Year 3 really enjoyed a daily dose of Science this week, during British Science Week! As we’re learning about skeletons and muscles, we combined out daily Sponsored Lenten Walk with a warm-up to some investigations.
We wanted to see if taller people have longer bones, so as well as measuring height, we measured leg length, fingertips to wrists and head circumference!
Another investigation, we explored was seeing if regular exercise or activity impacted on muscle strength. You will have to ask our resident scientists if you want to know more about our results!
Our Super Science Ambassadors kick started this year’s British Science Week by leading a whole school assembly. We began with learning a little about our Science saint – At. Albert the Great, and read a prayer that previous ambassadors wrote. They shared the theme, which is ‘Adapt and Change’ and links to our own lives that we can make with science. They launched the Poster competition and all week have been running ‘The Gadget Shop’ which will continue this week, or until all stock is sold! Prices range from 50p to £2. Itemised lists with prices are posted around the school.
To enter the competition cosider the following…
Creativity in approach – Innovative angle on the content or creative interpretation of the theme – don’t be afraid to think outside the box
Content – Clear, accurate and informative about a STEM topic
Effective communication – presented and communicated in an engaging way
RULES
Entrants can be teams or individuals
Entries must be one page of A4 or A3 paper only Work must be original and created by the student(s) – please do not use any templates
Include your name, age and Year group
Please hand in to Mrs Byrne before Tuesday 25th March
Entries will be uploaded to the British Science Week Website to enter the national competition. See www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/poster-competition
Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed a week of celebrating books! We love to read and we made sure that there were lots of opportunities to read our favourite books and discover some new ones too.
One World Book Day, the children dressed up as their favourite characters or ready for a bedtime story in pyjamas. We wrote about our favourite stories and some children visited the reading care with their adults.
The children waited patiently for a mystery reader to visit us with a special story. On Friday Mrs Bathgate read Room on the Broom to us. She choose this story because Year 1 have been taking part in yoga sessions linked to this book.
What a wonderful week!
During our World Book Week in Year 3, we enjoyed spending extra time with books! Our class librarians helped lead an assembly and also read to the Year 2 class. We welcomed the Year 6 librarians reading to us. We read and wrote about Paddington as part of Our Whole Class Reads. The children were delighted that our Mystery Reader was Jodie, who read…Paddington at the Zoo. Of course Thursday was our favourite day, when we all got to dress as a Word or a book character…didn’t they look brilliant! The day ended with us trying to be just like MC Grammar, and write our own book inspired raps – which were amazing!
What a wonderful, fun day of reading we had today! There were two performances of Jack and the Beanstalk – the characters played by both staff and children! This story was also innovated by The Rainbow Fish (FS2) group, becoming Sammy and the sunflower. The Caterpillar Group (FS1) enjoyed two stories from Ghana about Anansi the spider and created their own story maps. The Gruffalo Group listened to Ten in a Bed loving the rhythm of the story. The children also looked brilliant in their costumes and enjoyed admiring each other.
The children gathered quietly for our Ash Wednesday Liturgy. They sang ‘Jesus Loves Me, this I know’, listened to scripture from The Gospel of Matthew – ‘When you pray, talk to God in your heart. He listens to you’. They received ashes on their heads to remind them to love God and others and to remember to say sorry when we make mistakes. Their mission, linking with our Jubilee Year promise was to help, care and share with others.
TTRS and Numbots!
Mathletics Results
In music this term, Year 6 have been learning about the composer Florence Price, who was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. They were inspired by her music and learnt how to play her music using a range of instruments. Take a look at our final piece…
The time has come to learn the songs for this year’s Crucifixion performance. Below are the instrumentals to the song – try it without your lyrics in front of you when you’re ready. Let’s make it a performance to remember – have no regrets! #BRWSpiritStrong
This is My Body
God I’m Scared
My Soul is Sad
I’m Not That Man
Pilate’s Song
Walk Alone
Born For This
Because He Lives
He Lives In You
Year 3 have been very busy working on their writing skills. Having read ‘The Sheep-pig’ by Dick King-Smith we set about writing a persuasive argument as to why Farmer Hogget should train Babe the pig, to become a Sheep-pig. They have done a brilliant job, lots of persuasive techniques and thoughtful word choices have made some brilliant pieces of work .If you were Farmer Hoggett, would you be convinced?
