Y3 had a fabulous day for world book day and enjoyed lots of book related activities. We particularly enjoyed helping Wally use prepositions to find his friends and special items!
We then moved onto looking at lots of different vocabulary and thought about how we could group words together – we can up with nouns, verbs, prepositions and then themes of words. For example Wally gave us a list and we had to find the odd one out.
Can you find the odd one out and tell us why?
Well done to all of the children who have entered our Spring Reading Challenge, reading a book in an unusual place. It is wonderful to see so much enthusiasm around reading. A winner will be picked from each year group and announced in assembly on World Book Day – Friday 6th March. 
Y3L thoroughly enjoyed having Richard in class to learn more about The Roman Empire. After learning what it was like to be Roman soldier, we were able to look at some of the artefacts, play Roman games, dress up like a Roman and write our names in Latin.
Last half term Y3L won the ‘Healthy Harton Bake Off’ making the best Lemon Cheesecake. For our prize, we won a class cookbook and a session with Mrs Seales, our school cook, to make anything of our choice from the book. We chose to make mini burgers and they were delicious!
We use our Positive Vibes Box every Friday. It makes us feel fantastic to say something positive about someone, and to receive a complimentary comment.
We have introduced a new online learning platform called NumBots. This game is aimed at boosting addition and subtraction skills for all aged children.
Since the success of Times Tables Rockstars in encouraging children to master times table and division fact instant recall, we would like their skills with mental addition and subtraction to be just as good. NumBots will help! More importantly, children in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 can access the games.
All children start at the same place in Story mode, and when they get to a certain stage they will unlock Challenge mode. The idea is that they play little and often, and this will significantly improve their understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts.
The login is exactly the same as the one for Times Tables Rockstars – Key Stage 1 parents should have received parent letters with new login details.
Times Tables Rockstars app and NumBots app are available to download on all android and Apple devices.
Year 3 loved their Christmas party and everyone looks fabulous!
Y3 enjoyed some festive fun with their special adults yesterday. This half term we have been using the Polar Express to produce some wonderful creative writing styles and have love it so much we invited our parents & guardians in to get into the spirit and check out our amazing work! We enjoyed writing the first gift of Chrismas, decorating Y3 made Christmas Angel cookies and taking part in our Adults V Children Chrismas Quiz!
Our School Council have been like busy little elves making Positive Vibes Boxes for each class. They can’t wait to share them with their classes in January and explain how to use them. We promote positive mental health and wellbeing at Harton Primary.
We raised an amazing £470 from the sale of Anti-Bullying Week wristbands and rulers which will enable us to make a donation to the Anti-Bullying Alliance charity. Our Eco-warrior Day raised a fantastic £230!
Our School Council voted to support the WWF, The Woodland Trust and to buy a composter and gardening equipment for our allotment. All of our pupils took part in a vote regarding which endangered animals to sponsor.
We greatly appreciate your generosity in helping us to support our chosen charities.
