Start of the new term – September 2010

This is an urgent message for parents of children who attend Hursthead Junior School.

Due to significant flood damage during the holidays, school will open for pupils on Wednesday 8th September and not on Tuesday 7th September.  The Infant school will be open as normal.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Mrs Williams

Welcome to all our new Year 3s!

Year 3 is such a fun year!  Don’t just listen to the teachers, here’s what the current Year 3 children have to say about the last year and everything they have enjoyed about the move to BIG school…

Tom Palmer’s World Cup Story

Tom Palmer is a best-selling football writer and I am excited to announce that his exciting new story is going to be written daily during the World Cup 2010!  The story will feature football detective Danny Harte and a new chapter will be posted on the following website Monday to Friday each week of the competition!  Tom has promised that the story will feature the latest events from the World Cup and with only 800 words a day, there will still be plenty of time to catch all of the matches!!  Click on the link below to catch up with the story so far:

Tom Palmer\’s World Cup Story

Let me know what you think of the story!

Miss W

Exploring Caves!

Let us know what you think of our Exploring Caves topic!

Miss W, Mrs W and Mrs P

Year 3 Science

A quick post to say well done to 3P and 3HW who did some Science with me this week. I had a fantastic time and i love your cress-head people.

Some of our cress-heads were put in a cold place and some in a warm place. What do you think will happen?

Some of our cress-heads were put in the dark and some were put in the light. what do you think will happen?

Miss Dx

Year 3 News Reporter!

Would you like to represent Year 3?  Are you confident at speaking in front of an audience? Are you interested in what is going on in the local area … the UK … the world?  Well then you might be just the person Mrs Williams is looking for!

Mrs Williams would like our school to have a news reporter in each year group.  Each week, the news reporter will be responsible for watching the news on TV, or listening to the news on the radio, or reading newspapers.  The news reporter will then be asked to tell the school about any interesting news articles they have found out about in assembly each week.

So, how do you become the Year 3 news reporter?  On Thursday 29^th April, each of the Year 3 classes will be inviting those children who are interested to apply for the post of news reporter.  Any interested children, will be asked to tell their class about an exciting event in the news.  The class will then vote for two children from their class who they think would make the best reporters.  These two children will then go forward into an exciting Year group election the following week.

To help you to prepare for next Thursday, you might find it helpful to look at some of these websites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm

http://www.firstnews.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wnc

We cannot wait to hear about all the interesting news stories from around the world next week!

Miss Walker, Mrs Walker & Mrs Powell

EARTH HOUR 2010

This Saturday (27.3.2010) at 8.30pm, people all around the world will be switching off their lights to show that they support action on climate change. Last year at Hursthead we involved ourselves in Earth Hour by celebrating a Green Day and we all wore something green to show that we were going to switch off our lights for the Earth Hour.

This year we are going to wear something bright to school on Friday, to show that we are going to turn off a light on Saturday at 8.30pm.

On FRIDAY, come to school wearing ONE ITEM of bright clothing to show that you are going to support Earth Hour this year.

WEAR SOMETHING BRIGHT, TURN OFF A LIGHT!

Easter Holiday Homework

For your homework over Easter we would like you to find out about The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece.  There are lots of fascinating facts to discover about the original Olympics, which took place over 2700 years ago!  Will you be able to uncover when and where The Games took place?  Will you find out a little information about the events at The Games and who was allowed to compete?

Continue reading »

Easter Egg-stravaganza!

So the competition is on! Eggs with legs- eggs from around the world. What egg-shell-ent ideas have you had? Remember to bring in your entry between Monday and Thursday with an entry form (see below)

eggstravaganza

COOKING WITH SCHOOLS-KEEP COLLECTING!

We are collecting the Flora-Cooking with Schools vouchers.

With these vouchers we can buy ourselves lots of new cooking equipment. 

You will find vouchers on packs of flora.

When you have a voucher, either bring it into school and give it to Miss Dakin or get online (www.cookingwithschools.com), find our school and register it.

It’s easy to register your tokens for your school 

Simply go online to www.cookingwithschools.com, find your school, register 

the token code against your school, and the value will go straight into the 

school’s account.