We have had another fantastic week in Year 3 ending with the International Day of Dance! The children have yet again blown me away with their wonderful outfits; they all looked amazing. We started our day by learning some country dancing with Mrs Ormerod and then we had a Zumba session with Hazel in the hall. We also had the opportunity to watch a dance show made up of children from KS2 who had a dance to showcase. All of the children in the show were super but I have to give a special mention to Olivia, Darcy, Emilia, Harriet, Lily, Rosie, Lilly, Zahra and Lola Mae from our class who were all so brave and resilient for putting themselves forward to perform. They did a great job and I was a very proud teacher! Thank you to you all for supporting the children and sourcing outfits for the day. Personally, I love dancing and watching people dance. It is a fantastic skill to have and it brings so much joy to others. A big thank you to Mrs Ormerod for organising this special day for us.

On another note, we had a special delivery to class today. As part of our involvement in the Miles of Magic Harry Potter event, a special edition of the book arrived to us today for us to annotate and doodle before sending it on to another one of the 25 schools involved in the event. It has already been to quite a few schools and they have done a great job of making it look amazing. I will upload some pictures of it next week. Very exciting!

Here is our learning for this week…

Maths: we have been comparing multiplication and division statements using the greater than, less than and equal symbols.

English: the children have turned their story maps in to written stories.

R.E: we looked at the signs and symbols of the Mass and what they mean.

PSHE: we looked at our new child friendly anti-bullying policy and discussed what it meant and how we can refer to it if we need to.

History: we learnt about the Roman invasions of Britain and placed these on a timeline.

Our Lady receives prestigious National Award

We are delighted to announce that Our lady of the Assumption has received a prestigious national award for our role in giving young people access to cultural and creative learning as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Associate Schools Programme (ASP). To find out more please read this letter.

Blackpool Beating Bullying Bronze award

Further to the appointment of 8 new anti-bullying ambassadors in school, we are now working hard to achieve the Bronze award for Blackpool Beating Bullying. In order to achieve the relevant threshold, school needs to carry out surveys on different groups of people in school. There will be 4 surveys/questionnaires aimed at the following groups:

children - Year 3’s will complete theirs in class.
parents - below is a link and we invite you to complete the survey.
teachers
governors

All questionnaires are on line and only live for 2 weeks from the 3rd May.

Here is the survey link for parents, we would very much appreciate it if you could complete the survey to enable us to make steps forward to receiving the Bronze award for school. Thank you for your support.

Parents/Carers-

https://forms.gle/TP2A4mnpJwBwmT6R6

Notices:

PE days this half term are on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS.
Times tables to be learnt for the test next Friday are the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. I will be testing the children on a mixture of these tables.
Spellings to be learnt for next Friday are: RECENT, REGULAR, REIGN, REMEMBER, SENTENCE and SEPARATE.