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Year 3 Animal Adoption
As part of our English this term, the children wrote leaflets persuading people to adopt a tiger or a polar bear. As part of this, the children and parents kindly raised enough money so that each class could adopt an animal.. We can proudly say that 3AT have adopted a tiger and 3GW have adopted a polar bear. We are so proud of their enthusiasm and commitment with helping these endangered animals. Well done Year 3!
PENGUIN DAY
As part of our Discovery topic, Extreme Survival. Year 3 took part in a penguin day. We had a day fun filled with all things penguin related. We started the day with a penguin song and dance, followed by researching and writing fact files about different types of penguins. Finally, we created our own penguins using toilet roll tubes.
On Thursday 21st November, Year 3 took a trip to the Sea Life Centre in Birmingham. After the coach dropped us off we went in and visited the first activity of the day, which was our workshop. We learnt about the different layers in the sea and what marine life would be found at each level.
Once the workshop was finished, we headed down to see the penguins, they were super cute! Next we worked our way through the centre to explore the range of sea life. There were so many different creatures to see! We saw starfish in the rockpools, many different fish in the aquariums, jellyfish, sea horses, rays and some terrapins too! We even saw otters and watched them at feeding time.
As we explored, we crawled through tunnels and gazed in amazement at the variety of sea creatures that swam playfully and glided gracefully in their tanks. At midday, we headed up to the lunch area, we were so hungry.
In the afternoon, we used our time to find specific facts and information about some given sea creatures and continued to discover a range of information.
Finally, we made our way to the Ocean Tunnel. It was absolutely incredible! We walked through a glass tunnel, and all around us were massive sharks, graceful rays, beautiful turtles and colourful fish swimming overhead. It felt like we were underwater! Everyone gasped in awe as a big shark sauntered. It was amazing to see such beautiful creatures up close.Â
We’d had a great day, but it was time to go so we made our way back to the coach to journey back to Coundon. What was your favourite part of the day?
For Children in Need this year, the children enjoyed watching the ‘Coundon’s Got Talent’ talent show. They saw dancers, gymnasts, singers, musicians and comedians. It was a fantastic way to start the day. We then enjoyed some chilled time colouring and a cake sale.
This week was ‘Maths Week England’ so year 3 took part in some fun maths activities to celebrate. Over the day we learnt about Tangrams and used them to create some pictures. We also had a go at making our own designs, this was harder than we thought it would be!Â
We also looked at how much our names were worth on scrabble letters by adding together the total of each letter. We compared our totals to others in the class. Then to challenge ourselves we tried to use the same numbers but multiply or divide them to find the largest and smallest totals we could make.
Finally we had a number hunt, following clues to take us through a series of addition and subtraction questions, which is the skill we have practised in school over the last couple of weeks.
On Monday 21st October, Miss Valentine and Mrs Gray took a squad of 8 girls from years 3 and 4 (who play for Mr Boardly’s girls football club) to take part in some 6 side fixtures.
Upon arrival, we went into the sports hall, where we were greeted by the organisers of Coventry School Games and 4 guest speakers.
Kare Adenegan – GB Paralympian
Marianne Botterill – Sky Blues in the Community coach and community cohesion manager
Chelsie Giles – Team GB Judo
Amelie Perkins – Team GB Under 19 Water Polo and past School Games Coventry West attendee.Â
These athletes were here to discuss their journeys as women in sport and to answer any questions any of the girls had.Â
After that, we headed out to the pitches where COACH valentine warmed up the girls with some drills and then we played 3 of the 27 schools that were taking place. Our team have only played together on one occasion prior to the day, despite this, they worked really well as a team!
The scores were as follows:
1-1 (Coundon v stoke)
2-0 loss (courthouse green V Coundon)
1-0 win (Coundon V southfields)
Well done girls for representing the school so well. You really upheld all of our school values.
Mrs Gray
On Monday 8th July, a group of carefully chosen, keen dancers from years 3 and 5 were chosen to take part in the closing ceremony for the Flame of Friendship. The finale took place at the University of Warwick, where the Royal Opera House led a dance with the children from Coundon and 40 other schools from Coventry.
After a couple of practices of the dance, the Flame of Friendship torch arrived at the University and we completed the dance for a final time. There was lots of music, smiles and energy for the final dance. A procession was then led by a samba band from the sports ground to the sports hub – it was great fun!
At the hub, there was a short ceremony, where we heard a variety of short talks from a few professors of the University and the Mayor of Coventry. We also watched a video of the torch being designed and made, followed by a photo montage of the torch relay. To close, we performed the Lady Godiva song.
