P3 Week Beginning 15th September 2025

Hello P3 families!  Here are our highlights this week from The Polar Bears:

Maks said the best lesson of this week was PE.  We played a game were half the class sat in a circle with a hula hoop between each person (see photos below) while 2 children from the 2^nd half ran around the outside of the circle to music.  When the music stopped, they had to manoeuvre their body through the nearest hula hoop and the first one to grab the cone in the middle, won!  The children really enjoyed this and are eager to play it again.  Next time, not only will they be running but complete different sequences of movements as they move around the circle.

Dawid’s highlight was learning about Viking Gods.  This week we compared our Christian belief of Creation with the Viking mythology of how their God, Odin created the world.  We then began to recount this myth and next week will finish it off.  Here is a link to a BBC video if your child wishes to watch it again: Odin creates the World | Primary English – Viking Saga Stories.

Oscar liked our handwriting lesson.  We have been revising formation of letters before we progress on to joined up letters and do so by grouping them together.  This week we revised those letters that begin with a downward movement.

Daisy loved when we went in to the woodland with magnifying glasses to search for bugs.  This was part of our learning about taking care of God’s world.  Just a reminder that we hope to make a bug hotel or bird feeder next week.  Thank you for your donations so far of the recyclable materials we will need for this (see Seesaw post for specifics).

Umeaz has been enjoying the new class novel, ‘Thorfin the Nicest Viking’.

Vikashni said her favourite lesson was music with Mrs Morrison were the children continued on their music adventure of Treasure Island.

My highlight this week was not only seeing all the children again after my absence (I had a throat infection) but seeing how well they worked as a team to come up with a new name for their reading group.  They were tasked with the challenge of having a Viking themed name.  The final decisions were: The Shields, Odin, The Longboats, Thor, The Vikings, The Axe Throwers, The Brain Crushers and The Settlers.  Look out for your child’s reading book in their homework pack on Tuesday next week (usually Mondays).  This book is for you to enjoy with your child, I will be hearing them read a more challenging book matched to their reading comprehension age in class.  Please return their book on a Friday.  Thank you.

I hope you enjoy the long weekend and I hope to see everyone on our return on Tuesday.

Mrs Brown