On Friday 25th November a special visitor came to Brighton Avenue Primary School.
The Mayor of Gateshead came with two ladies from Morrisons, to plant a pear tree in the school grounds. Jordan, Chloe and Rebecca helped the Mayor to dig a hole and then plant the special tree.
Afterwards, the Mayor joined the children in Key Stage 2 as they rehearsed the songs from their Christmas production Hosanna Rock.
On Thursday year 3 were lucky enough to work with a head chef of a North East restaurant to make an edible model of the National Trust landmark Brimham Rocks. First the children made scones and rock buns. When they were cooked the children had to look carefully at the rock formations to decided how to stack the food. They took it in turns to create parts of the cake and then decorated the model with different sweets to look like grass, hills and trees.
We think our cake turned out really well. What do you think?
On Sunday 26th June, 6 class members were chosen to join Miss Hind and Miss Wasiejko to enter our model in a competition at Gibside. People all around the North East had been busy making cakes of different landmarks and they all presented them on a giant map at the festival. There were entertainers, games, music and best of all, plenty of food! The children were excellent role models for our school. Well done Year3!
Year 3 went travelling back in time this week to Beamish Open Air Museum. We took a tram heading to the town where we had the opportunity to explore Ravensworth Terrace. The children were amazed that they were finally able to see the terrace which once stood on the school site!
After lunch the children had a ride on the carousel before taking the tram to Home Farm to have a look at the animals.
At the end of the day the children went home with big smiling faces after having such a great day out.
As part of their Ready! Get Set! Go! theme the children took part in an Olympic Event within the class.
The students decided on whether to be a Spartan or Athenian and prepared banners to support their city states during the event.
The children took part in events such as 'Plane Throwing', 'Last Person Jumping' and 'Standing Like A Statue of Zeus'
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals were awarded to the winners in a award ceremony at the end of the 2day event.
The children had a great time and are looking forward to taking part in an outside Olympics at the end of this term.
Year 3 have been cooking over the last few weeks as part of the literacy and theme. The children have been following instructions to prepare Cheese On Toast; Honey Glazed Prawns and also Tzatziki!
The children had a great time peeling, chopping and finally eating all the food!
We also had the opportunity to try a selection of Greek food such as pitta bread, olives and Greek yoghurt.
All of this experience helped the children to write some fantastic instructions. If you fancy having a try at cooking any of these recipes please ask a Year 3 for a copy of their
instructions!
Want to show the world how great your writing is?
Each week a child will be chosen by the class and their work will be published on the website for the whole world to see!
Watch this space for the first winner!
Bored at home? Want to win a prize? Why don't you do some writing?
For each piece of writing that is completed at home you can get a fantastic prize and a ticket for the Jar of Joy!
The last competition saw the children winning lots of prizes so much so that Miss Wasiejko had run out of prizes by the middle of the week!
So come on Year 3 get writing!!
On Monday the children visited the Shipley Art Gallery to look at the famous painting 'The Blaydon Races'. The children dressed up and posed like the characters in the painting. We also looked at the many different objects and tried to find them in the painting. Dillon was fascinated with the Victorian copy of The Times and spent most of the time reading it!
This term has seen the children studying the theme 'Kings and Queens'.
The theme started with the children all designing and making their own crowns. Lots of jewels and gold were used to produce some spectacular crowns. The children all dressed up and posed for their own royal portrait.
We then studied the story of King Arthur. The children designed their own story boards and then performed their play about how Arthur became king.
Our next stop on our learning journey was 1066 and the Battle of Hastings. The children examined pictures of the Bayeux Tapestry to look for clues about what happened. They found lots of differences between the Normans and the English armies.
After half term the children moved onto James I and the story of Guy Fawkes. We produced some really effective art.
One afternoon the children all became court jesters as they were curious of how royalty was entertained. We all tried telling jokes and juggling which was very tricky but very entertaining.
At the moment we are looking at the current royal family. We have found out the names of the Queen's children and grandchildren and have managed to draw a family tree. We drew our own family tree as well.
Find out what Year 3 will be getting up to this term by reading the newsletter below.
As our theme work came to an end we decided to celebrate our achievements over a Greek banquet. As well as tasting a range of Greek food such as olives, houmous and feta cheese we decided our party just wouldn't be complete without our Greek style music, dancing and red wine (blackcurrant juice)! We all had a great afternoon and tried lots of tasty new food. Here are some pictures from our party....
During the spring term we have been learning lots about the Ancient Greeks. We have been reading and writing our own Greek myths. We decided to publish them and they are fantastic- you can find them in the school library.
One of our favourite myths was Perseus and Medusa. During our 'instructions' unit in literacy we worked in teams to create these brilliant masks and shields.....be careful you don't look too hard as Medusa may turn you to stone!!
We have also been studying Greek art and finding out the meanings behind the picures and patterns. We made some designs on the computer and then used clay to make our ddesigns become real. We carefully painted our pots and are taking them home as lovely Mother's Day gifts....we hope you like them!
We have just started reading the story of the Trojan War. Keep looking out for new updates of what we have been up to!
Open our newsletter to find out all about our new theme.
The year 3 class assembly is on Friday 15th January. Please come along at 9am to find out what we have been up to in class.
Year 3 children have been making hot air balloons. First we used paper mache to cover the balloon. Once it was dried we painted our balloons with bright colours. We then cut the bottoms off and attached a basket. All thats left to do is test them out and see if they will fly... watch this space!!
The Year 3 children have had a busy start to the year and have been learning all about the weather and how it changes.
Literacy
In Literacy we have been writing and performing weather reports. We have also been learning to recite some weather poems and perform them with actions.
We were also lucky enough to have a trip to Saltwell Park to celebrate the end of the National Year of Reading. It was a great day out with plenty of surprises....
