Monday 28th June 2021

Today we finally got to take part in our sports day activities.

We took part in a number of activities, running, egg and spoon race, jump the hurdle and the sack race.

Everyone had a great time.

This year we gave medals to the top three scorers.

Gold Medal went to Emily

Silver went to Reyyan

Bronze went to Larissa

There were also some badges that were given out to good team members. These went to Aisyah and Evans.

                                                        Taekwondo                         

Thursday 24th June 2021

Today we were lucky enough to have some Taekwondo lessons.

Jason said that everyone in year 3 did really well.

During Science Week, year 3 were doing their learning from home. Mr McNulty demonstrated some of the experiments that came up in their class discussion of things they wanted to find out.

Lots of the children tried doing the experiments themselves at home.

When we returned to school, we tried out the experiments together.

We looked at what would happen when we added bicarbonate of soda to vinegar.

This created a gas that was able to blow up a glove that had been attached to the bottle.

We even managed to make an egg float in water when we added salt to it.

The final experiment we did was to find out what would happen to an egg if we left it in vinegar.

As part of of science, we are looking how caterpillars change into butterflies. 

     EGGS-ITING NEWS!       

Tuesday 8th June 2021

Today in school something very exciting happened.

Each class had a special delivery!

Some classes are going to be looking after chicks, some are having partridges and some like year 3 are having ducklings.

Our eggs are in the incubator and will hopefully hatch in the next day or two.

One of our eggs has already got a crack so will hopefully hatch later today.

Day 2

Wednesday 9th June 2021

This morning something wonderful happened in year 3,

two of our ducklings hatched!

We decided to take a vote on what names to give the ducklings.

Everyone wrote their favourite name on a piece of paper and put them into a hat to be drawn out.

Our first two gorgeous ducklings have been named 

Speedy and Beyoncé.

Day 3

Thursday 10th June 2021

Today we had two more new arrivals.

We have named them Donny and Daisy.

Monday 14th June 2021

Speedy, Beyoncé, Donny and Daisy have all had a good weekend, eating lots and running around. They got to enjoy their first paddle together.

Thursday 17th June 2021

Sadly today we had to say goodbye to Beyoncé, Donny, Daisy and Speedy.

They have grown so much that they needed more space to run around.

They have gone to live on a farm where, we are sure they will be very happy!

Today in school we had a wonderful Eid Party.

We had lots of nice food and played games.

We even tried some Bollywood Dancing.

 We all had a fantastic day!

Check out our video below.

This week it was year 3's class assembly. 

Check out the video below to see what year 3 have been learning in class.

                        Tree Planting                     

On Thursday 1st April all the children in year 3 got to plant their very own tree in the school grounds. 

We are all hoping to make the school greener.

The children are all excited and looking forward to watching their trees grow.

Tuesday 23rd March 2021

One of our very talented boys in year 3 is lucky enough to play for Liverpool's U8 team.

This week he was one of the boys who got to quiz Jurgen Klopp.

Check out the video below.

https://youtu.be/f8S3E-aOPqc?t=44

Friday 12th March 2021

Author Visit

Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from Simon Hunt the author of the book

'Delilah Rose the Bogey Princess.'

He read his book to the class and we all thought it was extremely funny. He even did funny voices.

Mr Hunt talked to the children and explained that he was a teacher in a school in Bury and it was his students that encouraged him to write a book. He  was always telling them that they could be authors and they said he should write a book.  He took up the challenge and came up with the idea as his daughter is called Delilah Rose. The children in his class have had an input and helped him choose the cover for his book.

He is now writing his second book about his son Hugo.

He asked the children in class to give him some ideas that he could use in his new book. Year 3 came up with lots of great ideas. We look forward to reading his book when it is published.

We are so happy to have everyone back in school today. We have missed each and every one of you.

Thank you to both parents and children for all your hard work over the lockdown period!

We  hope with your continued support we can all help the children to progress.

Please make sure children read aloud and practice Times Tables Rockstar's every day.

If children cannot access these at home, they can do them is school during playtime.

Hope you have all had a great World Book Day!
The children in class have been very busy, take a look at the photos to see what we have produced today. We have had a fantastic day and really enjoyed working on the book
'The Journey'.

 A big Well Done to two of our super talented year 3 boys, who both play for Collyhurst Youth club U8s

team, as goalie & defender.

They are both passionate & work so hard together as a team. 

 They were the only team from the whole club to get to the final this season.

We are  all so proud of them.

    Feliz Navidad!   

Whilst things have been a little different this year, we still wanted to share our festive spirit with everyone.

I'm sure that parents/carers have missed coming into school to join in with all our celebrations.

We did not want you to miss out, so all classes have recorded some Christmas songs to share with you all.

Year 3 have even learnt a song in Spanish!

We hope you all enjoy our videos.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very

Merry Christmas. 

                Party Time!                

Today it was the Key Stage 2 Christmas Parties.

We all had a fantastic time and lots of fun dancing and playing games.

Year 3 have some very talented dancers who showed off their dancing skills.

We even had some great comedians telling us jokes from our Christmas Crackers!

Everyone enjoyed the day and had some lovely treats. 

This is a letter from Deborah Smith, Director of the Board of Education.

Monday 13th December

Today we watched an online play called the' Cherry Coloured Coat'

The Cherry Coloured Coat is a magical theatrical adventure that explores themes of

kindness and community.

We were even able to take part by completing our own story pack.

Year 3 Class Assembly

This week was year 3's class assembly. 

We had to do things a little different this year as people are  not coming  onto the school grounds at the moment, so we have made a video to show everyone what we have been learning.

We hope you all enjoy it!

        Christmas Countdown!         

This week was the start of our Christmas celebrations.

All the children in school were given a bauble to put onto the Christmas tree.

Then on Friday we had the big lights switch on.

            The tree looks  beautiful as always.        

Friday 27th November 2020

Today year 3 were lucky enough to speak to the author Kate Milner. She told us lots about her books and what inspired her to write them. She not only writes books but also illustrates books both for herself and other authors. She Talked to us about the book we have read in class,

"My Name Is Not Refugee."

This is a wonderful book and we would recommend that you read it.

        Friendship Week                               

This week has been 'Friendship Week' in school.

The theme this year was;

'All  different,  all  equal!'

We have been doing lots of work in class on how to be good friends, and how to help others.

We made some cartoon strips and created jigsaw pieces to show how we are all different but how we fit together to make our wonderful school family.

Each class created a video to show what they have been doing.

Check out Year 3's video below.

Friday was Odd Socks Day! We asked all children and staff to wear ‘odd socks’ to school.    

Odd Socks Day is about understanding that everyone is different and everyone is EQUAL. 

Year 3 started drumming for the first time in September.

Look how fantastic they are already!

Friday 13th November 2020

Today was Children In Need.

Year one have chosen to support this charity as their class charity. They asked that we all come dressed in either our own clothes or something yellow and bring a donation of 50p.

The children in year 3 all took part and some children even came dressed as Pudsey Bears!  

October has been Black History Month. 

Each class has been focusing on a different black person from either the past or present.

They had to find out about the person they had chosen and then report back to the rest of the school. 

Year 3 have been finding out about Marcus Rashford and how he has campaigned the government to provide free school meals for children during school holidays. This has helped lots of children across the country receive their right to healthy food.

We have made a video about Marcus Rashford's life so far.

If you are looking for things to do with your children over the half term holidays, check out the websites below

Reading

https://readingeggs.co.uk/

The children have been given Reading Eggs login details. Encouraging the children to login regularly and complete activities will help develop their reading skills and build comprehension.

https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/info/200062/libraries/6657/download_books_magazines_and_courses/1

The Manchester library allows you to login and read magazines, books and comics online! Have a look to see what’s of interest to your child. You can also browse the catalogue and pick out books if you want to/can go to the library branch.

English

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage

OAK National Academy is a government approved website that has online lessons for all areas of the curriculum.
Children can access the website via mobile phones, tablets, laptops, standalone computers, or even ‘smart’ televisions that can access the internet. Each lesson is an hour long. Activities include quizzes, teacher-led video explanations and worksheets.
Please note that lessons may be different to what we cover in class.

Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

This is a website which has home lessons that link closely to what we’re studying in school. If you check the topic we’re currently studying, you should be able to follow the online lesson. A whiteboard and pen might be best, or some paper.

https://ttrockstars.com/

The children have been given TT rockstar login details. Please encourage them to use the website often to build up a rapid recall of their times tables.

Other subjects

The BBC bitesize website has many different lessons in areas the children may be interested in. It has lots of videos, games and quizzes to entertain the children in areas of interest to them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Hi Year 3 

Please follow the link for useful resources and helpful tips on how to read with your child 

 https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/index.php?/covid-19-resources/support-resources-to-share-with-parents/

There is also a useful Maths link below.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

In Science we  have been learning about Mary Anning who was famous for finding some of the very first dinosaur fossils. 

We were lucky enough to interview Mary, (who was really Mr McNulty) to help us find out more about her and how she became famous around the world for her fossil discoveries. We then wrote some biographies about her life.

Thursday 8th October was Clean Air Day.

The council gave us permission to shut the road directly outside of school for the start and end of the school day. This helped to reduce the amount of pollution caused by cars around the school and also made it safer for the children entering and leaving the school gates. 

We went outside with banners and posters the children had made to help raise awareness of pollution and how making small changes will help to improve our environment.

Article 24: Children have a right to a clean and safe environment to live in. All adults and children should have information about how to stay safe and healthy.

    Children of St. Augustine's making a difference!    

The children made posters and pledges on how they could make a small change that would make a huge difference to the environment.

In year 3 our science topic is:

We have been making chocolate rocks to show how sedimentary rocks are formed. After the experiment we got to eat the chocolate rocks.

Then we did an experiment to see what is in soil.

Monday 28th September

In year three we have been reading  the book 'Stig of the Dump.'

We had to pretend to be one of the characters 'Barney' and write a diary entry for the day he met

Stig for the first time.

Here are some of our wonderful entries.

We have counted all the votes and the results are in:

Year 3's representatives are as follows:

School Council

Mohammed & Jochebed

Rights Respecting Steering Group

Lucas & Hassen

Eco Group

Drew & Larrisa

Take Over Day

On Friday 18th September, it was 'Take Over Day' in school. In each class the pupils got to take over the roles of the teaching staff and they all had the opportunity to teach a lesson in class during the day.

Mattea took over the role of Mr. McNulty and Larrisa took over the role of Mrs Plaiter.

Then children planned and delivered a number of different lessons during the day such as Art, Maths, Handwriting and Computing.

Monday 14th September 2020

Parliament Week

This week we have been finding out more about Parliament and the Government. 

 The whole school got to listen to the manifestos of year 6 pupils who were standing for                                                   Headteacher, Deputy and Business Manager.                                                       

We then voted for who we thought would do a good job on

'Take Over Day'

We have also been voting ourselves for the new representatives for Rights Respecting Group, Eco Group and School Council. The winners will be announced next week. 

Good luck to all the children who put themselves forward.

Thursday 10th September 2020

This week in class we have been thinking about our class charter and how we can respect each others rights. We looked at some of the rights and which were most relevant to our class at the moment. When we had chosen the rights we wanted to focus on, we wrote our class charter which everyone in class has signed.

We have also written our own class prayer.

 Hello Year Three!

We hope you're as excited as we are for a new school year!

We are looking forward to meeting and teaching all of you.

The topic focus in year 3 this term is 'The Stone Age'.

Whilst covering this topic, we will be combining our learning with other areas of the curriculum such as Literacy, Science, History, Art, D.T and Music!