It has been a busy (and fun) start in Year 3! The children have settled in really well and we are very pleased with how quickly they have learned the routines and how well they are engaging with their learning.

The children in Year 3 have been learning about the impact of single-use plastic on the environment and have been thinking of ways to make our school more 'plastic clever'.

This week the children have continued to practise telling the time on an analogue clock-this time to the nearest minute.  They have also been revising and learning facts about time.  

For their homework, they need to complete a time facts quiz and convert between units of time.  There's also…

This week in maths, the children have been learning to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock. They have also learnt to convert between analogue and twelve hour digital clocks. This week's homework is a chance to practise this some more. Please help your child by asking them the…

All four Y3 classes have been learning five new songs this term. The exciting reason for this is that we are going to be taking part in a music festival in July! The One Voice Festival has recruited 43 Sheffield Schools and approximately 4000 children to get involved. They will be performing together…

Article 29 of the UNCRC states that your education should help you to use and develop your talents and abilities. Twice a year, we choose a theme for the whole school to create art work that is displayed throughout the building. Every child in the school has a piece of art displayed and celebrated -…

This week, we have been reading the ancient Greek myth Theseus and the Minotaur. After hearing the story for the first time, the children got themselves into character and had fun making freeze frame pictures of the main events in the story. Here are a few of their pictures:

We are starting a new geography topic called 'What is Greece like today?' so the homework for this week is to find facts about the country of Greece.

The Easter decorated egg competition is a Lydgate Junior School tradition that is held at the end of the Spring term every year. This year was no exception - we just had to hold the competition virtually due to the current restrictions on visitors to school. We were so impressed with all of the Y3…

This half term, we have been looking at different types of puppets for our design technology lessons. The children tried lots of ways of joining materials and learned how to use basic sewing stitches.

They then designed and made their own hand puppets. Some designs even had removable parts…