Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
We have had a great time celebrating world book day today... we have completed a house teams quiz, read books, had a fashion show to parade our wonderful costumes and created our favorite characters using paper plates!
It was incredibly difficult for the VOC to choose the winners of the best costume but a big well done to the children below!
3F
1st Place - Joshua Austin
2nd Place - Amelia Pieczynska
3rd Place - Eva Langham
3B
1st Place - Luna Hall
2nd Place - Louciena Coleman
Joint 3rd Place - Daniel Gibbon & Lucas Mckenzie
In our Spring DT block, we have been focusing on sewing a safety flag to be used near a river! We began by completing some market research, before testing a range of materials to see which would suit our design brief. The children showed fantastic resilience and determination when practising a range of sewing methods such as the running stitch, back stitch and over stitch! The final pieces blew us away!
The children have also been keen Geographers and we emersed ourselves in the continent South America. We learnt all about its location, how many countries it has, compared its landscape with ours, discussed its climate and the man made/human features. We had lots of fun comparing the Amazon River with the River Wear and we made the river using objects around the classroom and labelled some of the key features of a river such as the mouth, source, meanders etc.
As the children enjoyed learning about South America, we decided to create non-Chronological reports in English. We used Non-Fiction books and the internet to plan, research and then write our reports. I am sure you will agree they look fantastic!
Finally, just a reminder that school closes Friday 21st February for Spring Half term and we will return on Monday 3rd March. Have a lovely break!
On Friday, we completed our spring art block and wow, did we knock it out of the park! Our unit this term was focussed on the art of Vincent Van Gogh, thus we began by looking at his work. We learned about him as an artist, before thinking about how his work was put together, how it made us feel and what the subject tended to be. We saw emotions in his work and noticed his defined brush strokes. We realised that he loved nature and painting landscapes, so we did an observational sketch of some flowers and used gouache to paint them in his style.
After we got to grips with the gouache, it was down to business creating our final piece. As we were reading The Explorer in English, our subject was a rainforest. The children did some sketching of a rainforest landscape and an animal that might be found there, and we got to painting! They mixed the paint to create depth in different tints and shades and used primarily, two main complementary colours - which is another trick of Van Gogh's.
The final pieces absolutely knocked our socks off! Fantastic shades of colours complimenting others, defined brushstrokes and fabulous foliage. These are going to look great in the school art gallery next week!
Happy New Year everybody and welcome back! We have got straight back to work following our Christmas break, despite the snow and freezing temperatures threatening to play havoc with our return. The children have returned to school brilliantly and we have had a great first week back with fantastic behaviour and focus.
During our first week back, we have been doing computing with a focus on programming using Scratch. This is a free website that the children can extend their learning with at home! They have been so enthusiastic whilst learning how to code for sprites, add events, movements and a backdrop.
This term, we will be taking part in two house team events. Firstly, a SPAG event and before half term, an art based challenge. Your child should have brought home a new homework diary for the spring term, please keep this safe and make a note of any homework completed. Homework folders should be brought into school everyday with their assigned reading book and diary, however Wednesdays and Fridays are most important as we read our books these days.
Thanks,
Miss Burnip and Miss Fox
It has been a fun filled run up to Christmas. In RE we learnt all about how Christians celebrate this wonderful time of the year and made Advent wreaths. We also talked about acts of service that we could perform over the festive period. The children worked together in groups to create an acts of service advent calendar, with 25 acts of kindness. Some suggestions were to give food to the homeless, help a friend and donate old toys to children in need. What lovely suggestions!
It wouldn't be Christmas without a good old party! The children had great fun dancing their hearts out and playing lots of fun party games. The best part though was eating our delicious party food!
However, the highlight of this month has to be….. The Crook Factor! Miss Burnip and Miss Lywood have worked tirelessly to plan a wonderful show for us all. All of the acts did a fantastic job but in Year 3 we are particularly proud of Lucas, Florence, Luna, Amelia and Annabelle. You should be incredibly proud of yourselves! Finally, we would just like to say a huge well done to everybody for their wonderful performances in the Christmas show. We hope you all enjoyed it!
Myself and Miss Burnip wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. We will see you all when we return to school on Monday 6th January!
In DT we have learnt all about pneumatics which means an object is moved with air. We investigated this using syringes and tubing and then designed, created and evaluated a pneumatic lifting device to be used in the coal mines.
In Music we have begun to learn how to play the glockenspiel. We have started to learn about reading notes on music paper and have focused on the notes E, D, F, C and G. We will be combining these notes to learn the Christmas song; Jingle Bells. We will be spending the next few weeks perfecting this song, for a performance in our Christmas show!
In English we have focused on Roald Dahl's hilarious story; The Twits. We have used the book to inspire our writing and have written some fantastic gruesome recipes using Headings and Sub-Headings. We have also begun to learn about inverted commas and how to use them in direct speech. We will put these skills into practice next week when we write the next trick that Mrs Twit will play on Mr Twit.
Important dates to remember:
Tuesday 10th December - Christmas jumper Day
Tuesday 17th December - Christmas Party (Children to come in party clothes and bring in their own party bag of food)
Wednesday 18th December - Christmas dinner
Friday 20th December - Christmas performance at 10am. This is the final day as we will close for the Christmas holidays and return on Monday 6th January
Mrs Fox
Miss Burnip
What does it sound like to be fluent in times tables?
What does it mean to be fluent in times tables?
Why do children need to be fluent in times tables?
What does it sound like to be reading at the expected standard in Year 3?
What does it mean to be a fluent reader?
Reading fluency - a combination of the following components:
What to look out for:
How many words per minute should your child be reading?
The following figures are based on the child reading this amount of words in an age appropriate text. Some examples of age appropriate texts can be found below.
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End of the Autumn term (by Christmas) |
End of the Spring term (by Easter) |
End of the Summer term (by Summer) |
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Year 3 |
90 |
100 |
110 |
Year 3 texts:
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