Year 3 - History: Mummification
Our Year 3 historians have loved learning about the Ancient Egyptians. However, this week’s lesson was particularly gruesome. The children were studying Ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death and, in particular, the process of mummification. After learning about the removal of the organs, the preserving of the body and the storage of prized possessions within the sarcophagi, it was time for the children to have a go using tomatoes. They halved their tomatoes, removed the insides, filled it with a salt and bicarbonate of soda mixture and wrapped it in bandages. We will be checking on the tomatoes after half term to see how well they’ve been preserved.
Year 3 - English: Writer’s Knowledge
This week, we completed our preparations for writing in our English lessons by exploring a variety of writer’s techniques. We used examples of the grammar techniques we’ve been studying this half term to locate further examples in a text. These techniques include using ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly, selecting prepositions, creating expanded noun phrases and adding more detail by using adverbs. Our next step will be to use these techniques in our own writing.
Celebration Worship
This morning, we started our Celebration Worship by singing a wonderful Harvest song in preparation for our Harvest Worship next Thursday at St Barnabas Church. We recapped on all the great things that we have been achieving over the last couple of weeks. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Louie, Noah S, Indie, Chester C, Olivia and Archie in EYFS and KS1 and Millie, Alayna, Charlie, Eddie, Cassius, Scarlett, Lilly and Peyton in KS2. Well done to these fantastic children for always demonstrating the Barney’s 4Bs, demonstrating an amazing attitude to learning and being fantastic role models. Mrs Araujo and Mrs Gardner then awarded lots of children with their pen licenses. Well done to Archie and James in Year 3 and Harry, Eva, Albie, Molly, Alicie, Elijah and Eddie in Year 4 for working extremely hard to excel in their handwriting. Mrs Gardner also presented James and Archie with a certificate for excelling on TT Rockstars. We then congratulated our Year 5&6 Girls’ football team who have been playing well in the DPSSA League’s Girls Football Tournament over the last couple of weeks. We then ended our worship with some beautiful prayers from Mrs Ham, Jack and Renee and Mrs Ham reminded us that we are accepting food items for our Harvest to donation to DARE and winter coats to donate to Rota Kids.
Year 3 - RE: Preparing for Harvest
To finish our Harvest unit in Year 3, we created a class prayer about thankfulness. Miss Craig and Lenny helped us all learn how to sign some parts of our prayer with Makaton so that we can perform it in church next week.
Year 3 - RE: Born to Lead
In their new RE unit, the Year 3 class will be taking a walk through the Bible and a walk through history to learn about the story of Moses and his connection with Ancient Egypt. This week, they began learning about Moses’ early life and how God was preparing him for a special job. They explored significant Bible verses from the book of Exodus and created storyboards to recall the most memorable parts of the story so far.
Hello Yellow Day Collective Worship
This morning, Mrs Gardner, our PSHE leader, The Wellbeing Warriors, some of our Year 4 children and our Head and Deputy Head’s led a special Collective Worship in celebration of Hello Yellow Day. They raised awareness of mental health and the importance of discussing our feelings, doing the things that we love and spreading kindness. Last week, Year 4 wrote some beautiful wonder poems in celebration of National Poetry Day and they shared these with us this morning and Thorncliffe Nursing Home last week. This was a wonderful act of kindness that brought huge smiles to the resident’s faces. They set us the challenge of spreading kindness and positivity today. We all then joined with a Hello Yellow Parade with each class showing off their amazingly yellow outfits. Thank you to our wonderful school community for all of their efforts… we were a sea of yellow. We then finished our worship with a very special prayer and sing along. What a joyous worship that helped to make us all feel brighter on a wet and miserable morning! 💛✨😁
Year 3 - Hello Yellow Day
In Year 3, we had a great time celebrating Hello Yellow Day. This year, we focussed on identity, creating identity constellations with stars representing the things that are most important to us, and belonging, making peer support pledges about ways we will endeavour to help everyone feel welcome in our class. There were also some fabulous outfits containing yellow, and even the sun made a mid-morning appearance!
Whole School Worship with Rev Matt
During our whole-school worship, Rev Matt explored the theme of ‘Life as a Journey’, sharing the story of Moses and how he led the Hebrew people through challenges and uncertainty towards freedom. The children reflected on how journeys can be filled with obstacles, difficult decisions and moments that test our faith, but also how perseverance, courage and trust can help us overcome these challenges. This encouraged the children to think about their own journeys through life and the importance of supporting one another along the way.
Year 3 - Art: Making Paper
We are almost ready to create our Egyptian style scrolls in Year 3. In our most recent art lesson we have been learning about how ancient Egyptians used papyrus layered in vertical and horizontal strips to create paper. We used a range of different types of paper, torn or cut into strips and dipped in PVA solution, and layered them to create our own paper. We can’t wait to draw our designs onto our paper in our final art lessons of this unit. The children have truly loved this topic!
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Whole School Worship
Today in worship, the children were treated to an exciting online worship from Picture News exploring the importance of inclusive sport and how we can break down barriers that may prevent people from taking part. We learnt about the struggles that Stef Reid, a Paralympic athlete, faced when she lost her foot in an accident. She was determined to run again though after being a keen sportswoman before her accident and she went on to win many medals in a number of Paralympic Games events including running and long jump. She then retired from athletics but then took up figure skating and competed in Dancing on Ice. What an inspiration! The children discussed how everyone has different strengths, abilities and experiences, and explored the idea that there is always more than one way to achieve something and to never give up, just like Stef. It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to think about inclusion, resilience and the importance of supporting and encouraging others.
Year 3 - Mystery Reader
The Year 3 class loved listening to Lydia’s mum reading them one of her favourite books on Friday afternoon. The Day the Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers is an engaging and colourful picture back that captivated our children. We would like to say a huge thank you to Sarah for her dramatic reading. We loved it!
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Friday Celebration Worship
This morning, Mrs Ham opened our Celebration Worship by telling us that today is World Smile Day. We talked about how smiles are infectious and how we are going to work even harder than we normally do to put a big smile on people’s faces and spread happiness, love and kindness. This week, we have enjoyed a wonderful variety of extra-curricular clubs, some fantastic worships and an extra-special day yesterday, celebrating National Poetry Day and Give Like Dolly Day. We then presented our Barney’s Brilliant Beacons. A huge well done to Reggie, Minnie, Luna, Poppy, Everley and Matthew in EYFS and KS1, and Joey, Skye, Marley, Mila, Iris, Oliver and Tristen in KS2. Well done to these fantastic children for their exemplary behaviour, exceptional attitudes to learning and for consistently demonstrating our Barney’s 4Bs and our Christian Values. We are incredibly proud of you! Looking ahead to next week, we are excited to welcome families to our second Open Day for the 2027 Reception intake on Wednesday, as well as our Stay and Play session in EYFS on Thursday. We will also be celebrating Hello Yellow Day next Friday, 9th October, before coming together for a special Harvest Service at St Barnabas Church on Sunday, 11th October. We ended our worship by congratulating Year 4 on being our Walk to School Winners for September, followed by some beautiful prayers from Iris, Alfie and Mrs Ham. What a wonderful way to end another fantastic week at Barney’s! 🌟