Blog Author: C. Hayward

This week, we start our new Romans topic and during our English lessons we are studying ‘Myths and Legends.’ Today we have read and reordered the first myth ‘Oedipus and the Sphinx’. We then used our best expression and intonation to tell the story to a partner. 
 

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We’ve had a wonderful few days with our Christmas dinner, Class party and finishing off all of our topics. Here are a few photos of our party. 
All of the Class 3 staff would like to say a big ‘Thank you’ to the children and parents for their hard work all term, as well as the cards and gifts…

Today we had a gathering with prayers at our remembrance garden. Earlier in the week, we each decorated a stone which today we placed as a border around the edge of our garden. 

Today we brought together our passing, dribbling, shooting and defending skills to play mini basketball matches. 
 

Class 3 have made some beautiful Christingles for their service this afternoon. They can also explain the symbolism of each part! 
 

Thank you for your donations to Save the Children's Christmas jumper day! The children all look lovely and festive, ready for our Christmas Fair this afternoon.

During our RE lessons, we have been exploring the idea of the Trinity (three separate people but still one God) and how we could show these 3 parts through art. Here are some of our pieces! 

This week we have been reading performance poetry from the book ‘Talking turkeys’. We followed the style of the author Benjamin Zephaniah and wrote our own humorous poems to persuade someone to not eat part of their Christmas dinner (sprouts were a popular choice!). Here are a few to share with…

In PE recently we have been developing our basketball skills. We have focused on different passes such as chest, javelin and bounce pass as well as how to dribble the ball. 
 

Today we used the iPads to research facts about different countries, such as their currency and famous landmarks. We then compared them with the UK to see how many similarities and differences there are. 
 

Congratulations to our champions from this weeks TTRS challenge! Well done to everyone who entered, we are learning our tables very well, keep it up! 

Thank you for all of your donations towards Children in need. We have completed some mindfulness pictures of Pudsey whilst giving thanks for how lucky we are at Anson. We then created our own Gladiator name stickers and participated in the Gladiators live - ‘Find your Superpower’ sports activity. 
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