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St Anthony's Catholic Primary School

Growing together on a journey with Jesus

 

Year 3

Welcome to Year 3 - Your Teachers and Teaching Assistants

Our School Council Representatives

Congratulation and Well Done to our Year 3 Altar Servers

Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope at St Anthony's

On Wednesday 22nd January 2025, the children from St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School, our sister parish school, travelled up to our school to journey with the Diocese of Leeds Jubilee Banner. We all held a Celebration of the Word together, to understand more about the logo of the Jubilee Year, and think about ways we can bring hope this year. On Thursday 23rd January 2025, we travelled and delivered the banner to Rothwell St Mary's Catholic Primary, and again shared a beautiful celebration of the word as our journey continued. We held the national launch day of Jubilee 2025 on Friday 24th January 2025. What an exciting year of hope awaits!

On Wednesday 8th January 2025, our Young Voices Choir excitedly travelled to Sheffield Arena to take part in a National Young Voices performance. There were 4,862 pupils taking part, along with special artists performing live. Multi-award-winning teacher turned rapper and viral social media sensation, Jacob Mitchell, aka MC Grammar, wowed the children with his performance. Souparnika Nair, affectionately called as ‘Sou’, a 14-year-old young singer who has earned fantastic reviews from music lovers across the globe with her exceptional depth, maturity and pitch-perfect vocal talent rose to popularity after her showstopping audition on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent 2020 at the age of 10. Her rendition of the song “Never Enough”, from the musical The Greatest Showman has received over 100 million views on YouTube and other social media platforms. She became a semi-finalist of the show and performed live alongside our children. Tommy Blaize, lead singer of the BBC Strictly Come Dancing band for 20 incredible years, also provided soul and spark during the performance with our paired performances live on stage. The dancing of the Urban Strides group took our breathe away and we learnt lots of new moves which we performed to the live audience of thousands. Young Voices 2025 was simply awesome and our children will never forget the experience. 

Christmas at St Anthony's 2024

Elf and Christmas Party Day 2024

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Year 3 had an amazing day celebrating Elf and Christmas party day! We made festive calendars, snow globes and enjoyed an array of Christmas craft activities. The children all looked fantastic and had the most wonderful time. We even had a special visit from a special guest, who we sung a song to and all got a Christmas gift. Take a look at our pictures from the day!

A huge well done to the children in Year 3 who are part of our Chamber Choir. You, along with the rest of Chamber Choir, led the whole school community beautifully and sang your hearts out! We are all so proud of the progress you've made since September.  A HUGE THANK YOU to the rest of year 3 and your grown ups who came to listen and participate in the Carol Service. It was great to see so many of you there!  You are all super stars and we are incredibly proud of each and every one of you!  

Advent Wreath Making - School Council

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To mark the start of Advent the School Council representatives from each class worked with Mrs Easton to produce a wonderful wreath for their classroom. It was a joy to see the children helping and supporting each other - the true meaning of Christmas in action!

Year 3 knew something was happening outside the window this morning with Mr Sharp and Miss Leonard back and forth with some boxes! It was only when Miss Leonard knocked on the window and asked Miss Taylor to come out were the two new additions to school revealed.  We couldn't wait to see the children's excitement so maths stopped (temporarily) and we all went outside to see the magic of Christmas! Look at the children's faces - this is what Christmas at St. Anthony's is all about! Thank you Miss Leonard!!

As part of our RE topic, Mary Our Mother, the children in Year 3 have learnt all about the Advent wreath and how Catholics use it to prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.  Can your child remember...

1) Why the wreath is circular?

2) What the greenery is and what is represents?

3) What the different candles represent? 

Miss Leonard was really impressed with what the children could remember in assembly this morning.

I hope you've put your wreath up in your home to help you all prepare for Christmas. 

Our First Performance - Chamber Choir November 2024

A huge congratulations to our Year 3 children who performed with the Chamber Choir for the very first time in Whole School Worship today.  Since September, they have worked incredibly hard learning the story of Jonah through song! We are all very proud of you and look forward to you leading us in prayer and song at our Carol Service in December.

Year 3 are Musicians: BoomWhackers

This half term (Autumn 2) the children will be learning how sounds are produced and organised. Today the children learnt four new words: 

idiophones, membranophones, chordophones and aerophones. Today we focused on aerophones - these are instruments that rely on airflow to make a sound. We explored BoomWhackers, finding all the different ways in which they can make sounds and then discovering which instruments had a high and low pitch.  We ended our lesson by using the BoomWhackers to accompany the song 'Shake it off'. We will need to continue our rehearsals over this half term!!

Month of Mary - The Rosary

During October, the children made Rosary beads to help them pray and complete the Mark 10 Mission Rosary Challenge. They have now taken their Rosary beads home to continue independent prayer.

Year 3 are Weather Reporters!

 

Our Geography topic this half term is 'Weather and Climates'. Year 3 have been exploring different climates around the world and how they differ in weather at various points in the year. Year 3 worked in groups to explore a case study of a location around the world. Their task was to work together to study the climate zone of their chosen place and use their excellent knowledge to write a weather report for the month of November. Year 3 recorded their voices to share the weather news from their chosen location, giving reasons for the weather at that time of year. Mrs Gledhill was so impressed with Year 3 with how they worked together in teams on their projects in order to create a special, Geography masterpiece. 

 

Have a look at our weather reports below! What information can you find out about each location?

Year 3 Weather Report - Seville, Spain

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Hugo, Alex, Renato, Free, Leo, Will and Isabella were reporting on the weather in the Mediterranean Climate of Seville, Spain.

Year 3 Weather Report - Nuuk, Greenland

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Jasper, Lennie, Nanakojo, Nina, Emmanuella, Szymon and Ammie were reporting about the weather in Nuuk, Greenland.

Year 3 Weather Report - Santiago, Chile

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Jedidiah, Toby, Kelsie, Jonah, Kevin, Dominik and Michael-Patrick were reporting on the weather in Santiago!

Year 3 Weather Report - Kingston, Jamaica

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Sofia, Oliver, William, Flynn, Theo, Alexia, Aleksander and Ayaan were reporting on the weather in Kingston, Jamaica.

Year 3 visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park!

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On Thursday 3rd October, Year 3 visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to enhance our Art Topic which focusses on the creation of sculpture. Our focus artist, Barbara Hepworth is widely celebrated across the Sculpture Park and we had a wonderful day exploring her artwork. The Family of Man (1970) is a beautiful representation of a group of figures in a landscape. We learnt that each of the nine sculptures represents a stage of life and Year 3 enjoyed sketching and creating their own sculptures in a similar style using clay. We visited many of the different sculptures across the park and worked closely with an artist who developed our understanding of shape, shading and depth of the objects we were drawing. Year 3 were exceptional in their work and created some beautiful artwork in their own sketchbooks. Take a look at some of our photographs from the day. Well done Year 3!

Our Class Texts: September 2024

Year 3 are thoroughly enjoying their Reading Fluency sessions daily on their focus text "Charlotte's Web". The children are reading with intonation, pausing correctly and using appropriate pace, comprehension and fluency. We are so proud of you Year 3. 

Art - Making 2d shapes into 3d sculptures

    Today, Year 3 used their understanding of sculpture in order to make 2d shapes three dimensional. Our task was to cut 2d shapes from cereal boxes and consider how we could cut, bend and balance them to get them to join together without using glue or sticky tape. All of the children came up with such inventive ways to create their 3d sculptures. Superb!

     

    Remember that when making sculptures, we need to check that…

    • It is 3D, not flat.
    • You can look at it from different angles.
    • You can touch the surfaces.
    • It is made by joining things together.

    Year 3 Art - Exploring 3d shapes (Introduction to Sculpture)

    Today, we began our unit on 'Sculpture'. We learned that Sculpture is...

    • Art in three dimensions (3D).
    • Big or small.
    • Art you can move around to view it from different sides.
    • Made in lots of different ways;

    - Modelled from one material (like clay)

    - Carved (like wood)

    - By joining materials together

    • Can be interactive. You can touch the different surfaces.

     

    To begin our learning, we explored a range of famous sculptures across the United Kingdom. We reflected on what we could see and how they made us feel. Next, we worked with Mrs Gledhill to develop our ability to draw 3d shapes. We then used these new skills to create a '3d person'. What a super start to our topic Year 3!

    Amazing Bodies - Science

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    This half term we are learning about our Amazing Bodies. Our learning will be focusing on the skeleton but today we thought back to our previous learning to ensure that we could all remember the different parts of our body. Miss Taylor was very impressed with our memories as we were able to label all the major parts and used some superb scientific vocabulary including stomach, shin and thigh. We had a great time covering each other in stickers! After our labelling challenge we were introduced to the skeleton and learnt that an adult skeleton contains 206 bones. We looked carefully at the skull, ribcage, spine, pelvis and femur - Can your child point to where they would find these bones?

    Welcome to Year 3 - Your Classroom!

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    smileyWelcome to Year 3!smiley

    Hello everyone and welcome back to school, we hope you've had a lovely summer and are excited about starting Key Stage 2. 

    We are really looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday and starting a brand new year together.  This year is going to be lots of fun and we can't wait to see you growing in maturity and independence.

     

    This half term you'll be learning about

    * your skeleton in Science,

    * weather in Geography,

    *  the Christian Family in RE

    *  sculpture in Art (with a fantastic trip already planned)

    and lots lots more. 

     

    As always, your learning is a partnership and we encourage you to continue your learning at home by reading daily and learning your spellings for the weekly test. 

     

    Our PE days this half term will be Thursday and Friday so we look forward to seeing everyone in full school uniform on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday!

     

    Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday morning! smiley


    From your very excited teachers Mrs Gledhill and Miss Taylor 

     

     

     

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