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Welcome to Year Three

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The children in Year Three have been working very hard this week and they should feel very proud of how well they have settled into their new classes. They are already reaching the high expectations. 

In topic this week the children have started to learn all about The Ancient Greeks. Over the term they will be reading Greek myths, learning about life in Ancient Greece and looking at Greek architecture. In Science the children have also started their learning about Animals Including Humans. Year Three will be investigating teeth and bones as well as looking at the diets of a range of animals.

We are all looking forward to the term ahead!

Making Naan

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As part of our Indian topic Year 3 have been bread making! We sampled naan bread with different flavours to see which we liked and to give us ideas then we designed our own flavoured naan bread bread.

Our fabulous cook Sue helped us this morning...

And we are rather pleased with our results.... See for yourselves!

Looking forward to sampling...

Indian Bread Tasting

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This week, Year 3 enjoyed tasting different bread recipes originating from India. We made choices about which were our favourite recipes and decided on what to include for a bread recipe of our own.

In a couple of weeks, we will be mixing ingredients and making some naan breads to evaluate and enjoy.

Rock Star Maths

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Year 3 are well underway on their Rock Star journey! Starting out as hopeless wannabes practising in our virtual garage we will work towards becoming rock star legends playing in arenas all over the world!

Using our new website and app, we are able to continue to improve and test our times table abilities.

What's your rock star name? Comment below:

Extreme Weather!

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We have returned from our half term break fully refreshed to carry on with our exciting learning opportunities here at WHCPS. Like the weather outside our Topic for this term has changed. It's linked to weather too ... extreme weather!

Year 3 at the Greek Olympics

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Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Ancient Greece. This week, we learned that the Olympics were created in ancient Greek times. This was a time when the states stopped fighting each other and competed ina  number of athletic events. We compared the games from ancient times with modern day Olympic activities.

Can you guess what these sporting events are?

A Royal Celebration!

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Today the children have been having lessons linked to The Royal Family and The Royal Wedding. All of the children in Year Three have dressed as princes, princess or in red, white and blue. In English, the children found out who was who? This involved them reading an extract of text and mapping out the Queen’s nearest family members. They learnt all about The Queen’s children and grandchildren. In addition to this, the children design a wedding dress and wedding gift suitable for a member of the royal family. All the children had a lovely picnic in the sunshine! It was a fantastic day full of excitement and celebration.

Mary Quant

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This week Year Three have been lucky enough to take part in tie-dying. We completed our "Cool Dude" topic by designing and making tier-dye pieces of fabric. We then used running stich to sew a Patten onto our fabric. The patterns were inspired by Mary Quant and famous fashion designer. We used colours, shapes and patterns that were used in 1960s fashion. The children showed lots of perseverance practising their running stitch. Their final products looked amazing!

The Borrowers

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This Half term Year Three have been reading The Borrowers. They have been developing lots of skills. For example, using their APE skills to answer a range of questions and using a dictionary to check the meaning of unknown words. To make sure the children really understand the text, they have been wringing out the meaning of certain phrased used by the author and backing up all explanations with proof from the text. In golden time, the children got to watch the film and compare the similarities and differences to the text.

World Book Day in Year 3

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Year 3 had a great time learning all about the work of Beatrix Potter. The children focused on the story of Peter Rabbit and created setting descriptions for Mr Mcgregors garden, learnt how to measure the perimeter of his garden and used Typography to create beautiful representations of Peter in words. The children's favourite part of the day was spending time with the children in the nursery and sharing books with them.

What a treat!

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This week Year Three have been lucky enough to have a visit from Professor McGinty. He came to WHC to share his expert knowledge of Ancient Greece with us. We all learnt so much new information, to consolidate our learning of this topic. We really enjoyed looking at artefacts used by the Greeks such as pots and coins.

In addition, we also had a visit from a theatre company and saw the production of Charlotte’s Web. This will be our transition unit for English in the summer, so we got a head start!