mystery Reader’s are. After each session we act out elements of the story either through role play, building the scenes in the construction or art activities we love having our home grown ups in school.
Celebrating Diwali – The festival of light
The colour explosions filled the classroom from power paint, fireworks to our own Diva lamp.
Can people with longer femurs jump further?
Forest School
We have thoroughly enjoyed our first forest school sessions of the year! We enjoyed making dens, crafting, hunting for bugs, helping with the fire and more. We can’t wait to go back after half term!
Super start to our Reception year
As we head off for our half term break we reflected on the start we have made in our first half term in Reception. On top of welcome, phonics and maths time we impress our school grown ups with our knowledge and understanding in our child led learning environments, we...
Music and movement
Each day we enjoy singing and story time where we develop our listening, attention and recall skills. We also listen to and talk in ‘Fred Talk’. This week we learnt a new song with lots of different ways of travelling.
Music Mark Members
We are proud to be Music Mark members and promote a love of music within our school. Our year 5 children are currently learning how to play the steel drums, during weekly, whole class music tuition. This will be extended to year 6 children next term.
Thank you for all of your Harvest donations!
Thank you to everybody who has donated as part of our Harvest Festival celebrations. We have collected lots of food which will be donated to the Pickle Palace at Strathmore Road Church. The Pickle Palace is a ‘Pay as you Feel’ market and local people can visit the...
Duplication and Layering
We’ve been learning how to use duplicated shapes to produce more complex pictures and have made some brilliant images! We’re really skilled at using Google Drawings now and are even using shortcuts like ‘Ctrl D’, ‘Ctrl X’ and ‘Ctrl Z’ to help us work more quickly, as...
Stencil Fun
Last week, we made a giant background on a banner using water-colours. We learned how to blend our colours into each other. This week, we used the stencil we had designed and made to decorate this class banner. We used sponges to stipple and dab paint onto the...