This week, both Year 3 classes attended a sports inspired festival at Poplar Baths Leisure Centre. Whilst here, all pupils were divided into small groups and had the chance to play a variety of sports, these sports included; volleyball, boxing, martial arts and netball. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed the day as it taught them more about team building and working co-operatively.
To start off the new term, this week in Year 3 we have been learning about our new class saints, Saint Damien of Molokai and Saint Bernadette. We independently designed our R.E book covers using watercolour paints. Alongside this, we learnt our new class prayer, which is based on our class saint.
In year 3 with Miss Hamilton, we learned about Rosh Hashanah, the New Year of the Jewish Calendar. It ends with Yom Kippur also known as the Day of Atonement. For the Jewish people, Rosh Hashanah is a time to look back over the past year. They believe that God gave human beings free will to choose between good and evil and that God will forgive anyone who is really sorry. Saying ‘sorry’ in Hebrew means returning – that is, returning to God. The word ‘sorry’ in Hebrew is ‘Teshuvah’ which means ‘returning’. It is a time to put right any wrong committed against other people and to express sorrow for sins. When people meet each other they say, ‘May you be inscribed for a good year.’
Today we took part in the Crowning of Mary ceremony, alongside Reception. We each brought in flowers to lay at our Mary statue in the garden. We participated in a service which focussed on Mary, meaning we could pray and reflect on all the wonderful things she did.
In Year 3 today we participated in a P4C session. We began by sitting in a circle and doing a warm up- the warm up was a word association game. We then reminded ourselves of the rules of a P4C session and how listening to our peers was just as important as voicing our thoughts and ideas. The stimulus we explored as part of the main activity was based on the theme of worry and anxiety, this allowed us as a class to delve into this topic and come up with some strategies that we can use if we feel worried or anxious.
In Maths today we used practical resources such as analogue clocks, whiteboards and pens to help us explore telling the time. We looked at different time and word problems and used the clocks and whiteboards to help us answer the questions.
For Science week this week we used spaghetti, marshmallows and tooth pics to make towers. We built strong and tall tower structures in pairs whilst exploring connections.
Today we had the pleasure of meeting with Sister Chris. She came and visited us in class and spoke to us about the upcoming Holy Week. We talked through the events of Holy Week before asking her any questions we had- thank you Sister Chris!
Today we have loved coming to school dressed up as our favourite book characters! It’s been great to see everyone in their fancy dress costumes. We also enjoyed sharing our opinions on what we thought the best books were and why we think they’re the best books.
Today we had our class mass with Father Keith at Church. This afternoon we went to church for mass; Father Keith talked us through the mass. Afterwards, we were able to ask Father Keith any questions we had about the mass or about Church in general.
