'STAY AWAKE, BE READY' - DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT DAY!

Holy Souls School has been up to something 'different' today!  It has been a very colourful, sticky and glittery day of preparation.  ADVENT is a time of preparation for the coming of Our Lord - this Sunday marks the First Sunday of Advent. 

Can you remember why we were wearing purple?

We hope you enjoy looking at some of the crafts Year 3 have been making.  You can also log onto the school website to see what the rest of the school has been up to!

Our 'buffet' - what can we do with this?

A selection of our creations,

We made Advent wreaths and candy canes.

What a pretty angel!

Look at how wonderful our creations are!

Who is this character and who will he be helping this year?

Beautiful keepsakes for our trees at home.

'CHRIST BE OUR LIGHT' - we gathered in the hall to turn our Christmas lights on - what important person pressed the switch?

Build Your Wild Self

As part of our Myths work in literacy, we have been creating a mythical creature for our villain!  We used the following web link - have a go and Create your 'Wild Self'!

  
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

We will also be using this link to create something festive to take home at the end of term!

First Confessions

Well done to Year 3 and the children of the Parish who made their First Confession this morning. You were very reverent and the prayer service was beautiful.

New Science Topic - Plants

This short video shows how amazing green plants are! We will be finding out all about them over the next few weeks in Science.

Literacy - Myths

This week in literacy we will think about myths. What is a myth? We will look at this website to plan what will happen in our stories.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/mythmachine.htm

This week in maths - Fractions

Have a go at the following links to understand what we mean by a fraction.


This link helps us understand what a fraction shows:


http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_103_g_1_t_1.html


These two links helps us to design a flag with different colours:

http://resources.oswego.org/games/fractionflags/fractionflags.htmlhttp://resources.oswego.org/games/fractionflags/ffthirds.html


This game helps us to find fractions of numbers (with some friendly handy hints!!)

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Numeracy/Keystage2/Number/Findafractionof/Introduction/wbpopup1.htm

Year 3 Enrolment Mass - Well Done!

Well done Everyone! You all read and sang beautifully. It felt very special when you were all standing on the steps in front of the parish!

You can view some pictures of the celebration by clicking on the link below.
http://www.holysoul.bham.sch.uk/page/?title=Home&pid=1

Thank you also to the choir, instrumentalists and Mrs Aldred. You were all wonderful!

What a fantastic start the this part of our Faith Journey.  We look forward to celebrating the Sacrament of First Reconciliation next week

The Lost Sheep

Today we have learned about another parable that Jesus gave us to explain God's love and forgiveness.

We enjoyed watching the following short films and will be making posters to display in church during our Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Thank you and well done!

A big thank you to all of our Year3 grown ups today who attended our RE INSPIRE workshop - it was lovely to have the opportunity to see you working with your children.

And another thank you for coming back and attending our SACRAMENTAL MEETING in church after school.  We hope today has given you a better understanding of what your children are working towards over the coming weeks!

Welcome back! INSPIRE and Confession meeting

Welcome back to a new half term!
We hope you are well rested and ready for the exciting half term ahead.

MAY WE REMIND YOU...

Year 3 have a busy day on Thursday 7th November.

We will be holding our Year 3 INSPIRE workshop, where parents are invited to support us in our Sacramental work...

Following this, after school we remind you of our important meeting over at Sacred Heart and Holy Souls Church at 3pm - here we will discuss arrangements for The Enrolment Mass on Sunday 17th November and The First Sacrament of Confession on Saturday 23rd November.  

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AN ADULT ATTENDS BOTH OF THESE EVENTS!

We look forward to welcoming you all on Thursday 7th November!

Team Year 3

Forgiveness - The Prodigal Son

After half term in RE we will be looking in detail at the Prodigal Son. This story is part of our preparation for First Confession in a few weeks.

Our First Confession meeting is coming up soon. Remember that it is straight after school at 3:00pm (7th November).

To help us with our prepartion for The Sacrament of First Confession, we have been learning about this important story.