Queen's Park CE/URC : Blog items
The Queen's Birthday!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 13th May 2016 @ 2:27pm
As the Queen's official birthday celebrations took place today, we have been focusing on all things royal this week!
In literacy, we have been reading The Queen’s Hat and The Queen’s Handbag! Can you believe a sneaky swan stole her handbag and took it to different landmarks around the UK?
In geography, we have been looking at and researching a variety of landmarks around the UK and in music we have been learning the British national anthem!
Today, we have had a fun filled morning of Queen Elizabeth || inspired activities including: creating a mosaic, a treasure hunt, creating crowns plus lots more!
We took lots of photos and videos so keep your eyes peeled for them coming up!
A Painting from Sicily, by Mrs Taylor
Date: 28th Apr 2016 @ 4:49pm
As part of the book project we are involved in with schools in Italy and France we were excited to receive a painting from the youngest children in our Sicilian partner school. They painted a scene from Cappucetto Rosso (Little Red Riding Hood). Grazie!
Future Footballer , by Mrs Kellett
Date: 21st Apr 2016 @ 9:48am
What fantastic news. Charlie has been signed for Wigan Football Club. This is a massive achievement and just demonstrates that if you work hard; at things can happen. We are all very proud of you Charlie
Junior chef! , by Miss McCormack
Date: 19th Apr 2016 @ 7:51pm
Today we throughly enjoyed our junior chef experience! We made a lovely pasta salad to take home with us!
Stone Age Inspire Day , by Mrs Kellett
Date: 23rd Mar 2016 @ 10:08pm
Our year three children and parents had a fantastic day today. They went back in time to the Stone Age. They did lots of fun activities including den building and a Stone Age feast.
Stone Age Day!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 23rd Mar 2016 @ 6:40pm
Today, the whole of year 3 had a Stone Age day, which was led by Chris.
The first thing we had to do was create a group name and flag. After that, we made 3D models of key shapes which would help us to build our dens.
Next, we got to go out onto the school field and build our dens! We used bamboo sticks and zip tis to create the shape of our structures. After lunch, we put material onto our structures to try and make them waterproof (with the help of our parents). We then had some Stone Age snacks inside our dens before testing to see if they were waterproof...
Some of us managed to make our dens waterproof, however, some of us got a little bit wet!
I would like to say a huge thank you to Chris and the parents who joined us this afternoon. I would also like to mention how well behaved everyone in P3 was, your teamwork and perseverance was excellent!
Easter Experience!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 23rd Mar 2016 @ 6:34pm
Yesterday, we had a lovelt trip to the Ormskirk street URC church for a special Easter celebration. Thank you to everyone who was involved, including our parents who came along with us.
Everyone at the church commented on how well behaved we were, I was extremely proud!
Something strange in P3..., by Miss McCormack
Date: 7th Mar 2016 @ 10:06pm
This morning when we arrived back from assembly something strange had happened to our classroom!
We found lots of ancient artefacts, pictures and a scroll which had a mission for us from the Stone Age Boy, this week we are going to be writing a 100 word saga which hopefully will be published!
Library visit!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 26th Feb 2016 @ 7:57am
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to visit the library to listen to a fantastic storyteller, who shared extracts from 'The Last Try' by Tom Palmer.
He reenacted the story of Jack Harrison, a young man who played for Hull FC and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the First World War.
The children were mesmerized by the storyteller's performance and were very keen to borrow the book from the library.
I would also like to thank the parent helpers who came with us on our trip and made it possible for both year 3 classes to be able to enjoy this experience.
Training Day with Wigan Athletic , by Mrs Kellett
Date: 22nd Feb 2016 @ 2:54pm
Charlie from P3 got to do something very exciting on the first day of the holidays. He went along with his team mates from Wigan Atlantic Academy (U8s) to train with WIgan Athletic's first team at their training ground. We have been sent the link by Charlie's parents. He did so well and we are all so proud of him.
Library visit!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 8th Feb 2016 @ 9:32pm
Today we took a little visit in the pouring rain to Peter Street library. We had the opportunity to speak to a librarian and even have a look around at some of the books they have for people to borrow. We also learnt where the picture books, fiction and non-fiction books can be found.
We would just like to say thank you to our parent helpers, without you we wouldn't have been able to go on our trip.
Although we ended up soaking wet, we had a great time and are really looking forward to going back again soon to borrow some books!
Chocolate bar, by Miss McCormack
Date: 26th Jan 2016 @ 7:45pm
To improve and expand our vocabulary, today in literacy the children got engaged with an activity called 'chocolate bar'. This activity involves each child having a piece of paper, split into 8 parts, just like a chocolate bar!
The next part is to fill each square with one amazing piece of vocabulary. Today, we carried out the activity based around describing Ug from our lead literacy text.
Everyone learnt a new piece of vocabulary today, I'm hoping to see all this fantastic vocabulary in our writing!
Scratch, by Miss McCormack
Date: 26th Jan 2016 @ 7:42pm
Today P3 has their first go at computer programming using a programme called Scratch. They worked in pairs to get their sprite (character) to move and then they added sound.
Everyone worked extremely well and we are looking forward to adding more to our work over the following weeks!
Stone Age, by Miss McCormack
Date: 25th Jan 2016 @ 4:55pm
Today we started our new topic on the Stone Age. We have been reading Ug in literacy so we already knew a few facts.
We focused today on how people from the Stone Age communicated with one another. They did not have an alphabet so had to communicate through cave drawings. Did you know that they usually lay down when doing their cave drawings? So that's what we did today!
Science, by Miss McCormack
Date: 20th Jan 2016 @ 7:33pm
This week we started our new science topic all about plants!
We started our topic by looking at the different types of roots which plants can have. After we had learnt about them, we pulled the roots from a real plant to see what they looked, felt and smelt like!
We got a little mucky but we discovered new things and asked lots of questions!
Can you remember the two types of roots we looked at?
Arts Fortnight, by Miss McCormack
Date: 14th Jan 2016 @ 9:09pm
Today, we were lucky enough to work with a very talented artist named Andi. Together we created some amazing art work.
We can't wait to see our art work displayed around school!
Arts Fortnight, by Miss McCormack
Date: 14th Jan 2016 @ 9:05pm
This week we got involved with some dancing, based around our theme of India.
Our fantastic dance teacher Emma, taught us that Indian dancing is also known as Bollywood dancing. We learnt lots of exciting dance moves which we did both as a group and with a partner.
We danced to Bombay Surprise. Have a look at our videos and pictures to find out more!
Arts Fortnight, by Miss McCormack
Date: 14th Jan 2016 @ 8:20pm
As part of Arts Fortnight, we got involved with some Indian food tasting! Along with Q3, we tried a variety of Indian dishes including Chicken tikka masla and pilau rice, bombay potatoes and mangoes.
Have a look at our photos, some of our faces give away how we felt about some of the food!
Arts Fortnight, by Miss McCormack
Date: 6th Jan 2016 @ 5:13pm
Today we had the opportunity to be involved with a ukulele workshop! We learnt how to play notes and chords, we learnt the parts of the ukulele and how to play a couple of songs including Old Macdonlad and a Sailor went to Sea.
At the end of the lesson we were also able to ask some questions which was very interesting!
Take a look at the photographs of us with the ukulele we played.
Welcome back!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 5th Jan 2016 @ 11:16am
Happy new year and welcome back P3!
Our first two weeks back are going to be focused around Arts fortnight. Our theme is India and therefore we will be exploring the Indian culture through a cross-curricular approach.
Throughout these two week we will be looking at: geography, religion, art and food.
Keep checking our blog to see what we get up to!
Christmas!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 18th Dec 2015 @ 5:28pm
We have had a lovely week in school celebrating Christmas. We have made Christmas cards, Christmas tree decorations and even had a Christmas themed karaoke!
I would just like to thank the children in my class for the lovely cards and presents I have received, they put a huge smile on my face when I opened them today.
I hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year. I look forward to seeing you all again in 2016!
PS. Don't forget to keep reading as much as possible!
100% Attendance Certificates, by Miss McCormack
Date: 17th Dec 2015 @ 7:15pm
In assembly today Mrs Kellet awarded children from our school who had 100% attendance. Our attendance is currently at its highest in 11 years which is absolutely fantastic!
Well done to all the children in P3 who were awarded a certificate today and were entered into a prize draw to win a brand new bike of their choice. Keep up the fantastic attendance and maybe next time it could be you winning the pirze...
SEAL certificates , by Miss McCormack
Date: 17th Dec 2015 @ 7:12pm
Today we had an assembly to award children with certiifcates from our SEAL theme from the term 'getting on'. Sophie Nuttall was one of our winners, Sophie is very caring and if she sees someone in our class upset, she always like to make sure that they are okay.
Well done Sophie!
Show and Tell, by Miss McCormack
Date: 17th Dec 2015 @ 7:10pm
Robyn brought in the medal she won in a recent squah competition. Robyn won the competition by 1 point! Well done Robyn!
Star of the week!, by Miss McCormack
Date: 11th Dec 2015 @ 7:49pm
This week we had two star badge winners. Both Scarlett Latta and Sophie Nuttall both won a star badge for the second time!
Scarlett won her star badge for learning her lines perfectly for our performance and for being extremely confident in playing the guitar all by herself!
Sophie won her star badge for always learning her spellings ready for our test each Friday, she has got all her spellings right for 7 weeks!
Well done girls, keep up the hard work!