Stocksbridge Junior School

Our school has a huge new fish tank in the entrance hall!  It was very exiting when it arived because nobody was expecting it.  It arrived one afternoon last week but didn’t have any fish it it for about a week.  Now there are twelve fish in it that are three breeds that all like to live in cold water.  One of the breeds is a goldfish.  The school is having a competiton to see who can think of the best names - Mr H thinks that the best name is Peter. 

In school council we are thinking of having a sponsored event to see how many bounces you can do in three minutes and people can put money on peopole that they think will do the most bounces. We are also thinking about having an assembly which they anounce the star of the week, house points and we were thinking about cloakroom awards again. We might have handwriting awards too. We don’t know if we will have lunchtime awards and break time awards.

Oliver & Aoife

At SJS this week it has been writing week.  In Year 3 we have been writing character descriptions based on Blodin the beast. In art we aged some paper to write our character descriptions on.

Aoife

This week we have started looking at poetry and our very first literacy lesson was with Miss W in the ICT suite.  We looked at a poem called Bug Chant and had to record it using Audacity.  I was in a group with Jack and Callum from yellow group and Katie from red group.  We split up the verses and practised a few times to check we knew who was reading what. 

Have a listen to our very first recording.  Next time, I think we need to ask everyone in the background to be very quiet!

 bug-chant.mp3

I had great fun recording my voice even though I sound wierd!  I’m looking forward to writing my own verses for Bug Chant next week.

Oliver

In Year 3, we’ve been learning lots of facts about the Romans: 

The romans built a very long wall to stop the celts from attacking their Land. The celts were the Romans enimes. The Romans came from a city called Rome. The Celts didn’t like the Romans because they were taking over where the Celts lived and it wasn’t fair. The Romans built a wall to keep the Celts away.

 Thomas H

Children in need we had to dress up as  a sports star and sponser 50p for people in Britan who had not much money.

Oliver E

The  Romans   bilt   haidiyns   wall   In  Roman   tims.

Congratulations to the 80 children that proudly received awards at this year’s prize night!

After being rained off on the day of the Sheffield floods, Sports Day finally took place on 17th July!

The Year 3s have been learning how to record and manipulate sound.
Using a piece of software called ‘Audacity’, the children recorded a nursery rhyme then used some of the effects to change the way their voices sound.
See if you can identify which of these effects have been used:
~ amplify
~ change pitch
~ change speed
~ change tempo
~ echo
~ repeat
~ reverse
~ wahwah

Bethany & Henry:
bethany-and-henry.mp3

Chloe M & Declan:
chloe-m-declan.mp3

Emily & Jordan:
emily-and-jordan-s.mp3

James & Declan:
james-and-declen-n.mp3

Jemima & Bethany:
jemima-and-bethany.mp3

Kyle & Connor:
kyle-and-conner2.mp3

Leah, Corinne & Katie:
leah-corinne-and-katie.mp3

Megan & Hannah:
megan-and-hannah.mp3

Megan, Millie & Joseph:
megan-millie-and-joseph.mp3

Natasha, Ross & Millie:
natasha-ross-millie.mp3

Year 3 recently visited Cannon Hall farm where they learned loads about farm animals during the guided tour - Jordan also learned that it’s not a good idea to feed his finger to a baby goat!

Recently we had healthy week. During healthy week we had things such as: skipping workshop, lets go kids,fruit tasting and basket ball. The first thing we had was skipping workshop ,which was run by George. He taught everyone loads of good tricks at first he started with basic foward and backward skips. At the end of the day he picked people who were really good at diffrent skips to put on a skipping show with him. During the week we did fruit tasting. There was about fifteen diffrent fruits that were layed out on tables for you to walk past and taste after tasting the fruit we could pick our five favourite food and make a fruit cocktail. After fruit tasting we had to get our kits on ready for basketball . The man who ran basket was called paul he did a warm up with us then we just shooted baskets . On the last day we did Lets Go Kids we did activites including the parachute. There was a cheerleader who did a dance performance.

A few weeks ago it was Healthy Week. During Healthy Week we did fruit tasting, skipping workshop, hockey and athletics. For fruit tasting we had to taste every fruit on the table and then make a fruit kebab. On Monday the skipping workshop man came in and showed us loads of skipping moves. For hockey another man came in and showed us some hockey tricks .

fantasy football league is about football it is realy good fun and exciting beacause you get to see who is winning for instance in first place in year three is Toms troopers and in first place in year four is monaghan city.in year 5 is green shots. in 6 it is imbros.  We can’t wait until the grad presentation next week!

Callie and Keavah, Y3

 Today a circus came to school we did all sorts of things like spinning plates,  juggling, stilts and pedals. The man who came worked at a company called JOKER. And we all took it in turns to play with each piece of equipment . Then we came out for dinner and went back in for another half an hour.Thankfully, Martin didn’t bring any circus clowns because Miss D is very scared of them!

Callie & Thomas, Y3 Reporters

Today a circus came to school we did all sorts of things like spinning plates,  juggling, stilts and pedals. The man who came worked at a company called JOKER. And we all took it in turns to play with each piece of equipment . Then we came out for dinner and went back in for another half an hour.Thankfully, Martin didn’t bring any circus clowns because Miss D is very scared of them!

Callie & Thomas, Y3 Reporters

The trick is to make it spin… Don’t try this one with your mum’s best china!

My, my how you’ve grown in the last 30 seconds!

Follow the leader, the leader, the leader…Follow the leader, the leader, the leader… 

How to balance a stick that’s double the height of you!

Gimme space, gimme space, I’m going to flip it…

In our nativity play it took a lot of practice to get all the songs and lines sorted. We avenshally got it all sorted so pepul had parts.  They praformend it in front of the rest of the y3,s and y4,s.  On thursday our mums and dads are coming to watch.  were very nervus!

Callie and Thomas, y3 reporters

In our history topic we learnt about anglo-saxons we learnt that they need to live near a river so that they can get food and water and use the water to cook and they only used to have little houses instead of using bricks they used wood.

The Anglo-Saxons lived in houses with thached roofs and instead of having doors they had gaps instead. They used to have special animals to help them plough the fields.

We can’t wait to learn about the Romans next term!

Callie & Thomas, Y3 Reporters

On our seed collecting trip we had to recognise diffrerent trees by rubbing  on different trees.  When we had finished, we walked down to the bench and collected fallen acorns.  We carried our acorns back up the steep hill to school but the journey didn’t end there because we had to plant our acorns in compost.  Our acorns are in the quad outside our classroom.  Hopefully we will see them grow into oak trees.

Callie & Thomas, Y3 reporters