Sunday 31 May 2020

Monday 1st June

Hi Class 3 and welcome back, we hope you had a lovely half-term. πŸ˜€

Please be aware that this term you will notice that the activities posted on the class blogs will be a little different from what you have been used to previously, for example, they may not always include an English and Maths lesson. This is for several reasons, i) there will be a focus on Well Being for the children (in and out of school) as we move through the Covid-19 journey; ii) normally during the summer term we have a range of curriculum focus weeks; iii) to ensure consistency for groups both attending school, or remaining at home. This approach will enable teaching staff to manage providing the planning for both groups in a workable manner.

This week, the school will focus on Well Being in our school community and reflecting on the changes we have all had to make over the last two months. We will also be enjoying some new P.E activities; the weather forecast is good to get out and about!

As before, for those at home, please complete as much or as little as you can, there are no expectations to complete all the work. We will aim to offer alternatives/ideas to address any resource difficulties. However, please feel free to change; adapt to suit your circumstances. There are of course resources such as those on BBC Bitesize that you can use to support you at home. Remember, just do as much as you are able to!

Many thanks Mrs Davis and Mrs Mason

Here are today's tasks.

Monday 1st June

Friday 22 May 2020

Some photos!


Great tree climbing Poppy! Glad you are enjoying some outdoor learning and getting fit and strong!πŸ’ͺ πŸ˜€


My daughters, Chloe and Lucy have also enjoyed some outdoor learning and found a Signal Crayfish in local brook!! I thought they only lived in the sea!! We are all learning. 😊

Thursday 21 May 2020

Friday 22nd May!

Happy Friday Class 3 πŸ˜€

You've made it to half-term, well done all (parents and children)! πŸ˜…

Happy 'belated' Birthday to Amelie! πŸŽ‰πŸŽˆHope you had a lovely day. Molly told me, sorry we missed it! When I'm in school next week I'm going to check on my birthday list, I know Jake has one coming up! πŸ˜‰

Open the Book would like to end half-term with an assembly story. Click on link below.
The Big Spender

Today's Tasks

You may want to take part in the PTA challenge over Half-Term also here is a couple of links to some fun activities you may want to do during the week.
Half- Term Fun Activities
Half-Term activities


PTA Logo Challenge!
The PTA have challenged the pupils of Holy Apostles’ School to design a PTA logo. 
The winning design or combination of designs will be made into a logo that will be used on our letterhead and social media pages. 
The winner(s) will also receive a prize in the form of a £10 voucher of their choice.
The logo should ideally
•Include the words Holy Apostles’ Primary  School PTA
•Not be too intricate
•Be colourful
Please take a good quality photo of your design and send it to pta@holyapostles.gloucs.sch.uk.
The closing date will be Monday 1st June 2020.
Also

Remember to post photos of your sunflowers to the PTA Facebook page or send to pta@holyapostles.gloucs.sch.uk

Have a wonderful half-term holiday, can't wait to hear what you've been up to, take photos if you can or write notes or draw pictures and we can share them altogether.

Love From Mrs Mason and Mrs Davis. Keep smiling 😎🌈

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Thursday 21st May

Hi Class 3,  it's been great seeing and hearing about the work you've been doing this week. Molly has written about Guy Fawkes and created a fantastic Power Point about Votes for Women which included Emmeline Pankhurst. She also wrote a lovely card to Bay Tree Care home so well done Molly, keep up the good work. πŸ˜€ Jake has been busy growing broccoli and onions in his garden and enjoying picnics, learning about money and helping his sister Daisy learn to ride a bike. 😊


Beautiful rainbow collage with a brilliant smile Lucas! 😊🌈
I have now planted my cornflower (on the left) outside, I still can't believe  the one in the fridge has survived so long, not as many leaves though and they are definitely paler. This what the flower will look like, hopefully mine will grow into this.

Today's tasks

Tuesday 19 May 2020

Wednesday 20th May

Hello Class 3,

Here are your lessons for Wednesday:

Wednesday

It was really lovely to speak to so many of you on the phone, if one of us hasn't managed to get hold of you yet, don't worry we'll try again today and tomorrow!πŸ‘πŸ˜€

Missing you all,

Mrs Davis and Mrs Mason

Monday 18 May 2020

Tuesday 19th May

Hello Class 3,

Here are your lessons for Tuesday:

Tuesday

Have a Lovely day!😊🌞😎

Sunday 17 May 2020

Monday 18th May

Hi Class 3 🌈✨

We hope you've had a great weekend! Here are your learning tasks for Monday:

Monday

We hope you're continuing with you spellings in a way that suits you! This week is week 5, even just looking at them everyday will help.

Have a great day!

Note to parents: Please remember that these are suggested activities for the day. Set the level of work that you feel is appropriate and achievable. There is no expectation for you to print work at home. The majority of the work suggested can be written straight into the Home Learning books see the daily instructions for advice. 


Here's the video that I could't upload on Friday. 'Abominables' read by Mrs Mason

Friday 15 May 2020

Friday updates!


So I did another video this morning and I remembered to reduce the size before starting but it still is taking a while! So I will post it later on or tomorrow for you to watch on Monday.

A massive well done to everyone who took part in the 'Gloucestershire Rockstars Championship' this week. We ended up finishing in 63rd position overall (out of 92 schools) which is a great result for the size of our school. 58 children took part from across Key Stage 2 and they managed to answer an impressive 41,306 questions correctly! πŸŽΈπŸ˜Ž

Finally, a great effort from Sonny making his model submarine. Well done πŸ˜€



Thursday 14 May 2020

Friday 15th May

Happy Friday Class 3!!

Open the Book have recorded another assembly story you can watch to start the day. Enjoy 😊


The Coin

Today's tasks are below.

Friday 15th May

The Science sheets link doesn't work on above post so here they are again.
Migration sheet
Answers
Migration Research


I will be uploading a video separately so check your blog later on Friday.

Final Science update! The window plant which wasn't given any water is still alive but very droopy. The control plant which had water, light and warmth is still looking very healthy so I plan to plant it my garden so hopefully it will flower? Do you know what colour the flower will be? I'll post a picture to show you later. Maybe you've already researched it!



Have a lovely weekend! The warm weather is back so enjoy outdoor time with your family. 🌞
Catch up Monday,
Love Mrs Mason and Mrs Davis 😏


Storytime!

It finally uploaded overnight!! Hopefully you can watch it. 😊

Video

Will do another one tomorrow and will make sure I reduce size so it doesn't take as long to upload!! πŸ˜‚

Mrs Davis has been uploading links to famous actors reading 'The Philosopher's Stone' and the last one was Chapter 3 which was timed perfectly for me reading Chapter 4. I'm afraid my character voices will not be quite as good as the actors and you may want to continue listening to them! I have brought home 'The Abominables' which had started in Class 3 so may read some of that next week.

Here are the answers to Science Quiz!  Answers
Question 10 is tricky and your answers may be different to mine so feel to let me know if you want me to check them. You are all great Scientists and you do lots of these skills without even realising! πŸ˜€πŸ’‘πŸ”

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Thursday 14th May

Hi Class 3, hope you're having a great Harry Potter week in English and enjoying learning about Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises 🐬🐳.

Well done to Raph and Isla for their letters to Bay Tree care home, it was lovely to read them.
We received a lovely poster from the care home. See link below.

Thank you 

This morning I did a video lasting 20 minutes ready to upload, unfortunately due to a few technical issues it's taking a little while to upload!! πŸ˜‚ Hopefully it will be on here soon!

I have been inspired by Joe Wicks and his quizzes and with my daughter's help I've created a Science quiz for you all. If you have extra questions or a quiz of your own I would love to hear about them. You may want to try this out on friends and family too!! I'll put up answers on Friday.

Science Quiz


Today's task

Lucas has been busy making a model submarine, fantastic job! πŸ˜€

Tuesday 12 May 2020

Wednesday 13th May

Hello Class 3,

Here are your Wednesday tasks:

Wednesday

Don't forget to look at your spellings again today, we're on week 4, choose an activity from the spelling menu and complete it in your home learning book please.


TTRS update -

There were 46 children from our school who took part today and we are currently in 50th position overall. The leaderboard only shows the top 50 schools, but there are over 80 taking part. I think the children have made a great start, especially considering that some schools have more classes and year groups involved than ours. Really pleasing to see lots of children having a go, hopefully we have even more taking part on Wednesday and Thursday.

*Drumroll* We have Chapter Three!

The narrator delivering it is...
Mr E Redmayne, from the sitting room at home, not the cupboard under the stairs for Harry Potter At Home.

Open 'The Letters From No One' now. ✉️

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one?utm_medium=fb&utm_source=wwd&utm_campaign=hpah-video-chap3

Also don't forget to enjoy the sunshine! 🌞🌈

Monday 11 May 2020

VE Day Celebrations!

Hope you all had a great VE day on Friday, here are some of my photos! πŸ˜€



Science photos

Here are Oliver and Monty's photos of their walking water experiment.


Here are the photos of my cornflower plants!
Plants definitely need light!!

Some plants can survive in cold conditions.

Tuesday 12th May

Hi Class 3 πŸ˜ƒ

Here are you tasks for Tuesday:

Tuesday

Just a quick reminder for those of you wanting to take part in the 'Gloucesterhire Rockstars Championship' - it will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week from 10am - 1pm each day. All you need to do is log on and answer as many questions as you can during these time slots. You can still play outside of these times but those points won't count. You can play in any of the game modes - garage, studio, soundcheck, festival or arena and you'll gain a point for each correct answer. You should be able to see the individual and class leaderboards and we'll keep you posted with how our school is doing overall.

Check us out in the video:

Gloucestershire Rockstars Championship

Amber has been drawing at home. Well done Amber great pictures!




It also looks like Olivia has been busy making a marble run from a tape measure. We're so pleased you're having fun Olivia and what a fab design!!


Finally a huge big Thanks to Monty for the amazing Tomato plant he has grown himself at home. I promise to look after it and hopefully it will grow lots of tomatoes!!!!πŸ…πŸ…πŸ…

Sunday 10 May 2020

Monday 11th May

Hi Class 3!πŸ˜€

We hope you had a wonderful bank holiday weekend!

Here are your tasks for today:

Learning Tasks


If you enjoyed chapter one...The Cursed Child's very first Hermione Granger Noma Dumezweni,  reads Chapter Two: 'The Vanishing Glass' 🐍 for Harry Potter At Home.

Watch here: http://wizarding.world/60041C1E4

Finally did you remember your spellings yesterday? we're on week 4 ask an adult to test you on Friday.

Saturday 9 May 2020

TTRS

Hello Everyone,

We just wanted to tell you about the ‘Gloucestershire Rockstars Championship’ that you’re all going to have the chance to take part in next week.

It’s a tournament against lots of other schools in the area that will be played using Times Tables Rock Stars. The tournament itself will run over three days from 12th– 14th May between 10am and 1pm each day. The idea is that you will try to answer as many questions as you can during those times. You’ll earn a point for each correct answer and these will be used to work out the highest scoring individuals, classes and schools.

This event is optional, but it would be brilliant if we can get as many of you involved as possible. You don’t need to be on it continuously, just go on for as long as suits you between 10am and 1pm. Every point will count - we’re aiming for the top of the leader boards!
We’re going to be sending an email out to your parents about this too. In the meantime, please try and get in some practice sessions.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Mrs Piper and Miss Dimond
PS: Keep your eyes open for the promotional video – it should be coming your way soon!
Image preview

Thursday 7 May 2020

Friday 8th May

Union Jack Flag Bunting - 7m | Party Delights


 Happy Bank Holiday Friday Class 3! πŸ˜ƒ


Hope you have a great day celebrating with your family today. I've already started decorating my house with my girls so will send a picture on Monday!

Below are links from Mrs Davis to some activities you may want to take part in today and information about how Cheltenham are celebrating VE Day.

VE Day 75 activity pack

VE Day Learning tasks

Something to read as a family

You might also want to print something from twinkl or visit one of these other websites:

https://www.veday75.org/


https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr


https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-h-4813-ve-day-resource-pack


https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1941-1945-war-leader/to-v-e-crowds/

Have a lovely weekend, Love from Mrs Mason and Mrs Davis 😍





Letters for Bay Tree Care Home

Hey Class 3!!

Thank you for all your letters you have written to the residents of Bay Tree Care Home. We have received letters from Clara, Alfie, Betsy, Alexa, Lyra, Jake, George A, Thomas, Lily, Amira, Zosa and Belle. Well done all of you, the letters were written beautifully and we have really enjoyed reading them. It's great for us to hear what you've been up to at home and find out a fact or two that we didn't know before! 😊 The residents are going to love receiving these wonderful letters and pictures. They definitely brought a smile to our faces! πŸ˜ƒπŸŒˆ


Science update! 🌷

I have been really surprised to see the plant in the fridge has been growing well, then I thought about the plants we see growing during winter and they don't get a lot of warmth. Are there some plants that need warmth and some that don't? Maybe another investigation needed? πŸ‘πŸ’‘The plant in the dark cupboard and the one in the window without water are not looking very healthy at all! Think that shows us clear results about what a plant need to grow healthily. I'll post some photos next week.

Oliver and Monty had some great results from the walking water experiment. Oliver used warm water and Monty used cold water. Oliver's definitely mixed better showing the colour green but did the water travel quicker? Who has an answer for me?

I'll share their photos later.

Well done Betsy on you Ocean fact File! It looks great, love the layout and the pictures. 😍

Wednesday 6 May 2020

Thursday 7th May

Good morning Class 3!πŸ˜€

Here are your tasks for the day.

Thursday's tasks

We have entered a Times Table Rockstars Tournament against other schools. Hopefully it will run from 12th May to 14th May between 10-1 each day.

Once we have some more details we'll email a letter out. In the meantime perhaps you could practise your times tables on TTRS when you get the chance.

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-boy-who-lived

Harry potter fans...

Click on the link above to hear Daniel Radcliffe read the first chapter of Harry potter and the philosopher's Stone. There are going to be other big celebrities reading each chapter of the book too.

Have a great day

Tuesday 5 May 2020

Wednesday 6th May

Good morning Class 3!

We hope you're all well, it's Wednesday already.

Please see suggested home learning activities for Wednesday.

Wednesday's tasks

As always, there is no expectation that you will complete them all; dip in to whatever works for your family!

Finally, Nala is teaching the circle of life song from the Lion King 🦁 It will be streamed on the TES youTube channel at 10 am on Thursday morning. I will be watching and just thought you might be interested!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gOKwgu5_g9Pm1YBMb5G_A

Afterwards it will be on:

https://www.thenational.academy/assembly



Monday 4 May 2020

Tuesday 5th May

Good morning,

Happy Tuesday! Let's hope the sun shines today.

Please find attached the home learning overview for today.


Hope you are all safe and well and have had a lovely start to your week.

Take care and keep smiling!πŸ˜ƒ

Apologies if our maths video links for Monday were wrong, hopefully you managed. We've changed them for the rest of the week and fingers crossed they're working πŸ‘Œ If you need some more support BBC bitesize has loads of web pages on fractions KS2. 😊



Sunday 3 May 2020

Monday 4th May

Happy Monday Class 3!

The weeks do seem to be going by quickly so hopefully we can see each other soon. Also this week is a 4 day school week as it's bank holiday on Friday!

There will be a class blog uploaded on Thursday with activities you may want to do to celebrate VE day.

There is an extra task to do this week (see link below). If you have to swap this activity for an English task then that's fine.
Community Outreach Bay Tree

Here are the curriculum tasks for today.

Monday 4th May


Also it's Monday so don't forget to look at some spellings from week 3.

Just want to add well done Olivia for her wonderful recorder playing.
Happy Birthday for Captain Tom! ♫😍


Friday 1 May 2020

Photos of plants





Finally got the photos uploaded! πŸ˜ƒ

The red water travelled through the paper towel but only a few drops passed into the glass.
The same process occurs when water is transported up the stem of a plant.

Science experiment

Hi Class 3,

So far not a lot has changed with our cornflower plants but we did notice that the plants in the cupboard and in the fridge haven't been drinking the water. Also it be hard to see in the photos but the control plant leaves are definitely the brightest and look the healthiest. We will leave them over weekend and check again next week.

Sorry photos don't seem to be uploading.

Will try again on Monday.

Here are some of our walking water/ water transportation experiment, going to try this again next week too.



Have a great weekend πŸ˜€


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