Last week, we were finally able to visit our recently-revamped library which we have been very excited about! Before the summer holidays, Mrs Fraser asked our opinions of the library and although children shared that there was a fantastic range of fiction, non-fiction...
English
Frieze Frames
As part of our Ancient Greek myths topic in English, we have been reading and discussing Odysseus and the Cyclops. We sequenced images of the story, verbally retelling the story in partners. Then in groups, we created a frieze frame for different key events using our...
Sleeping Beauty Drama
In English this week, we found out that our next fairytale we would be focusing on this half term would be ‘Sleeping Beauty’. In groups, we annotated what we already knew about the fairytale. We focused on characters, beginning, dilemma, how the dilemma is solved and...
National Poetry Day
This week in Year 3 we have been celebrating National Poetry Day. Throughout the week we have focused on performance poetry and have thought about different ways in which a variety of poems can be performed. We had a go at learning a poem called ‘Ocean Rhyming’ off by...
National Poetry Day Celebrations
Our unit of work this week in English was Performance Poetry. We listened to, rehearsed and performed a number of poems about plastic pollution. We enjoyed working in groups to decide on the different techniques that we were going to use when performing the poem 'Just...
Poetry Week
This week, we celebrated Poetry Day on Thursday 3rd October. Each class in school were asked to learn a poem throughout the week. This was when performed in front of the rest of the school and to the children’s parents and carers at the end of the school day. Our poem...