Welcome to Class 3
Class Activities
Homework 16.5.22
This week’s homework is numeracy and is focusing on our mental maths. Can you look at your worksheet at complete the calculations to create the picture?
If you have any questions please feel free to ask!
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SATs Party!
After a week of working super hard, class 3 have loved their day of partying, watching movies and some well deserved treats. I am so proud of how hard they have all worked!
UNCRC Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of activities.
Well done Harry and Archie!
Harry and Archie played their first cricket match at the weekend, for Sacriston under 9’s. Their team won and they should both be so proud of themselves!
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Honey Baked Bananas
To link to our current topic ‘Wriggle and Crawl’, for our DT lesson we made some yummy honey baked bananas. We talked about where the honey came from and how this links to the mini beasts we have been looking at. We had the challenge of following the recipe accurately.
Have a look at how the turned out…
Engagement – Crazy Creatures!
This morning Class 3 had a fantastic treat, to launch our new topic ‘Wriggle and Crawl’. We had the chance to hold some amazing animals and creatures and the children were so brave! We also found out lots of interesting facts about the animals and had lots of great questions.
Homework 3.5.22
This week’s homework is Literacy and is based around reading comprehension. Can you have a look at your worksheet, read the text and have a go at answering the questions?
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
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Well done Jess!
Jess completed her ‘E’ test at her Pony Club. What a super achievement and a great talent!
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Homework 26.4.22
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This week’s homework is science and introduces our topic for this half term ‘everyday materials’. Can you have a look at your worksheet and have a go at completing the activitiy?
If you have any questions please feel free to ask!
Welcome back to Summer 1!
I hope you have all had a lovely Easter break and are looking forward to the final term. This half term our cornerstones topic is ‘Wriggle and Crawl’. We have lots of exciting things to learn and a fantastic engagement with Crazy Creatures. I have attached the welcome letter for this half term that explains more about our new topic and includes some diary dates.
Thank you for your continued support and I look forward to the upcoming term.
Easter Fun!
We had so much fun designing, decorating and showing off our fantastic eggs for the Easter Egg Competition. We also loved making cards for our families and friends and had an exciting delivery from the Easter Bunny on Friday. We also had a lovely treat on the last day, to celebrate our full reading tree and the effort we have made, as a class, to read at home this half term.
I hope everyone has a fantastic Easter break and I am looking forward to seeing you all in the new term.
Miss Grimes.
Homework 4.4.22
This week’s homework is numeracy and we have been looking at time. Please try your best to complete the activity as independently as possible.
Please note there are no spellings this week as it is rising stars week.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask!
Skipping School
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Class 3 had a fantastic time learning how to skip. We learned lots of new skills and had lots of fun.
Well done Phina!
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Phina has been given her first belt in jui jitsu. What a fantastic achievement Phina.
Cricket Taster Session
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Today we had an amazing cricket taster session from All Stars Cricket. The children absolutely loved it and the staff were amazed by some of the talent. They had the opportunity to try out some new skills, whilst having lots of fun.
All of the children have been given a leaflet with information about how to sign up if you are interested!
Homework 28.3.22
This week’s homework is literacy. We have been focusing on reading comprehension and finding the information to answer questions from the text.
Please can you have a look at your worksheet and answer the questions.
Wear A Hat Day
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Today we were raising money and awareness for Brain Tumour Awareness week. During the week, we baked some cakes for our bake off. We decided to bake Ukraine themed cakes, to link to the work we have been doing in UNCRC lessons. The children were very proud of their cakes and they showed off their measuring skills whilst making the mixture.
Homework 21.3.22
This week’s homework is science and links to our topic of Habitats. Can you have a look at your worksheet and give it a go.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Red Nose Day!
Class 3 have had lots of fun today for Red Nose Day. They all looked amazing in their rainbow clothes and had lots of fun cheerleading with the sports leaders. Thank you to everyone who donated!!!
Well done Jasleen!
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Jasleen has managed to finish a whole piano book. She is doing amazing. What a lovely talent.
Fairtrade Fortnight…
We have been celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight in school. In our UNCRC lesson, we talked about Fairtrade and we shared ideas about where different foods came from. We looked at how chocolate was made and transported to our shops and completed different activities.
UNCRC Article 27 – Every child has the right to a good standard of living and governments must help to provide this.
Maths Day!
Miss Milburn and Mr Beveridge taught Class 3, who had so much with an active maths session! The children added their scores playing skittles, knocking down dominoes, bean bag hoop throwing and a hoop throwing number game! Everyone enjoyed adding up their scores to see who the winners were! Well done Class 3!
Homework 7.3.22
This week’s homework is literacy and links to our new topic ‘Ourselves’. Can you have a look at your worksheet and have a go at completing the activity, all about you?
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
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Well done Sophie and Alana!
Sophie and Alana both played in a football tournament at the weekend. We are so proud to see them taking part in a sport they love and doing so well! They were both given a medal and a wristband for their achievements.
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Science Day – 4.3.22
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What a fabulous afternoon Class 3 have had when Mr Graham came to teach and we looked at healthy eating. The children categorised a large variety of food into their food groups, looked at the food they had just eaten for dinner and asked the question…is it possible to eat healthy ‘sweet’ food?
The children worked incredibly hard and helped to make Sugar Seed balls using natural ingredients.
Well done to all our children who demonstrated their rights respecting gold ethos in abundance 👍
World Book Day!
We have had a fantastic morning, celebrating World Book Day and the children made a brilliant effort with their costumes. We talked about our favourite books, had some lovely stories read by class 5 and had a visit from real life Spider-Man!
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Memorable Experience – walk around the village.
Class 3 have had a fantastic afternoon, celebrating our new topic ‘Street Detectives’. We explored some of Nettlesworth and had Mrs Cooke and Mrs Mordue telling us all about the history of our local area. It was so much fun and we learnt lots of interesting facts along the way. We were also seeing what we could spot that we had seen on the maps we had been looking at.
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Pancake Day!
Today class 3 had a lovely treat and got to decorate and eat pancakes!
Amazing bravery Florence!
Florence has been absolutely amazing and has donated 9 inches of her hair to children that are not as fortunate as some of us. We are so proud of what you have done Florence and how brave you have been!
Great achievement Alana!
Over the holidays, Alana got her yellow stripe in taekwondo! Well done Alana.
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Homework 28.2.22
This week’s homework is science and links to our new topic, ‘habitats’. Can you have a look at your worksheet, all about different animals and their habitats and have a go at completing it.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
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Spring 2!
Welcome to Spring 2. I hope you have all had a lovely half term. This half term our topic is ‘Street Detectives’ so we will be looking at our local area and seeing what we can spot on our local walk around the village, as part of our memorable experience!
Random Act of Kindness Day!
This afternoon we had a lovely treat from class 4, for their random act of kindness. We were lucky enough to have some nice sweet treats and dip them into the chocolate fountain🍫🍩
We also treated class 1 to a movie afternoon with popcorn.
Bonjour Papi!
We had a lovely visitor for our French lesson this week. Papi was kind enough to come in and teach us all of the French colours. She was so impressed with how class 3 listened and learned the colours. It was an amazing experience for class 3!
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Year 2 multi-sport event!
Class 3 have had a fantastic afternoon taking part in the Multi-sport festival at Maiden Castle. They took part in a dance and basket ball session and we all learnt lots of new things.
UNCRC Article 31 – Every child has the right to take part in a range of activities.
Homework 14.2.22
This week’s homework is Numeracy is looking at shapes. Can you have a look at your worksheet and have a go at completing it.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
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Bounce!
As a celebration of this half term’s topic, ‘Bounce’, today class 3 spent some of the afternoon playing with all kinds of different balls outside. We also had a small competition to see which ball bounces the highest.
Our inter house competition.
Today we had such an exiting afternoon, taking part in our inter house competition. We learnt lots of new football skills and had small competitions, to celebrate football week. Here are some pictures to show off our skills…
Internet safety coffee morning!
This morning we have had a lovely coffee morning, taking part in lots of safer internet activities. We also had juice and biscuits!
UNCRC Article 17 – Every child has the right to access reliable information on the media.
Homework 7.2.22
This week’s homework is literacy and is focusing on our topic ‘zoo’. Can you create a leaflet for people visiting the zoo?
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
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National Storytelling week.
Today we celebrated national storytelling week by hearing Mrs Morton tell us a funny story. We laughed at the story and acted out being a superhero!
NPSCC Number Day!
Today we have been taking part in some fun number activities, as part of the NSPCC Number Day. We played some games and practiced our times tables on TT Rockstars.
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Well done Florence!
We have another amazing swimmer in class 3. Florence has moved up to stage 4. Fabulous achievement Florence well done.
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Chinese New Year!
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We have been celebrating Chinese New Year today. We have tried some prawn crackers and made lots of crafts and decorations.
Well done Alana!
Alana has passed another level in swimming! What a great achievement Alana, well done!
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Homework 31.1.22
This week’s homework is science. We are continuing to look at plants and this will be focusing on what they need to grow and survive. Can you have a go at completing the worksheet by filling in the missing gaps.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
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Friday Arts and Crafts…
We have had a very fun and creative art lesson today, creating pictures of balls bouncing, to link to our topic. We came up with some amazing ideas and could create a great bouncing effect.
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Homework 24.1.22
This week’s homework is numeracy and is all about problem solving. Can you have a look at your worksheet and have a go at working out the problem and showing your calculations.
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We have a new footballer in class 3!
Sophie has recently joined a football club and if so enthusiastic. She had a trip to St. James’ Park and bought her own Newcastle strip.
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Well done Phina!
Phina was gymnast of the day at her last gymnastic session. What a great achievement.
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Homework 17.1.22
This week’s homework is literacy and is looking at our new topic ‘zoos’. Can you have a look at your worksheet and complete it by writing some descriptive words or sentences to describe animals that you might find in the zoo.
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Well done Sophie!
Sophie has been working super hard in swimming and has completed stage! Amazing effort Sophie.
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Homework 10.1.22
This week’s homework is science and is looking at plants, to introduce our new topic. Can you have a look at your worksheet and have a go at completing it.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
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Adam Bushnell visit
Today we had a real life author visit us in class 3 …… Adam Bushnell. He introduced our new topic, Bounce, by taking us into a rainforest with bouncy animals! He also brought along his pet, Jet, but he didn’t bounce!
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Welcome to Spring 1!
Welcome back! I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and are ready for our next half term. This half term our topic is Bounce! We have lots of exciting things coming up that relate to our topic. Please find attached welcome letter for more information on Spring 1.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Many thanks,
Miss Grimes.
Merry Christmas!
We have had another lovely half term and class 3 have worked so so hard! I hope everyone has a brilliant Christmas and a brilliant New Year. See you all in 2022!
Christmas week!!
This week we have had so much fun doing lots of Christmas crafts, having our lovely Christmas dinner and taking part in our Christingle Service. We are all ready for the Christmas holidays.
Christmas Fun!
We had lots of fun today doing some Christmas activities and buying and winning lots of lovely prizes at the Christmas fayre!
Homework 6.12.21
This week homework is to carry on learning our lines for the performance, ready to perform it! We are doing lots of practicing so it is important that all of the children feel confident with their lines and songs.
Please note there are no spellings this week.
Decorating our classroom!
We have had lots of fun in class 3, creating lots of decorations for our classroom. We made some lovely snowflakes for our Christmas display, created our own nativity and added our pictures and decorated our brand new Christmas tree with lots of baubles and lights!!
Homework 29.11.21
For this week’s homework, the children have been given their scripts for the Christmas performance coming up. Could you please practice your child’s lines with them to help them prepare.
Please note there are no new spellings this week due to not being at school to do the test on Friday. We will be testing last week’s spellings this Friday so I have given them back for extra practice.
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Trip to the Castle!
Class 3 have had a fantastic day at Castle Keep as part of our cornerstones topic. We had an amazing tour around the castle, learned lots of new facts about castle life and had our very own castle feast!!
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Homework 22.11.21
This week’s homework is numeracy and looks at arrays. Can you have a go at completing the worksheet.
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Professor Brainstorm!
Class 3 had lots of fun experimenting with Professor Brainstorm and learnt lots of new science facts.
Children In Need 2021!
We had a lovely day celebrating Children In Need, doing lots of fun activities and taking part in fun sporting activities. All of the children looked fab and thank you for your donations!
Homework 15.11.21
This week’s homework is Literacy and is continuing our topic on fairytales. Can you have a look at the worksheet and have a look at the activity relating to fairytale characters.
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Memorable Experience – Castle Day!!!
UNCRC Article 31: Every child has a right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of artistic activities.
Class 3 have had an amazing day celebrating our new Cornerstones topic with all thing Castles!
They build their very own castles, made lots of amazing decorations and took their places at the Medieval Banquet. They all looked absolutely amazing! Here are some pictures of what we got up to…
Homework 1.11.21
This week’s homework is Science. Can you complete the worksheet about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
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Homework 1.11.21
This week’s homework is numeracy and is practicing counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Can you have a look at your worksheet and work out how many objects there all altogether.
Welcome back to Autumn 2!
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I hope you are excited for an exciting half term, learning all about our new topic… Towers, Tunnels and Turrets. We will be doing lots of lovely activities relating to our topic in class alongside a trip to a local castle in a few weeks! Keep an eye out for a letter with more information. We are launching our topic with our very own Medieval Castle Day! We will be building castles, having a medieval banquet and lots more! Letters will be sent out with more information.
Halloween!
Class 3 have had a lovely last day doing lots of Halloween activities. We have made lots of things, decorated biscuits and a fun Halloween cosmic yoga!
Homework 18.10.21
This week’s homework is Literacy focused and links to Halloween! You get to make your own magic potion.
Enjoy your last piece before the half term!
Well done Alana!
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Alana has moved up to level 3 in swimming this weekend! What an amazing achievement Alana, well done!!!
Beat, Band & Boogie
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We had lots of fun today celebrating our Cornerstones topic ‘Beat Band Boogie’, by creating our very own music! The children played like professionals!
Harvest Festival
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Class 3 were fantastic in the Harvest Festival, when they read out a lovely rhyme.
Homework 11.10.21
This week’s homework is science and is all about plants. Can you have a look on your sheet and draw a plant and add some labels and information about it.
Science Fun!
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Class 3 have had lots of fun today in their science lesson finding plants and discovering their habitats. They were investigating the different types of plants on the field and worked super hard!
Homework 4.10.21
This week’s homework is numeracy and is focusing on subtraction. Can you have a look at the sheets and have a go at practicing what we have been looking at in class.
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Harry completed the Muddy Kids Race for Life this weekend and managed to raise lots of money for charity. Such a huge achievement Harry Well Done!
Alana also got student of the month at her taekwondo class. Amazing Alana well done!
Class 3 had a fantastic day for World Smile Day! We had some amazing outfits that made us happy and had lots of fun doing some lovely activities, that all made us smile. We also had our random act of kindness from Class 5 which meant extra playtime with the equipment!
This week’s homework focus is Literacy. We have been continuing to look at our topic of ‘food’ and have spent this week looking at recipes. The focus of the homework is all about food packaging. Can you read the instructions on your sheet and complete the activity.
Homework 24.9.21
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Hoopstars!
Class 3 had a fantastic time this morning at Hoopstars and loved practicing their hoola hooping and learning some new skills.
Homework 20.9.21
This week’s homework is looking at things are living, no longer alive or never been alive. Have fun exploring!
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Homework 13.9.21
This week’s homework is focusing on place value. Can you complete the worksheet, remembering to read the questions carefully.
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Memorable experience
On Friday we had a lovely day with illustrator, Liz Million. She launched our topic ‘Beat, Band, Boogie’, and helped us draw some amazing pictures of animals playing lots of different instruments. She also talked about some of the books she has illustrated and described the types of drawings she uses. The children had an amazing day and created some brilliant art work.
Homework 6.9.21
Welcome to class 3! This week’s homework is linking to our literacy topic, food. We have been talking about which foods we like and dislike in class. Can you sort the foods on the worksheet into which ones you like and dislike?
Red Robins/Magenta Monkeys homework:
Turquoise Turtles/Purple Penguins homework:
Our Cornerstones Topic
This half term we are going to be learning all about Beats, Bands and Boogie. We are very excited to take part in lots of different activities. Keep an eye of our page to see what we get up to!
Archived Activities
You can view archived activities for each class on our website.
