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        • Supporting home learning routines
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        • Children’s Amazing Remote Learning Work Showcase
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          • KS1 work showcase
          • EYFS work showcase
        • Remote Education Information for Parents
        • Supporting home learning routines
        • Google Classroom
          • How to access Google Classroom at home
          • How to hand in work on Google Classroom.
          • Accessing Online Learning using Games Consoles
        • IMPORTANT: Online Learning Acceptable User Agreement
        • EYFS Tapestry Home Learning Information
        • Free Offers to Support Home Learning
          • Free Amazon Maths Books
          • Mobile Data Increase Offer
          • Oak Academy Virtual School Library
        • Additional Resources
          • Links to home learning websites
          • Well-being
        • Online safety for remote education.
          • Online Safety Help sheets For Parents / Carers
        • Closure of Schools Parent Information and Support
        • Emotional well being and support contact numbers during isolation and school closures
          • Well-being
        • Re-opening of School 2021
          • Letters
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          • Curriculum Overview – Bubbles
          • Behaviour Policy – Phased Return
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Category

News Year 3 D

South Tyneside Lego League Festival- Y3D

12th July 2024Catherine Dodds

This term, in computing, children have taken part in the MASTERPIECE  season of FIRST LEGO League. In teams the children imagined and innovated new ways to create and communicate art across the globe. The children use SPIKE Lego Education kits that encourage STEM learning through building and programming moving parts using coding in the app.

On Thursday 11th July, the children in year 3, visited The Word in South Shields to take part in the South Tyneside Lego League Festival where they had the opportunity to show off their moving Lego models and team posters. The children enjoyed making friends with children from other schools and see what they had been building in their school.

The children worked very hard on their models and team posters at school and the judges were impressed. They also answered the  judges questions very well and showed off their knowledge excellently. The teams won The team spirit award, The core values award,  The stick to it award and the Team poster award.
Curriculum News,Front Page News,News Year 3 D lego STEM y3

Y3 Art Trip

23rd March 2024Catherine Dodds

Year 3 have been studying sculpture in Art. We have looked at sculptures in the North East and in our local area. On the 22nd of March, we visited ‘The Conversation Piece’ known locally as the ‘Weebles’  by the internationally acclaimed Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz. The children sketched the sculptures then created their own ‘Sand Weebles’ on the beach.

(We even had time to fit in some fun at the local park as a treat for our exceptional behaviour on the trip.)

 

Front Page News,News Year 3 D

Y3 World Book Day

23rd March 2024Catherine Dodds

The children have enjoyed reading our class novel ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl so had a lovely surprise when Mr. and Mrs. Twit turned up for World Book Day!

A great day was had by all in year 3: designing and making Mr. Twit’s beard, creating book reviews of the Roald Dahl collection, drawing like Quentin Blake, sharing books, and much, much more.

Thank you to the effort made by the parents and to the children coming to school dressed as their favourite character. They looked amazing!

News Year 3 D world book day

World Book Day- Year 3

2nd March 2023Catherine Dodds

 

World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March.

This year, the children enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book characters and joining in with reading and book themed activities throughout the day. We love reading in year 3!

Take a look at some of the fabulous year 3 costumes:

Y3D Class photo
Morning exercise
Reading challenges

The teachers love dressing up too!

Reading with Y4/5

Reading with Y4/5
Reading with friends
Reading with Y4/5

Reading with Y4/5

English,News Year 3 D reading reading for pleasure world book day

Magic Show Visit

3rd November 2022Catherine Dodds

LKS2 were very lucky to be invited to a spectacular magic show at the Customs House. The magician was hilarious and very talented- some of us even had the opportunity to go on stage and help perform the magic.








Front Page News,News Visits,News Year 3 D,News Year 3/4 M,News Year 4-5 L LKS2 Magic trip

Year 3 Computing-Stop Motion Animation

17th July 2022Catherine Dodds

Year 3 have been learning all about animation and multimedia in computing. The children planned a storyboard then created a backdrop and puppets for their animation. Finally, they used ‘onion skinning’ to create an animation using the Stikbot Studio app. The children finished their animation using iMovie to add a title and accompanying music. Have a look at some of the children’s fantastic animations below :




Front Page News,News Year 3 D animation computing year 3

Year 3 Design Technology- Look what we’ve produced in year 3!

4th January 2022Catherine Dodds

As part of out Design Technology unit of work, the children in year 3 have been learning about electrical circuits and how they are used in a range of everyday products.  The children were given the following design brief:

 

 

To design and make a greetings card that lights up.

You are going to design and create a bespoke, one-off greetings card for a person of your choice. You will need to consider the purpose of the card and an appropriate theme linked to Christmas. It must include an electrical element and be attractive and appealing.

The children used online research and reading to help develop the design criteria and communicated their ideas through discussion and annotated sketches. The children decided whether they would design a card with a traditional or religious Christmas theme and whether to make it 2D or 3D.

Here are some photos of our creative designers and engineers and their work:

We used copper wire to make ‘paper circuits’ using a folded over switch.

 

Each group were given a battery, two wires and a bulb. They were then set a challenge to work together to make the bulb light up. The children were delighted when they solved the problem and figured out how to create a working circuit.

 

News Year 3 D curriculum design technology DT STEM year 3

KS2 Christmas Performance 2021

14th December 2021Catherine Dodds

Our fantastic, talented children from LKS2 and UKS2 have been practicing hard to learn a range of songs and dances for their Christmas performance. We can guarantee you will be awe-struck by their amazing singing voices and adept dance moves. We hope you enjoy.

The KS2 team.

Below- full video (lower quality)

https://cdn.realsmart.co.uk/laygate/uploads/2021/12/14210858/KS2-2.mp4

Below- links to the video split into two parts (improved quality)

KS2 part one

KS2 part two

Front Page News,News Whole School,News Year 3 D,News Year 3/4 M,News Year 4-5 L,News Year 5 T,News Year 6 C / 6 O christmas LKS2 UKS2 year 3 year 4 year 5 year 6

Spreading Some Christmas Cheer- Y3D

3rd December 2021Catherine Dodds

We received an email from the South Tyneside Hospital asking if we would like to spread some Christmas cheer. The children in year 3 made someChristmas cards and pictures for the children who will be in hospital over Christmas to brighten up their ward. We designed some beautiful pictures and wrote some heart warming messages.

“Don’t worry if you don’t receive lots of presents or visitors. All the matters is spreading love, kindness and care. Happy Christmas, from Ava.”

“I hope this picture makes you smile and cheers you up. Get well soon and merry Christmas, from M.”

Front Page News,News Year 3 D 3D christmas year 3

Lks2 French Day

17th October 2021Catherine Dodds

The LKS2 children had a lovely day on Friday for French Day.

We had fun practicing our French greetings and learnt to count and add in French. We also sampled some French bread and brie- it was très délicieux! 

We learnt about the famous French mine artist Marcel Marceau and acted out some of our own mines. We created pointillism paintings of French landmarks in the style of the French artist Georges Seurat and worked as a team to try and build the tallest Eiffel Tower using straws.  We also learnt the well known French Lullaby ‘Freres Jacques’ to perform in our celebration assembly.

Front Page News,News Year 3 D French Day LKS2
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