Year 3’s Visit to St. Jude’s Church

16th March 2023Catherine Dodds

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In Religious Education, Year 3 have been learning about Christianity and the Church. Reverend Cameron welcomed the children into St. Jude’s Church to discuss the Christian Religion and beliefs and how they worship in a church.
The children looked around the church and found symbols of worship they had been learning about. They helped decorate the Church in in preparation for Easter, tried on the Reverend’s vestments and even had a go on the organ.

Year 3 we’re very respectful inside the church. They used quiet voices and really impressed Reverend Cameron with their questions and answers about Christianity.

Click here to listen to our organ playing

 

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 :

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.

 

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)

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

KS2 part one

KS2 part two

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.”