Our Topic this Spring Term 2015

Our Topic This term is 'Castles and Dragon'. This will be over the two half terms.

 

This project has a history focus and teaches children about aspects of the middle ages of Welsh history between 1063 and 1283,  known as Medieval Times. The children will learn about significant aspects of Welsh history including the Welsh Princes of the time and the four provinces of Gwynedd, Powys, Deheubarth and Morgannwg. The project will explore the Princes’ lifestyles, their homes and castles and their role in society. At the main Genre of this project children read, write and re-tell myths and legends and create their own stories in the same style. Children will learn additional skills in presenting and recounting historical information.

In the Innovate Stage children play the role of villagers to plan, prepare and present a case for lower taxes to a Welsh Prince of a local castle.

In this project the children will learn.

About the period 1063 to 1283 including the lives of the rich and poor;

How to use a range of historical source materials to find out information about the pastHow to order things chronologically;

About significant Welsh figures that shaped this period of history;

About the castles of Wales, their building, function and importance in the past and present times;About cultural identity of Wales;

About the features of myths and legends and how to write one of their own;

How to use a range of mathematical, technological and artistic skills to create artefacts and models on an historical theme.

Twitter

We post lots on our twitter page so head over to twitter to see what we do in class every week. @pontyclunyear3

Welcome to Year 3!

Year 3 Classes – J1– Mrs Davies/ Miss Harwood

                                J2– Miss Woolls

We hope you have all had a lovely summer and we would like to welcome your son/ daughter  into year 3. We are sure that he/ she will have an enjoyable year ahead. We would like to take this opportunity to explain some important information at the start of the year.

Our topic this half term is Disaster Zone.

This topic has a geography focus and teaches children about the causes and impact of natural disasters involving water, flooding and erosion and the environmental factors which cause them. During this topic the children will write reports using factual data . In addition children develop skills to write leaflets and present findings from tests and investigations using scientific and geographical language. If you have any resources related to this subject, please feel free to bring them in.

Reading

Your child has been given a reading book and a reading record. Your child will be reading with the teacher every week, one week individually and the other week as part of a guided group reading session. Please could you encourage your child to bring the record, and their book on their reading day. We encourage each pupil to read at home on a daily basis for at least 15 minutes. Please update your child’s reading diary weekly and they then will be able to change their book.

PE

Your child's PE day is as follows

	Indoor PE	Outdoor PE
J1	Friday	Wednesday
J2	Friday	Wednesday

  

Homework

The children will be given Homework books and they may cover/ decorate them as they wish.

The children will be given maths homework every other week. This can be stuck into the back of their homework books.

The alternate week they will be given Literacy/ Topic based homework. This can be completed in the front of their books.

The children will be given the homework on a Monday and they will have to bring it in on the Monday

In year 3 we also encourage the children to learn their times tables and the spellings given as this will assist them in Literacy and Numeracy lessons.

Morning Routine

In the mornings please can the children not enter the Year 3 building to drop off their bags before 9am. This is for health and safety reasons.

If you wish to find out even more exciting news, please follow us on twitter; @pontyclunpri

We are really excited about the new school year and are looking

forward to getting to know our new classes!

Thank you for continued support,

Year 3 Teachers.

Bake for Bobath!

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to all the parents in Year 3 for your kind donations of cakes and decorations. The children had lots of fun decorating the cupcakes and they enjoyed eating them even more, as lots of you saw during the bake sale! A big thank you also for buying lots of cakes! The children loved selling the cakes and using their money skills to give change. Would also like to say a HUGE thank you to the children of years 4,5 and 6 for bringing in cakes to sell to each other during break times. It was a huge success and all the children enjoyed eating the cakes. 

We raised a total of £343.42 for Bobath Children's Therapy Centre!!!!!! Thank you all again!

Eisteddfod 2014

We held our annual eisteddfod last Friday and it was a roaring success. Year 3 worked hard learning their song, Welsh poem and English poem and performing them in front of the school. They created excellent stories, handwriting pieces and art based on J.M.W. Turners landscape. 

The winners of the art in J2 were;

1st Isobel

2nd Nia

3rd Harri

HC Jack

HC Megan 

The winners of handwriting in J2 were; 

1st Claudia

2nd Jenna

3rd Phoebe

HC Alisha

HC Ruby 

The winners of the Welsh myth in J2 were

1st Ella

2nd Jenna

3rd Layla

HC Lily H

HC Nia 

The winners of the art in J1 were

1st Aislyn

2nd Alyssa

3rd Amelia

HC Demi

HC Bianca

The winners of the handwriting in J1 were 

1st Bianca

2nd Max

3rd Luke

HC Brodie

HC Isabelle

The winners of the Welsh myth

1st Gabriel

2nd Amelia

3rd Sophie

HC Evie

HC Isabelle

Eco day

We had lots of fun on our Eco days. We dressed up in our best trashion and had lots of fun modelling our outfits on the runway. Oliver and Eva won the best trashion in year 3! Well done both! We also did a traffic survey on the traffic that passes through Pontyclun. The children created a bar graph showing the results.