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24th June 2022

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It has been a rollercoaster of a week as the P3’s have been celebrating their final week of the year! We have had fun concluding our Ancient Egypt unit by creating our own Farming Calendars with the 3 seasons, as well as creating and filming our group advertisements to promote and advertise our wonderful school!

We have also had a great time swimming at the beach! The children enjoyed every minute of the huge waves, whilst braving the tide and supporting one another. It has been amazing to see how well their confidence has improved since our first swimming lessons at the start of the year.

We have finished the week with a fantastic transition day at the Pui O Campus for their first taste of life in P4. The children have settled in very well with the other students on campus, as well as meeting their new teachers and adjusting to their new surroundings. Not to mention the grand Friday fun finale of Slip n Slide on the playground! We’ll let the pictures do the tab;king for that one!

Finally, the P3 Team just want all of our super students to know how proud we are of them. it has been an amazing year and a pleasure teaching such a great bunch of kids! We wish every one of you all the success in the world  in P4.

Have a great weekend everybody!

 

27th May 2022

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This week the students have completed their beautiful poetry anthologies, which they have brought home to share with you. They have been using their knowledge of poetic features to compare different poems and have been exploring the effect of adverbs within poems.

To complete our shapes unit, the students have learnt about right angles, perpendicular lines and parallel lines. We then moved onto a new number unit, in which the students have used their knowledge of their 5x and 10x tables to count in 50s and 100s. They then quickly applied their knowledge to follow patterns adding 50, such as 26, 76, 126, 176, 226, 276… We are continuing to look for more number patterns over the next week.

In our topic lessons the students have been learning all about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. They were quickly able to decode some hieroglyphic messages and have even practiced writing their own names. The students have also begun to make their very own clay cartouches, which they will add the finishing touches to next week!

In Science we have continued our unit on plants by learning how to differentiate between fruit and vegetables. The students are all aware that plants need water and have extended that knowledge to discover why each individual part of the plant needs water.

Unfortunately our beach visit was rained off, but we hope to visit next week instead.

Have a great weekend!

20th May 2022

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This week we have continued out Literacy unit on Animal Poetry. For the first few days we concentrated on tenses in poetry, specifically looking at past and present progressive (continuous) and present perfect tense. The students have been reading a selection of different animal poems before choosing their favourites to write in their very own poetry anthologies.

The students have become 3D shape experts, understanding the properties of shapes, including faces, edges and vertices, and identifying 3D shapes out of the classroom. We are now learning about angles, with the students practising turns of 90, 180 and 360 degrees.

Our Topic lessons this week have taken us to the ancient Egyptian pyramids. The students learned about how the structures evolved and then had a challenge to design and build their very own pyramids using only two materials: toothpicks and clay. The students showed really great teamwork and built some very interesting structures!

Our class plants for the experiment are thriving….well, some of them! The students are enjoying taking care of their group plants and observing the changes. They are already starting to notice the ones that are growing the healthiest (the control with sunlight, soil and water) and have been surprised to see that the seeds with no sunlight have germinated quickly, but certainly don’t have a healthy colour! We’ll continue the experiment before concluding what factors seeds need to germinate healthily.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

 

13th May 2022

What a wet and rainy week we have had. We haven’t been able to get outdoors as much as we’d usually like, but the P3s have still had plenty of fun within the classroom.

We have begun a new Literacy unit on animal poetry. Thank you for sending in pictures of your pets or your child’s favourite animals. It’s been lovely hearing all about them. We started the unit by reading through a selection of animal poems, which the students have been really enjoying, especially as some of them are very amusing! We have been exploring poetic features, such as rhyming couplets and alliteration. The students will be using their observations to help write their very own animal poems.

We have also started a new Numeracy unit and will be focusing on shape. This week we have been exploring different properties of 2D shapes, such as number of sides, whether they have right angles, how many lines of symmetry etc. The students spent time investigating symmetry, using mirrors to check their own drawings.

For our Science unit on plants we have begun an experiment into what plants need to survive. In groups the students have each been responsible for investigating how seeds germinate with no water, no sunlight or no soil. These plants will then be compared with the control group.

Pharaohs have been our main focus in our Topic lessons, and the students have even been making some pharaoh artwork….watch this space to find out more!

Well done P3s on another successful, yet short week!

 

 

6th May 2022

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This week we have completed our literacy unit on The Hodgeheg. The students were able to identify the main parts of the story plot and find the actions and consequences for each of the main character’s quests. The P3s then transformed into literary critics to write an in-depth analysis of the story in their book review booklets.

The students have made a very impressive leap in numeracy, and are now able to find equivalent fractions, such as 3/6 = 1/2! Not only this, but they can now even add and subtract fractions with the same denominator e.g. 5/8 – 3/8 = 2/8.  Excellent work, P3s!

The Tong Fuk campus is looking particularly beautiful right now, especially since our sunflowers have bloomed. The children have been so excited monitoring their growth and seeing the different insects that they attract. They have also really complemented our science unit on plants. This week the students drew the sunflowers then labelled the different parts of the plants.

We had a very special guest at school today! To end our literacy unit on The Hodgeheg, we had a visit from a real life hedgehog! Charlotte in P3A generously brought in her pet hedgehog, Sony, and told all the P3s about Sony’s lifestyle and how to take good care of her. Sony loved meeting the P3s almost as much as they loved meeting her.

This week’s art project is a secret, but you might find out more on Sunday…..

Have a fantastic long weekend!
Well done, P3s!

 

29th April 2022

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We have had such an enjoyable FULL WEEK at school!

In Literacy, we have continued our Modern Fiction unit on The Hodgeheg. The students have been writing accounts from the points of view of other characters and exploring the use of adverbs  within the story. They have used direct speech to create their own role plays between the characters.

In Numeracy we have been reviewing fractions and extending their understanding of fractions. The students are becoming more confident solving fractions of amounts problems. It is always helpful for the students to keep practicing their multiplication and division facts, as this really helps with fractions! This is an excellent resource: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We have begun a new science topic on plants. This week the student began by researching and sharing their knowledge of plant facts. Watch this space for some new life over the next few weeks!

This week we have been learning about Howard Carter and his discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb. Then there was great excitement when teams of P3 archaeologists actually discovered an ancient tomb within the Tong Fuk campus!

You should have a new spiky friend joining your families, as to complement our reading of The Hodgeheg, the students made their very own clay hedgehogs/hodgehegs!

We have also really enjoyed having PE lessons again. The P3 classes joined together this afternoon for a quick dodgeball tournament. We’ll let the kids tell you who won….!

Have a fantastic long weekend!

 

22nd April 2022

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How exciting to finally be back in school! We have had such a great week back and students and teachers alike have been thrilled to be reunited.

In Literacy we have begun a new Modern Fiction unit based on The Hodgeheg by Dick King Smith. We have been exploring the characters, setting and plot within the story. We will continue to read this story over the following two weeks to study different grammatical features and written techniques.

In Numeracy we have continued our unit on Time, particularly concentrating on converting digital to analogue and telling time to the nearest minute.

We have begun our new,  gruesomely wonderful topic on….ANCIENT EGYPT! This week we used atlases to locate Egypt, found and labelled some key places in ancient Egypt, and discovered exactly when the Ancient Egyptian Empire was at large!

As the weather has been so lovely, we finished off the week with a hike!

Well done on your first week back in school, P3s!

7th January 2022

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Happy New Year, everyone!
It was wonderful welcoming the students back on Monday; they were all so excited to see one another and share their news from their Christmas break.

This week we have begun a new Literacy topic of Classic Fiction, in which we are reading Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We are only a few chapters into the book, but already the P3s are already totally invested in the story of Mr Fox and his family, and their battle with the three terrible farmers: Boggis, Bunce and Bean! The students have been studying the vocabulary chosen by Dahl to describe characters, then using drama techniques to take on the character roles. They also created their own beautiful fox artwork!

Our new Numeracy unit focuses on place value and comparing and ordering numbers in relation to their value. The students have been placing 3-digit numbers on number lines and experimenting with 3-digit numbers, changing the position of the digits (hundreds, tens, ones) to see how the value is affected. They have also been working out the best strategies for ordering numbers using their knowledge of place value.

In Science we are looking at Rocks. The students have learnt how to classify rocks as natural or man-made and have also been learning about the three main types of rock: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic.

What a great week back. Well done, P3s!

10th December, 2021

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This has been our final full week of school for 2021, and how better to celebrate it than with our P3 Christmas Party and our Christmas assembly!

The students had a fantastic time playing Christmas games this morning before feasting on the delicious treats sent in from home. Then in the afternoon we had an incredibly exciting Christmas assembly with a visit from a very special guest…

During this week’s Literacy lessons, the students travelled all the way back to 79AD to write their very own newspaper articles all about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. We are so proud of how the students consolidated all their knowledge of newspaper reports, plus their grammar work on adverbs, to write their articles.

Our measurement unit has continued in Numeracy. Earlier this week we moved on from length and weight to learn about capacity. The students spent time experimenting with different sized containers and measuring jugs/cylinders to familiarise themselves with litres and millimetres. Later in the week we moved on to learning how to measure the diameter of a circle and the perimeter of polygons.

We hope that you have enjoyed seeing your child’s artwork this week. Firstly we reused some of the leftover cardboard from the Roman to make Christmas tree decorations. For our second masterpiece we up-cycled leftover toilet roll inners to create beautiful paintings in the style of snowstorm ornaments.

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

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