St George's Class - 2024-2025
The Year 3 Team (St George's Class) are Mrs Azor-Day, Mrs Klimaytys and Miss Day
Welcome to St George's Class page.
To celebrate Children in Need, year 3 came into school in their best, spotty outfits and we also took part in a Children in Need workout to support this day.
For our Outdoor Learning Day this half term, we created outdoor scenes on paper mixed with their own drawings using tree rubbings, leaves and sticks. The class also took part in a Scavenger Hunt to find survival objects in the playground, to celebrate our current topic 'Extreme Survival' and created leaf crowns.
This year's theme for Anti-Bullying Week was 'Choose Respect'. This theme was chosen to empower everyone to do something positive to counter the harm and hurt that bullying causes. In Year 3, we celebrated this by taking part in Odd Socks Day, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique, and also creating a poster to raise awareness about this important topic.
Our topic for Autumn term 2 is...
Extreme Survival
This topic will explore the differences between hot and cold climates and what life is like for the people, animals and plants in these places around the world.
Some creative and fun activities to do with our topic for this half term can be found HERE.
Our Autumn Term 2 curriculum overview can also be found HERE.
Here are some fun websites/video clips for you to watch if you would like to learn more about your topic:
As a Fantastic Finish for our topic, 'The Stone Age', we went on an exciting trip to Ovingdean Grange Farm. The children really enjoyed asking the farmers some wonderful questions, playing farming games, meeting different types of animals (chicken, sheep and cows), taking part in a trailer ride around the fields of the farm and making birdfeeders to support the biodiversity of the surrounding South Downs environment.
In our Science lessons, Year 3 have been exploring the different functions of our skeletal system and we did this by cutting out our own skeleton in groups, identifying each bone and then labelling it with it's scientific name.
For our Outdoor Learning Day this half term, we went on a minibeast hunt in the playground and then created Stone Age paintings using our handprints and mud. We also created Stone Age houses using sticks and leaves in our house colour teams as a 'Fantastic Finish' to our topic.
In our Art lesson this week, Year 3 went out into the playground to create different textures on paper by using a rubbing technique. We then brought our texture rubbings back in the classroom, and used an art technique called 'frottage' by the artist Maz Ernst, to use our textured rubbings to create a work of art based on a flower.
Thank you so much to everyone who came into Year 3 and participated in our learning. The children really enjoyed making their French Grandparents cards with you and it was lovely to see all of the Grandparents join in.
Our topic for the Autumn Term is...
THE STONE AGE!
Please click HERE to look at our topic overview, explaining what we will be learning about this term in St George's class.
Our Stunning Start for this topic was a fun day of Stone Age-based activities where we all wore colours of the Stone Age or dressed up as a Stone Age person.
We created Stone Age bowls out of modelling clay! We built our own cave out of branches and leaves and constructed traditional tools out of paper! A few children even brought in a Stone Age artefact for us to see, such as tools!
Some creative and fun activities (that will earn you DOJO's!!) to do with our topic for this half term can be found HERE.
Class Information
PE
Year 3's PE days will be on Wednesday's and Friday's. Wednesday will be with our PE Specialist Miss Pippa, and Friday will be with Miss Azor the class teacher.
Please make sure your child has a full PE kit in school at all times - black shorts (black tracksuit bottoms when it turns colder), a green St Joseph's t-shirt and trainers or plimsolls.
Reading
Please encourage your child to read as often as possible (ideally at least four times a week at home). This can be by themselves, to a family member or to a sibling - and children, please remember to record it in the reading record books.
Their reading book, reading record and folder must be in school every day and taken home at night. Each child will receive dojo's for bringing this into school each day.
Homework
Homework will be set on a Thursday and is due back in on a Tuesday. This will include spellings and times tables.
Times tables and spelling's will be tested on each week.
Thank you parents and carers! We really do appreciate your support.
Dear children, parents and carers,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you and your child to St George's Class and to a new school year. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about your child's learning. I look forward to meeting you all and getting to know you better over the coming year.
Mrs Azor-Day