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Cygnus Class: September 2025 - July 2026

Royal Ballet and Opera

During a live lesson with The Royal Ballet and Opera, Year 3 explored the magical story of Alice’s  Wonderland' through dance movements. They met fascinating characters like the White Rabbit the Mad Hatter bringing the story to life in an exciting way. The children also created and performed their own short dances, leaving them inspired and full of creativity!

Well-being Wednesday

This week in well-being Wednesday we enjoyed creating our own Easter Egg bunting. The children really enjoyed learning about the Easter story whilst creating some colourful bunting too!

Maryum had a wonderful time celebrating Eid with her classmates today! 🌙✨

Welcome to Bug Hotel!

This week year 3 enjoyed making bug hotels during our wellbeing Wednesday afternoon. The children really enjoyed learning about the different insects that we have in the UK and creating homes for them in our outside area. 

Tales on Moon Lane Bookshop

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, we welcomed Tales on Moon Lane for National Storytelling Week. Tamara read a variety of stories to each class in our lovely library. Children talked about stories they enjoy reading and were guided to others that they might not yet know! We then hosted a book sale after school where children were given a snapshot of fabulous books from the shop. Thank you so much to Tales on Moon Lane for such a wonderful few days.

The Perfect Storm!

Taking inspiration from 'The Wreck of the Zanzibar' by Michael Morpurgo, Cygnus Class have been creating 'The perfect storm' artwork for their writing later this week. 

The Whitstable Museum

On Wednesday Year 3 went on a local trip to The Whitstable Museum. We were met with their fabulous expertise all about local shipwrecks and trading routes. This term we are reading The Wreck of The Zanzibar so we then drew our own yawl ship and spent time learning about how dangerous life was at sea in 1906. Thank you to the museum for a wonderful experience!

Y3 Christmas

On Wednesday, Year 3 confidently performed in their nativity showcase, spreading Christmas Cheer and joy to everyone watching with pride. The Year 3 team were very proud!

Beach School

Year 3 had the perfect day for beach school on Tuesday morning. They had a great time learning and playing find, search and match with the different shells and creating art with them.

English

Imperative Verbs

Cygnus class have been learning Imperative Verbs or 'Bossy Verbs' - verbs used to give commands or instructions. Using their amazing robots and working in teams they have been instructing their robots where to go and what to do!  

Learning Links!