Year 3 have had a wonderful time in our school’s fantastic Library today exploring the amazing genres of books it has to offer. We ensured that we read the Blurb of our chosen book first to see if it captured our interest, rather than judging the book by its cover, before finding a comfortable spot to settle down and lose ourselves for a little while. We knew to treat our books with respect and place them back on the appropriate shelf once we had finished before choosing yet another book. Our quiet, hushed tone also allowed for everyone to enjoy their quality reading time too…we hope to visit again soon!
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Year 3 are certainly enjoying their Mandarin Music lessons with Lulu this term. We are making super progress with the songs for our upcoming performance whilst having a little fun learning and singing the familiar song of ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ with actions!
On Tuesday 21st February we will be launching our Eat Them to Defeat Them Campaign at CPPS!
Updates and information will be shared on twitter and within out blogs, please tweet us with pictures of you Little Warriors defeating the Veg at Home!
Year 3 this term have been considering the concept of ‘Leadership’ and the qualities an individual needs to possess to be considered a ‘good leader.’ Upon lots of discussion, the children agreed that a leader (Religious or Non-Religious) should be kind, fair, honest, trustworthy, respectful and compassionate to name a few. From this, the children then compared some key religious figures who have been described as ‘Founders of their Faith.’
Firstly, Jesus (Founder of Christianity) and Saint Paul (a man who converted to Christianity) were compared.
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- Jesus was the Founder of Christianity
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- Saint Paul was a man who converted to Christianity and became a Saint after he had died due to his religious cause. to teach others about Jesus
The children found that whilst Jesus was a kindhearted, well respected, caring and forgiving man throughout his whole life that in contrast Paul was quite indeed the opposite until he converted to Christianity upon hearing Jesus’ voice call to him. This allowed the children to identify that people can change their ways and turn their lives around for the good of themselves and others.
Further comparisons were made between the founders of Buddhism and Sikhism including the life of the Prophet Muhammed (Pbuh) who was a follower of Islam.
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- Prince Siddartha was the Founder of Buddhism and became known as The Buddha
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- Guru Nanak was the Founder of Sikhism
The children learnt the Prince Siddhartha, who lived a privileged life, naively believed everyone lived like him and had wealth in abundance, the richness of good health and the ability to live forever. However, upon leaving his palace walls he saw that this was not the case and that people were suffering from illness, old age, homelessness and that life did not go on forever. His findings resulted in him leaving his rich lifestyle as a Prince to live a simplistic lifestyle as a monk meditating until he became enlightened. Siddhartha changed his name to Buddha, Founder of the Buddhist Faith and finding his reward in helping and teaching others to understand that we should be happy with what we have, help others where we can and not want for more.
In comparison, the children found that Nanak, as a young boy, was very inquisitive and wanted to know what the world would be like without all the fighting and suffering that was going on and why people argued and had differing opinions of God and religion. He wanted to find a better way to live so that everyone could get along better together irrelevant of their race, gender, religion and beliefs. He became enlightened as a young man upon his own meeting with God which saw him give up all his wealth and sharing it with those who were less fortunate. Nanak soon became known as Guru Nanak, the Founder of Sikhism (Guru meaning Teacher) travelling and sharing God’s message which is that God sees everyone as equal and that wealth, gender and age does not matter and that people should live peacefully in our world together.
We then explored the life of the Prophet Muhammed (Pbuh), who as a follower of Islam, is believed to have been chosen by Allah as his Prophet because he was a respected, wise and fair man who cared deeply for his people. During the Islamic Festival of Ramadan, Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) would take himself off to the mountains to think about his people, wondering why they argued amongst themselves and why some of his people were rich whilst others were poor.
After listening to each of the stories of these three key religious figures, the children in Year 3 concluded that despite Prince Siddhartha’s earlier naivety, they were all kind, selfless, caring religious leaders who put others before themselves and wanted the world to be a better place for everyone.
As we near the end of our photography unit, we really enjoyed further extending our skills by using Pixlr x to add effects and change the appearance of the image.
We were able to talk about which effects we found the most affective and enjoyed playing around with the images to get the desired effect to match our creative ideas.
As Artists this week, we were trying to recreate Julian Opie’s simplicity and line drawing techniques within a sculpture.
We looked at his self portrait and discussed the lines and shapes that we needed to represent this image in clay. We manipulated the clay with our fingers and used the tools to craft and add details.
We loved wearing the aprons and getting stuck in with this messy material. What do you think to our masterpieces?
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Every year , Children’s Mental Health Week takes place during February. This year the theme is,
‘ Let’s connect’.
Connecting with others helps us to share experiences with people we trust and care about. Positive relationships give us opportunities to share our feelings and get someone else’s views on what we are experiencing. Positive relationships give us a sense of feeling and belonging.
The BIG QUESTIONS:
What is mental health?
How can we look after our own mental health?
How can we look after the mental health
of others ?
What can we do to keep our minds healthy?
After lengthy discussions the children were asked to come up with a Mental Health Action Plan…
And when all the hard work is done – chill time – with a purpose!
Colouring is a healthy way to relieve stress. It calms the brain and helps your body relax. This can improve sleep and fatigue while decreasing body aches, heart rate, respiration, and feelings of depression and anxiety.
A perfect way to end the day.
Mrs Dixon’s Hub Club has been so much fun this half term! The children have enjoyed spending time together whilst challenging themselves to develop some new skills.
We made great use of our tools this week to develop our understanding of division. As were were working so well, we were able to move on to learn how to calculate division with remainders. We worked practically for a few days before applying our skills to questions in our books, our teacher was really proud of the resilience that we demonstrated to ‘crack’ this mathematical skill. Here are some images of our fabulous calculation skills….
Miss Stathers’ class were very excited to end the half term with a trip to the school library.
We had the opportunity to spend time looking at the amazing books and we even had chance to read some.
Some of us read books to ourselves, some of us read books to each other and some of us shared books and read them together.
There is so many books to choose from we had to choose carefully.
We looked at the illustrations on the front of the book and read the blurb on the back to help us decide which ones we wanted to read.
At the end of the afternoon Mrs Smith read us a story. She read ‘Stick Man’ because it was one of her girls favourite books when they were little. We were all really happy when Stick man finally got home.
There were so many books to choose from we can’t wait to go back!
