Cherry class become news reporters (15.10.20)
Today, Cherry class became news reporters ready to create an newspaper article on a heroic/villainous battle. Half of us were reporters whilst the other half were eyewitnesses to the battle. As reporters, we asked lots of questions to build up a picture of what had happened. Then, we created speech bubbles with eyewitness’ statements written on them. Tomorrow we use these speech bubbles to practice writing with quotation marks.
Today, Oak class have been using colourful semantic cards to help them create expanded nouns. This will help them write a more descriptive recount in their newspaper reports. Tomorrow Oak Class will be extending these further using prepositions.
Today we have been learning words to include in our newspaper writing. Some of these are common exception words for Year 3 and 4. This means they don’t fit the normal spelling rules and its really important we learn to spell them correctly. We played hangman to help us with this. Later we role played what some of the words meant and matched them to their definitions.
This word has had its vowles removed. Can you figure out which word it is? f_m_ _s
Today, Heroes and villains descended into Oak Class for a huge dance off.
It was fantastic to watch our dance take shape with everyone in their costumes. It really helped to set the scene and bring it all alive.
We also spent time thinking about an event our heroes/villains could be involved in that would then be reported in a newspaper. After some time role playing these, we created freeze frames to create pictures of the main event. What do you think is happening in each of the freeze frames?
Today was our heroes and villains day!
We had a lot of fun dressing up as different heroes and villains. As part of the day, we played a few rounds of Captain America/Ladybird Girl says before having a go at relay races as part of hero/villain bootcamp. Unfortunately, the rain came and we had to go back inside our classroom. We did not let the rain dampen our spirits as we then continued our PE lesson inside performing superhero dances.
Later on, we had a look at real life heroes and had a discussion of how each hero had impacted the world before placing them onto a timeline.
A huge thank you to everyone who got involved, there were some excellent costumes!
Today, Cherry class have been stretching out their muscles through yoga. We listened to The Twits by Roald Dahl whilst we performed our yoga. We had a lot of fun being the monkeys, painting the ceiling as a giraffe and being Mr Twit himself. Afterwards, we had a little yoga disco!
What a busy few days we have had back in Oak Class and the children have all grown in more ways than one. It has been delightful to be back amongst such a friendly, happy and delightful bunch.
We have been learning about worries that we might have and thinking of ideas that could help us solve them. When we revisited the school rules we discussed what they ‘look like’ and what we would expect to see. Today, we had our first trip to the library and chose our first books. This was particularly exciting and we are planning on visiting again in the week so we can change them after we have quizzed on them. Everyone was keen to be able to have a go on the Chromebooks. We have a few experts amongst us but a few of us will need to keep practising how to log in and create documents.
We are looking forward to more exciting learning and time spent with our friends.
Year 3 are really enjoying their learning journey (Predator) this term. We have seen such a variety of ways to be creative and share your learning. Keep sending us your pictures!!
Here of some photos of the things that we have been up to in school this week.
On Google Sides some of the children have created a presentation about their sound experiments.Here is one page.
We have been completing our online Google Forms.
Journaling
Creating Google Slides to show what we think life in 2100 will be like.
Learning about food chains.
Learning about the parts of flowering plants.
Creating scenes on Scratch of underwater predators hunting their prey.
Started our extended writing tasks.
We are so, so proud of the fantastic work that year 3 keep producing and sharing with us. We clearly have some budding performers amongst our year group.
Have a look at these videos:
This week the children have been developing their art skills.
Gemma sent in these wonderful works of art:
Just look at Sienna’s incredible predator collage:
Jem also really enjoyed making this wonderful collage; he was so proud of himself. And so are we Jem!
Frazer has even challenged himself to sew a shark!! (Not a real one, of course) Super work Frazer!
Keep sending in all of your fabulous work year 3. We are completely blown away with everything you are doing. We are so very proud of you all.
Year 3 continue to amaze us with their wonderful home learning.
Frazer has been planting his own flowers and has produced his very own little project on plants!
Nicholas has used objects around the house to support him with his maths lessons and has also produced a wonderful Haiku poem on his chosen predator!
Sienna and Jude have been working really hard on developing their understanding of the human skeleton and comparing it to the skeletons of various animals.
Whilst Billy took himself back to the Stone Age, on a visit to the beach!
Keep sending us in all of your wonderful work year 3!! You are all doing amazing!
This week, in year 3, we have been learning all about Haiku poems. Have a look at this fantastic performance from Sam!!
Last week, in Year 3, our focus was on the different parts of a plant and the functions of these parts. We also looked at collecting information on predators and producing our very own leaflets. Here are just a few of the amazing pieces of learning produced!
Archie worked super hard on all of these amazing powerpoints and just look at his leaflet!!!
Jayden put together this lovely, bright and informative leaflet on lions.
Evie put together this amazing leaflet on ‘Predators In Action’.
Fantastic effort Year 3!! Your IT skills have really progressed and we are so proud of you all!
Keep sending in all of your fantastic learning and we will share it on the blog.
Year 3 are continuing to produce some fantastic home learning! They are really enjoying their new topic of ‘Predators’, especially all of the wonderful science. Here are just some of the pictures they have been sending to their teachers……
Jayden put together this lovely fact file on the different parts of a flower.
Whilst Sienna completed her own science experiment, using celery, to see how the roots and stem absorb water. She then produced these wonderful food chains, showing us where animals get their energy from.
Alistair has really enjoyed learning all about predators and prey at home and also drew this fantastic picture of a ferocious leopard!!
Billy compiled his information from his week’s vocabulary lesson to put together a Glossary for our topic.
Evie has been working extremely hard on all of her home learning, sending in work daily for her teachers to see. She still makes sure she takes the time to look after her mental health and go for nice walks with her family. Just look at that view!!
We love seeing all of your pictures year 3. Please keep sending them in to us. We miss you all very much!!
Welcome back to everyone in Year 3, we hope you have all had a lovely half term!!
We are really looking forward to our new learning journey: Predators!! We can’t wait to see all the wonderful learning you will be producing over the next six weeks – don’t forget to keep sending us pictures of all the lovely things you are doing. Just like Jayden, from Cherry Class, has done with this amazing video on Muslim Worship. Have a look!
Cherry Class have been working incredibly hard at home, producing a lovely variety of home learning.
Sam enjoyed making his cave paintings using all natural products.
Nicole has been focusing her time on climate change and reducing pollution. She has even written a letter to our local MP!
Jude has been practising his spellings and has produced these lovely Neolithic patterns!
Lola has made these fabulous posters and Jacob has enjoyed splashing in the waves during his spare time.
All of you are doing amazing and Mrs Prentice and Ms Tierney are very proud of you all.
Keep up the great work Cherry Class and keep sending us all of your lovely photos! Enjoy Half Term and we will speak to you very soon.
Oak Class have once again been busy at home this week with a variety of activities. These are some of the things they have been up to.
Working on the allotment, planting seeds and having a few bug hunts.
Tongue Twister Poems from Hope.
More First Aid courses completed.
Posters to show how iron was made.
Investigations into magnets, information leaflets about the Iron Age and a beautifully coloured poster of the ‘stay at home’ pigs!
Well done Oak Class, Miss Souter and Mrs Davie are really enjoying seeing all of your pictures so keep them coming in!
TTRS are holding an event to set a Guinness World Record for the highest score on TTRS in one minute.
They would like you to film yourself completing a 1 min game in the studio and then sending it to them. The highest score will be the Guinness World Record holder!
This link takes you to the website to explain how you can enter. The closing date is 4th June so you don’t have long.
https://ttrockstars.com/page/gwr
This week has been amazing on TTRS! I have never seen such high scores. Fir class have smashed it out of the park with a whopping 7, 981 correct answers!!!!! They are most definitely the reigning Hazeldown Champions.
Here are this week’s results:
Next week the battles have been arranged based on where you came in the school overall this week. So Fir scored the most with Bonsai second so they are battling each other next week.
The battles look like this:
Battles begin at 8:50am on Monday and will end on Friday at 3:15pm. Let’s see if anyone can beat Fir!
We had been busily planning our camping residential linked to our Tribal Tales topic before Lockdown. However, the pupils in Cherry Class are a creative bunch and Ali and his brother decided to have their own camping adventure in their garden- learning about basic survival skills including looking after chickens!
There has been a whole range of fantastic learning going on this week! It has been great that the children have been really happy to share what they have been up to with us!
Tilly has been learning her numbers in french and has been applying this to complete simple additions. Well done!
Jude has been challenging himself to learn spellings from the year 3 and 4 word list!
As part of our learning journey on Tribal Tales, this week the focus has been researching Celtic gods.
In literacy, the children have been researching and writing information books about the Stone Age and/or Bronze Age.
Here are a couple of examples -Dylan and Jayden’s independent writing (for Bigwrite)
The next genre the children have been focusing on is diary writing. After reading Stone Age Boy, the children are currently planning their own diary entries based on Stone Age Boy.
Evie has been practising up levelling her sentences and Jayden has been matching colloquial( informal) sentences to their corresponding formal ones .
Ryan has been using his colourful semantics cards to up level his sentences. Great effort Ryan!
Last week’s TTRS results are as follows:
Congratulations to the winning classes: Monkey Puzzle, Ebony, Apple, Palm and Fir.
To organise battles this week, I have ranked the classes based on the points scored last week. So Apple scored the highest amount closely followed by Fir so they are battling each other this week.
This is how the battles look:
The year 3 children who have been in school today have been tackling their SOLE work for Tribal Tales by doing some weaving. It was a little fiddly but with a little resilience they all got it finished.
Everyone is working incredibly hard and learning so many new skills, whilst at home.
Nicholas made some delicious looking pancakes and decided to map out his house, calculating the perimeter of each room!! Well done Nicholas!
Jayden has produced this lovely video, talking about his ‘green zone’ from the ‘Zones of Regulation’ work in the Mental Health folder on our Google Drive. Super work, Jayden!
Here are the Battles that have been randomly picked out of the hat by some of the older children in school. Battles end on Friday at 3:15pm!
Here are this week’s results. Well done to Oak for being the top scoring class this week. Congratulations to Cherry Y3 for their victory over Monkey Puzzle. It was a close race between Bonsai Y5 and Ebony Y6 with Ebony finally winning. Apple Y2 did an amazing amount this week! Well done to Redwood Y4 who were victorious over Holly Y6.
Next week’s battles will be drawn at random, so log on on Monday morning to find out who you will be battling.
We have been so impressed with the range of learning that has been taking place over the last week. We love receiving your photos that show us your happy faces and all of the wonderful things you are doing!
Jacob has been working really hard at home and even found the time to make some lovely cakes!
Jude and Ethan, along with their football team, have been completing a 5k walk or run this week, raising over £500 for the NHS!! Such a great achievement, well done boys!
Jude then showed some resilience and resourcefulness when he didn’t have the ingredients to make salt dough, but still managed to make some wonderful prehistoric beakers.
Sam built an amazing fort in his garden, using recyclable materials, and Dylan has been busy working on his Stone Age information report. Great work boys!
Zac has been continuing his love of fractions; just look at all those calculations! Ali enjoyed camping outside with his brother and taking care of his chickens. Keep enjoying the fresh air Ali!! Fantastic work boys!
Clearly not content with writing an amazing information report, Dylan then went on to make this yummy cake! Looks delicious!
Keep sending us your photos and look out for them on the school blog! We miss you all and hope you are all safe and well. You are all learning some amazing life skills.
Take care 🙂
We have been so impressed with how creative Cherry class have been this week. Our current learning journey is focusing on ‘Tribal Tales’. Have a look at Evie’s and Jayden’s cave paintings and Tilly’s fort!!! Well done everyone. Little Bear has even been carrying out some activities whilst you are all at home. 
This week’s Battles have finished with he following results:
Holly 1096 v 628 Ebony
Bonsai 762 v 499 Monkey Puzzle
Fir 2305 v 1811 Redwood
Oak 4487 v 512 Cherry
Apple 723 v 354 Palm
Congratulations to the winning classes. Just to change things up a little next week, the KS2 battles will be between a class and their nearest competitor.
Next week’s battles will be between:
Oak (Y3) v Fir (Y4)
Holly (Y6) v Redwood (Y4)
Bonsai (Y5) v Ebony (Y6)
Monkey Puzzle (Y5) v Cherry (Y3)
Apple V Palm
Battles start at 8:50am on Monday!!
Oak Class have been working incredibly hard this week on their new topic Tribal Tale. Here are just a few of the amazing things they have created whilst learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age:
Lots of cave paintings and hill forts have been created. Some of you have even had a go at making Stone Age tools!!
Literacy skills have been improved by looking for key features in an information text and then put to good use when writing their own.
In maths, we have been learning about measurement and lots have children have been dusting-off the tape measures and finding out the height and length of lots of things around the house. Barney measured all of his family to find out who was the tallest!
Fantastic learning Oak Class! Miss Souter and Mrs Davie really enjoy seeing pictures of all the wonderful things you are doing so keep sending them to us and we’ll put as many as we can on here so you can see what everybody is up to.
It’s been wonderful to see all of the learning the children have been up to. Well done to all of you who have shared your work. If you would like your work to be shared to the blog, keep uploading it and keep checking in. We would love to see what you’ve been up to!! Don’t forget to send us pictures of all those life skills you are learning too!
Jude has been using his amazing retrieval skills to learn about our new topic, Tribal Tales!
Lacey has been working really hard on her grammar skills!
Dylan has continued to produce beautiful handwriting whilst researching our CIP words!
Zac enjoyed our Fractions unit so much, he is independently continuing to learn about this topic.
Well done to each and everyone of you. Keep working hard and make sure you have plenty of time for playing too. We hope you are all happy and healthy. We miss you!!
Year 6
Ebony are the winners with 1691
Year 5
Bonsai won with 1182
Year 4
This was really close! With only 28 more correct answers, Fir were the winners
Year 3
Oak smashed it with 4554 correct answers!
Year 2
Apple Class won with 750
This week’s results:
Ebony 16,424 v Holly 13,173
Bonsai 7,267 v Monkey Puzzle 370
Redwood 2020 v Fir 218
Oak 11,504 v Cherry 4223
Apple 222 v Palm 87
Congratulations to the winning bands. A new battle will start on 14th April so get practising!
All week, classes in each year group have been battling each other on Times Tables Rockstars to win this week’s Battle of the Bands. Children score points for every correct answer they give during the week.
In Yr 2 Apple Class are the champions scoring 222 to Palm Class’s 87
In Yr Oak Class were victorious with 11,504 against Cherry Class with 4,223
In Yr 4 Redwood won with 2,020 to Fir’s 318
In Yr 5 Bonsai are the champions with 7,267 to Monkey Puzzle’s 370
And finally, Yr 6 champions are Ebony with 16,424 to Holly’s 13,173
The competition starts again on Monday morning at 8:50am and will continue until 3:15pm on Friday. Don’t forget to log in to your account and do your bit. Next week’s Battle of the Bands results will be posted on Friday.
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13th March 2020
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25th March 2020) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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| 15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
| Music
Listen to these 5 songs: Holding Out for a Hero We Don’t Need Another Hero Hero Wind Beneath My Wings I Can Be Your Hero Review the songs – Rank them 1 to 5 – 1 being your favourite. What sounds can you hear? Think about tempo(speed), dynamics(loudness), timbre(sound), Pitch (high and low) and duration(length) Listen to the lyrics (words) how do you know they are about heroes? What does the hero do?
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History
Historical Heroes – below is a list of historical heroes or you can think of one yourself. Can you research the hero and create and information piece about why they were a hero. Don’t forget to explain when and where they lived and what they did that made them a hero?
Florence Nightingale Ghandi Amelia Earhart Rosa Parks Mother Teresa Mary Seacole Martin Luther King Boudicca William Wilberforce Neil Armstrong
Or any one else from history as long as you can explain why they are a hero! |
5 points for each act.
PSHE ‘Paying it forward’ – Can you do a good deed for someone. It could be anything that is kind, helpful or thoughtful to someone else. It could be as simple as picking up something that someone else has dropped and returning it to them or something big raising money for charity! Write about it, photograph it, video it! Whatever you can think of to show how you are spreading kindness in the world!
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Choose your favourite (or scariest). What do they do? Why are they good at being a villain? Why are they the most villainous villain? You could think about Darth Vader, Scar, Professor Snape. What about Tom from Tom and Jerry, is he a villain? |
Maths
TTRS – We are having a Battle of the bands with the other Year 3 class. It will start on Monday and run until Friday so don’t forget to pay every right answer counts!! |
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Year 3 have been tackling the tricky subject of fractions! They have been showing their understanding of parts and wholes all week and today they began working on tenths. The children were able to use images and express the fractions they could see in many different ways. Their work was amazing; deeper understanding was shown by all.
Year 3 have been researching Cruella de Vil, as part of their Heroes and Villains topic, with the aim of eventually writing a biography about her life. Today, they were very lucky to have a visit from the lady herself! The children were able to interview her and ask her lots of questions and find out all the juicy details about her life!
Year 3 were lucky enough yesterday to have some gymnastics training from a specialist gym teacher. They were able to practise 3 different types of rolls, counter and tension balances and were even able to use some of them on various pieces of apparatus.
Year 3 have started a new using on fractions today. They started by exploring the part-whole relationship. The children could recognise what made the whole and then identify part of the whole. This understanding will be really important when understanding fractions.
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 28th February 2020
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 11th March 2020) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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| 15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
| Maths
Have a go at cracking codes. On the website below you will see 6 different types of code breaking activities. Have a go at, at least 2 of these. Remember to bring in your coded message and the tool for solving it. We will be able to have some time to crack each other’s codes in school. https://www.melissaanddoug.com/blogpost?postId=6-secret-codes-for-kids |
Art
Sketch a portrait of your hero from photographs (think about your North Star, who inspires you?) |
Reading
Collect stories from newspapers and magazines everyday heroes and make a clippings board. Heroic acts might include saving people or animals from danger, fighting fires or donating organs to help another person. |
| Literacy
Investigate 1920’s slang used by gangster of the a day. Can you find out what these mean: attaboy, bee’s knees, beef, big cheese, big house, caper, coppers, joint, let’s blouse, moll, rhatz, scram, sitting pretty, soup job, swell. |
PSHE
Make a list of 5 positive things that you and your friends could do to improve your school environment. Write your ideas on ‘helping hands’ and decorate them beautifully. |
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| Design
Design a poster to advertise a charity that you are interested in helping. What do they do? Why are they important? How could people help them? |
Writing
Write a fact file about a real-life hero past or present. |
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| Writing
This is an example of a riddle. Can you solve the riddle and make one of your own? |
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Year 3 had an afternoon of musical appreciation this afternoon as they immersed themselves in different classical scores created to depict various film villains. First, the children moved their bodies to the music and discussed how it made them feel. Then, the children used different symbols to represent dynamics, tempo, timbre, duration and pitch creating their own graphic scores. They listened to: The Imperial March from Star Wars; Miss Gulch’s theme music from the Wizard of Oz and Voldemort’s theme tune from Harry Potter.
Today, Year 3 have begun their new topic, Heroes and Villains, by pretending to be villains and trying to send secret messages using codes. First, they learnt how to use a code wheel. Then they made different invisible inks one from lemon juice and the other from bicarbonate and soda.
Oak Class have had sometime today to email Zeus as part of their Gods and Mortal topic. The children were very keen to explain to Zeus everything they had learnt so far and ask him some questions about his unusual family!
Fantastic mathematical reasoning going on in Year 3 today with children exploring multiplication using the bar model and the area model to make connections.
Year 3 have spent some time this morning using different representations of multiplication and division to explore their understanding. Amazing explanations of how to using models has developed their understanding!
Straight back to school and amazing investigations have been going on in Year 3. Children have been using manipulatives to explain the connections between the 2 times table and the 4 times table.
Cherry class have been working really hard over the Autumn term learning to play the plastic trombones. 
The children were so proud of their achievements that they invited their parents in for a full performance to see their progress. The class performed amazingly!! The parents were then invited to have a go…… it’s not as easy as it looks is it?!!!
Special thanks to Mrs Price.
Year 3 have been working really hard on their fantastic learning journey “SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS”. 
All the children were invited to their celebration event with a special golden ticket inside a chocolate bar wrapper. The year group (including the teachers) then came dressed as their favourite characters from the class reading book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, to show-case their learning to their parents. All involved had an amazing time creating their own smoothies, making peppermint creams and decorating various Christmas gingerbread shapes, amongst other activities!!!!! Mmmmmmm delicious!!
Today, Year 3 had an exciting afternoon thanks to the generosity of Sharon from the Creation Station. The children enjoyed creating Play-Dough sweets for their class sweet shop.
Today, Year 3 participated in an exciting quiz using Plickers (digital media resource). They worked in teams to answer questions on rivers which has been a key part of the learning journey, Flow.