Autumn 1 | Westerhope Primary School

Autumn 1

More amazing caves - thank you all so much for your support with the projects! We promise the next homework project will be a little easier....

A travelling poet visited us today at Westerhope!

More fabulous poetry!

Today more of our parents and great parents came into school to read some poems with us.

We are having a brilliant reading week, we have been reading and writing poems. Some of our parents came into school to read with the children. We chose some poems to read, some were funny and made us laugh out loud.

In Science we have been learning about rocks and soils. We were sent our very own pet pebble from Newcastle University. We had to weigh it, measure it and classify it. After that, we were able to decorate it and make it into our very own pet pebble. Brilliant job Year 3.

Monday 22nd October

Spellings for this week:

before

always

really

think

something

friend

because

might

when

have to

More super cave homework projects! Well done Year 3.

Poetry week!

What a super start to our week. We have already visited the book fair, read and recommended lots of poems, written our own acrostic poems about Westerhope. After we wrote the poems we performed them to the rest of the Year group. Here is an example:

We are

Exciting

Stars

Trying

Exceptionally

Really

Hard

Perfect

English

We also visited Year 4’s amazing Science Fair. They have been learning about states of matter - we are already excited about being in Year 4.

Look at some of our fabulous caves. We are going to invite other classes to our 'Cave museum' next week, then the children can show off their amazing homework projects. Well done Year 3.

Week beginning Monday 15th October

What a busy week we are having already! We have been investigating why Stonehenge was built. There are several theories as to why it was built, ask your child which theory they believe and why. We held a debate, the children were brilliant at voicing their opinions and also at listening to others. Well done Year 3.

Spellings for this week:

their

there

they're

hear

here

too

two

sun

son

We are also learning the 3 times table and associated division facts at the minute. We are sending home some worksheets from Times Table Rockstars to help. The sheets don't need returning to school, but please encourage your child to have a go. Thank you.

Science day

Monday 8th October

Here are the spellings for this week, they are linked to Science as we are celebrating Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) this week.

smooth

rock

fossil

chalk

grains

crust

core

lava

slate

minerals

Don't forget to spend 5 minutes a day on Times Tables Rockstars and see if there is anything to do on Mathletics.

Spellings for this week are:

touch

young

double

trouble

couple

country

actual

actually

address

answer

The children will be tested on Friday 5th October.

We have set some Mathletics homework for the children. We would love the children to spend some time on times tables rockstars. 5-10 minutes a day would be brilliant. We are working on the 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. By the end of Year 3 we should know the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 8s and 10s.

Diversity day!

We have had a super start to our Diversity day with some Bollywood dancing with Mrs Rutherford.

We then spent some time with our new friend, Cloud. Cloud is a Sikh, he came to tell us all about what it is like to be a Sikh. We found it very interesting.

In the afternoon we had another treat! We went into the Year 5/6 area and worked with a visitor from Chartwells. We learnt about the different foods that school children eat all around the World. Then we got to make and eat our own wraps. Some of us tried some lovely healthy dressings on our wraps. Yum Yum!

Fabulous cave art

We tried some cave art today using paint and various other equipment. It did get very messy, but was super fun!

Spellings for week beginning Monday 24th September:

table

bottle

puzzle

castle

people

level

label

tunnel

accident

accidently

The children will have a test on Friday 28th September. Thank you.

The children have also been set homework on Mathletics this week.

Week beginning 24/9/18

Today we started to read our new book 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King. We looked at the front cover and made some predictions about what we thought the book might be about. We then decided to go into our Forest school area to see if we could find any food or materials that a Stone Age person could use. When we got there, we found Mr Brown was there with a fire! He invited us to toast some marshmallows with him - what a treat! We were then very surprised to have a visit from Stig! He had been out hunting mammoths in the woods when he came across our campfire, he was very happy to see us and tried to talk to us in his language. He also tried a marshmallow and seemed to love them. We were having a super time, until the school buzzer sounded, we think this noise might have frightened Stig, as he ran off. We are hoping to see him again.

Week beginning 17/9/18

Another fabulous start to the week! We are sorry we haven't added any photographs of the children yet, we are still waiting for all of the data protection sheets to be returned and checked.

Here are our spellings for this week:

city - cities

lady - ladies

family - families

army - armies

days

keys

boys

guys

potatoes

tomatoes

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 21st September.

Autumn term 1

We have thoroughly enjoyed the start to our Stone age to Iron age topic. The children have already started to plan what they would like to find out about this topic and have asked some interesting questions.

Why was it called the Stone age?

How did they travel?

What did they eat?

By end of the topic we are hoping to be able to answer ALL our questions.

As promised, here are our spellings for this week, the children will be tested on Friday 14th September:

cars

apples

buses

foxes

boxes

dishes

glasses

thieves

calves

Keep watching this space.....