¡Bienvenidos a Español en año 3!

As part of our school curriculum development, Year 3 are the first group to learn Spanish for our MFL lessons, whilst the rest of the school continues to make progress in French. 

So far we have learnt some greetings, how to ask how someone is feeling and reply for ourselves, plus we can now introduce our name in Spanish, and finally, say farewell. 

We are really enjoying playing lots of games to practise all different types of language skills - here are some photos from our recent Quiz Quiz Trade games where we got to pretend to be lots of different people!

We also practised writing Spanish question and exclamation marks - what do you notice about them?

 

The Manor Way Debating Team

 On a rainy Friday morning, Mrs Seaton met with the Debating Team. 

We first discussed what makes a good debate and what skills we need to practise to be great debaters. Then we discussed some important environmental topics which we would like to debate more thoroughly in future. We listen to five members who wanted to volunteer to be our school representative for the UK Children's Parliament Virtual Event in October, and held a democratic vote to decide who we would choose as our MP. 

Well done to Laju who was shortlisted to represent our school and local area, to Amber and Lewis for being runners up and all other children who put themselves forward for the vote.

We hope our candidate is formally selected by the official organisers to represent us and look forward to working with him and the yr2 debaters to support him by helping prepare debates for the event.

Fun lunchtimes at High Street for World Smile Day

To recognise World Smile Day, children at High Street spent their Monday lunchtime taking part in a Make Them Smile gameshow, to help raise awareness for the cleft lip and palate charity Smile Train.

The children could tell their silliest joke, do their craziest dance move and pull their funniest face to try and turn Miss Bennett's and Miss Lizzimore's frowns upside down! 

At Manor Way a similar game took place after school where Miss Truong was a fierce competitor!

Hope these pictures from our day bring a smile to your face too!

Story Mapping in Reception

This week Reception have been using a story map to retell the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. We have added Makaton actions and can retell the story in order using the story maps. We also went on a bear hunt through grass, a river, a snowstorm and a cave.

Every child has taken a copy of the story map home, ask your child to use it to retell the story.

Art with natural materials- Year 3

For Art this week, Year 3 have been looking at how to use natural materials to make different colours. We used berries, mud, leaves and other materials and labelled what we had found. We also had fun not using paint brushes but using sticks and our hands! Lots of messy fun!