Living and Learning – rights and responsibilities
This week, Year 3 have been talking about rights and responsibilities.
We learnt about Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of Save the Children, who drafted the first Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1923. She wanted children to be protected, nurtured and educated!
The children discussed what rights they have and that these rights come with responsibilities. Here’s what we came up with:
I have the right to learn and go to school. I have the responsibility to help others learn while at school.
I have the right to clean water. I have the responsibility to not waste water.
I have the right to share my religion. I have the responsibility to be respectful about other religions.
I have the right to feel safe. I have the responsibility to make others feel safe.
I have the right to feel happy. I have the responsibility to make others feel happy.
Help at home: What other rights and responsibilities can you think of? See how many you can list with your child!
Living & Learning: Rights and Responsibilities
This week, our L&L statement was: I know that rights come with responsibilities.
We had a brilliant discussion about how we all have rights, however these come with certain responsibilities. As a class we came up with some rights we have within school and the responsibilities that come with these:
- We have a right to playtime but a responsibility to play safely and respectfully.
- We have a right to learn but a responsibility to be great learners.
- We have a right to eat lunch but a responsibility to be respectful and polite to the lunchtime staff.
- We have a right to use the classroom equipment but a responsibility to look after it.
- We have a right to share our opinions in circle time but a responsibility to do so respectfully.
After, we looked into some children’s rights in the UK:
Help at home: Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_IvXFEyJo and ask your child what rights and responsibilities they have at home (eg. they have the right to play with their toys but a responsibility to do this safely).
Leeds Schools Sports Association cross country races
We have received details about the LSSA cross country races for this year. These races take place on a Saturday and children compete against pupils from other Leeds schools.
Please note, parents/carers are responsible for taking and supervising their child/children at these events. There will be a parent representative.
There are opportunities for Year 3 and 4 girls and boys to race 900m and Year 5 and 6 girls and boys to race 1500m.
Race 1 – Saturday 19th October 2024 – Woodhouse Grove School
Race 2 – Saturday 9th November 2024 – Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
Race 3 –Saturday 14th December 2024 – Prince Henry’s Grammar School
Race 4 – Saturday 18th January 2025 – Middleton Park Subject to confirmation from LCC
More details about race 1 will follow shortly.
Here are some of our Key Stage 2 children taking part in one of the races last year.
Connect Challenge Wednesday 02 October
What is it?
The Connect Challenge is in memory of Rob Burrow CBE. It involves a rugby ball being ‘passed’ between local schools and each school taking part in a physical activity event.
When is it?
The challenge will run from Thursday 26 September, (Rob’s birthday) until Thursday 3 October. Our event is in the morning of Wednesday 2nd October.
Why are we remembering Rob?
Rob Burrow CBE sadly died on 2 June 2024, four and a half years after he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Throughout that time, Rob and his family bravely chose to publicly share their MND journey to raise awareness of the disease.
What is our Connect Challenge?
We will complete seven (Rob’s rugby shirt number) laps of the green and the back playground by travelling in different ways – walking, jogging or skipping. Children should come to school in outdoor PE kit on the day.
We will be raising money at the event, to be split between the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Appeal and our school charity, The Children’s Heart Surgery Fund.
We request a donation of at least £1. This can be paid online via school gateway.
Help at home: discuss this challenge at home and the reasons why we are remembering Rob. This challenge is also about friendship. Rob’s ex team mate and friend Kevin Sinfield has now raised over £8 million for MND charities. Ask your child how can they be a better friend?
Reading: The Hobbit
In Reading this week, our focus text is ‘The Hobbit’ by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
The Hobbit is a classic story of Bilbo Baggins – a home-loving hobbit
who enjoys a quiet and contented life in his cosy hobbit hole and
has no desire to travel afar. But then the wizard Gandalf and a
band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services, and
soon Bilbo finds himself part of an extraordinary expedition to raid
the treasure-hoard of Smaug the Dragon – and on the way becomes
the possessor of a very unusual ring.
Writing – What is a recount?
In our writing lessons, we have begun our first writing unit! We’re going to write a recount as a warrior arriving back home to Athens.
What is a recount?
A recount re-tells events and describes what has happened.
What makes a good recount?
- past tense
- description
- feelings
- adverbs
So far, we’ve read a WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) and we’ve decided that the best recounts include lots of detail and their sentences start in many different ways. One way to do these two things is to use adverbs!
What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word that adds information to the verb. It might tell us how, where or when something is happening.
For example:
Miss Birch danced elegantly.
The boat floated into the harbour early.
I love chocolate ice-cream the best.
Help at home: Use adverbs to describe your everyday tasks. I am walking up the stairs carefully. I woke up eventually.
We’ve identified adverbs in our writing and our next step is to use them in our writing. Check back here soon to see how we’ve been getting on!
Maths – flexible partitioning
Year 3 have been getting to know 3 digit numbers and how to represent them. We now have three digits that represent hundreds, tens and ones.
What does the 3 represent in each number?
We began partitioning these numbers into the three columns:
Then we had a go at partitioning these numbers flexibly with exchanging.
We know:
10 ones = 1 ten
10 tens = 1 hundred
Here’s how we did it! We used place value counters and base 10 to help us with our number sentences.
Help at home: How many different ways can you partition the number 789?What does each digit represent? Can you a part part whole model or a place value chart?
PE: Hockey
This half-term in PE we’re playing hockey!
This week, we’ve learnt how to correctly hold a hockey stick and explored two types of passes: a hit pass and a push pass. We discussed how to make sure our passes are accurate and controlled, and practised passing in partners.
We then played a game of ‘Piggy in the Middle’, where the children had to pass the ball to their partner without it being intercepted by a defender. This was a fun way for them to practise both their passing and their defending.
They all demonstrated brilliant hockey skills – their passes were controlled, on target and powerful. I’m looking forward to seeing these skills exhibited in a match later this half-term!
Help at home: ask your children to show and explain to you how to correctly hold a hockey stick (you could use a broom or anything you have lying around the house). You could also watch this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVNiYGHcC8) and get your children to identify the different passes they can see.
Autumn 1: Week3
Thank you to all those that attended the parents information evening on Tuesday. I have uploaded the slides for you so that if you were unable to attend, you still have all of the information that was shared.
Introduction to Reception 2024-25 (1)
Please feel free to chat to me if you have any questions about it.
On Wednesday, you will be emailed a Collins Ebook user guide. This is the website that your child’s reading book will be uploaded to every Thursday.
The children are all settling into school life well.
They have enjoyed exploring the classroom equipment, building models and playing teachers.
During the week, we went on a walk exploring the school grounds. The children were following a map in order to find key landmarks and tick them off.
Yesterday, we were lucky enough to have a zoom with Farmer Verity. We will be zooming with Farmer Verity though out the year. This will allow the children to explore seasonal change and learn more about animals and their young.
The children will have brought home a sheet of paper today. This is what we have been learning in phonics this week.
Help at home: by recapping the sounds on the home learning sheet with your child.
PE: Castles and Cannonballs
This half term in PE we having been playing a game called ‘Castles and cannonballs’. The children have to build a castle out of cones and then there job is to knock it down by throwing a ball at it. This is practising their fundamental movement skills that they will need when they start to play more team games as they go through school. The children need to accurate with their throws.
This week we introduced a guard to protect the castle. This made the game much harder and we had to move in order to get past the guard. We will continue to develop this game over the half term with more variations.
Help at home by practising throwing, catching, kicking and hitting balls in order to develop these key skills.
