Events

Reading is Magic Festival

We joined in the Reading is Magic festival and have online events with authors on Monday 26^th September and Wednesday 28^th September 2022.

On Monday we joined the author and performer Gareth Jones. We were able to create, star in and solve mysteries based on his 'Solve your own mystery' books.

On Wednesday we joined the author Lola Shoneyin to hear her read the book Iyaji the Housegirl. This was from a series about children in Northern Nigeria and linked perfectly with our recent PSHE lessons and assembly on The Rights of a child. we also met the illustrator online who talked about how she brings the story to life with her pictures.

Tuesday 27^th September 2022

Skipping workshop

We had a great time learning new skipping styles during our skipping workshop. We learnt about how good skipping can be for those who want to keep fit.

Monday 3rd October 2022

Morris Dancing

We were lucky to be visited by the Morris Dance Group who taught all the children in Year 3 about the history of Morris dancing and how to do it too. The children enjoyed their afternoon and are looking forward to enhancing their dancing skills in P.E.

Monday 10^th October 2022

For World Mental Health Day, we took part in an exciting virtual event with Natalie Costa, author of Love Being You! and Know Your Feelings! In the event, Natalie spoke about her books and shared tips to look after our minds.

We then took ten minute to read and relax with the rest of Year 3.

Wednesday 19th October 2022

Author Visit - Andy Shepherd

In class we have been reading The boy who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd. We joined her online for a free event where she talked about her boys, read part of her new book, and answered questions from pupils.

We then met the author Kate Wilkinson who talked about her books from the Edie and the Flits series.

We then had a great time with a draw-a-long with a children's illustrator.

The Inter-school Spelling Bee

Our Spelling Bee competition is back! We will be taking part with the SWAT cluster of schools for this event.

Our first round will take place on Friday 20^th January 2023 so there is plenty of time to practise the words. children will have two minutes to spell as many words aloud as they can from the spelling list that has been sent home. The person with the highest score in Year 3 will go through to the Semi final against children from Walverden Primary School and Briercliffe Primary School.

Friday 21st October 2022

Show Racism the Red Card - St Elizabeth's Primary School

All the children and staff were invited to wear red clothes on Friday to show thier support to the 'Show Racism The Red Card' campaign. Take a look at how amazing we look.

We also had 1 lucky student win the Reading For Pleasure raffle on Friday. Children who had completed their Caiman bookmark were all entered into the raffle and one student was picked at random to win a gift voucher to WHSmith.

Monday 31st October - Friday 4th November 2022

Hannah More Primary School - Week 12 - Art week!

Step 2: Sculpting

Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend our sculpting sessions. It was a huge success as you can see by all the amazing scultures that were made.

Step Three: Colour wheel

Tuesday 1st November 2022

The battle is on!

Miss Radcliffe officially started the TTRockstars battle throughout the school with a live performance from our very own Reedley Rock Band.Have a look at our rockstars below. Children have the opportunity to battle against each other and other classes allowing them to increase their rock status. Children have the opportunity to log on in school and at home. Usernames and passwords can be found in your child's homework book.

Have fun and let the battle BEGIN!

Monday 7th November 2022

Miss Radcliffe received a very special parcel and couldn't wait to show the children.

Talk Money week – Week beginning 7th November

We explored different methods of making payments including using cash, credit cards, online payments, paying with a phone or watch. We had lots of fun exploring real notes and identifying all of the security features on them.

We discussed how the images on our coins and notes will be changing soon so that they will have a portrait of King Charles III. Having looked at the notes, we decided to design new notes.

Anti-bullying week - Monday 14th November

Odd Socks Day

It's ok to be different and stand out...

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Maths Week England – Week beginning 14th November

As part of this we explored the work of Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Pentominoes are thought to have been invented by Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. Henry Ernest Dudeney, an English inventor, created the first pentomino problem which was publishes in 1907.

Pentomoinoes are shapes that use five square blocks, joined edge to edge, to form various combinations

In our maths lessons, we tried to find all 12 pentominoes. We then tried to complete pentomino puzzles, by fitting all the pentominoes into a grid. It was harder than we thought it would be!

Times Table Rockstar – Rock England competition

14th – 16th November

Congratulations to our class for coming 2nd in the competition!!

Children In Need - Spotty Day

Friday 18th November

Explorer's Day - Monday 21st November

We loved having the animals visit us today. We learnt about the skeleton of the animals and their diets and asked some incredible questions. Above are some pictures but to see more please click on the Science tab above.

Author visit - Shabana Hussain: 29^th November

Empathy Action month was in November. As part of this we have a visit form the author Shabana Hussain. She read her book to use and shared the background about why she had written the book. We were also able to by signed copies of her book.

Non-uniform Day - Friday 2nd December

Chocolate Day

What a fantastic day! We had an incredible amount of donations today. Thank you to all the children and parents for donating. See you all at the Christmas Fair.

Pen Licence - Friday 2nd December

We had a group of children who achieved their pen licence on Friday. This means they always have consistent, cursive handwriting in all of their books. Well done!!

Food Tasting - Monday 5th December

We had a great afternoon tasting lots of vegetables as part of our DT topic. Take a look at the DT tab for more pictures.

Grandad Wheels - Tuesday 6th December

Author visit

Grandad wheels delivered an assembly for his. He talked about his books, read one of his stories and let us ask him lots of questions about life in a wheelchair. As a school we helped him to raise £718 by buying his book.

Christmas card from an author

Year 3 received a personalised Christmas card and bookmarks from the author Mel Taylor- Bessent who writes The Chistmas Carolls books.

Christmas festivities

We had our school Christmas lunch on 7^th December

We made lots of super Christmas cards, look for yourself!

Our school Christmas fair took place on 13^th December. Year 3 were busy making playdough 'Build your own Snowman' packs to sell. We also ran a Balloon crackers activity

Happy New Year Jokes 2023: Funny messages, quotes to share with friends - Hindustan Times

Author visit

Luke Temple came to visit us on 26^th and 27^th of January. He led a fantastic interactive assembly, reading sections of his book, Zombie cows from out of space.

Safer Internet Day

Safer Internet Day took place on 7^th February. During the week we read a number of online safety books and explored the positives about being online and how to stay safe and make the write choices.

School Trip

On Friday 12^th February we went to 'Bring your wellies and took part in an action packed day, linked to our theme... The Stone Age.

A small selection of photos. More photos can be seen on our theme tab.

Spelling Bee Y3 champion

The results from this years Spelling Bee were very close but we are very proud to announce that the Reedley School, Y3 winner was from the Silver Posie class. She will be representing Reedley School in the next heat which will be against local schools.

Good luck.

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Art week 2018

Monday 20th February - Friday 24th February

Aboriginal Art

We studied Aboriginal art. We explored where it orinigated from and what the symbols mean. We looked in detail at the work of Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi. We then designed out own Aboriginal art and were able to 'tell our own story' to others.

What is Aboriginal Art? - Answered - Twinkl Teaching Wiki

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Library Bus - 23rd February 2023

Reedley School were visited by the Library Bus, where some children from each class were able to choose a selection of books to take back to their classes for everyone to enjoy.

World Book Day - 2nd March 2023

Celebrating World Book Day 2023 across the UK and Ireland | LoveReading4Kids

Well done to our class for winning the award throughout school for TimesTable Rockstars.

Happy Mother's Day

After writing our own acrostic poems, we then made Mother's day cards to share our poems with our loved ones.

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Eid Mubarak everyone.

Eid celebration school dinner

The Eid Assembly

Year 3 did a fantastic job and hosting an Eid Assembly for the rest of the school as well as for the parents. We were all very proud of how confident the children spoke and sang.

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The Kings Coronation celebrations

We had a non-uniform day where were wore red, white and blue. We learnt about the Royal Family and how everyone is related. We then explored what would happen during the weekend Coronation celebration. Year 3 part particular interest to the Sovereign's Orb. Have a look at our detailed art work.

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PE - Summer 1

We have been exploring our athletic skills with running, jumping and throwing.

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Art week - Monday 5th June to Friday 9th June

We are studying Georgia O'Keeffe

Lesson 1: Appraising the work of Georgia O'Keeffe

Lesson 2: Exploring the life of Georgia O'Keeffe

We found out as much as we could about Georgia O'Keeffe. Click on the link to find out more about Georgia o keeffe

Lesson 3: Exploring plants close up.

We looked looking at plants close up and using the ipads to take our own 'zoomed in' photographs of plants. We started to use some of these images to draw large images of plants.

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Lesson 4: Observational drawings

Friendship day

We had an excellent day meeting new friends from Barrowford Primary School. We played a game of 'People Bingo' as an ice breaker to get to know each other then we worked in small groups to complete Venn diagrams, comparing both schools. Our schools had lots of similarities as well as differences.

We had fun playing paracute games.

Then we completed about you sheets about our new friends.

Roman Day

What a busy day we had on our Roman Day. Here we are, all dressed up for the day. Pop over to our theme page to see all the activities we were completing.

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Things to look forward to this half term...

Art week - Week beginning Monday 5th June

Parents invited in for Art week - Wednesday 7th June

Friendship day - Thursday 8th June (Barrowford School are visiting us)

Roman Day - Friday 9th June

Y3 Quiditch session! - Monday 12th June

Transition days (When you find out who your Year 4 teacher will be) - Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd June

Summer holidays - Monday 24th July to Friday 1st September

We return to school on Monday 4th September