Year 3 Blog
Introduction
Welcome to Lydgate Junior School.
We aim to ensure that all children receive a high quality, enjoyable and exciting education.
We feel that our school is a true reflection of the community we serve. Lydgate children are well motivated and come from a range of social and cultural backgrounds. Within the school community we appreciate the richness of experience that the children bring to school. This enhances the learning experiences of everyone and it also gives all pupils the opportunity to develop respect and tolerance for each other by working and playing together. We want your child's time at Lydgate to be memorable for the right reasons - that is, a happy, fulfilling and successful period of his/her childhood.
Yours sincerely,
Stuart Jones
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Welcome to Year 3!
The Y3 teachers are Mrs Dutton & Mrs de Brouwer (3D/dB), Miss Hayden (3RH), Mrs Holden (3SH) and Miss Wall (3AW). We have several Teaching Assistants who work with Y3 children at different times through the week: Miss Mahon, Mr Bartholomew, Mrs Dawes and Miss Kania.
We will use this blog to keep you up-to-date with all the exciting things that we do in Year 3, share some of the things that the children learn and show you some of their fantastic work. We hope you enjoy reading it!
The Y3 team.
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Welcome to the Year 5 Blog page.
The Year 5 teaching team consists of: Mrs Loosley (5NL), Miss Cunningham (5EC), Mrs Ridsdale and Mrs Webb (5W/R) and Mr Bradshaw (5BB). The children are also supported by our teaching assistants: Mr Swain, Mr Jenkinson, Mrs Hornsey and Mrs Allen. We have help from Mr Jones, Miss Lee, Ms Grimsley and Ms Reasbeck too. What a fantastic team!
Our PE days are Tuesday (indoor) and Wednesday (outdoor): the children need to wear their PE kits for school on those days.
Spellings are sent home every Monday, to learn ready for a spelling dictation each Friday.
Homework books (maths and SPaG) will be sent home once a week - the days will be decided by the class teachers who will let their classes know. They will have a whole week to complete the homework tasks.
In our weekly blogs, the children will share some of the things they have been doing at school. Check in each weekend for the latest Y5 news!
The Year 5 Team
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We are the children in Y6 at Lydgate Junior School. There are 120 of us and our teachers are: Mrs Shaw and Mrs Watkinson (Y6S/W); Mrs Rougvie and Mrs Jones (Y6R/J); Mrs Phillips (Y6CP); and Miss Norris (Y6HN). Also teaching in Year 6 are: Miss Lee (Thursday in Y6R/J); Mrs Farrell (Thursday in Y6HN); Mrs Grimsley (Thursday in Y6CP); and Mr Jones (Thursday inY6S/W).We are also very lucky to be helped by Mrs Hill, Mrs Mulqueen and Mr Gartrell. We use this space to share all of the great things that are happening in our classrooms. Join us each week on our learning journey....
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Moving Monsters
In design technology lessons, we have been thinking about how we can use pneumatic systems to make things move. We all designed a moving monster and we enjoyed building the models this week. You can see some of them here:
Homework - Design a monster
The homework this week is to design a monster! We have started reading some Greek myths and have read about some mythical beasts in those. Over the next few weeks, the children will use their homework designs to write descriptions and a myth of their own as well as inspiration for our design technology project where they will build a model of a monster.
We look forward to seeing what you have created by Friday 3rd April.
Making Jacket Potatoes
In our design technology and science lessons, we have been learning more about what makes a healthy, balanced diet. We all designed our own recipes for a healthy jacket potato meal. We made sure we included foods from the different food groups and we included one 'adventurous' ingredient (something we hadn't tried before).
This week we all made our recipes. First, we practised the skills of cutting, peeling and grating. Then we prepared and ate our meals. We thought carefully about the presentation of our meal on the plate and some of the designs included a face, a boat, and even a pig! It was a lot of fun and many of us discovered new foods that we like.
Here are some of our creations:
Moving Monsters
This week in Y3, we have been making moving monsters!
We have been looking at how air can be used to make things move and have experimented with simple pneumatic systems. We designed monsters using a pneumatic system to make a part of them move. We also used the iPads to research different textures and coverings we could use to cover our designs.
We enjoyed building our monsters out of junk materials, making them move and decorating them. When we'd finished, we filmed our creations. You can see some of our work below:
Making Jacket Potatoes
In our design technology and science lessons, we have been learning more about what makes a healthy, balanced diet. We all designed our own recipes for a healthy jacket potato meal. We made sure we included foods from the different food groups and we included one 'adventurous' ingredient (something we hadn't tried before).
This week we all made our recipes. First, we practised the skills of cutting, peeling and grating. Then we prepared and ate our meals. We thought carefully about the presentation of our meal on the plate and some of the designs included a face, a rabbit, a volcano a boat! It was a lot of fun and many of us discovered new foods that we like.
Here are some of our creations:
