We have ended a wonderful term in Year 3 with our much anticipated Harry Potter Day. As you all know, we are one of just 25 classes chosen across the UK to take part in the 25th anniversary Miles of Magic Book Relay in partnership with the Literacy Trust and Bloomsbury. To celebrate this further, I wanted to organise a Harry Potter Day to encourage us all to get in to the magical spirit. Well, what a day we have had! We started by watching the first Harry Potter film followed by some Harry Potter themed PE! We had a handball tournament with the teams being the four Hogwarts houses. Congratulations to Ravenclaw who won! At lunchtime, we were treated to some delicious Harry Potter cake courtesy of our amazing cook Maria. Earlier in the week, we had a competition to design a poster to advertise the cake. Connie and Elsie were our winners. Well done!
After lunch, we began an afternoon of Harry Potter activities. We started by completing some special postcards that were sent to us in our trunk. We had to write down why the Harry Potter books were special to us. These postcards have now been sent to Bloomsbury in London where they will be exhibited. It was at this point that we had a special visitor to school…a photographer from the Gazette! I had contacted them earlier in the week to let them know about our Harry Potter day and they decided to send a photographer to school to capture our special day. So, keep an eye online and in print…you might see some familiar faces soon! I will let you know if/when I hear about the article being published.
We then completed our Harry Potter activity books, again sent to us in our trunk, and decided which Harry Potter house we wanted to be a part of! The children all received a sticker to wear to represent their house. After half term, we are going to take part in a virtual lesson with Jonny Duddle who has illustrated some of the more recent publications in the franchise as well as a virtual lesson with the Harry Potter studios in London. We have lots to look forward to!
The children have also done some Harry Potter colouring, designed their own dragons egg and created a mini Harry Potter character.
It has been the most magical, exciting day. What a way to end our half term! I cannot thank you all enough for the effort you have put in to your children’s costumes. They all look fantastic and I was blown away when I saw them all this morning. I am so appreciative of your continued support. Thank you thank you thank you!
Here are some pictures of our day…
Notices
World Book Day falls on the 3rd March this year. We will be doing book/reading related activities that day however we are having our dressing up as a book character day on the 25th March. This is due to the amount of events we have happening in school after half term. Please put this date in your diaries.
Last week, the class voted for their Year 3 school council members. They chose Darcy and Ronnie. A huge well done to these children!
Our award winners this week are: Golden - Lola Mae, Maths - Emilia and Writing - Grace and Mia.
I look forward to speaking to you all on the 21st February for our Parent’s Day.
I hope you all have a great half term!
Miss Heim-Sarac
