Today we had a fantastic time visiting the Gurdwara in Newcastle. After washing our hands and taking off our shoes, we were invited upstairs to explore the classrooms, the Guru Granth Sahib’s bedroom and one of the halls used for weddings. We then came downstairs to...
This week Year 3 were treated to a special basketball session led by Phil. We started off by learning some of the key rules before practicing our dribbling techniques. We played a game of treasure hunt where we had to dribble the ball to another team to steal their...
In our Music lessons so far this half term, Year 3 have been learning about Classical and Baroque music. We focused on Beethoven and created a case study. We learnt that Beethoven's pieces of music are incredibly complicated. Beethoven trained as a musician from the...
Last week, we were very fortunate to welcome Jess to St. Aidan's from the Royal Forestry Society. Jess worked with the School Council and children throughout the school to plant over 170 tree saplings in our school grounds. The children learnt that planting trees...
This morning in Maths, Year 3 were adding 2, 3 digit numbers with an exchange. At the start of the lesson, the children worked together in groups to complete a 4 times table game, where they had to correctly line up the 4 times table in order. The children...
This half term we are looking at addition and subtraction. Today we started off by adding two three-digit numbers with no exchanges. First, we made each number using the Base10 resources thinking carefully about the place value of each digit.Then we added each column...