Year 3 (Class 9) - P.E - Volleyball

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This week in volleyball we have been practicing our throwing skills and did some target practice with moving targets.

We played a tournament using all the rules we have learnt so far. 

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Physical Education

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Year 3 (Class 10) - English - Charles Dickens

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We have been working collaboratively to answer retrieval questions about Charles Dickens, who wrote Oliver Twist.

In our groups of 3, we each had a different section of information about his life such as his childhood or other jobs that he had.

We had to work together to find the answers to…

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Music - Ukeles

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In music today we learnt more about finding a beat and how to play the c chord on the ukeles.

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Music

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Year 3 (Class 9) - PSHE - SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health)

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Today in SEMH (social, emotional and mental health) we talked about things we liked in school that made us happy.

This made us thinks about the little things we can do to make the people we see each day happy. 

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PSHE

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Year 3 (Class 10) - Commando Joe's - Food for a Long Journey

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Class 10 had a great time learning about Ed Stafford’s adventures in the Amazon rainforest.

We thought about which foods would be beneficial to us when travelling long distances. We then had to work as a team to collect the food we needed, making sure that other teams didn’t steal our…

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Commando Joe's

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Year 3 (Class 9) - P.E - Tennis

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Class 9 enjoyed their first tennis session with Ellie today. 

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Physical Education

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Year 3 (Class 10) - PSHE - Government Spending

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Class 10 have been debating what the government should spend taxpayer’s money on!

We split ourselves into teams representing areas like schools, transport and hospitals. We then thought of reasons why our department should receive money and presented it back to the class.

We then used our…

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PSHE

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Year 3 (Class 9) - PSHE - Government Sectors

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Today we took on the role of different government sectors.

We debated why our sector was so important and why we needed money to help our sector grow.  

We looked at transport, hospitals, schools and the police department. We also looked at the British values and how our lessons are…

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PSHE

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Year 3 (Class 9) - History - Victorian Housing

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In our history lesson this week we have been finding out about Victorian housing and the differences between rich and poor houses.

The children were very surprised by the conditions of the poor houses and especially the fact that they didn’t have toilets.

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History

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Year 3 (Class 9) - P.E - Dodgeball

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We continued learning about Dodgeball and played a mini tournament.

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Physical Education

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Year 3 (Class 9) - Science - Sound (Loudest & Quietest)

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We continued learning about sound today and conducted a sound hunt around school looking for the loudest and quietest areas.

We recorded sound on our data loggers and discussed what we found in class. We also discussed if results might have been different at different times of the day.

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Science

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Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Writing & Editing

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We have been learning how to edit writing. We worked in pairs to improve a passage using CUPS (Capitals, Understanding, Punctuation, Spelling).

We talked about ways to spot errors and spelling strategies we can use to help us. 

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English

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