Investors in pupils - Invesores en alumnos

The children are raring to go with their new Investors in Pupils  targets! 3B's class target is lining up smartly in a super Commando Joe line! 3S' target is to sit down to work independently in the lesson. The children have personalised target cards to sign off each time they complete their target ... when they have done this eighteen times their successes are shared in Celebrations assembly!

International Links!

A quick reminder that we are still keen to celebrate the many International links that have been developing since the visit from our paired school in Colombia last year! Please visit the Colombia page on the Rise Park website to read a joint Rise Park / Colombia blog, learn about the new vegetable garden being set up at Manuel Mejia Vallejo and much, much more!

PE Kit - Reminder!

As previously mentioned, Year 3 PE lessons for this half term are on a Tuesday and Thursday. For both sessions we will be outside whenever the weather allows. As such, your child must have a suitable outdoor PE kit in school all week so that they do not forget it on these days!

Your child's PE kit must contain:

• shorts [indoor]
• t-shirt [indoor]
• plimsols [indoor]

For outdoor sessions:

• tracksuit / jogging bottoms [outdoor]
• sweatshirt [outdoor]
• trainers [outdoor]

Unfortunately, a large number of children this term have been without the correct PE kit, and this has made lessons very difficult. Please ensure that all children have the correct kit, in a size which fits them and is clearly labelled with their full name. Also remember that any jewellery worn by children must be removed prior to the start of these PE sessions.

Thank you for your help and support in this matter.

Enterprise Week - Market Researchers

We ended last half term with a school-wide Enterprise Week where we learnt about many different jobs. In Year 3 we worked as Market Researchers, focusing on the healthy snacks eaten by children at school during break and lunch times. We identified cereal bars as being a snack that needed a "face-lift"; children were being given them by parents but did not enjoy eating them!

The children worked in groups to design a new cereal bar, deciding on the ingredients that they would put in their bar and the wrapper that it would be packaged in. They collected data from one another, voted on favourite flavours and planned each stage of the design process. They worked together in groups to make the cereal bar mixture, and packaged this themselves, using their own marketing ideas.

We looked together at how mascots are used to promote and sell, and the children designed their own mascots to advertise the cereal bars that they had produced. On the Friday of Enterprise Week, the groups used the school iPads to film a TV advert to help promote their new brand, working from scripts that they had written together earlier in the week.

Here are some photos of the finished cereal bars. All of the staff were really impressed by the children's hard work, and their ability to work together as a team. Well done Year 3!

 

Spring Term Continues!

Welcome back to Rise Park for the second half of the Spring Term! Although we are only at school for a little over five weeks, there are an awful lot of events and activities packed in to this half term.

We will be celebrating our love of reading and meeting a real-life author of children's books during World Book Day; painting faces, dodging dodgeballs and raising money for Comic Relief on Red Nose Day and preparing Easter Egg competition entries for our annual - and near world-famous - Rise Park Primary School Easter Competition! We are also very fortunate to be working with Commando Joe each Thursday this half term - as such, children must have their PE kits with them on a Tuesday and Thursday this half term.

As you can see, the children will have a lot of great opportunities this half term, and we hope that they will engage with them and take part to the best of their ability.

Welcome back and we hope that you had a nice half term. We would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the things year 3 are doing this half term.

We are continuing with our Roman topic work and we would like to thank you for all your support with your children's homework project. It was wonderful to see the projects that they have created and it is very clear that the children have worked extremely hard on them. As result of this we have decided to display them in our quiet area for other children around school to come and see. Here are some examples for you to see.

This term we have discussed with the children the importance of keeping safe in and outside of school. The children had the opportunity to complete a questionnaire to enable them to voice their opinions. Some of the things which the children said made them feel safe are

• Adults in school to talk
• Being familiar with the rules of e-safety in the ICT suite
• Classroom rules

For more details about the children's responses please see the attachment on the year 3 web page.


Also this term year 3 have been getting creative in craft club which is an after school club run by Mrs Fay. See below some of the exciting things that 3MS made before half term.

We have a fun filled and busy half term to follow with the Christmas period fast approaching. We would appreciate your support in helping your child to learn the words to our Christmas songs which will be sent home shortly.

In the meantime the children will be working on their D&T projects to design and create a Roman photo frame. As the project unfolds we will be able to post some photos of the children's work.

Finally your child will soon be bringing home a letter to advise you of our new reading initiative 'the reading race track'. Again we would appreciate your support with this as we believe it will strongly benefit your child's reading and writing development.

Welcome back!

Welcome back to the Autumn Term.

We hope that you have had a wonderful summer break and are ready for the exciting term ahead!

Your child's Year 3 teachers are Miss Scholten and Mrs Birkett (who will be covering for Mr Shadbolt for the foreseeable future). Working alongside these will be Mrs Fay and Miss Paling.

Our focus topic is the Romans and much of our work will based around this theme.

Please take time to read through the Year 3 newsletter which your child will bring home soon. This will tell you a little more about this term.

The children have settled into year 3 well and are learning new routines.

Look out for updates about your child's class on this blog!!