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Year 3

Year 3

Home > Children  > Year Groups > Year 3

On this page, you will find lots of information relating to our Year 3 class…

Year 3 Curriculum Map

To see what we will be learning about in Year 3, please click on the link below where you will be able to see our focuses in each area of learning during each of the half terms this year.

Y3 Curriculum Map

Year 3 Maths Fundamentals

To view a copy of the Year 3 Maths Fundamentals, please click here.

Class Newsletter

To view our half termly newsletter, please click on the links below:

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Class Timetable

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  • Latest News
    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 5
    This week, we have been learning all about how to take care of a pet rabbit! In groups, we researched how to look after a rabbit's health, what diet it has and what environment it should live in. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 4
    Year 3 have had a very exciting week starting their new maths unit: Length and Perimeter. They used meter tape and centimetre rules to conduct investigations to see which unit of measure was the most ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 3
    This week in maths, Year 3 have been using arrays to help them divide 2-digit by 1-digit numbers with remainders. They have found drawing arrays extremely helpful to see how many groups there are and ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 2
    Year 3 had a fantastic trip this week to the Wallace Collection Museum. They looked at a variety of portraits and had the opportunity to create their own portraits too. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 1
    This half term, Year 3 is learning all about Ancient Egypt. Take a look at the Pyramid Ayah completed over the holidays in preparation for our learning. Also this this week, pupils were learning ab...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 7
    Year 3 have been using iMotion to create stop-frame animations. They used different backgrounds and characters to create stories and recorded them by using frames in the iMotion app. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 6
    Year 3 have done lots of fantastic learning on their STEAM project this week. They have been planning and designing games that involve a maze and are magnetic. Here are some of the designs they have c...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 5
    As part of our Diverse Britain learning, we have been learning about Kelly Holmes, the Olympic Gold Medallist. This week, we looked at the Olympic values and how Kelly Holmes represented these in the ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 4
    This week Year 3 has been focusing on multiplying by 4 by drawing arrays and writing addition sentences to represent their multiplications.
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    FAB First Aid
    Year 4, 5 and 6 have all had excellent training this week with FAB First Aid. The wonderful Rhona came into school to teach our children how to use DRABC when they see someone who appears very unwell....
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 3
    This week, Year 3 have been practising dividing numbers by sharing. They have used unifix cubes and bar models to help them share numbers into equal groups. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 2
    Year 3 conducted an exciting experiment this week to find out how different surfaces impact the speed of a toy car. We used rough, smooth and fabric surfaces to determine which surface the car moved t...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 1
    This week Year 3 used Rainbow Grammar to practise punctuating direct speech correctly.  They used yellow, green, orange and red to colour-code components of direct speech. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 8
    This week in maths, Year 3 have been adding 3-digit numbers. They have been exchanging between the tens and ones column using the column method. They have been using their number bonds and addition fa...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 7
    Year 3 has had a fantastic week learning all about how fossils are formed. They used clay to create their very own mould fossils of shells! Here are some examples of the clay fossils they created. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 6
    This week year 3 had a fantastic virtual science workshop all about rocks and their properties. They used 3D glasses to classify rocks and understand more about how they are formed. ...
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    Young Hackney Tag Rugby
    On Wednesday, 10 children from years 3 and year 4 attended the Young Hackney tag rugby festival. During the day, they took part in  activities that taught them about scoring, tagging and running wi...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 5
    In Science this week, year 3 conducted an experiment to find out whether different rocks were durable, permeable or dense. We found it really interesting when we discovered that some rocks were permea...
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    October Half Term Camp @ SJSJ
    Level 10 are back again for Half Term Camp during the October Half term. Click on this link to download a copy of the October camp flyer. Alternatively you can visit the Holiday Camp page on our...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 4
    This week in science, Year 3 went into the playground to make some observations. They looked at rocks and classified them into rocks that are man-made and rocks that are natural. They found that rocks...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 3
    Year 3's homework this week was to create their own family trees. Take a look at what some of the children created
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 2
    This week Year 3 started their History topic 'Scavengers and Settlers'. They began by looking at what BC and AD mean and deciding which events happened in what time period. They then looked at key eve...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 6
    Year 3 has been investigating how shadows are formed in our science lessons. We went out into the playground on a sunny day and used chalk to draw around our partners' shadows. Would our shadows have ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 5
    For our activism topic in Diverse Britain, Y3 created a passionate campaign on behalf of refugees. The children were passionate about a number of topics, including: deforestation, racism and the envir...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 4
    Year 3 have been searching outside and inside the classroom for objects that are transparent, translucent and opaque. As you can see, we found lots of things that are opaque and more things than we ex...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 3
    What a brilliant science trip! Year 3 were scientists for the day at the Royal Institute of Great Britain last Friday. We had an amazing time doing hands-on science and using fruits to dye fabric. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 2
    Year 3 has been learning about shapes this week in maths. Here we are examining the properties of 3D shapes. Please ask us about faces, vertices and edges as we’re now experts! ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 1
    This half term, Year 3’s science topic is light. For our first lesson we explored inside and outside the classroom looking for sources of light. We also classified objects into those that were and wer...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 6
    Year 3 had a fantastic day exploring plants last Friday. In spite of getting rather wet in the heavy rain, we had a fantastic day and had the opportunity to put all our Science learning to good use. T...
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    What's been happening in Year 3 - Week 5
    We’re telling the time this week in our maths lessons. Here’s the children using clocks to tell the time to quarter past and quarter to the hour. We also know o'clock and half past. Please do ask us t...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 4
    In our RE lesson this week, Year 3 considered what were the most important achievements in life. We thought about Marcus Rashford’s life and took part in a conscience alley. We all decided that to be ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 3
    To start our geography topic learning about the Amazon rainforest, our lessons this week have focussed on using maps. First, we looked at the locations of rainforests around the world and learned abou...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 2
    Year 3 had a great time on our geography field trip around the local area. We used tally charts to find out about land use in the area and we also conducted a survey of any initiatives to protect the ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 1
    Year 3 was out in the sunshine on our first day back for our Science topic on plants. We used our iPads to find the different parts of a plant. Roots were harder to spot as they're underground, but we...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 6
    Year 3 had great fun planning and making sandwiches for our STEAM project. Have a look at what Zuzy thought about her sandwich. ...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 5
    As part of our Diverse Britain topic, Year 3 had an amazing visit to Brixton. We spoke to stall holders in the market to discover lots of influences from different countries. We now know that Brixton ...
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    Red nose day
    Thank you to everyone that donated towards Red Nose Day 2022. We have been able to raise an amazing £187.00! The money we raised will be going to the Disaster Emergency Committee to help the people...
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    Conductive music
    KS2 have all been lucky enough to have music workshops delivered by Conductive Music. Their mission is to deliver engaging music learning programs, mixing the Arts with Technology, and championing the...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 4
    Do people with long legs run faster than people with short legs? That’s our Science Week challenge in Year 3!  Here we are measuring our legs. We’ll time our runs later in the week to find the answer....
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    Check out what's been happening in Spanish...
    Recently, Miss Bienias and Miss Lawrence chatted about all things Espanol! Miss Bienias explained how lovely it was to see how the pupils' Spanish progresses throughout the school, thanks to Miss Law...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 3
    Year 3 enjoyed their Conductive Music workshop this week. It was a STEAM project, which combined music, electricity and creativity and was also a huge amount of fun too!   ...
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    Music
    Years 3 and 4 have been AMAZING in their music lessons this week. They worked brilliantly together to help their partners to play the tricky musical pieces on our instruments. This included reading mu...
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    What's happening in Year 3 - Week 2
    In Science this week, Year 3 investigated how much sugar was in a range of drinks by looking at the nutrition labels on real drinks. We recorded the data in a bar chart.  We were surprised to discover...
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    What's been happening in Year 3 - Week 1
    In RE this week, Year 3 have been learning about the Jewish Passover festival. In groups, they acted out the main points of Passover. The clips below show when baby Moses is rescued by the Pharaoh's d...
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    What's been happening in Year 3 - Week 6
    This week, Year 3 has been drawing a daffodil. Have a look for some of our art on display in the amphitheatre next half term. Here are some photos of us using magnifying glasses so that we can really ...
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    What's been happening in Year 3 - week 5
    Have a look at the amazing homework Year 3 has produced all about Chinese New Year. We all wish you a happy Chinese New Year and good fortune in the year of the tiger! Year 3 also really enjoyed our d...
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    Sports Day 2021
    We were all very excited to finally be allowed to partake in our annual Sports Day at London fields in July 2021 when the COVID restrictions were lifted. Take a look at some of the events that took pl...
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    Gymnastics at SJSJ
    This half term, we are focusing on our gymnastics skills during our PE lessons. Take a look at some of the skills that the children have been learning...
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    Year 3, Spring 1, Week 4
    Year 3 have been learning about the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb this week using primary sources. They analysed this wall picture from his tomb to work out who is in the picture. Listen to the chil...
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    Year 3, Spring 1, Week 3
    In RE, Year 3 are beginning to explore Judaism. As with the topic of Ancient Egypt, children have reflected on what they know from previous learning and what questions they still have about Judaism, p...
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    Recycling Workshops
    This week, each class had the wonderful Kelly Sullivan from Hackney council into their classrooms to learn about the importance of recycling both in school, at home and in public spaces. They reall...
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    Check out what's happening in Year 3...
    Take a look at what has been happening in Year 3 this half term by clicking on our flyer below. What's been happening in Year 3?
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    February Half Term Camp
    Dates: Monday 14th- Friday 18th February 2022 Times: 9.00am to 3.00pm (extended days available upon request) Age range: 5-12 years Cost: £100 per week (early bird bookings) or £25 per day ...
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    Year 3, Spring 1, Week 2
    In their grammar lessons this week, Year 3 learnt about what makes a simple sentence. You can see their sentences here with the subject written in black, the verb in blue and the object in green. Then...
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    Gymnastics @ SJSJ
    Here are some photos from the first week of gymnastics lessons at SJSJ! By the end of the term children will know how to compose and perform their own routines. Lessons will focus on travelling,...
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    iPad Generation 2 Sale
    Due to the constantly changing nature of technology, SJSJ have a number of Generation 2 iPads for sale. The devices are perfect for home use and still have life left in them. The devices are being so...
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    Pre-loved Uniform Sale
    Each half term, we will be holding a sale for pre-loved uniform items. For one week each half term, a table will be set up in to main office where parents are welcome to come and see what items we ...
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    Magic Breakfast
    We have teamed up with Magic Breakfast to ensure that no child starts the day hungry. Our 'bagel bar' will be open each morning in the hall from 8.50-8.55am. If  you would like to grab a bagel b...
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    Window Wanderland
    It seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad, but what we’re doing to it, and all I’m saying is see what a wonderful world it would be if only we’d give it a chance. Love, baby, love. That’s the se...
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    Year 3, Spring 1, Week 1
    Fantastic homework on Ancient Egypt from Dominic and Sariah in Year 3. The class had their  first history lesson and the children are all excited to learn more about this topic!
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    Christmas Lunch
    We hosted our annual Christmas lunch on Wednesday; as usual it was a huge success! The children had a lovely time and enjoyed listening to  festive songs whilst dining with their peers.
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    Year 3, A2, W7
    Here are Year 3’s fantastic games. Each team worked brilliantly together to create a very diverse set of games. We’re sure you’ll agree each met the brief to be: colourful, magnetic mazes.
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    Panto 2021
    The children were lucky enough to have the panto come to SJSJ this year. They watched the story of ‘A Christmas Carol’ by the Hobgoblin production company. “It was really good, I liked that Mr S...
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    Christmas Celebrations at SJSJ
    Tuesday 1.45 – 2.30       Year 3 and year 4 disco 2.40 – 3.30       Year 5 and year 6 disco Children to come to school in normal school uniform and bring along their disco clothes in a bag. T...
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    Winter Reading Challenge 2021
    The Reading agency is running an online Winter Mini Challenge to motivate children to read at home which is a smaller version of the Summer Reading Challenge. Hackney libraries are supporting this by ...
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    Year 3, A2, Week 6
    Year 3 were in their teams planning their colourful, magnetic maze games for their STEAM project this week. They're very excited about it and they've come up with some very creative ideas!
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    Christmas Jumper Day 2021
    Check out some of the jazziest jumpers the children have worn to Save the Children and raised an amazing  £181.56 to help protect the magic for children around the world. All money raised is going...
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    Young Hackney Netball Competition - 3rd Place
    Congratulations to our netball team who placed 3rd in the Young Hackney netball finals that took place this week.  All members of the team showed great sportsmanship and resilience throughout the comp...
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    Save the Children - Christmas Jumper Day 10.12.21
    On Friday the 10th December it is Christmas jumper day. Children can come to school in their Christmas jumpers. School uniform and school shoes must be worn. It's super fun, and it's easy to take p...
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    Christmas Performance 15.12.21
    After much thought we have decided to proceed with our plans to organise our Christmas Performance at St John’s at Hackney Church. This will take place on Wednesday 15th December at 9.15am. This de...
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    Year 3, A2, Week 5
    This week, Year 3 has been learning about the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. First, we sorted problems into categories: social, economic and environmental. Then we analysed before and af...
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    Year 3, A2, Week 4
    In their geography lesson this week, Year 3 learnt about the culture in Louisiana. They discovered from looking at ancient maps that both France and Spain had once colonised Louisiana. The class learn...
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    PTA Christmas Raffle 2021
    The PTA have been overwhelmed by support for the this years raffle. Local businesses and families within our school community have been incredibly generous which means that we have our best raffle pri...
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    Year 3, A2, Week 3
    Year 3 has been dividing in lots of different ways this week. This method is called grouping. The class also learned how to divide by sharing equally and using a number line.
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    Children in Need 2021
    We would like to say a huge well done, and thank you, to everyone who made a donation towards our Children in Need fundraising today; you all looked fantastic! So far we have collected a whooping £...
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    Chatsworth Youth Club
    Running Monday and Wednesday's from 5.00-8.00pm at Clapton Park Methodist Church
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    Reception Admission - September 2022
    Was your child born between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018? If so, they are due to start in Reception class in September 2022. Have you applied? You must apply for your child’s Recep...
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    Nursery & Reception School Tour
    Is your child due to start Nursery or Reception in September 2022? We are offering weekly tours of our Early Years classrooms for prospective new parents. Tours take place weekly on Friday mor...
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    Hackney Education's Parent Guide to School Attendance
    As we all know, pupils attendance at school is incredibly important. Hackney Education have produced a very helpful guide for parents. You can download the leaflet by clicking here. 
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    Year 3, A2, Week 2
    Year 3 really enjoyed the Singing for Wellbeing activity on Wednesday morning. They all had a great time singing songs along with actions. Dominic and Jack said that they particularly like the rhythms...
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    Year 3, A2, Week 1
    Here is Year 3 hard at work creating word banks for our writing describing a Stone Age setting. We're using our expertise in the Stone Age, together with our knowledge of expanded noun phrases and adv...
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    Next PTA Meeting
    The next SJSJ PTA meeting will be on Friday 12th November  at 9.15am in the School Library. You can also join via Zoom; a link will be circulated beforehand. On the agenda - Christmas fundraising ...
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    PTA Christmas Bake Sale
    The Christmas bake sale will be on Friday 10th December at 3.30pm. We will need lots of festive bakes to sell and help with the stalls, so please put it in your diary!
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    PTA Class Representatives
    Want to find out more about the SJSJ PTA?   Speak to your PTA Class Rep: Nursery: Karen Widdowson Reception: Vacant Year 1: Geraldine Vessier and Louise Lawrence Year 2: Karen Wi...
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    PTA Fundraising: Christmas Raffle Prizes
    We need your help! The hunt is now on for some amazing raffle prizes for the PTA Christmas Raffle. Tickets will go on sale in early December and we need some fabulous prizes to give away! How c...
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    PTA Bag 2 School Collection
    The PTA has arranged for a Bag2School collection on Tuesday 30th November. How does it work? Bag2School are a fundraising scheme which collects and sells your unwanted textiles to importers and ...
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    New Menu for Autumn 2
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    Year 3, Week 7
    We're celebrating homework and Black History Month in Year 3 this week. The class have found lots of different ways to share what they've learned about the footballer Raheem Sterling for their homewor...
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    Punctuality
    Please ensure children arrive for school promptly at 8.55am for the start of school assembly. Our pastoral manager will be monitoring lateness to ensure children are arriving on time and will be me...
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    Harvest Festival 2021
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    School Photos - 4th November
    Individual, sibling and class photos will be on Thursday 4th November 2021. Reminders will be sent out closer to the date.  
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    Year 3, Week 6
    Over the last few weeks, Year 3 has become experts in fossils. We have learnt how they are created and we can also name different types of fossils. As part of our learning, we created examples of what...
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    Year 3, Week 5
    In Year 3’s grammar lessons, the class have been looking at what actually makes a sentence. They're now confidently able to identify the subject, verb and object in a sentence. This week they also add...
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    Green Team
    The Green team enjoyed harvesting the vegetables from our planter last week. They harvested a range of vegetables including: carrots, turnips, beetroots, tomatoes and some huge cucumbers. They then ha...
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    Year 3, Week 4
    Year 3 really enjoyed their science virtual, interactive workshop all about rocks. They learnt that lots of objects in the classroom originated from rocks including plastic water bottles and metal sci...
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    Beef Ragu & Pineapple Turnover
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    New Menu Item - Quorn Chilli Wraps
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    Year 3 - Week 3
    Year 3 are learning about rocks and soil in Science lessons. Check out some of the different ways they chose to sort and classify rocks in their lesson this week.
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    Year 3 - Week 2
    Here's a sneak preview of Year 3 hard at work creating their self-portraits in their Art lesson. Look out for them on display in the amphitheatre and the classroom soon!
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    Packed Lunch Policy
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    L10 Little Ballers & Little Hoopers
    SJSJ are very excited to welcome a brand new Saturday club to our premises. L10 Little Ballers & Little Hoopers will be running sessions every Saturday starting on Saturday 17th July 2021 for c...
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    Hackney Hispanic Week 2021
    This week, the children have been celebrating Hackney Hispanic week by taking part in some cooking activities and exploring some of traditions that underpin Spanish culture. Classes were split into...
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    Year 3 (Summer 2, Week 4)
    Year 3 have become experts in the rainforest and the impact of deforestation. Here are their posters providing information about what we can do in our everyday lives to reduce deforestation.
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    Our Art Curriculum
    At SJSJ Primary School we believe that art inspires creativity, imagination and inventiveness. We believe that art gives our pupils the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for them to engage and ...
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    Pride Youth Network
    Some Year 6 children have formed a Pride Youth Network. They are working with the fantastic charity  Educate and Celebrate to think about how we celebrate diversity in our school and represent and wel...
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    Year 3 and 4 (Summer 2, Week 3)
    Year 3 and Year 4 enjoyed their sustainability workshop this week where they learnt about how to reduce food waste. They made their own recycled pots out of newspaper and planted a sunflower seed to t...
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    NHS Tea Party
    We are celebrating the NHS’s birthday on the 5th July by hosting a Tea party themed event. The NHS Big Tea will be a national outpouring of love, thanks, and generosi-tea for the people who go above ...
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    20% off School Uniform from 06.07.21-03.08.21
    M&S are offering 20% off of our school uniform products, excluding accessories, from 6th July to 3rd August 2021 Sale Price applicable at checkout. T&C's apply   Visit our sc...
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    Summer Reading Challenge
    This summer, we strongly encourage all pupils at St John St James to get involved with the very exciting Summer Reading Challenge with the theme of Sustainability this year. You can get involved at ...
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    Green Team Update
    The Green team sourced some recycled balance bikes for the nursery class. The green team taught the nursery class how to ride a balance bike through a PowerPoint presentation and a demonstration. This...
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    Year 3 (Summer 2, Week 2)
    Year 3 has been learning about turns and angles this week. They can recognise whether or not a turn is clockwise or anti-clockwise and a quarter turn, half turn, three quarter turn and full turn. They...
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    Year 6's Pride Youth Network
    Some year 6 children have formed a Pride Youth Network. They are working with the fantastic charity Educate and Celebrate to think about how we celebrate diversity in our school and represent and welc...
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    What's been happening in Year 6?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Year 6 appear on the ITV News!
    On Thursday 20th May, ITV news came into St John & St James' to film year 6, as part of a feature about how schools are effectively teaching children a diverse curriculum, enriched in Black Histor...
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    This week in Year 3...
    Year 3 have started their new science topic: Light. This week the class walked around the school and playground looking for sources of light. They found that the sun was a natural source of light a...
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    20% off SJSJ's School Uniform with M&S (29.06-21-03.08.21)
    Good news!  We are pleased to confirm M&S will be offering a fantastic 20% off all uniform on the M&S Your School Uniform website. This will run from 29th June 2021 to 3rd August 2021. ...
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    Music at SJSJ
    Thank you very much for your feedback and lovely comments from the parents evening survey. We always appreciate your feedback about ways we can further improve as a school. I thought I would take this...
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    School Street Reminder
    Don’t forget that our school is a ‘School Street’ which has been reinstated from Monday 8th March. That means that only pedestrians, scooters and cyclists are permitted to enter the street between 8....
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    What's been happening in Year 5?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    We need your help - empty jars
    Please help us by saving any empty glass jars and bringing them into school. We are collecting jam jars, chutney jars, unwanted kilnar jars etc. Jars with lids are preferred but we will accept any ...
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    Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 - Summer 1
    Look at Year3’s portraits inspired by the British artist, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The class chose to use only one strong colour as they noticed that in her portraits. Year 4 they have been loo...
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    Year 1 & Year 2 - Summer 1
    Year 1 have enjoyed PE with Mr Charles this term. They have focused on athletics and have been able to develop their running, sending and receiving skills and jumping. For their art lessons, ...
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    Nursery & Reception - Summer 1
    In summer 1, Nursery have been looking at the British artist Chris Offilil. They have been exploring  his paintings and have been inspired to create their own whole class mixed media piece in response...
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    What's been happening in Year 4?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Check out what our School Council have been up to this week...
    Schools  suffer with parking, congestion, road danger and air quality issues immediately outside their school. School council aims too: Discourage car journeys to school. Improve air quality i...
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    Check out what the Green Team have been up to this week...
    This week, the green team had a workshop where they conducted a waste audit in our school. They took samples of rubbish from different areas of the school and measured the amount of rubbish which was ...
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    What's been happening in Year 3?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Half Term Multi-Sports Camp @ SJSJ
    St John & St James' will be hosting a half term sports camp from Tuesday 1st June to Friday 4th June 2021. 
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    What's been happening in Year 2?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
  • Latest News
    What's been happening in Year 1?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    What's been happening in Reception?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    What's been happening in Nursery?
    With limited visitors on site at the moment we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the amazing things that are happening around our school. Each week we will be uploading a brief snapshot...
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    Upcoming Mental Health Support Team Workshops
    Please see below the workshops and groups that are being offered to parents and carers by the East London MHST team over the upcoming months. MHST workshops can be accessed through the CAMHS websit...
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    New school meals menu for summer!
    Over the past year, we have been working closely with the super talented team at the school meals charity Chefs in Schools in order to improve our school meals. Chefs in Schools, whose patrons include...
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    Join the 6 week support group for Managing Child Anxiety
    Worry, uncertainty, and fears may be especially present during the current climate, given the changes in our lives, and the health concerns that people are experiencing. Following on from the workshop...
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    Time to welcome you all back to school...
    We look forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 8th March. Key reminders for Monday 8th March School starts at 8.55am. You will continue to use the allocated gates that you have p...
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    World Book Day 2021
    On Thursday 4th March, the children took part in celebrating World Book Day 2021. We would like to say a huge well done to each and every one of you that dressed up as your favourite characters; your ...
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    Take a Moment - Self Care Tips Workshop
    Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93278514394?pwd=V1pZQ1N1YWtWeDVhR2tnZFphTjFtUT09 Meeting ID: 932 7851 4394 Passcode: DsLj2G
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    CAMHS Coffee Afternoon – Sibling Rivalry
    Join the schools CAMHS Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Lara Charlesworth, for a coffee afternoon based around the topic of Sibling Rivalry.
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    Parent/carer - 6 week support group – Managing behaviours that challenge
    Join our 6 week parent support group which looks at managing behaviours that challenge...
  • Latest News
    Signs of COVID in children
    The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have created this very useful poster for parents. It details the steps that you should take at different stages of the illness and the signs that y...
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    Parent/carer Workshop: Managing Child Anxiety
    Thursday 4th February, 4-5pm with Mahak & Temi:
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    Parent/Carer Workshop: Managing behaviours that challenge
    Monday 25th January, 4-5pm with Sadia & Anne Marie
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    Children in Need
    On Friday 13th November 2020, St John & St James' helped to raise money for Children in Need. Everybody was asked to wear their pyjamas to school on the day and to bring a donation of £1.00. Throu...
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    World Kindness Day
    Friday 13th November is World Kindness Day . To find out more about this event, click here to visit the Random Acts of Kindness website.    
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    Playground Murals
    We have been working really hard over the past few weeks to finish the playground murals in the Key Stage 2 playground. We are really pleased with the end result; we hope you like them too! ...
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    Coronavirus Explained in Children's Terms
    Coronavirus is causing many people across the globe lots of anxiety and concern at the moment and our pupils are no different. The NHS have released a child friendly leaflet which is aimed at helpi...
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    SJSJ does World Book Day 2020!
    This year to celebrate World Book Day, the children focused on looking at different stories that highlighted the rights of all children. In Key Stage 1 the children focused on the story Giraffes can’t...
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    WE Day!
    On Wednesday the Rights Respecting Ambassadors were joined by some of their peers for a very exciting visit to Wembley Arena for the annual WE day concert! The children had an amazing time and got ...

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February Half Term – School Closed
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INSET Day: School closed to all pupils
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St John and St James C of E Primary School,
Isabella Road,
Hackney
E9 6DX

Tel: 020 8985 2045
Fax: 020 8985 5768
Email: office@johnjames.hackney.sch.uk

Executive Principal: Sian Davies
Headteacher: Joanne Smith

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