Y3 Art – Alexander Calder

The children have been researching the work of the artist, Alexander Calder.

Music

Y3 used the chime bars to make up their own rhythm patterns.

Prayer and Liturgy

This week Year 3 celebrated Prayer and Liturgy in our Spiritual Garden. We listened to the creation story and discussed our duties as Christian stewards in protecting our special world.

PE

Year 3 have been practising their footwork skills and developing their co ordination skills.

Y3 Art

The children used pipe cleaners to sculpt their own animals like the artist Alexander Calder.

Y3’s final art work

The children used wire to make their own animal sculpture

Y3 Geography

The children have been using atlases to find out which country New York is in.

Y3 RE

The children have been exploring the Bible. They have been finding out where different scripture are located for example, The creation story, is in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament.

Y3 Science

In science the children have been exploring magnets and how they attract and repel. We talked about the north and south poles and how the same poles repel but the opposites attract.

Y3 Prayer and Liturgy

The children worked together to plan their own prayer and liturgy. They chose how they wanted everyone to gather and wrote their own response prayer.

Y3 Science

The children were investigating different magnets to see which one was the strongest. They used a ruler to measure when each of the magnets attracted the paper clip. They found that it didn’t matter on the size of the magnet.

Year 3 DT

The children have been learning about pneumatic systems and made their own moving monster using a pneumatic system. They used a syringe, tube and balloon. When they syringe was pressed, air passed through the tube and inflated the balloon, this then made the mouth to open.

Year 3 – Spanish

In Spanish, we have been practising greeting each other and asking and answering the question, ‘¿cómo estás?

Y3 computing

The children have been using the microbits to input their own codes to make it work.

Y3 are

We have listened to the story of the ‘parable of the Sower’ the children retold the story as a group through art.
They each chose a part of the story and drew a picture to represent it. We then talked about the message of the story and how it teaches us to trust, believe and follow God.

Y3 science

We have been experience with different rocks to find out which ones are permeable. The children tested the rocks by pouring water on them to see which rocks absorbed the water.

Achievers 28.2.25

Our amazing achievers this week!

Y3 PE

Year 3 have been working on their balancing skills and working with a partner to balance in different ways.

Y3 Lent walk

Y3 did their lent walk around the school field.

Y3 Easter Raffle

As part of our RE topic, Year 3 was asked to come up with an action to show how they live in God’s image. Year 3 decided to raise money for charity to show this. They discussed different ways they could raise money and decided to make their own Easter hamper and sell raffle tickets. They agreed to donate the money to the Good shepherd.

Year 3 have raised an amazing £231.

Mother’s Day 💕

A fabulous Prayer and Liturgy to celebrate all of the amazing ladies in our lives.

Stations of the Cross

This week Years 3 and 4 performed the Stations of the Cross. The children have worked incredibly hard to remember each of the stations and recall their lines.

🍭

A treat for all the children at dinner time today! 😃

Oliver Twist

Children had a fantastic time watching Oliver Twist this afternoon.

Back to School Prayer and Liturgy

Mr Wilson led our back to school Prayer and Liturgy. We each thought about how we can shine our light this new school year.

Achievers Assembly

On Friday, we celebrated our first Achievers Assembly of the new school year. Well done to this week’s achievers! Keep up the great work ⭐️

Y3 Prayer and Liturgy

The children took part in Prayer and liturgy focusing on the creation story. We took time to reflect on our world and what God created.

Achievers Assembly

Congratulations to this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work!

Achievers Assembly

Well done to all the achievers this week!

School Council

Meet our new school council for 2025 – 2026. Congratulations to all the children selected. Our first meeting will be held next week ⭐️

Achievers Assembly

Congratulations to all of our achievers! We love celebrating all of the hard work that has taken place throughout the week.

School Council

🧠 💛 World Mental Health Day 2025 💛 🧠 On Friday, our School Council spoke to the whole school about World Mental Health Day and why we were wearing yellow – to show support and raise awareness for mental health. They also launched a Kindness Challenge, encouraging everyone to be extra kind to others throughout the week. It was a lovely reminder that even small acts of kindness can make a big difference

Year 3 RE

The children created their own sunset water colour painting and made links between the creation story and Psalm 19.

Year 3 Halle Music Project

Year 3 have been taking part in the Halle Music project composing their own piece of music linking to the Stone Age.

Achievers Assembly

Congratulations to this week’s achievers!

Achievers Assembly

What a wonderful half term we have had at St Jude’s! It has been a joy to share all of the hard work the children have accomplished over the last 8 weeks.
Here are this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work everyone and we look forward to celebrating everyone’s success next half term ⭐️

Y3 Mass

Year 3 went to church for Mass. They learned about the four parts of Mass and joined in with the responses.

Achievers Assembly 7.11.25

Well done to this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work!

Achievers Assembly 14.11.25

The children at St Jude’s have worked incredibly hard this week. Well done to all the children who earned a certificate this week.

Y3 Funding Raising

Year 3 raised money for CAFOD by selling cakes.

They raised an amazing £119.29

Y3 Meditation

Year 3 took part in their first class meditation focusing on ‘The Bible is God’s word’

Year 3 Rosary

This week Year 3 took part in their first Rosary and look forward to doing this every week.

Y3 Science

The children have been exploring magnets and investigating North and South poles.

Achievers Assembly

Well done to all the achievers this week!

Y3 Science

The children have been exploring magnets and investigating if the size of the magnet affects the strength of the magnet.

Year 3 science

Year 3 explored different objects around the classroom to see if they were magnet or non-magnetic.

Homework coffee afternoon

A huge well done and thank you for all of your amazing homework projects. We can tell how much effort has gone into them. 🏅

Mass

The whole school went to Mass today. Father Michael told us the story of Saint Nicholas.

Y3 DT

Year 3 have been learning about the pneumatic systems in DT. They designed their own moving monster and added a pneumatic system to make it move.

Y3 Parent Celebration of the word

Parents were invited into class to take part in our Celebration of the word on Advent.

Assembly Achievers

Well done to all the achievers this week. What an excellent way to start the new year and term!

Achievers Assembly

What another fantastic week! Well done to all the achievers. Keep up the great work ⭐️

Achievers Assembly

Another fantastic week at St Jude’s. Well done to all the achievers this week! ⭐️

Y3 RE

The children listened to the Parable of Sower and made a stained glass picture to represent one part of the story.

Assembly Achievers

Well done to all the achievers this week!

Y3 Science investigation

The children investigated different rocks to find out if there were permeable or not permeable.

Assembly Achievers ⭐️

Congratulations to all of our assembly achievers this week! What a wonderful way to end the term.

Kindness Tree 🌳

This week, Jorgie was chosen to go on the kindness tree for supporting friends when they feel lonely. What an excellent example of kindness!

CAFOD Workshops

CAFOD volunteers, Jim and Doreen, spent time in KS2 speaking to the children about the work of CAFOD. They focused on the Catholic Social Teaching principle of Solidarity and how ‘A Better World Needs all of Us’. The children had a fantastic morning learning about how everyone can play a small part to help our global family.

Y3 Art

The children have been looking at the artist Bridget Riley and have been exploring her art work using different materials.

Y3 PE

The children have been working on their ball control skills with a partner.

Achievers Assembly

On Friday, we had another very successful week! Well done to all our achievers ⭐️

Y3 Lent walk

This week Year 3 went around the local area completing their Lent walk.

Achievers Assembly

Well done to all our achievers this week. Keep up the great work ⭐️

Safer Internet Day 💻

Today, the whole school took part in an assembly lead by Mr Parry for Safer Internet Day. They discussed how AI can be used to help us but also has its limitations.

Mass and Confession

Y3, Y5 and Y6 attended mass today with the parish. Y3 have been learning about the Liturgy of the Eucharist so they brought up the offertory whilst Y5 and Y6 said the readings and bidding prayers. After mass, children were then invited to confession as part of their Lenten journey.

Y3 Visit from Fr. Michael

The children had a visit from Fr. Michael, they asked questions to find out about the elements of Mass, in particular the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Y3 Fund raising

As part of our RE topic the children had to raise money for a charity. They decided to bring in easter eggs and make hampers.

The children raised £73 for the Mission together charity.

Easter Hamper winners

Well done to our winners!

Homework Coffee Afternoon

As always, we were delighted to welcome families into school to celebrate and share all the fantastic effort children have put into their homework projects. Thank you for supporting your child to be creative and share their learning. We were so impressed with each and every project.

Y3 Mission Together

The children had a visitor from Mission together who came to school to talk about the work they do and how it links to the Catholic social teachings.

They presented her with a check of £75 which they raised for Mission together selling raffle tickets.

Y3 Stay and Pray

Celebration of the word with parents

Achiever’s Assembly ⭐️

First week of the summer term and already the children are working incredibly hard. Well done to all the achievers this week!

Kindness Tree 🌳

This week, Dalara was chosen to go on our kindness tree for helping friends in the class when in need.

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

Well done to all the achievers this week! You have all worked really hard

Whole school singing

We’re enjoying learning ‘As I kneel before you’ and ‘Immaculate Mary’ this week. 💙

Assembly Achievers ⭐️

After another fantastic week at St Jude’s, here are all of our achievers this week. Well done , everyone!

Assembly Achievers ⭐️

What wonderful work we have seen at St Jude’s this week! Well done to all our achievers this week.

Year 3 science

The children used torches to explore making shadows and investigating which objects formed shadows (transparent, Translucent, opaque objects)

Y3 PE

In PE the children have been working on their balancing and core strength.

Year 3 Music

Year 3 worked together to compose a piece of music linked to the Hall of the mountains

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

What a fantastic start to our final term of the school year! Well done to all the achievers this week ⭐️

Year 3 – English

The children wrote a weather report using different adverbials and took turns reading them in role as weather reporters.

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

A huge congratulations to all the children who achieved a certificate this week! 🌟 Your hard work, dedication, and positive attitude have truly paid off. Keep up the fantastic work—we are so proud of you all! 👏🏆

Fire and Rescue visit

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue visited us today to teach us all about water safety.

Y3 DT

Year 3 enjoyed making their own moving levers and linkages

Y3 RE

The children have been learning about the creation story and created their own art work to represent the 7th day of the creation.

Y3 Maths

The children have been learning about flexible partitioning to1000 and used the base tens to partition numbers in different ways.

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

A huge congratulations to all the children who received certificates in our first Achievers Assembly! 🎉👏

We are so proud of the hard work, effort and positive attitudes shown by our pupils. Each week, we celebrate achievements in Reading 📚, Writing ✏️, Maths 🔢, PE 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ and Star of the Week ⭐.

Well done to every child who received a certificate — your dedication and perseverance are something to be proud of! Keep shining, keep learning and keep achieving! 🌟

Congratulations, everyone! 🎉💫

Y3 Maths

The children have been learning place value. This week we played a team game where children had to use the place value counters to make the number shown.

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

A big congratulations to all the child who received a certificate in our Achievers Assembly on Friday. Keep up the great work 👏🏻

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

Another fantastic week at St Jude’s! Well done to all the children who received a certificate in assembly on Friday 🎉

RE

The children created their own water colour picture to represent Psalm 19 and described how it linked to God’s creations.

RE

The children have been learning about the Offertory and worked in small groups to role play.

History

The children have been learning about Stonehenge and used different resources to build it. They were able to identify where Stonehenge is and what is was used for in the Bronze Age.

English – The First Drawing

In English the children have started their new text. They predicted what they thought it was going to be about and used natural objects to make their own cave painting.

RE

In RE the children have been learning about the Canticles of the Creatures. They used artwork to design one of the key elements and linked it to the creation story and their rown lives.

In RE the children have been learning about the Canticles of the Creatures and used artwork to create one of the key elements. They then linked it to creation story and their own lives.

PE

In PE, the children have been working on their balancing skills.

Life Skills – Going To The Shops 🏪

Writing

Today we took part in a fantastic life skills lesson all about going shopping! 🛒 We practised working out money, checking prices, making choices and paying for our items 💰 We also worked on important communication skills, including how to approach and talk politely to shop staff, asking for help when needed and saying please and thank you 🗣️😊

These activities help us to build confidence, independence and the skills we need for everyday life 🌟👏

Well done everyone for getting involved, giving it a go and developing such important life skills! 💙🙌