What a great start to the new year we have had! It has been so lovely to welcome our children back into school and hear all your Christmas adventures.
Immersion week has seen some truly wonderful art projects happening for our exciting new expedition – What a Wonderful World!
We have got our hands well and truly sticky with papier-mâché as well as creating paper collages of our beautiful Earth! We can’t wait to show you the finished products!
It was such a treat to invite parents into school to take part in Our Christmas craft afternoon! We demonstrated patience and resilience whilst making Hama bead decorations and also ‘Elf-ed ourselves’. Thanks as always to our wonderful parents and carers for supporting your children.
This term 3LG have been working with Doncaster Rovers during our PE lessons. The children have been playing lots of Christmas themed fitness games, even turning into naughty elves stealing presents from Santa.
Yesterday, 3HJ saw the return of our very own pesky elf – Egbert! We noticed that he had climbed into our Christmas tree and hidden amongst the branches with a letter from Santa at the North Pole.
Crew Jenkins really got into the Christmas spirt decorating the Christmas tree and adding lots of tinsel to the classroom! I really hope our friend Egbert isn’t going to be too much trouble!
This morning year 3 were lucky enough to be joined by representatives from the Chance to Dance programme. We got the opportunity to work with an artist from the Royal Ballet and a local dance teacher. The children learned all about different stage directions and the mappings of movement that come together to make ballet. The children worked in their groups to create “flocking” movements in the style of the characters from the Royal Ballet Swan Lake. In their groups the children put together a routine using these movements and performed these in front of the whole class!
This week, 3HJ have had the pleasure of learning all about the gruesome lives of Roman gladiators. We have discovered many horrifying facts ranging from fighting with wild animals to women slaves also being thrown in to the colosseum to battle. We have been fully immersed in this new learning which kicked off with a ‘Silent Conversation’ where the children had to decide whether a whole host of facts were true or false. Children then learnt about the the different types of armour and how they were trained at school for battles. It has been wonderful to see everyone so engaged in their learning. Well done 3HJ! Now …… let’s do battle!
3LG have been honing their football skills this week in PE, working on their dribbling, passing and shooting. They have been working really hard on controlling the ball and working together as a team. The children worked both on their own to develop their ball skills and in groups to coach each other’s technique with the ball.
