On Thursday 9th May, Year 3 were extremely lucky to have the opportunity to have a talk from Dr Jennifer Ferreira, a parent who studied Egyptology at university.
The children generated questions and Dr Ferreira then answered these questions, using her expert knowledge. The children were fascinated and learnt so much! They also showed their own superb knowledge, sharing what they had learnt about the Ancient Egyptians over the term.
The children were able to handle and explore a range of replica artefacts, as well as ask and answer questions. To finish, every child was given some papyrus to write on using Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
This was a wonderful way to end a fantastic term of learning. A huge thank you to Dr Ferreira for her time and effort on this. You were amazing!
This week we will continue learning about the celebration of Easter. The children will be involved in lots of Easter crafts and will be listening to different Easter stories. We will also have an egg and spoon race, an easter egg hunt and will be making chocolate Easter nests. The children will talk about all of the things they have learned about Easter and will talk about what they are looking forward to over the Easter break.
This week the children will be assessed on their reading and writing of sounds and words that they have been taught so far. They will then be assigned a new phonic group for after the holiday. We are looking for the children to recognise all of the sounds they have been taught so far and to be able to read these sounds in words.
This week we will be recapping shapes and their properties.
The children break up from school for two weeks on Friday. We hope you have a wonderful break and that you and your child get the opportunity to relax and recharge for the summer term. We will see you after the holiday for a short but busy half term
On Thursday 3rd April, 10 children from Year 2 took part in a gymnastics competition vs other schools in Coventry. They have been working very hard at learning a floor and vault routine over the past few weeks with Mr Bordley in their PE Lessons as well as putting in extra practise with Mr B, Miss Griffiths and Miss Ferris! The children presented these routines in front of a judge at Tribe Cheer and Fitness and all performed amazingly! They were also supportive of others and very well-behaved – real role models for our school! Well done to all children.
They also managed to secure second place, we are so proud of them.
On Friday 4th April, Coundon Primary School had the pleasure of a visit from some musicians from Bablake Senior School. We were treated to several performances of live music from pupils from year 9 to year 13. We listened to a vocal duet as well as performances played on the keyboard, saxophone, trombone, cello and trumpet.
The children discussed the names of the instruments that were used and which of the instrumental families each instrument belonged to. The children listened in awe and really enjoyed each performance.
A huge thank you to Bablake for coming to us to perform and also a huge thank you to Mrs Dalton for organising this treat on a Friday afternoon.
On Friday 4th April, 4 year 6 children came down to year 3 to deliver a special session on ‘Sportsmanship. They played some warm up activities with the children to help them to relax and then they shared some scenarios with the children. The children were also given time to act out the scenarios before discussions took place around the situation.
The children had to think about how each of the characters in the situation would be feeling, including the bystander. They had to give reasons why they may be feeling this way and also think of suggestions of how the children in the scenario could have handled the situation differently.
Our year 6 visitors were great, they shared the session with maturity and listened to everything that the year 3s had to say, guided them when they needed support.
Our final year 3/4 Lionesses matches were played on Tuesday 1st April at the AT7 Centre. The girls are now playing so well together as a team and have improved with each tournament.
This week we will be introducing the children to the celebration of Easter. We will talk about all of the other celebrations we have looked at and find out why Christians celebrate Easter. The children will learn about the Easter story as well as how people celebrate and will compare this to how other festivals are celebrated looking at similarities and differences. They will be involved in a range of Easter activities across the week and will also have the opportunity to taste hot cross buns!
This week will be the children’s last week of phonics before their next assessment. They will be tested on the sounds they have been taught as well as how they segment and blend these sounds to read words. Continue to practice all of the sounds sent home which can be found at the front of the online book and continue to read very night. Remember to log in to Oxford owl to do the reading activities on there also. Below are some additional videos to help support learning at home
This week in Maths, children will develop their conceptual subitising skills and start to recognise the groups in numbers to 10. Children use conceptual subitising to identify a whole quantity within 10 by subitising the smaller groups that make up that number. This skill will support children to develop mental images for addition and subtraction, which helps children to move away from counting on and counting back. You could prompt your child to recognise a number by grouping it into smaller sets and then saying each amount before confirming the whole number.
The children have all been given one ticket as an entry into the Easter chocolate raffle. If you would like to purchase extra tickets then please send in money in an envelope so that your child can purchase additional tickets. The draw will take place on the last day of term. Each ticket is 50p. Good luck!
After securing first place in the year 3 gymnastics for Coventry West, our amazing team of gymnasts went to compete in the county finals on Thursday 27th March. They came into school early for one final practice with their committed coaches; Miss Thompson and Mrs Howarth.
The children were very excited to be competing against schools from Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull and put an incredible amount of effort into their floor and vault routines. They may not have placed at county level but we are super proud of them and they are all winners to us.Â
