Class 3
Dear Parents/Carers
RE: Multiplication Times Table Check (MTC)
Later this term, your Year 4 child will be taking the Multiplication Times Table Check (MTC). The purpose of the MTC is to determine whether pupils can recall their times tables fluently, which is essential for future success in mathematics. It will help schools to identify pupils who have not yet mastered their times tables, so that additional support can be provided.
Children are practicing their times tables in school regularly but it would be beneficial for your child to also practise their times tables at home.
I've put a few websites below, that your child can access by clicking on the hyperlink.
Further information about the MTC can be found on the UK Government website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multiplication-tables-check-information-for-parents
Some children have had cards sent home to practise. If you need the next set(s), please do let me know.
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Cumbria Wildlife Workshop
Class 3 enjoyed a workshop today led by Jamie Normington from Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
We handled ancient fossils and artefacts (including antlers from a type of deer which lived thousands of years ago) and talked about the periods of time that they came from. We even got to see a Devil’s toenail which was fascinating.
Jamie talked about numerous female scientists that the Lake District is well-known for, including Beatrix Potter, who preserved the Lake District for future generations.
It was interesting to learn about peat moss and its uses for the local environment and habitats.
We finished with ‘The Lost Words’ song and counted on our fingers every time we heard a reference to nature.
Mrs Jones
Cumbria Wildlife Trust workshop
World Book Day - 2024
What fun we had on World Book Day!
We started with a lovely assembly to judge the plate competition and introduce the reading ambassadors.
In class, we watched a 'Footy and Booky Quiz' on-line with the National Literacy Trust. The children loved the multiple choice quiz.
After play, we had a lesson called 'Book Choice Bistro' which explains how children choose a book which is at their level. Miss Campbell and I then served the children in the class bistro with their choice of book from the menu. They also had biscuits and bread sticks whilst they perused the menu.
We then had our own book quiz to guess well-known characters in different genres of books. The afternoon was spent on the school field practising athletic skills.
Our costumes were amazing!
Mrs Jones
Claire presenting the book to Class 3
16th September 2022
Class 3 won a copy of the book 'The Red Shoes' by Helen Haraldsen in a library competition. Claire from Penrith Library came to present the book.
Class 3 will get to meet the local author Helen in a few weeks time and do a writing workshop with her - aren't they lucky!
Mrs Jones
Request for Parent Helpers
Welcome Meeting
Welcome to Class 3 Newsletter
Welcome to the New Academic Year - 2022/2023
Year 4 - Decimals and then Money in maths
Library Summer Reading Challenge - Promotional Activities
SCIENCE - Year 3: The Year 3s have just completed their final Science topic all about Plants. They learnt the names of different parts of plants, and the jobs they do. The children worked scientifically and collaboratively to investigate what plants needed to grow well, and presented their findings to their classmates. Furthermore, they predicted what would happen in an exciting investigation into the transportation of water within plants. They worked in a hands-on way to identify the parts of a flower, and explored the different stages of the life cycle of a flowering plant.
Amazing Class 3 Displays
Eden Valley Railway Trip
Class 3 enjoyed a trip to the Eden Valley Railway in Warcop today. The railway is a standard gauge heritage railway near Warcop. It runs over a 2.2 mile section of the original Eden Valley Railway in a north-westerly direction from the line's base at Warcop station. The line is run by the Eden Valley Railway Trust, formerly the Eden Valley Railway Society.
We had a fantastic day riding on trains, driving a shunter engine, changing signals, looking at old railway memorabilia and speaking over PA systems. Have a look at the amazing photographs below!
Thanks go out to Max and the team at the railway yard for their attention to detail. A superb day was had by all!
Mrs Jones
A Grand Day Out!
Class 3 trip - Eden Valley Railway - Warcop
Don't forget that it's our school trip tomorrow.
I've attached the original letter that was sent home which outlines the day.
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Class 3 trip letter
YEAR 3 SCIENCE: The children have just finished their latest topic Rocks and Volcanoes. In this unit the children discovered the different types of rocks and how they are formed. They compared and grouped rocks based on appearance and simple properties. They learnt how fossils were formed and learnt about the contribution of Mary Anning to the field of palaeontology. They also learnt how soil is formed.
SOUND Waves - amplitude, pitch, acting out sound waves and drawing waves
Perfect Poetry
We have been writing some beautiful poetry over the last week including;
Performance poetry
Cinquain poetry and
Kennings poetry
Our guided reading sessions have also focused on ‘Classic Poetry’ by the famous poets, R.L. Stevenson, A.A. Milne and Enid Blyton.
Such fun!
Mrs Jones
Our Amazing Poetry
Mapping the outline of the classroom. Learning about position and direction; including on a compass.
Telling time in the 24 hour clock format.
YEAR 3 SCIENCE: Today, 12th May 2022, Year 3 had a visit from Steve, a 'Rock and Volcano' expert. He told us all about his experiences of collecting a variety of rocks, including those from 'sleeping volcanoes' and 'live volcanoes'. In the photos, you can see we listened carefully, then we explored an array of rocks (sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous), and finally we had a go at making Steve's 'mock-up' volcanoes erupt. The children were in absolute awe, had a wonderful afternoon and most importantly learnt a vast amount of knowledge from Steve.
Recommended 'Reading Lists' for children in Year 3 and Year 4
Some parents mentioned at parent's evening that their child is finding it hard to find books that are enjoyable to read. I've posted a couple of separate links to recommended reading lists for their age.
There are lots of second hand book websites available on-line and the library is obviously a super resource to use for borrowing books.
Mrs Jones
Dear Parents/Carers
You may be aware that from June 2020 the Government announced a new test for Year 4 children called the “Multiplication Tables Check”.
Here’s what you need to know:
Under the national curriculum primary school children are expected to know their 12 times tables by the end of Year 4. As a result we’ve been preparing the children to know their times tables by the end of Year 4 for quite some time now and this will be a useful checkpoint.
The check itself:
- will take place in the summer term in June sometime over a three-week period from Monday 6th June 2022
- is done online using a computer or tablet
- can be done one pupil at a time, in groups or as a class
- will take no longer than 5 minutes
- will feature 25 questions and children will have 6 seconds to answer each question
- there’s no solving division questions, just simple “3 x 4 = ?” type questions
The results are for the teachers. There is no pass or fail mark. The results of the test are not published publicly. They are for us to use so that we can provide the appropriate support where necessary. Your child’s score will be given to you in a letter.
I am sure that along with you, we do not want our children worried or stressed about the check. The Government has called it a “check” rather than a “test” or “exam” for a reason.
Practice at home: as maths is such a big subject, and we will of course continue to teach the full curriculum, we will need your continued support to help practice the times tables with your children. Some easy ways to do this include:
- asking questions such as “what’s 7 x 8?”
- reciting times tables by rote (4 times 1 is 4, 4 times 2 is 8, etc)
- using apps and games (see below about a resource your pupil has access to)
- singing times tables songs (there are loads online)
- dancing to Super Movers https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4
Why do we learn the times tables? In primary school, times tables knowledge is vital for quick mental maths calculations and problem solving, as well as for many of the topics children learn in Years 5 and 6 (division, fractions, percentages).
Please also remember to make use of TT Rockstars to further support your child. One of the excellent features of TTRockstars is the ‘Sound Check’. This is an online game set up in the same way as the MTC in June. Practising via ‘Sound Check’ will help children to prepare for the MTC.
Equally, MathsFrame have also created an online check that is very similar to the MTC:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
If you require any support with practicing these calculations at home, please don’t hesitate to contact me in school.
For further information about these tests please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/multiplication-tables-check
I’ve also put some extra information on Class 3’s page of the school website.
https://www.st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk/class-3/
Thank you for your continued support.
Yours faithfully
Mrs C Jones
Multiplication Check Advice
Anderson and Morrison Shelter Homework Task—WWII
Mrs Jones set us a homework challenge to make either an Anderson Shelter or a Morrison Shelter.
Anderson shelters were at the bottom of the garden purposely built to protect people during an air raid. Morrison shelters were effectively a metal cage in the front room of a house, that the occupants got into during an air raid. It was used as a table at other times.
Our designs are absolutely brilliant!
Our Amazing Shelters
SPRING TERM - MUSIC:
Head on over to the Music Page (link below) to see all the wonderful Music that has been happening this term.
Amazing Evacuees!
Class 3 have been EVACUATED!
WORLD WAR II WORKSHOP - EVACUEE DAY
What a great day we had today!
We came to school dressed as evacuees and in the afternoon we went to the museum on Middlegate for a WWII workshop with Karen MacDougall.
We found out about evacuation in Eden and got to handle artefacts of that era. We had a worksheet to complete with clues around the museum.
The air raid siren went off and we got our gas masks on just in time!
A very informative afternoon!
Mrs Jones
WWII workshop
Super Salmon Dip
Today we worked with Gill from Phunky Foods to make a super healthy 'Salmon Dip.'
We weighed out the ingredients ourselves and followed the method very well.
Some of us were reluctant at the start when we realised it was a dip made from fish. However, on completion of the recipe, we found on tasting, that it was delicious with pitta bread and vegetable sticks. Yum!
What a great session!
Mrs Jones
Super Salmon Dip
Class 3 - British Science Week
What an amazing week we had during British Science Week. Our over-arching topic was 'Animals including Humans.'
We started off this new topic finding out about the importance of 'teeth.' We found out about the functions of incisors, canines, pre-molars and molars. We even tried to eat food with our incisors but found out that it was virtually impossible as the molars do that job to grind and chew. We looked in our mouths and counted our different teeth. Children have around 20 teeth and an adult has 32 teeth in total (including wisdom teeth).
Next we moved on to the 'digestive system.' We found out that it takes 6 seconds from swallowing for the food to reach your stomach. We carried out experiments to emulate the digestive system using; crackers, a banana, water, orange juice, masher, tights and a cup. The main organs that make up the digestive system (in order of their function) are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and anus. Helping them along the way are the pancreas, gall bladder and liver.
Mrs Richardson moved on to the animal world and we found out about omnivores, carnivores and herbivores. We did experiments in the hall and then carried out activities based on food chains.
Finally, we had a session of 'First Aid' in the hall with Mr French. We learned about bandaging an injured person, resuscitation and the importance of using a defibrillator and finding out where they are located in Penrith. It was really interesting.
Next week, we are having a session with Gill from Phunky Foods to make a healthy dip. We'll also be using 'plaque disclosure tablets' to check how well we are looking after our teeth!
Mrs Jones
First Aid with Mr French
War time 'Rationed' carrot cookies (with Mrs Reay)
We enjoyed making carrot cookies with Mrs Reay on Friday. We've been learning about rationed food during WWII and the importance of not wasting anything.
The ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign was set up during WWII by the British Ministry of Agriculture. Men and women across the country were encouraged to grow their own food in times of harsh rationing. Open spaces everywhere were transformed into allotments, from domestic gardens to public parks – even the lawns outside the Tower of London were turned into vegetable patches!
The carrot in the cookies acted as a sweetener and they tasted absolutely delicious!
What fun!
War Memorabilia
YEAR 3 SCIENCE: The children have just completed the topic 'Light and Dark'. During this topic, the children learnt about light, reflections and shadows. They learnt about different sources of light, and that we need light to see. The children worked scientifically and collaboratively whilst investigating reflective materials, in the context of designing a new book bag. They worked in a hands on way to play a range of mirror games, finding out more about reflective surfaces. Furthermore, they learnt that the sun’s light can be dangerous, and created a poster to warn of the dangers of the sun. The children had chance to test which objects are opaque in an exciting investigation to design the most effective curtains, and found out how shadows change when the distance between the object and light source changes. They developed their scientific enquiry skills by making observations , predictions and conclusions during this topic. Mrs Richardson
REINDEER RUN - we received our medals today. Lots of money raised for a worthwhile charity!
Year 4 - Human Circuit (electricity)
Year 4 Science- Insulators and Conductors - testing materials
World Book Day 2022
We had a lovely day on world book day!
It started off with an exciting assembly in the hall with Mrs Proudfoot who was dressed as Mr Bump, a character made famous by the author Roger Hargreaves. She even read the story to the whole school!
In class, we read and coloured quotes by famous authors . Also, we wrote about our favourite books and authors and how we like to read. It was a fun day dressed as a character from a book.
Joey won the KS2 competition dressed as Bear Grylls.
All in all an extremely fun day!
Mrs Jones
World Book Day 2022 in Class 3
Ash Wednesday - we had a lovely service in church for the start of Lent.
Enjoying a pancake on Shrove Tuesday!
Maths Fluency and Problem Solving
‘Medals Galore’ from out of school activities
Gas Masks - we’re enjoying making our gas masks!
Library ‘Holocaust’ Display - Our wonderful ‘Candles of Hope’ and butterflies on display in Penrith Library
Year 4 Bikeability Certificate Presentation
Year 4 - Level 1 Bikeability
WORLD WAR II CODE CRACKING—PENRITH LIBRARY—WEDNESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2022
Class 3 enjoyed a WWII workshop at Penrith library on Wednesday. Max Slater explained lots about the Blitz and how the Germans bombed our merchant navy to destroy our spirits.
Claire from the library explained about the evacuation of children from the cities to the Eden area. We saw lots of photographs of houses in the Eden area that were used to house the evacuee children.
We then got to ‘crack a code’ which was actually quite tricky.
It was a great afternoon session!
Mrs Jones
Library WWII workshop
National Storytelling Week
We are enjoying National Storytelling Week, which is a chance to promote and encourage storytelling.
We've listened to the traditional story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. During our WWII topic, we found out that the operation to evacuate the city children during the Blitz was called 'Operation Pied Piper'.
Some of the children have brought in their favourite books to share with the rest of the class.
The children have also been talking to their parents about their favourite books when they were younger.
Monika's Dad enjoyed 'Journey to the centre of the Earth' by Jules Verne as he loved adventure books. Her mum liked to read a book called 'Anne of Green Gables' by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This story was about an red-headed orphan girl who was talkative and had lots of imagination!
Penny's Mum read the 'Famous Five' books by Enid Blyton and also any books by Roald Dahl. Her love of Dahl was also shared by Penny's Dad who read them too.
Rosie's Mum's favourite childhood book was 'Alice in Wonderland'. She loved the adventure and the amazing, unusual places Alice went to and things she saw.
What fun so far!
Mrs Jones
National Storytelling Week
Spring term
Look at what we’ve been up to so far!
Mrs Jones
Mapping the start of WWII
Learning about Contractions. did not = didn’t
TAG RUGBY with Shaun
Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime
Class 3 enjoyed watching Jack and the Beanstalk on-line today. They even got an ice cream as a treat!
Mrs Jones
He’s Behind You!
Class 3—’Just a Little Christmas’
Class 3 performed their depiction of the nativity (entitled ‘Just a Little Christmas) beautifully in church on Tuesday 14th December. There was scripture readings by the Year 4 children and a tableau of acting by the Year 3 children. The whole class sang their hearts out. At the end, the children sang and signed the carol ‘Silent Night’ There wasn’t a dry eye in the house!
Mrs Jones
Just A Little Christmas Concert
Christmas Concert – Tuesday 14th December 2021 at 6pm
Just a little note to let you know about the arrangements for Tuesday 14th December for our Christmas concert.
We are filming the event on Monday morning, so the children need to bring in their Christmas jumper for the occasion.
On the night of the performance, the children should arrive in church for 5:30pm, wearing their Christmas jumper. Staff will support the children with head dresses (we are not wearing full nativity clothing; it is merely a tableau of the Christmas story).
If any parent is struggling for child care of St Cath’s siblings, Mrs Hill will be in the school hall available to look after them.
Please also send your child into school with a carrier bag on Monday. This is so their Christmas crafts can be sent home altogether.
Mrs Jones
Christmas Jumper Day
We enjoyed wearing our Christmas jumpers whilst eating our delicious Christmas lunch today. Our crowns were very eye-catching!
Mrs Jones
Jumper Day
Author Webinars
We have enjoyed two author webinars recently. One with Maddie Moate who is the author of a book called ‘Stuff,’ which is all about saving the environment. The other one was with Nick Sharratt, who is the author of ‘Shark in the Snow’
Both sessions were extremely enjoyable and interactive. It helps to inspire our love of reading for pleasure!
Mrs Jones
Actual Authors
Hall Display - The Three Wise Men mosaic. Class 3 worked as a team to make this eye-catching display. Super effort!
Eden Valley Sports Partnership - Tri-Golf Competition - Penrith Leisure Centre
Eleven children from Class 3 enjoyed a Tri-Golf tournament at Penrith Leisure Centre today. Over 100 children took part in the competition over the day from various schools.
Lots of fun was had by all!
Mrs Jones & Mrs Reay
Tri-Golf
Our Amazing War Pictures
Look at our amazing poppy pictures. We tore up newspapers from the WWI and WWII era to make a collage. We then drew a poppy and filled it in with tissue paper and cellophane. They were displayed in the entrance hall and looked very beautiful and poignant for Remembrance Day.
Mrs Jones
Beautiful Poppy Pictures
Library Van
We enjoyed a visit from Gordon with the library van this week. We chose some exciting books to read in class and Gordon even read us a couple of funny stories.
What fun!
Mrs Jones
Gordon reading us a story!
Class 3 Displays
Check out our beautiful displays;
- The Twits display based on the book by the author Roald Dahl. Amazingly written newspaper articles and watercolour art pictures of Mr Twit.
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - art based on the book with associated kindness statements written in ink pen.
- Growth mindset - what we would like to improve upon.
- Remembrance display - beautifully poignant.
- Romans working wall.
The children have been working hard!
Mrs Jones
Amazing work!
Our beautiful ‘Remembrance Display’
Class 3 Photo (updated)
COP 26
We learned about COP 26 today (Conference of Parties-26). We talked about different ways that humans are 'damaging' the planet, for example; deforestation, global warming, acid rain and various other types of pollution.
We designed posters about 'How to save the Planet' and also wrote about how we can protect our beautiful world.
Our display is truly inspirational! (photographs to follow)
Mrs Jones
Year 4 - Science - States of Matter
Year 4 have enjoyed this topic so far. They've found out that there are 3 states of matter; solids, liquids and gases.
They've also carried out lots of experiments to categorise the states.
Mrs Jones
Experimenting - States of Matter
Author Webinar
Class 3 enjoyed a live Puffin virtual webinar with the author and illustrator of 'How to Grow a Unicorn'
The author Rachel Morrisroe read the story to the children and the illustrator Steven Lenton then showed the children how to sketch a unicorn in easy steps.
It was a lovely end of term treat for filling our class 'marble jar' for super regular reading at home! We even had a biscuit.
Mrs Jones
Roman Artefacts
We were fortunate to handle ‘real’ Roman artefacts on Friday. These fragments gave us some good ideas of how to design and make our own Roman pottery. Watch this space for photographs of our own pottery!
Mrs Jones & Mrs Reay
Roman Artefacts
Autumn Term 1:
Head over to the Music and Performance page to see Class Three's amazing performance of 'Let Your Spirit Fly'. Link below, Mrs Richardson.
There is no 'singing club' on Thursday 14th October!
Mrs Richardson
Class 3
For National Poetry day, we wrote acrostic poems on the theme of RAIN, especially since we've had lots of it recently! We thought of lots of different sounds that the rain makes and how it falls from the sky. We listened to different 'rain' poems where some rhymed and some poems that didn't actually sound like poems. We decided that poetry can be virtually anything, so we just enjoyed 'playing around with words'
We'll update some photographs of our finished work and maybe even some clips of the children reading their poetry this week. Watch this Space!
Mrs Jones
Oscar learned to ride his bike during the holidays. He brought his bike into school to show Class 3 his new found skills. Super effort Oscar!
Class 3 - Years 3 and 4 (2021-2022)
Fun on the field!
Story with Gordon from the library van
Prepping our class ‘Titanic’ book
Oak National Academy
Oak National Academy have got a ‘Summer Classroom’ with;
Selected subjects and lessons to explore, revise and keep you on track for September.
Make sure you’re doing the KS2 lessons.
If you want to do any of the lessons that aren’t in the summer classroom that is great too!
Mrs Jones
YEAR 3 SCIENCE - ROCKS: In this unit, the children discovered the different types of rocks and how they are formed. They compared and grouped rocks based on appearance and similar properties. They learned how fossils are formed and learned about the contribution of Mary Anning to the field of palaeontology. The children also learned how soil is formed.
What fun on the climbing wall!
Summer Reading Challenge - Wild World Heroes!
The 'Summer Reading Challenge' is up and running this year at Penrith library entitled 'Wild World Heroes!'. Staff will be signing children up physically at the library and you can also sign up to it digitally too. The challenge runs from 10th July until 11th September 2021.
You can join at your local library - Penrith, Appleby, Alston, or Kirkby Stephen.
I've included the details in the attached documents, which includes a graphic containing a QR code giving instant access to the Summer Reading Challenge website, and exactly how children and families can join in this Summer. The QR code can be scanned simply by using the camera of most smart phones and hand held devices.
Keep up your reading Class 3!
Mrs Jones
Details of how to sign up
Class 3 Art
We’ve been busy - we made beautiful Titanic portholes with paper plates and cheerios. We imagined what we would see out of the fated ships portholes. They’re amazing!
Olympic Rings with crayon and water colours. We found out that the Olympic rings represent the five continents that are involved in the Olympic Games.
’Moving Eyes’ - we did self-portraits and made the eyes move. They are very realistic.
Mrs Jones
Self Portraits
Titanic Portholes and Olympic Rings
Khloe's Book Review - Khloe has persevered with reading a book 'Zoe's Rescue Zoo-The Pesky Polar Bear' She did a lovely book review about it at home and went to show Mrs Hill her hard work. Well done Khloe!
Spellings in the Sun! Learning the ‘au’ digraph sound by playing battleships with a friend. What fun!
Jessica Sailing
Last weekend Jessica took part in the North West Youth and Juniors Travellers Series sailing competition, which draws children (18 years old and under) from all over North West England, as far south as Manchester / Liverpool. It was held on Bassenthwaite Lake and there were 75 boats (85 children as some were in double handers).
There were 5 races across the Saturday and Sunday. Jessica was one of the youngest sailors, if not the youngest and she won a prize for being first Under 11 girl. It was an amazing achievement as Jessica was racing against children who had been sailing for 10+ years.
Well done Jessica!
Mrs Jones
Jessica Sailing
MUSIC: BlueJam workshop 2. Along with Class 2, Geoff and Asha came into visit us again, this time teaching us a new song based on all the ideas that the children came up with in the previous session. The song is called ‘Anthem For A New Season’. The children loved that their ideas came to life in this song.
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YEAR 3 SCIENCE: Today, 10th June, Steven Wright from Celed Rock Workshops, delivered a very interesting and interactive workshop all about rocks and volcanoes. In the photos you can see the children exploring numerous rocks ( igenous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) creating their own sand and witnessing a volcanic erupt.
Titanic 'Musical Extravaganza'
On Friday the Key stage 2 children enjoyed watching Class 3 perform their rendition of 'My Heart will go on' by Celine Dion, which they had been learning and practising with Mrs Richardson. (Further details to follow from Mrs Richardson).
Willow read her newspaper article that she had written from the perspective of a reporter, after the magnificent R.M.S Titanic had sank in the Atlantic Ocean on 14th April 1912.
Amelia-Rose also read her beautiful acrostic poem about the Titanic, which was very haunting and poignant!
A truly brilliant assembly with a lot of talent on show!
Mrs Jones and Mrs Richardson
Titanic Musicians waiting to perform
Class 3's Titanic Performance
Map reading skills
Our beautiful class displays
MUSIC: Class 3 enjoyed a wonderful musical workshop (part 1) led by Geoff from BlueJam. It is a 'word, song, sound' project, featuring drumming, singing and song writing. Below is collection of photos of what we got up to in the first workshop. After half term, BlueJam are visiting again for workshop number 2. The children had a fabulous time.
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Pentecost 'Flame Throwers'
We focused on Acts 2: 1-18, 43 today which tells us that the Holy Spirit visited the disciples in Jerusalem.
We made flame throwers which resembled the tongues of fire which spread out and touched each disciple there.
Mrs Jones
Our flame throwers
RMS TITANIC TIMELINES - we mapped out different RMS Titanic timelines today. Some went as far back as when the ship was constructed to when it finally sank in the North Atlantic ocean. History is amazing!
Year 4 enjoyed their 'Cycle Safety' training with Fiona Veitch (Eden Valley Sports Partnership) on Tuesday. They learned how to ride safely and how to prepare their bike and helmet.
Year 4 - Fun learning about 'Sound' in our science lessons.
Amongst other things we made paper cup telephones, old fashioned hearing aids and learned some British sign language!
We're a lot more knowledgeable now about how the ear works too.
Mrs Jones
YEAR 4 - SOUND
SCIENCE
Year 3 have just completed the topic 'Light and Dark'. Please enjoy the photos below of the children's learning.
RMS Titanic portholes in art - we’re so excited to use our imagination about what we could see out of these portholes! We’re in the early stages of prepping them.
Hot seating the wolf out of the fractured fairy tale ‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs.’ We enjoyed interviewing the wolf to get his side of the story.
Travel to Tokyo (EARN VIRTUAL MILES AND RESOURCES FOR St Catherine’s school)
Get ready! Our school is getting active with Team GB and ParalympicsGB by taking on the Travel to Tokyo virtual challenge. We want you to join us on a 47,349 kilometre journey to Tokyo by getting active as a family and logging your activity. There are lots of prizes to be won too!
To celebrate the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, GET SET are inviting schools and families to get active with their virtual Travel to Tokyo challenge, Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s free programme for children aged 5 to 11 and their families.
Get Set is the British Olympic Association and British Paralympic Association’s youth engagement programme. It was originally created as the official London 2012 education programme, to deliver against Lord Coe’s vision to use the Games to inspire a generation of young people.
The programme aims to:
- inspire young people to fulfil their potential and maintain healthy, active lifestyles
- give all young people the chance to learn about and live the Olympic Values of friendship, excellence and respect and the Paralympic Values of inspiration, determination, courage and equality
- build excitement about Team GB and ParalympicsGB, using the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a hook for learning and participation.
Children get active and log their activity against their school teams to help their team gain kilometres on a virtual journey to Tokyo. Children are encouraged to do activity with family to gain more distance and get to Tokyo faster. Teams will be taking the tourist route and visiting different cities which have previously hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games (or will soon!).Children can follow the progress to Tokyo using the Team and School Dashboards. Families who log activity are in with the chance of winning prizes, including fitness trackers, skipping ropes and speakers. Local leisure facilities are also supporting the challenge – look out for free sessions and places to log your activity coming soon!
Every time that you do something active please log into the ‘get set’ website. Click on Travel to Tokyo, families, log activity, select team (Class 3). If you need the school postcode it is CA11 9EL.
Find out more:
https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo?tab=families
Log activity:
https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/log-activity
Keep track of progress:
https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/school/st-catherines-catholic-primary-school-ca11-9el
Come on Class 3, get active and keep logging your activity... help St Catherine’s school get to Tokyo!
Mrs Jones
Lent Display
Easter Crafts - beautiful glass crosses and cheeky wool chicks
CLASS 3 PYJAMAS DAY - What fun!
Year 4 are enjoying their ‘SOUND’ lessons. They made string telephones to see how sound travels.
Felix After The Rain
We have been focusing on a book by the author Dunja Jogan, called Felix After the Rain.
A young man called Felix hides all of his sorrow inside a large black suitcase that he carries with him wherever he goes. One day, a small boy opens the suitcase whilst Felix is sleeping. Felix wakes and the tears that he had been carrying for so long suddenly pour from him. Felix is uplifted, free and his heart is full of joy. Felix embraces the world, and the world embraces him. This book is a wonderful resource for young children to talk about sad feelings and how they might feel better if they confide in another person.
Our Felix work is beautiful!
Mrs Jones
R.M.S Titanic
Thank you to all the children who made a Titanic ship during lockdown. They are absolutely brilliant!
We are carrying on this topic after Easter, however, I’ve had to send the ships home due to lack of space in the classroom.
Thanks again for all your hard work. I hope you enjoy the slideshow of all the different representations of this amazing ship!
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Our amazing Titanic ships!
The construction of Joshua H's 'RMS Titanic'
Census
Class 3 enjoyed finding out about the Census yesterday. We watched a clip to find out what the census is on the ‘Let’s Learn’ website.
Year 4 then carried out their own school census and counted how many children are in each year group and then broke it down further into males and females.
We plotted the information on a bar chart and found out about ‘X’ and ‘Y’ axis.
We analysed the data and worked out which class had the most/least children and the difference between males and females.
We labelled our graphs and even drew a key.
Great data handling Year 4!
Mrs Jones
Year 4 Census
Amazing Home Learning! Well done!
Jog 28 miles in February
Aaron, Alex and Nicholas have taken on the challenge to jog 1 mile per day in February for Pancreatic Cancer. They’ve managed to raise over £100 so far.
They had their first run today and managed 1.6 miles. They run as a family in the morning whilst their younger sister is at nursery, and then their Dad runs after work.
A super effort for a very worthwhile charity!
Mrs Jones
Aaron, Alex and Nicholas - Fundraising for Pancreatic Cancer
Hi Class 3
Happy February!
I'm so impressed that you're logging on to Google Classroom.
There is only a small handful of children who haven't managed to get logged on to view and complete the work yet.
Please get in touch if you're struggling and I will attempt to help you.
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Google Classroom
It's lovely to see that the majority of Class 3 have logged on to Google Classroom and are now having a go. Please try and log on over the next couple of days with your child and see what work I have set.
From next week, everything will be set on Google Classroom, so there won't be any updates or work on here.
However, I will post photographs if I receive any or any general announcements.
Keep in touch. Don't forget the ZOOM sessions with the Class each Tuesday and Thursday at 10:45am.
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Week commencing Monday 18th - Friday 22nd January 2020
At some stage on Monday, you should receive from school a delivery of;
- English booklet
- Maths booklet
- A couple of letters (from me)
- A pack of photocopied maths sheets (these accompany the daily lessons that I will be setting on Google Classroom from this Wednesday, so leave those for now please!)
Please continue with the work set on Oak National Academy for Maths and English (previously set on my timetable). From Wednesday of this week, I will be setting work on GOOGLE CLASSROOM. This is explained in one of my letters in your pack and gives you your personal log on. It's important that user names and passwords are NOT shared with your friends!
If you prefer to do a page out of your English and Maths booklets that is fine too!
I've also attached a link which explains how to get started on google classrooms. I've posted that link on here too.
Hopefully Monday or Tuesday, there will be another guide on here to support getting started with google classrooms.
ZOOM SESSIONS
The new times for our Zoom sessions will be 10:45hrs to approx 11:30hrs (30-45 minutes, depending on what I have got to share), each Tuesday and Thursday. The new link for these sessions will be sent out in the next couple of days. I do hope that you can join us!
Kind regards
Mrs C Jones
Class 3 Teacher
Google Classroom (letter from Mrs Jones)
R.M.S. TITANIC
If you were on the Zoom session this morning, you'll remember that I introduced our new topic, which will be a focus on the 'Titanic.'
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
I set you the challenge of making a 'Titanic' out of junk modelling (all sorts of things that you could have lying around at home; cardboard, toilet rolls, wood etc)
I've attached a link to Youtube that we watched, which gave us an idea of how to make the ship. However, it is entirely up to you how you make it!
I'm looking forward to seeing your creations when we return to class, where we'll make a superb display!
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Zoom Sessions
I will be holding Zoom sessions each Tuesday and Thursday at 11 am. Mrs Hill has sent the information and links to access the sessions via email.
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
13.01.2021
Hello Class 3, Mrs Richardson here, I hope you are all doing well.
I have seen a couple of you logging onto Duolingo and Charanga, which is fabulous. Remember you can email me (srichardson@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk) if you have forgotten your login details.
Just to remind you, for French, please just keep logging onto the Duolingo app. Aim to try and log on for around 10 to 30 minutes a week. All I expect you to do is just have a go at any of the units that you fancy. You may wish to revise what you have done already or you may wish to learn a new topic, the choice is yours. Remember I can log into Duolingo too, to see who has been engaging and making the most of the app: so look out in the coming weeks who I will be congratulating.
You can still access Charanga Music from home too. During this lockdown, log into Charanga Music World where you can learn a new instrument. Maybe you have a musical instrument laying around at home, have a go and learn how to play it. If you do not have a musical instrument, perhaps you could make a set of drums out of your recycling; or if you have access to two devices, you could download an instrument app onto a phone, then access the lessons on Charanga Music World on a laptop. I can log into Charanga Music World too to see what you are all up to again, I can congratulate all those that have had a go week to week. Just like French, perhaps aim to have a play in Charanga for around 10 to 30 minutes a week. I look forward to seeing which instruments you learn during this half term.
Attached in the link below is a bonus Music lesson all about 'Timbre-Body Percussion Basics'.
YEAR 3: I have set Lesson 2 - Science over on Class 2's Science page. Link below.
Au revior, take care, Mrs Richardson
Weekly timetable for Monday 11th January 2021 to Friday 15th January 2021
Please find my 'timetable' of activities attached for this week with associated website links.
Don't forget that there are other fun activities on the Oak National website and BBC Bitesize to fill your afternoon sessions.
Any problems please do get in touch at my usual email address.
I will be scheduling a short introductory 'Zoom' session this week (an email will be sent out by Mrs Hill with joining instructions).
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Timetable w.c. 11.1.21.
Weekly timetable for Monday 4th January 2021 to Friday 8th January 2021
I've attached a timetable of ideas for this week. I'll be posting a timetable each week whilst we're off school.
Please contact if you need any support!
Mrs Jones
Class 3
Timetable 4.1.21.
Epiphany - Wednesday 6th January 2021
The feast of Epiphany, also known as the Three Kings’ Day, is an annual Christian festival commemorating the visit of the magi or wise men from the east to baby Jesus and his baptism at the Jordan River. It falls on the 6th day of January, twelve days after Christmas.
I've put an Epiphany reading exercise on here for you to complete (of varying levels) with associated comprehension questions. Have a go!
I would also like you to take on the 'role of a King' and draw/explain what present you would take the baby Jesus. What present would be suitable for a King? For example; love, compassion, kindness.
Let me know how you get on!
Mrs Jones
Epiphany Reading Task
I've attached home learning packs from Classroom Secrets for each year group, in case you finished the ones that were previously sent home. Year 3 and Year 4. You can print them off at home or work through them off a screen.
There is also a 'practical' learning pack for activities for you to try and a 'parental guidance' booklet to support your child's home learning.
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Year 3 and Year 4 home learning packs
Hi Class 3
I hope that you've had a lovely Christmas and New Year!
The temperatures have really dropped. Did you get out in the snow?
Please see my attached letter for the 'HOME LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES' whilst we are currently off school!
Keep working hard and keep smiling!
Love
Mrs Jones
Home Learning Letter
Friendship Cubes - We all decorated a 'cube' and then wrote a Christmas message on a tag which we put inside. At the end of the day we all took a different one home which we will open over Christmas!
Christmas ‘Truffle’ making. What fun!
Excitable Edgar
We have been focusing on the John Lewis 2019 advert about an excitable dragon called Edgar. We loved watching the clip and also the clip about how they made the film.
We looked at the features of a ‘diary’ and then took on the role of Ava who is the auburn haired girl in the advert. We wrote a diary entry in role about the problems she had with her friend Edgar and how he saved the day when he lit the Christmas pudding at the town’s feast!
Our class display is amazing!
Excitable Edgar Diary Display
Class 3 enjoyed a visit from ‘The Book Fairy’ this morning. We all got a lovely book ... but we had to search hard!
Christmas Jumper Day. What fun!
Home Learning
Joshua S has being doing lots of Maths and English over the last week. He enjoyed writing the story of the ‘Man on the Moon.’
Joshua even made an Elf called Mao out of a spoon, felt, card, pom poms and glue. I do hope all your Elves are behaving as sometimes they can cause havoc!
Joseph has been working hard on his maths and English homework too. He enjoyed the Oak Academy videos on graphs (particularly the counting cars section), electrical circuits in science and Roman empires in history. He completed today’s music video which was developing beat boxing. His mum reported that there was lots of stomping going on!
Speak soon
Mrs Jones
Joseph busy 'home learning'
Joshua S working hard on the Christmas maths challenges
Hi Class 3
Happy Advent
Hope you're opening the on-line advent calendar to see what's behind the door!
It's a beautiful day outside. I hope you're getting some fresh air in your garden. Don't forget that you can still access Joe Wicks' workouts on his Youtube channel, 'The Body Coach TV.' I see he does 5 minute energising workouts for children, which will help your brain get ready for your school work!
I've attached today a 60 second read with comprehension questions (answers are included for parents) This short extract about Santa really made me laugh! I've also included some more Christmas maths challenges. The last ones I set were probably more for Year 4. These ones are for Year 3 (Year 4 you can still have a go please!).
Have a great day!
Love
Mrs Jones
Christmas Literacy and Maths
Tomasz has been working hard at home. He particularly enjoyed learning about each of the '5 Animal Kingdoms' on the Oak Academy website.
Hi Class 3
Ooh I'm really excited about this ...
Advent Calendar
Northern Inter-Schools Christian Union have produced a virtual Advent Calendar starting on the 1st December 2020 through to Christmas Eve. It features a weekly collective worship on the theme of the week (following traditional Advent themes) and a whole host of Bible readings/songs from some familiar faces (various members of the community across the Eden Valley), and some new friends, each day.
What a lovely idea! Have a go at opening a door daily until we get back to school!
Mrs Jones
Notes to accompany the ADVENT Calendar
Hi Class 3
How is everybody getting on with their home learning? Are you enjoying the Oak Academy daily lessons? Remember you can send me photographs of what you have been doing at home. I'll post them on our web page so we can all see!
I've been out in my garden today tidying it up for Winter. It was so nice to have some fresh air albeit a little chilly at times.
I've attached a few little activities for this week, in addition to your home learning packs and the online lessons.
The first one is to draw a cute 'reindeer' in small steps. The other is a page of subtraction sums, where you have to regroup, 4 digit or 2 digit-a variety of worksheets to choose (answers attached for parents). For children who like a challenge, I have also attached a page of 'Christmas maths challenges' for you to complete. Let me know how you get on!
Keep smiling. See you soon for all the lovely festivities in school!
Love
Mrs Jones
Activities for week commencing 30.11.20.
Happy feast day of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Today is the feast day of St. Catherine of Alexandria (after whom our school is named).
As a young girl, Catherine always had her nose in a book. If she didn’t have her nose in a book, she was asking the wisest men and women of the land all sorts of questions. There were plenty of books and plenty of wise people around, because Catherine lived in the great port city of Alexandria, Egypt—home of the biggest library in the world—and her father was the governor.
It was through some of these books and wise people that Catherine first learned about Christianity. While her studies sparked her curiosity about the Christian faith, it was a vision of the Blessed Mother and the child Jesus that fanned it into a roaring, passionate fire. Catherine began to study the faith with great zeal, proclaiming it to all she met.
I've made and attached here a lovely colouring sheet to remember this amazing Saint. Enjoy!
Mrs Jones
St Catherine of Alexandria colouring sheet
'VIKING ATTACK ON LINDISFARNE PRIORY'
Finally, I've managed to post a link to the Year 4 'U Dance' that the children should have performed at The Sands Centre back in March.
Hope that you enjoy it!
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Hi Class 3
Hope you're all okay and keeping yourself entertained and active.
See my attached letter for details of the 'HOME LEARNING' opportunities, whilst we are away from school!
Don’t forget to log on to Times table Rockstars and Spelling/Maths Shed too!
Stay safe
Mrs Jones
Home Learning Letter - November 2020
U Dance - 'A Viking Attack on Lindisfarne'
The Year 4 children were due to perform their Viking dance routine at The Sands Centre, Carlisle back in March. Unfortunately, lock down happened and they were unable to perform in the U Dance festival!
We looked at the routine again within the last two weeks and the children had remembered the dance so well. Today, we filmed it and hopefully there will be a link sent out soon to parents to be able to view.
In the meantime, have a look at these lovely photographs of the children in their costumes!
Kind regards
Mrs Jones
Viking Warriors in full battle gear!
Myths and Legends
We started our new literacy topic which is all about myths and Legends. We read the story of King Arthur and the Round Table by Marcia Williams and then followed that up by doing another version in guided reading.
We looked at the story and decided that some of the sentences we could ‘up level’ and improve. In groups, we collaboratively re-wrote the story. We rehearsed and read the sentences in our groups and then put the story together with the rest of the class. A superb effort!
Myths and Legends - King Arthur and the Legend of the Round Table
Year 4 - ELECTRICITY
Class 3s ‘Poppy Field’
Right Angles - Year 4 have been finding right angles this week in maths. They searched the classroom using their 'right angle finders.'
Our Lady of Fatima - This is the Roman Catholic title for the Virgin Mary (the mother of Jesus). This title was given to Mary because of her apparitions to three shepherd children. The Virgin Mary performed a miracle on the last of her apparitions on 13th October 1917. Approximately 70,000 people gathered to witness this miracle which was then called ‘The Miracle of the Sun’. We made our own representations of this miracle using chalk pastels for the brilliant sun. We then cut out crowds and layered them to show them looking at the sun! They’re beautiful!
Similes - we've been learning about similes this week. In groups, we sorted out different similes using 'like and 'as'
CEREAL BOXES
Can you please send your child in with two cereal boxes, (preferably the larger ones) for a design technology project that we are going to be carrying out in school.
Thanks
Mrs Jones
Class 3 Displays! I thought you would like to see what Class 3 have been up to. Look at their fantastic display work!
Get Cumbria Buzzing ... Cumbria Wildlife Trust is inviting children aged 5-15 to enter their Cumbrian photo competition. They are asking for photos of pollinators with the chance of winning over £30 worth of prizes. Please see the attached poster for more details.
Class 3 - 2020/2021
Spelling Shed instruction letter to parents
Spelling Shed Advice
Year 4 have been enjoying their 'tennis' lessons with Ben each Thursday morning. They are developing lots off racquet and ball skills.
Roald Dahl homework!
Welcome letter!
Welcome back Class 3!
It was so lovely to have a whole week back at school. The new Year 3 children are settling in well and getting used to the routines. We've so far managed to:
- Write a letter to the teacher (me!)
- Start our new RE topic which is all about 'God's place in the family'
- Log on to 'Times Table Rockstars' and have a session with the Year 4s showing the Year 3s how to set it up and practise
- Enjoy a tennis session with Ben the coach
- Start our new science topics - Year 4 'states of matter' Year 3 'forces and motion'
- Focus on 'Fantastic Mr Fox,' by Roald Dahl in our English skills lessons
- Paint 'Fantastic Fauvist Foxes' and display them in the school hall - they are beautiful!
I'm looking forward to a fabulous year of learning!
Mrs Jones
Have a fantastic summer holiday! We can’t wait to see you in September! Love Mrs Jones and Miss Campbell 💕
WEEK BEGINNING 13.07.2020
FRENCH TASK
Bonjour Class 3 
Ca Va?
Moi - Ca va tres bien merci.
This is it, last week of home learning. You have all done so fantastically well, I am so proud of you all.
'Fantastique' to all those that have logged on at some point during lockdown since March.
This week I have not added a new assignment, but feel free to revise all the assignments up to date so far.
In September we will continue to use the 'Duolingo' app as it has been such a successful resource.
Have a fantastic summer holiday, can't wait to see you all in the Autumn term.
Au revoir, Madam Richardson 
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 13th July 2020 - Friday 17th July 2020
LAST HOME LEARNING
Hi All
We've finally got to the LAST WEEK of home learning before the Summer holidays It's been a very strange and challenging time for us all. However, we've made it and learned lots of exciting new things along the way.
I would just like to take this opportunity to say a huge THANK YOU to parents and carers and in particular my 'wonderful Class 3 children' who have been home schooling. Your photographs, e-mails and updates have been wonderful!
I've uploaded my timetable and all the resources for the last week. The Classroom Secrets pack this week has a 'French theme,' so I hope you enjoy it (they are not split into year groups for this last week. It is a Key Stage 2 booklet, suitable for both Year 3 & Year 4). You can access all their previous packs on their website (I have included the link on my timetable).
You can send me any e-mails this week but after that I am logging off for the Summer. I hope you have a wonderful break ... hopefully the weather will be kind to us!
See you all in September!
Lots of love
Mrs Jones
HOME LEARNING (LAST WEEK) PLUS RESOURCES
Here is the 'amended' muscles worksheet (with answers) as the other one didn't appear to be loading properly. Mrs Jones
Here is the booklet that I promised you about St Benedict of Nursia. I hope that you enjoy the activities! Mrs Jones
Hello everyone! We are very excited to hold
St. Catherine's first-ever Virtual Sports Day
and we are enthusiastically inviting you to participate!
Please see the attachment below.
We would love you to see photos of you in action, please send them to helliott@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk!
Good luck!
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 6th July 2020 - Friday 10th July 2020
Hi All
I hope you're having a great weekend. I went out for 'morning coffee' and 'lunch' yesterday. It was so nice to sit in a cafe with people around me. What have you been up to?
I've attached my home learning plan for this week and the Classroom Secrets home learning packs with guidance and answers for parents. There are lots of lovely activities to keep everyone interested.
Have a great week of learning. Any problems please email me -
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk Don't forget to send me photographs of your home learning. There are still children that I would love to hear from.
Take care!
Missing you all!
Mrs Jones
xx
Home Learning resources for week commencing 6.7.20.
Weekly 'round up' of learning in Class 3
Matthew has had another fantastic week of learning.
He started the library reading challenge last week and has nearly finished his first book!
He also thoroughly enjoyed the science work, completing the worksheets by himself, which earned him a home learning hero certificate. Matthew also wrote a biography of Markus Persson who is a Swedish video game programmer. He also made the St. Peter’s fishers of men game.
Aaron enjoyed doing the fisherman game this week. He also tried hard to write his poem. He learned a lot about the human body and teeth names.
Marta did all the maths and English tasks. She wrote her own poem based on the Amulet poem. She also did the plural possession sentences and she wrote descriptive sentences about jewellery. Marta wrote a short letter to her sister. She enjoyed doing Edshed and TT Rockstars too. Marta has also found her love of reading again!
Fantastic!
Mrs Jones
Home Learning
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 29th June 2020 - Friday 3rd July 2020
Gosh, we're having a 'wet' weekend! I hope you're able to still get about for some fresh air.
I've attached my home learning plan for this week and the Classroom Secrets home learning packs with guidance and answers for parents. There are lots of lovely activities to keep everyone interested.
Have a great week of learning. Any problems please email me -
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk Don't forget to send me photographs of your home learning. There are still children that I would love to hear from.
Take care!
Missing you all!
Mrs Jones
xx
Home Learning Resources - 29.6.20. - 3.7.20.
Weekly 'roundup' of learning
Another great week of home learning by the Class 3 children. Check out the photographs.
Amelia is reading a book called 'Weird Facts.' Her favourite facts are:
- A litter of kittens is called a kindle.
- A dog can make over 100 different facial expressions.
- Turtles have been around longer than dinosaurs.
- The Astronaut Neil Armstrong left his space boots on the moon.
Amelia has also been doing her Kennings poetry. She liked thinking of 2 letter words ending in 'er' about cats.
Marta also wrote a 'Kennings poem.' She has been on Edshed and TT Rockstars every day and has been reading books on Oxford Owl and my reading comprehension booklet about 'Spiders' She has watched all the videos on BBC Bitesize. Marta followed the instructions in the videos about fractions too. Marta and her mum read together about John the Baptist. From the art task, Marta made Mandarin heart shapes. Finally, she made ice-cream from scratch thinking about flavours and what equipment she needed.
Tomasz and Maja have been busy at home too!
Mrs Jones
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 22nd June 2020 - Friday 26th June 2020
Hope you're having a great weekend!
I've attached my home learning plan for this week and the Classroom Secrets home learning packs with guidance and answers for parents. There are lots of lovely activities to keep everyone interested.
Have a great week of learning. Any problems please email me -
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk Don't forget to send me photographs of your home learning. There are still children that I would love to hear from.
Take care!
Missing you all!
Mrs Jones
xx
Home Learning resources - week commencing 22nd June 2020
Weekly 'roundup' of learning
Happy Father's Day!
We've had some lovely activities this week and lots of children have been kept busy. Check out our home learning photographs.
Hope you're having a lovely day!
Mrs Jones
Digital Summer Reading Challenge
Cumbria Libraries are excited to announce…..
The all-new digital Summer Reading Challenge is starting early this year!
Due to the disruption to schools and libraries caused by Covid-19, the Summer Reading Challenge looks a little different this year but promises to be just as much fun as ever! This year the theme is ‘Silly Squad’.
Cumbria Libraries will be regularly posting ideas, activities and competitions on their social media pages – see https://www.facebook.com/CumbriaLibraryService/ or your local library’s Facebook page.
The attached document explains how it works and how children can participate.
Have fun reading!
Mrs Jones
Library Summer Reading Challenge
Home learning resources for week commencing Monday 15th June 2020
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 15th June 2020 - Friday 19th June 2020
Hope you're having a great weekend. The weather is gorgeous again!
I've attached my home learning plan for this week and the Classroom Secrets home learning packs with guidance and answers for parents. There are lots of lovely activities to keep everyone interested.
Have a great week of learning. Any problems please email me -
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk Don't forget to send me photographs of your home learning. There are still children that I would love to hear from.
Take care!
Missing you all!
Mrs Jones
xx
Weekly 'roundup' of learning
Aaron has been doing some French this week and a lot of reading and writing so his mum gave him a certificate for excellent English. He did the 200 spelling words sheet where he had only 4 mistakes which he corrected on his second try. He also did maths every day.
Aaron also coloured in the Trinity picture and he enjoyed going to the farm to see the pigs and cows and see how they behave in their own habitat.
Marta enjoyed the work set this week. She particularly liked the maths, where she had to follow the instructions on fractions.
After reading instructions about how flat bread was made in the Stone Age, Marta followed the recipe and made her own flat bread and even made flour from oats.
She also enjoyed watching Daily Bitesize. Marta also made homemade play dough and a nest sculpture.
In addition she investigated different food chains and read about the Trinity and drew a picture.
Finally she wrote a play script scene for Little Red Riding Hood.
Super effort!
Mrs Jones
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 8th June 2020 - Friday 12th June 2020
I've attached my home learning plan for this week and the Classroom Secrets home learning packs with guidance and answers for parents. My focus this week is 'Playscripts'
Have a great week of learning. Any problems please email me -
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk Don't forget to send me photographs of your home learning.
I set those children that I haven't heard from a challenge to get in touch this week!
Take care!
Missing you all!
Mrs Jones
xx
Home learning resources week commencing 8.6.20.
Weekly 'round up' of learning
Marta has been busy with the work that has been set. She has focused on writing about Jesus and made the 'Fruits of the Spirit' craft.
Aaron has been busy doing the 'Fruits of the Spirit' work and some lovely craft activities including making a 'Wrestlers ring' out of lolly pop sticks.
Chloe has been working through Bitesize and has also (with Joseph’s help) had fun making a theme park ride for her teddies. Joseph has worked hard on his biography about the Liverpool goal keeper and his poster about invertebrates and vertebrates. Both children enjoyed a trip to Brotherswater fishing. They managed to catch a couple of small fish which they returned to the water.
Mrs Jones
01.06.2020
P.S Class 3, check out the Music page to find out more about the
Virtual Big Sing on Friday 19th June.
There you'll find out which two celebrities (so far) who will be joining in with the Virtual Big Sing. 
Mrs Richardson
How did we spend our half term holiday?
Charlotte and Isabella have been focusing on fresh air and nature. They've been looking at all the different flowers around them and how things are changing now it’s summer.
Charlotte has also been loving training her rescue dog and has done a great job. Isabella tried on her school uniform too!
Mya had a busy week.
Day 1 She went down to the river at Langwathby.
Day 2 Had a walk down to Lacey caves.
Day 3 Enjoyed a picnic at Mosedale/Mungrisdale.
Day 4 Visited Castle Park.
What fun!
Mrs Jones
Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 1st June 2020 - Friday 5th June 2020
I hope that you had a great half term week. The weather has been absolutely brilliant!
I've attached my home learning plan for this week and the Classroom Secrets home learning packs with guidance and answers for parents.
Have a great week of learning. Any problems please email me -
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk Don't forget to send me photographs of your home learning. There are still children that I would love to hear from.
Take care!
Missing you all!
Mrs Jones
xx
Home Learning Resources - Week commencing Monday 1st June 2020
HALF TERM - Week commencing 25th May 2020
Hi All
Well we've made it to half term, with some exceptional home learning along the way!
I'm not setting any formal lessons this week as I feel that we all need a good rest. However, it's important that you still read each day to develop your skills. TTRS (times tables) and Edshed (for spelling) are still available during half term. BBC Bitesize are not doing any new lessons this week, however, you can still access their back catalogue of lessons. You can also access some on-line learning from Classroom Secrets at the link underneath.
Pentecost is on Sunday 31st May, 2020. The festival of Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks. I've attached the story of Pentecost to read. I've also attached a Pentecost craft (and the web-link) if you want to make it through half term.
Have a good rest and recuperate!
Love
Mrs Jones
xx
Pentecost Pin Wheel Craft (template) and story
Weekly 'round up' of learning
Marta enjoyed the activities set this week. She wrote a lovely thank you letter to Captain Tom and made the 'Ascension' cloud. Lovely crafts!
Aaron grew a rainbow this week. He has also been reading lots on Oxford Owl and practising French and Polish on the Duolingo app.
Chloe and Joseph enjoyed the work set for this week. They wrote lovely thank you letters to Captain Tom. They also grew a ‘rainbow’. Joseph has also been busy using Lego to spell out words. They are also growing some sunflowers out of seeds they found in their bird food and transferring them to individual pots this weekend.
Khloe and Katey have been doing the work set about Captain Tom. They went on a long walk and found some rocks which the girls have painted and hidden round where they live for other children to find. Khloe has been doing lots on times tables and some work on fact families.
Both girls have planted sunflower seeds and are going to see which one grows the tallest.
Matthew really enjoyed creating a video on Scratch. He has also grown a rainbow. He even created a rainbow made with skittles.
Matthew enjoyed decorating the front of the house with his amazing drawings.
Freya has been looking at letter writing.
Antony enjoyed growing his own rainbow. Wow!
Ben has been really busy this week. He has; grown a rainbow, written a thank you letter to Captain Tom, made the Spitfire and RE craft. He has also been completing lots in his home learning booklets.
Super learning!
Mrs Jones
Home Learning - Week Commencing Monday 18th May 2020 - Friday 22nd May 2020
I've attached the home learning plan for week commencing Monday 18th May, 2020. This week's learning focuses on Captain Tom Moore (Captain Tom) and his brilliant fundraising efforts for the NHS.
The new Classroom Secret home learning packs have also been put on with the usual guidance notes for parents. Don't forget that BBC Bitesize are also doing daily lessons. All the details are in my weekly plan.
I heard from lots of different children last week and had some amazing stories and photographs about what you've been learning at home. There are still children I have yet to hear from. Please do get in touch - cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk as I'd love to hear from you!
Have a great week of learning! Don't forget that your brain needs lots of exercise too! Keep that 'growth mindset' going.
Kind Regards
Mrs Jones
Home Learning Plan and Resources - Monday 18th May 2020
Weekly 'Round Up' of Learning/Activities
What a busy week you've had!
Chloe and Joseph have been extremely busy this week. After a great social distancing garden party on Friday (Chloe got really into the spirit ... see photo ) they have been busy getting on with their homework. Joseph enjoyed writing his recount of the VE celebrations and colouring the glider (which did fly!) After completing a Bitesize section about code, Chloe felt inspired to write to Alan Turing to say thank you for decoding the German messages. (The Enigma Machine) They also made Mary crafts and 'The Way, the Truth and Life' crafts.
Charlotte and Isabella enjoyed 'VE Day', baked and even coloured hair! Lots of practical activities this week.
Theo has been busy learning all about 'time' in maths. Gracie has been baking.
Justin wrote about VE Day and made flags. He has also been home baking. Justin has been helping his sister Olivia out with the horses whilst out walking.
Mya has been working hard at maths and doing the daily BBC Bitesize lessons online.
Eddie also enjoyed VE Day. He wrote; a recount of the day spent at home, a diary entry as an evacuee and did lots of timeline and history research about WWII.
Eddie has also been writing a private diary and 'up levelling' his work (checking to see how he can improve his writing). He has also been working on 'perimeter' in maths. Check out his measurement photographs. An architect in the making!
Paige has been carrying out science experiments with baking soda. She made a delicious cake afterwards.
I'm so impressed with your home learning Class 3. Keep it up!
Love
Mrs Jones
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Home Learning - Week commencing Monday 11th May 2020-Friday 15th May 2020
Hi Class 3,
I hope that you had a great VE Day!
I've attached my new home learning plan for week commencing Monday 11th May. The new home learning packs are on too with guidance notes and answers for parents.
Keep sending in your photographs and updates as I love to hear from you. I've still not heard from you all though, so drop me an e-mail to tell me how you're getting on.
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk
Keep those brains active!
Missing you all,
Love
Mrs Jones
I’ve included the link to Shaun Gardner’s new lesson which focuses on shooting and finishing in football.
Home Learning resources for week commencing 11.5.20.
On Friday, VE Day Miss Campbell walked into Penrith and around the town. These were some of the celebrations she saw and took pictures of!
Weekly 'round up' of learning
We've had some lovely learning this week! It was so nice to see the preparations you'd made for VE Day.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Jones
Happy VE Day!
I've included two more activities for VE Day. Have a go at decorating and making your own 'Spitfire' and see if you can crack the codes using 'Morse Code.' Have fun! Mrs Jones
Home Learning – Week Commencing Monday 4th May 2020 – Friday 8th May 2020
Hi Children (and Parents)
I’ve put your home learning on for the week. This week’s learning will be centred around VE Day, which is on Friday 8th May 2020.
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) is the day on which Allied forces formally announced the surrender of Germany, which brought the Second World War to a close in Europe. We are celebrating its 75th anniversary!
I’ve put a lovely KS2 home learning pack on with a VE Day theme. Please choose the relevant year group for your child, which is Years 3/4, as there is also learning on there for years 5/6. There are helpful guidance notes for parents too!
Please let me know how you are celebrating this momentous occasion. Are you having a tea-party at home and putting bunting up? I would love to see your celebrations at home. Send your photographs to my usual e-mail address –
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk
Have a great week. Missing you all terribly!
Regards
Mrs Jones
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P.S. I’ve also included another home learning pack dated 4.5.20. from Classroom Secrets for each year group (Year 3 and Year 4)
Check out BBC Bitesize – they are doing daily lessons to support home learning. They’re adding three new lessons every weekday for each year group.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize?xtor=CS1-11-[Bitesize~C~~BitesizeDaily_Verizon]-[Verizon]-[0]-[0]
Home Learning Resources for Week Commencing 4th May 2020
Weekly 'Roundup' of Learning and Activities at Home
It's been lovely to receive lots of photographs this week of your home learning. Activities have included; writing (poetry and stories), baking, cooking, Lego building, painting, gardening and woodwork (check out Eddie's resurrection cross) to name but a few.
Keep sending the photographs in as I love to hear from you all!
Kind Regards
Mrs Jones
Message from Penrith Library
Penrith Library would like to remind you that next Friday is VE Day.
Even though many events have had to be cancelled in the area, we hope you will still help us commemorate the day by contacting your pupils, parents, teachers and anyone who might be interested and asking them to take part in our attempts to create VE Day bunting for our Facebook page!
If you know of anyone who would like to take part, please ask them to:
· Print out the attached template
· Decorate the template and let us know how they have celebrated the day, by writing in the
centre of the template in clear letters, what activity they have done (see attached photos)
· Email a photo of the bunting to Claire.dougherty@cumbria.gov.uk
We would also love to see photos of families celebrating VE day but ask that they are sent to the same email address as a separate photograph
We look forward to seeing your decorated bunting photos!
Regards
Bev and Claire
Penrith Library
Bunting Template
Hi Class 3
I can’t tell you how much I’m missing you at the moment! I hope that you’re all still logging on and seeing what I’ve set you for the week. Keep working hard through the different areas of learning. It’s really important that you do something every day to keep your ‘brain active.’
Don’t forget that I love to hear from you! You can send any updates or photographs to cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk
I’ve heard from a few children but not all of you. This week, I challenge you to send me a photograph of you ‘at home’ working hard. Let’s see by the end of the week if I’ve heard from everyone. That would really make my week!
Stay safe. I’ll see you soon.
Lots of love and hugs
Mrs Jones
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I've also added 'NEW' Year 3 and Year 4 home learning packs to complement the work that I have been setting.
Weekly Plan and Resources from Monday 27th April 2020 to Friday 1st May 2020
Week Commencing - Monday 20th April to Friday 24th April 2020
I've put on the weekly plan from Monday 20th April - Friday 24th April 2020.
Keep up the hard work!
Mrs Jones
Inspirational quotes of the week from Mrs Jones and Miss Campbell!
Thursday 16th April 2020
From next week, I will be putting up a weekly timetable of learning. Click on the below example document to see the format. Have a look on this class page for activities set to date this week. These have included;
- 14.4.20. - tasks from Mrs Richardson in French and Music.
- 14.4.20. Tasks from me -
- Computing activities
- Writing a set of instructions
- Maths activity mat
- 15.4.20. – New learning booklet where I have suggested 1 maths, 1 literacy and 1 other activity per day.
- 16.4.20. – 1 maths, 1 literacy and 1 other activity.
- 17.4.20. – 1 maths, 1 literacy and 1 other activity.
Miss Campbell and I hope that you are all keeping safe and have been enjoying the lovely sunshine. If you have any queries about this week’s home learning, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Also, keep the photographs coming in. I will be posting them as a group at the end of the week and then taking them down for the following week, so that the web page doesn’t slow down.
Take care
Mrs Jones and Miss Campbell
Example Timetable
Tuesday 14th April 2020
I have put a hyper-link on here to another FREE home learning pack from TTS (it is a curriculum focused independent learning booklet) for KS2 (7-11 years) which I think the children will enjoy. It will certainly keep them entertained with its 104 pages. Activities can be downloaded and printed or alternatively read off the screen and completed on a separate piece of paper.
The booklet recommends that children undertake a Literacy and Numeracy task everyday plus one other lesson from another subject area. The lessons have been designed to be “pick and mix” so you do not need to follow any particular order.
Please don't overload your child and expect them to complete numerous pages each day. Please follow the advice given!
Click on the link below, scroll down and download the 7-11 years pack. The KS1 booklet is also on there if your child is finding the KS2 one slightly tricky.
The answer book(s) are also on there to support you as a parent.
Regards
Mrs Jones
Monday 13th April 2020 - Year 3 and Year 4 maths activity mats. Print off or read the questions off the screen and complete the work on a spare piece of paper.
Monday 13th April 2020
English
Today, I would like you to write a set of instructions using bossy 'imperative verbs'
These instructions could be about anything, for example baking a cake, cleaning your teeth, growing a vegetable or whatever you choose.
Remember 'bossy' verbs give a command. (cut, slice, brush, wash, stir, spread, pour etc). Think about when I put 'Little Miss Bossy' on the board at school and how she tells everybody what to do and gets straight to the point.
Instructions need to be in order of how you complete them. Pretend that an 'alien' has just dropped out of the sky and doesn't know how to do your task. If you're not concise enough they won't be able to follow your instructions.
Mrs Jones
Monday 13th April 2020
Computing
I've put a couple of activities on here to complete about 'online safety' You can view them via the documents which have the web links on. It explains as a parent how to support your child through the activities. I've also put the hyper links which will lead you to the clips.
Happy computing!
Mrs Jones
Activity 1 and Activity 2
Aaron has been extremely busy!
Aaron has been busy doing PE with Joe every morning. He has also been practising his goalkeeping skills.
The ‘super’ news is that he designed and drew a picture of a ‘new creature’ which made it into the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald last week. Aaron has been checking the school website regularly and has coloured pictures and also made an Easter basket which he printed out from the school page.
Aaron has been helping around the house by hoovering his own bedroom and making his own sandwiches for lunch. He’s even baked ‘banana bread’ Yum!
He is reading a lot and made rainbows with his siblings. He is doing Ed Shed and TT Rock Stars every day.
What a busy boy!
Shaun Gardner
Miss Campbell's Chocolate Shortbread 
Miss Campbell has been busy baking. Why don't you try out her recipe and let me know how you get on!
Ingredients:
8 oz self rising flour
1 oz cocoa powder
6 oz margarine
6 oz sugar
1 egg
Sugar to sprinkle
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160 c.
2. Melt margarine in a bowl on a low heat.
3. Weigh out the flour, sugar and cocoa powder. Pour into a bowl and mix.
4. Grease a tin with a lip (not a flat tray).
5. Pour the melted margarine into the dry ingredients then pour in the beaten egg.
6. Mix all the ingredients well - it does look funny!
7. Press the mixture evenly into the tray with a fork.
8. Bake for 18 minutes at 160 c.
9. Sprinkle with sugar.
10. Let it cook and cut.
11. Finally enjoy! 
Chloe's busy days!
Chloe has been reading a lot at home. Her love of books is legendary!
She has also completed her sound waves homework by making a set of ear defenders - they are amazing! Chloe wrote her acrostic poem based on Easter and designed an anti-noise pollution poster for our recent science topic on 'sound.'
Joseph has also completed his volcano homework and an acrostic poem.
Both have been working on mass by baking lemon drizzle cake (delicious by all accounts) and playing darts with their Dad. Joseph and Chloe won!
Great ways to keep busy - well done!
FINTAN AND ARCHIE HAVE BEEN BUSY!
Fintan has been researching about our new topic 'Volcanoes' and writing a report. He has also been keeping fit with Joe Wicks online and brushing up on his French skills.
Archie has been reading and playing maths games with his big brother.
Well done both!
Marta's Volcano
Marta has been carrying out experiments at home on 'Volcanoes'. She followed up her scientific work with a report on how volcanoes erupt!
Her other news is that her 'radishes' are now fully grown ready to be picked.
A child friendly book explaining all about the 'Coronavirus'
Matthew has written a detailed report about 'Earthquakes.' Superb research and report!
Eddie's Home Learning
Eddie has been busy finding out about 'volcanoes.' He carried out an experiment with citric acid, bicarbonate of soda, washing up liquid and red food colouring to show how a volcano erupts. Eddie followed it up with a fantastic report. Superb work!
Marta's Home Learning
Marta has been extremely busy at home. She has been; learning her times tables, reading regularly and writing book reviews. She has also enjoyed lots of time in the garden helping out with her own fruit and flowers. Marta has baked a cake and written her own recipe. She has also been thinking about others by making birthday cards for elderly neighbours to cheer them up.
It's great to see Marta has been keeping busy and active!
Weather Home Learning Pack
I've put a home learning pack on here which focuses on 'The Weather.' There is a guidance leaflet for parents to read prior to your child completing the pack. Hopefully there are lots of exciting activities in there which will excite learning!
Mrs Jones
30.3.20.
Weather home learning pack
Joseph's Home Learning
Joseph has been very busy doing lots of homework and wanted to share what he's been getting up to.
He really enjoyed writing a book review on 'Bad Dad' by David Walliams. There were lots of funny new words he had never heard of - huggle (hug and cuddle) catastrophe, considerable and gawping. He's also enjoyed 'Auntie Flips' poems (they are bad!)
Joseph has also been around the house measuring different items in cm and mm and made a word search with his statutory spellings.
Superb learning Joseph!
Antony has been busy writing an exciting non-chronological report about Volcanoes. Well done!
HOLY WEEK! Attached is a lovely workbook all about Holy Week. You can either print it off and work through it (if you have a printer) or read it off a screen to complete the activities. We need to remember this special time!
Non-chronological report (ideas)
Friday 27th March 2020
Morning Class 3. Hope you're safe and well. Don't forget to enjoy the sunshine in your gardens and get some fresh air.
We're celebrating my son Benjamin's 20th birthday today (in the house and garden) and enjoying some family time.
English
I'd like you to send me photographs of your reading at home today. Let me know what books you are enjoying. Who is the author? What else has the author written? Are there any unknown words you've had to check the meaning of? Get your parents to ask you questions about the text.
As we are moving on to the topic of Volcanoes and Earthquakes, (leaving Ancient Maya behind). Please do some research on this new topic.
I'd then like you to write a non-chronological report (we wrote one in class about the Vikings) about Volcanoes or Earthquakes. Don't forget a heading, sub-headings, drawings, pictures with captions and labels, 'Did you know facts?'. I've attached an example of a report and a suggested template for the layout. Don't forget to e-mail me a close up of your report so I can put it on the website.
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk
Happy researching!
Mrs Jones
Amy and Emily have been hard at work writing their 'Acrostic Poem' and designing a poster about 'Noise Pollution' Absolutely lovely to see children working hard at home still! Brilliant work!
MISS CAMPBELL'S FITNESS REGIME!
Miss Campbell has completed Joe Wick's PE lessons every day. She hopes that Class 3 are joining in too!
Joe is on every day at https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html
Have fun whilst keeping active Class 3!
Love
Miss Campbell
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Maths - Year 3
As we have been learning about Volume and Capacity in our maths lessons. Please log on to topmarks.co.uk as there are a few interactive games to practise reading scales. Use the drop down menus - Maths - KS2.
Another game can be found here - http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/capacity/index.html
Keep learning!
Mrs J
Spring Acrostic Poem. I've attached an acrostic poem all about the beautiful season of SPRING. I'd like you to write an acrostic poem. Don't forget in an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. .
Hi Class 3
I'm busy updating the 'Science Big Books' and seeing what fun we've had through our recent topics of Rocks and fossils (Year 3) and Sound (Year 4). If you're online check out the following websites that are great for these two topics -
http://www.dinosaurdays.com/
This tells you all about how trace, trackway and amber fossils were formed millions of years ago.
Check out www.topmarks.co.uk - this website has lots of clips and ideas about how sound travels. Look under Science (KS2).
Year 4 - I would like you to design a poster about an aspect of 'NOISE POLLUTION' Some ideas are in the bullet points below.
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street traffic sounds from cars, buses, pedestrians, ambulances etc.
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construction sounds like drilling or other heavy machinery in operation
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airports, with sounds from air traffic, i.e. planes taking off or landing
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constant loud music
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industrial sounds like fans, generators, compressors, mills
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train station traffic
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household sounds, from the television set to music playing on the stereo or computer, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, dishwashers, lawnmowers etc.
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events involving fireworks, loudspeakers etc.
Draw and write on your poster what the problem is to people in society.
Get your parents to take a photograph of your poster and e-mail them to me on
cjones@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk
I'll look forward to reading them soon!
Stay safe!
Love
Mrs Jones
ISPACED Poster
Wednesday 25th March 2020
Hi Class 3
I hope that you're all enjoying the sunshine in your gardens but staying extremely safe at the same time!
Hopefully, you'll be working your way through the pack that I sent home. Take your time over the pack as there was a lot there to complete. It doesn't all have to be finished this week! Remember to build in breaks to get some fresh air.
How about logging on to the website 'The World of David Walliams' https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ He is reading a story every day at 11am (Elevenses with The World of David Walliams) for your enjoyment.
Today's story is 'Grubby Gertrude' Listen closely to the story and then draw a picture of Gertrude. How could you describe her? How about writing another grubby story involving Gertrude. Can you use amazing sentence openers, like a fronted adverbial ... for example, 'Earlier that day, Grubby Gertrude' ... etc. Don't forget you can also use ISPACED. I've put a copy of the ISPACED poster on here that we use in class.
Hopefully, I'll try and post something new each school day to keep you occupied. Don't forget to log on to www.topmarks.co.uk for maths, English and all the foundation subjects. Most games are interactive for an Ipad or tablet.
Keep up with your times tables and spelling shed work too!
Stay safe!
Love
Mrs Jones
xxx
Year 4 Home Learning Pack
Year 3 Home Learning Pack
Free Subscriptions (for Parents) to Education Companies
Good Website Links for Home Learning
Ideas for Home Learning
Year 3 and 4 - Home Learning Timetable
Maya mapping - we have been mapping out where the ancient Mayan people used to live and comparing it to the present day map. We also prepared information leaflets with key facts that we had found out about the Mayan people.
Year 4 have been finding out about amplitude, frequency and pitch in their science lessons on sound. We’ve enjoyed listening to lots of sounds made by the different instruments. Two of the children brought in guitars from home to listen to the different pitch made by the strings.
Year 3 have been carrying out fair tests on rocks. Tests have included a hardness, permeability and acid test. This is to gauge what groups of rocks they fit into (igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary)
Ash Wednesday - we received the sign of the cross today during our special mass.
Writer’s Week - Class 3 enjoyed looking at ‘The Lost Words’ spell book by Robert Macfarlane. Looking at the pictures of the lost words in nature inspired us to write diamante poems and senses poetry. We had fun searching for pictures connected to the lost words in the classroom and completing word searches. Our art was inspired by the taxidermy animals that we observed closely during an art lesson on shading. It was a great week!
The Maya created a written language. Maya hieroglyphics are often referred to as "glyphs" for short. The Maya had about 800 symbols. Archaeologists have figured out what many of the symbols mean, but not all of them. Some glyphs were used as numbers. Some were used as sounds. Some were phrases or words. We enjoyed making our own 'glyph' template using cardboard and raised string. We then used poster paint on the string only to 'print' our own glyphs with their pronunciation and meaning.
Spring 2020
Year 4 French:
Qui est dans ta famille?
(Who is in your family?)
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Spring 2020
Year 3's Superb French:
Dans Votre trousse/sac?
(What is in your pencil case/bag?)
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Autumn 2019
Year 3 French
Tell us a little about yourself......
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Year 4 are excited about their new topic of ‘Sound’ in science. We carried out lots of experiments to find out how sound travels. We used vibrating tuning forks, twanged rulers on desks and also watched how rice vibrates on a drum skin. We are currently making string telephones to see how they work.
Year 3 are learning about rocks and soils in science. They devised a ‘fair test’ to categorise rocks into the rock groups igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. They carried out a hardness test. Next week we will be doing a similar test with water and acid vinegar.
Ancient Maya - our new topic is all about Ancient Maya. We found out that they built pyramids which they believed were alive, so they painted them red like blood. Our Lego buildings are fab!
Human 'Circuit' - we made a human simple circuit during science today. When the current was flowing the bulb lit and when the switch was opened our bulb went out. What fun!
Shadow Puppet Theatres - as we are learning about 'light and shadows' some children made shadow puppet theatres at home. We had Peter Pan, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and even a Polish folk tale 'The Dragon of Krakow. The children enjoyed turning the classroom lights off and acting out their fairy tales in the dark with a light source. What fun!
Christmas Jumper Day - look at all our different jumpers!
Road Safety Talk - PCSO Mark Robson visited us this week to talk about road safety. It was a very informative session!
Visit to Penrith Library - Class 3 enjoyed listening to stories and playing Victorian parlour games at the library this week. It was a super fun session.
Year 3 have been doing lots of experiments with 'mirrors' in science as part of their 'light and shadows' topic.
Year 4 have been testing electrical circuits in science. They had to predict if the circuit would work before testing it.
Viking BROOCHES - Class 3 children have enjoyed making their Viking brooches. First of all, they designed a brooch in their art books and cut the cardboard to the correct shape. Wool was applied to the cardboard in their chosen design. The cardboard was then covered in tin foil and the design was carefully raised by smoothing it. The brooches were adorned with jewels and a pin. They are fantastic!
Silhouette War Art by Class 3 - Remembrance 2019
Class 3’s ‘Remembrance’ display.
Year 3 carried out an investigation and found out that ‘darkness is the absence of light’ and that ‘light travels in a straight line’ during their new science topic of LIGHT AND SHADOWS.’
Year 4 had an exploratory session to introduce them to their new science topic of ELECTRICITY. What fun!
Class 3 have made beautiful Viking jewellery (BROOCHES). They designed their own brooch and then had to fashion the design out of wool. The wool design was covered with tin foil and the pattern then rubbed carefully to raise the design. Sharpie pens were used to cover the raised design. Jewels and adornments were then added. They are highly effective!
Class 3 leading the responsorial psalms and bidding prayers at the ‘All Saints day’ mass. A lovely service!
Year 4 have been looking at historic timelines (BC and AD) we tried to organise eras of history into a long timeline.
VIKINGS - Class 3 are enjoying learning about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
Year 3 have been doing addition with 3-digit numbers. It’s been a bit tricky remembering to ‘carry under the doorstep’ and to ensure our columns are in straight lines for adding!
French - Class 3 are enjoying the new French dictionaries with Mrs Richardson. What fun searching for new vocabulary!
Year 4 - STATES OF MATTER . Year 4 have been learning about solids, liquids and gases in their science lessons. They enjoyed a 'changes over time' temperature experiment whilst using thermometers.
Year 3 FORCES & MAGNETS - Year 3 have been enjoying carrying out experiments on forces and magnets.
THE STORY OF JACOB AND ESAU - we learned the story about Jacob and Esau. We learned that Esau gave his 'birthright' away for a bowl of stew. In groups we did an activity about things in our life that are eternal or temporary. We also looked closely at the scripture in the Holy Bible. A group did a beautiful liturgy on the theme of families!
Class 3 have been making 'Viking Longships' in DT. We learned lots of facts about these ancient modes of transport. They were tricky to make but are very effective!
Year 3 and Year 6 on Times Table Rockstars - Year 6s showed the Year 3 children how to use the game to hone their multiplication skills.
Year 3 have been practising lots of 'fact families' in maths!
Class 3 - Years 3 and 4
