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Category Archives: Fun days
Roman feast day
Welcome to the land of Ancient Rome…where the pizza is truly outstanding!!!
That’s right, we stuck on our best toga, straightened the laurel wreathes and headed to Birdwell Primary School for our end-of-topic celebration!!!
We had gladiatorial games! A Roman-style feast and (my favourite) a slave auction (kind of like Blind Date but with Mr Swallow as Cilla!)
” slave number 1, if you were a pizza topping, what would you be and why?”…Brilliant!
Paper Aeroplane Pilots
Our week learning about flight ended in a paper plane distance competition! Which style of plane would travel the furthest?
World Book Day reading dens
Perfect Pancakes
Your challenge was to make a pancake that looked like a teacher! Let’s just hope you still want to eat it if you succeed!
P did a great job of…ME! Check out the white beard. Maybe I should consider adding sprinkles to my eyebrows!
S made Mr. Mathieson. (He looks sad because he is a Wednesday fan!!!)
L made this highly-realistic version of Miss Housley. He certainly got the beard just right!
D made me. Look at how she captured the vacant expression and goofy features just right!
C made this cute-looking chap. He looks particularly delicious! (So it can’t be me!)
F made this pancake of me…check out the designer stubble (and slightly cross-eyes)
Snowman competition is ON!!!!!
Look at the size of this one from P&S!!!!
I think it’s taller than Snowlaff, who we built!
F and her mum built this cracker…
Meet Mr Football head! I think we could have all guessed who made this even if he wasn’t in the picture!
F made this cute snow ghost…what a great cheesy grin from them both!!!
J & E made this “cool” dude (see what I did there?) Great teamwork you two and well done to Mum for chipping in the hat!
I made a birthday snowman and treated herself to DDs! Happy Birthday from all of us!
D made this happy looking chappy! Absolutely fantastic!
L K built this little chap in the dark and it only took him 5 mins! That is some swift building Mr. K!
O made this incredibly cute little fella:
The children in school decided to help Neil the Caretaker to clear the playground!
Jingle the Elf left for the North Pole today
He’s off to tell Santa how good we’ve all been but before he left, he played one last trick on us by leaving treats in our home-made stockings…
Christmas Parteeeeeeeeeeeee!
Challenge 1: Opening the Pharaoh’s treasure chest!
For thousands of years, it has remained locked tight and hidden away from the world. Will our children be able to complete every challenge in order to break the curse and allow the chest to be opened?
The treasure chest took some opening! Once we had managed to complete all of the challenges Mr Mathieson (just) managed to lift the chest onto a table between the 2 classes…we then had to say the magic words and the chest opened!
Out poured (biscuit) Gold Bars, (jelly) worms and spiders and dozens of (chocolate) gold coins!!! A treasure fit for a Pharaoh! Well done Year 3, you managed to finally lift the Pharaoh’s curse…I wonder what our next topic will be?
Challenge 2: The leap of faith!!!
First, the children must navigate a daring assault course, using the PE skills Mr. Crouch has taught them all term, to balance, travel at height and control their movement. Then, just like Indy, the children must take a daring leap of faith. Each child will choose the dismount from the apparatus that is a challenge for them! Do they have the courage they need to make it to the Pharaoh’s tomb??
Challenge 3: Indy’s boot camp
This is where our intrepid archeologist hone the physical fitness and lightning reactions! Training to dodge poison arrows, jump pits of death, push endurance to the limit and remember to grab their hat when it falls off!
Challenge 4: Nile Valley know-how
Can our teams use their knowledge of the Nile valley and their understanding of the water cycle to become museum curators and explain how it all works to you at home?
Challenge 6: Mummy mayhem
Tomb raiders have disturbed the bones of the Pharaoh, making him very angry and cursing all archeologists! We have to use our scientific knowledge of anatomy to rearrange the bones correctly…
Challenge 7: Cracking the code
The Pharaoh’s ancient stone tablets are littered around the school field.
The children will use all of their finely honed archeology skills to locate the tablets and decipher the hieroglyphs to crack the code. Once they decode every word and reassemble them in the right order, they will be able to solve the ancient riddle left by the Pharaoh centuries ago…
Why don’t mummies like holidays?
Well done everyone…I think most groups got most of the words (no thanks to the wind and rain doing their best to make all of the clues disappear!!!) The answer is…
They are afraid they will relax and…UNWIND!
Boom boom!
Challenge 8: Indiana Jones and the Tunnel of Doom!!!
We are going to risk life, limb and laundry on our quest to find the Pharaoh’s relic…behold the tunnel of terror!!!! Somewhere in all of the gunk, leaves and creepy crawlies lies the relic that will help us unlock the chest!
Can I just say a huge thank you to all of our parents! Today was so much fun! The rain didn’t stop us and every single pupil went through the Tunnel of Doom. We had LOTS of squealing and screaming but all of them had a ball! Even the ones who were really scared before they went in wanted another go!
Thank you so much for sending their old clothes and allowing us to get them in such a state! We have been really frustrated that we haven’t been able to take them on a trip to the museum so it gave us the chance to end a truly fantastic topic in a way they will remember! Thanks again.
Today is our end of topic challenge!
We are very nervous and excited!!!
Playtime Pyramids
Pharaoh fever seems to have gripped Year 3…everything not nailed down gets made into a pyramid!
Harvest 2020
Monster Mash!
We got out the electric guitar so the kids could
GET THEIR ROCK ON!!!!
Some of their friends rocked along…
Although, not everyone was a fan! 
Halloween Horrors!
I got a scary shock when I opened the gate this morning…a class full of monsters! (Come to think of it, that’s not really all that different to usual Year 3!
Our Haunted Halloween song
We invoked the ghosts of 90s music past for our harvest song (plus the fact that this was extra retro as we did this version with Mr Swallow when we were in Reception class! It was a bit of fun blast from the past!) for Harvest this year.
Our archaeological dig
We really did look like Indiana Jones today!
We heard from a trusty source (Mr Swallow) that there could be priceless Egyptian necklaces buried on the school field. So, we took our trowels, sieves and paintbrushes down there to investigate and ended up with the find of the century!
We had to be careful to sieve all of the sand we moved as Mr Swallow had warned us that there could be precious gems hidden in the sand.
Like all good archeologists, we tried on everything we found!
Beat the teachers 4
This week, there is even more reason to try to win, as Mr Swallow is competing this time as well as the rest of the staff. Don’t worry though, I have kept him far away from the questions and answers!
Here are our sections for this week:
- Harry Potter
- Football
- Maths
- Topic/History
- Staff questions
Zoom meeting ID: 946 5718 5074
Password: quiz
Log on from 1:15 onwards.
As usual, you will need to have a separate device to access the Kahoot app to join in with the quiz.
Good luck kids, Mrs Rees!
Beat the teachers Quiz 3
The teachers won last week and earned their treat…can you turn the tables on them this week? We have introduced a new category this week, due to popular demand: “Fortnite” (the video game, for old people like me!) With questions written and presented by our Year 6 children and Mrs Rees’s son, Eddie. I’ve read them when I put the quiz together and didn’t know any of them…it doesn’t look good for the teachers!!!
Zoom meeting ID: 946 5718 5074
Password: quiz
When you log into Zoom this time, please use your year group at the beginning of your name (3 Mr Swallow). We are going to do the chat first and the quiz afterwards this time, log on from 1:15 onwards.
As usual, you will need to have a separate device to access the Kahoot app to join in with the quiz.
Good luck kids!
We lost the quiz!
We said if you managed to beat us at the quiz then we would do a forfeit…to dress as Mr. Bailey in his Hi-viz vest, Sunglasses and Honey G hat!
Enjoy…
Friday afternoon quiz!!! BEAT THE TEACHER!
As we have quite unusual circumstances in which to host today’s quiz, we are going to have a little challenge! As none of the other teachers have seen the quiz, I thought that they should all join in…so you lot can beat them!
It’s…BEAT THE TEACHER!!!
Some of the staff are going to join in from home.
What we want you guys to do is get a higher score than your teacher!
Remember, you need a device to view the quiz on (with Zoom downloaded and signed into) and a DIFFERENT device to put the answers onto (with kahoot! downloaded onto).
The quiz will begin at 1:30 but I will open up the Zoom link afterwards so we can see the friends in our class for a chat.
The Zoom Meeting ID is:
946 5718 5074
The password is:
quiz
PLEASE do not try to log in before 1:20 as the password WILL NOT work before then.
Friday Afternoon Quiz
We are going to TRY to host a quiz for you all on Zoom, this Friday at 1:30pm. To play, you will need:
- A device to use Zoom on.
This can be a laptop, a smart TV, a tablet or a phone but the bigger screens work best. You mustfirst download Zoom onto the device and register yourself for a free account. I will be admitting people to the group on Friday and will obviously not admit anyone who we don’t recognise so please use your child’s name as their username so we can admit them easily.
- Our Zoom meeting ID
Type this number into Zoom to access the meeting on Friday afternoon:
471 482 8743
Use the password
quiz
- A device to use Kahoot on.
You will need a different device to answer the questions on. You need to download the free Kahoot app. When the quiz starts, there will be a pin number on the screen that you type into your app to join the game.
If this goes anything like the quizzes we have done for Years 3 & 4 and the one I tried on the staff, all sorts will go wrong! However it works out, it will be lovely to see you guys and for you all to see each other. I will start the Zoom broadcast a little early to help people logging on and try and solve any issues.
Bear with me, it will only be the second time I’ve used Zoom so I won’t be very slick! Good luck and have fun!
Friday Night Quiz 2
The link for tonight’s quiz will appear here at around 5:30.with the quiz starting at 6:00. Click the link to be taken to the page:
click me after 5:30
Hopefully we shall be able to read comments you add to the YouTube But please only add one or two as we don’t want to slow the feed down.
Hopefully, this week the feed will run quicker as we’ve changed the set up quite a bit. We have found that pressing “refresh” once you have joined can bring your browser up to the correct point.
Good luck, let us know how you get on.
Happy!
Please click on the link below and watch us dance.
http://www.jibjab.com/view/make/happy/cfe33136-7d70-4e82-88e3-a3b301617a73
Children in Need 2019
Today, we took part in lots of fun and exciting activities, dressed up in our pyjamas… COSY!
The day included: taking part in the Joe Wicks activity challenge, streamed live from the BBC; designing your own fundraising activity for Mr Swallow to take part in, something that we found very funny as he had NO idea about them – the children did a great job of going under-cover whenever he came to pay us a visit!
Well done Y3, you made Children in Need lots of fun and we had a great day! We contributed to the £185 raised by school.
Even more Weston Park pictures
Weston Park Museum
The class have had a brilliant day on their trip to Weston Park Museum. During the trip, we got to embalm a body, make a shabti and even meet some Egyptian mummies!
Halloween Fun in Y3
Having great Halloween fun on our last day of term. Lots of scary looking children in our class today!
Golden Time!
On Friday afternoons we have Golden Time – this is Year 3 and Year 4 sharing their time together.
Our new classroom!
Welcome to the Year 3 blog. Here is a sneak peak at our brand new classroom, I wonder who the first person will be to sit and enjoy a book in our reading corner?
