The Gates Primary SchoolYear 3- Swallows: Blog items
Swallows 21st May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 7:36am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Look at this ‘belting’ example, just another addition to the fantastic work you are producing at home. Makes me quite emotional when I think about it long enough. You have made the whole school proud recently, coming out and really pushing the boundaries with your learning. Your reward will come! Stay safe today on what looks like another smashing day (after a few light patches of rain) but try to get some fresh air. Also, take up the ‘non-stop’ challenge and checkout Mrs Lenagan’s post yesterday to the whole school regarding Mental Health Awareness Week, there’s a little choice of tasks on there to complete, very apt at the moment…
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: niv (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Take a look at these tasks on your ‘discussion’ feeds. There are spelling, writing, and an afternoon task that will be on by the end of the day today. Take your time and have a go with as much as possible to help support your learning. Most of this week’s can be done independently, show me what you are made of Swallows!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 20th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 20th May 2020 @ 8:27am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
What a wonderfully sunny day! Make sure to get outside and make the most of some great weather, I can smell the barbeques already! Thanks again for your continued effort with this weeks learning, there are some tricky topics which we have only covered in a short way Swallows. Take your time and don’t be too hard on yourselves!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: nhr (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Take a look at these tasks on your ‘discussion’ feeds. There are spelling, writing, and an afternoon task that will be on by the end of the day today. Take your time and have a go with as much as possible to help support your learning. Most of this week’s can be done independently, show me what you are made of Swallows!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 19th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 19th May 2020 @ 8:25am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Thanks to all of you who have made a huge effort with the extra tasks this week, it is really appreciated. Above are some more examples from last week. Also, some tricky tasks yesterday that were undertaken as we had spent very little time using division using ‘bus-stop’ before we finished school. Thanks to all of you who had a go, and extra ten house points to you for trying!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: tkm (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Take a look at these tasks on your ‘discussion’ feeds. There are spelling, writing, and an afternoon task that will be on by the end of the day today. Take your time and have a go with as much as possible to help support your learning. Most of this week’s can be done independently, show me what you are made of Swallows!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows Weekly Recommendation WB - 18.05.20
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:04am
Swallow's Weekly Recommendation
Ms.McClure's Class
http://msmcclure.com/?page_id=4930
If you love a little bit of history, ( like I know most of you do!) have a look at this site! Ms McClure's class contains some excellent of interetsing topics. It is an American site but try to find the Social Studies and Passports to.. pages, they are full of useful information. This site will also help with your writing tasks this week should you wish to undertake it Swallows.
Rememeber Chester all over again! Sin, sin, sin, dex ,sin... 
Swallows 18th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 6:35am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
I really hope all is well with you Swallows and that the weekend was full of mystery, like a James Bond classic! What were you up to all? Let me know in a pupil blog or two, there have been some cracking home learning last week and this shows. I would love it if you could show me some of the skills you have been practising! Take care today and keep safe, like Elbow stated so beautifully ‘THROW THOSE CURTAINS WIDE!’
Here are today’s tasks Swallows:
LBQ – Code: vpn (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, have a look at the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv8BOsG8cPc
Reading
Everyday, I set you a task on LBQ. Over the week, try to complete one other task on Read Theory. Congratulations if you did this last week.
Other ideas:
Take a look at the discussion blogs which I have posted to find your spellings, your writing and your afternoon tasks. I love to see what you are up to, so please do not forget to blog on the discussion blog or main blog for pupils using your school spider logins with what you have been doing this weekend 😊
Remember the pupil verification is 956789
Ciao bella, take care of each other today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 7:30am
Star of the Week – Swallows
GOOD MORNING WESTHOUGHTON TOWN!
Well done Olivia! This is for some excellent effort recently, not just with her home learning and LBQ tasks, but with practical skills at home just like so many of you are undertaking. I am prouder of the fact that we are going to have children in Swallows that know how to cook dinner and make a belting brew than I can! I must say it has been a pleasure to read some of the writing you have undertaken Olivia, it shows how far you have come. Again, a rather large party awaits you when we return!
To reiterate last week, there have been some splendid efforts on LBQ this week and with the discussion tasks, you are all putting that 100% in to impress. Please keep this up, it means the world to me and Mrs Roberts. Everyday I am amazed to see how manyof you get onto the LBQ tasks before I have even fully opened my eyes! As always, be patient and kind with adults at home and remember to be grateful for the time they spend with you, we wont get this opportunity very often.
Enjoy the (sunny) weekend all!
Swallows 15th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 7:26am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Many thanks to you all who have been keeping up with some of their afternoon tasks. This is a fantastic example! Take care and have a smashing day in the sunshine! Can’t wait to see what you produce with your wonderful skills in spelling and writing later on this week Swallows!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: xxw (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
IXL IMPORTANT INFORMATION –
Once again, IXL has decided to expire on us Year 3. We have already set this up to work as from today you will no longer be able to use your ‘old’ passwords to gain entry. I will make sure to blog this each day until you are comfortable with it, I know this can get frustrating! However, your new usernames are as follows,
Usernames – FULLNAME IN LOWER CASE FOLLOWED BY 405, so for example, mrpryle405
Passwords – qwerty
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
These tasks are due to be ‘handed’ in today all, just log in to ‘school spider’ take a photo and upload them as you see fit. Thanks again for all your hard work researching and planning Swallows!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 14th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 7:28am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Many thanks to you all who have been keeping up with some of their afternoon tasks. This is a fantastic example! Take care and have a smashing day in the sunshine! Can’t wait to see what you produce with your wonderful skills in spelling and writing later on this week Swallows!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: rmk (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Similar task to yesterday – Remember the ‘TENNIS BALL’ method we talked about so long ago now. What happens each time? Multiply the ones column first, then TENS then Hundreds (if any). Some outstanding results yesterday with first time answering, keep this up!
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. Are back to our topic of volcanoes as a theme and I hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
Throwback Thursday –
A new one this as of last week. Each Thursday, Miss Fairhurst will post on the SCHOOL BLOG (main blog page) a photograph of someone in school. Could be a teacher or pupil, with a ‘throwback’ theme. These pictures are classics of childhood years so see if you can recognise who it is, then leave a blog post by logging in using your school spider sign-in!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao bella, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 13th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 7:42am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Many thanks to you all who have been keeping up with some tricky learning with reading and grammar. Take care and have a smashing day in the open air. Use the new guidelines from the goverment to see some more of Westhoughton and for longer. Can’t wait to see what you produce with your wonderful skills in spelling and writing later on this week Swallows and pelase let me know what you are up to on the blogs!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: sdb (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. Are back to our topic of volcanoes as a theme and I hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 12th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 12th May 2020 @ 7:45am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Many thanks to all who have been keeping up with your home learning this week. Take a look at the blogs later on today – there will be a round-up with some house points thrown in for good measure! Take care and have a smashing day!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: fny (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. We are remembering VE Day (Victory in Europe) as a theme and hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 11th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 7:36am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Hope the weekend wasn’t too ‘taxing’ all and that you all celebrated well with your family on Friday. I hope the sunshine brought great tans, good music and some vitamin D to your smiling faces. Here’s the learning for today that I know you’ll get ‘stuck in’ to. Like Richarlison on a Saturday afternoon (for all you Blues out there!)
Here are today’s tasks Swallows:
LBQ – Code: qep (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, have a look at the video below:
Reading
Everyday, I set you a task on LBQ. Over the week, try to complete one other task on Read Theory. Congratulations if you did this last week.
Other ideas:
Take a look at the discussion blogs which I have posted to find your spellings, your writing and your afternoon tasks. I love to see what you are up to, so please do not forget to blog on the discussion blog or main blog for pupils using your school spider logins with what you have been up to 😊
Remember the pupil verification is 956789
Ciao bella, take care of each other today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 8:06am
Star of the Week – Swallows
Good Morning you lovely people!
Well done Viyan! This is for outstanding learning recently and it has been a long time coming. Like Jenson last week, just a shame that we weren’t in school to see your happy and proud face!I promise we will have a special celebration when we are back in. Lots of tea drank! You have been dedicated to your learning and it has been astonishing how much you have been contributing to our class total on IXL! Keep up that level of effort and your pilots wings will not be long away young man!
I know it will mean the world to all of you to receive this certificate at home. There have honestly been some unique feats on LBQ this week with some really tricky tasks with fractions. I can see how hard you are all working, but remember your time WILL come! Be thankful to your adults at home for the support they are giving you, you will benefit greatly from this time spent with them, even though it is different.
Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend all!
Swallows 7th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 7:44am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Many thanks to all who have been keeping up with some tricky learning with fractions. Take a look at the blogs later on today – there will be a round-up with some house points thrown in for good measure! Take care and have a smashing day in the sunshine!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: zbi (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Also, have a look at the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slnc11A_LiU
Remember that a tenth is one whole split into ten parts, look at the diagrams to try and visualise what one tenth looks like. Remember that pizza works the best and that Mr Pryle loves a pepperoni pizza most of all! 😊
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. We are remembering VE Day (Victory in Europe) as a theme and hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 6th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:10am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
LOOK AT THIS! There have been some fantastic examples of design and improvisation that have already started flooding in from you wonderful children! Keep up that great effort and a great Roman phrase to start the day – another google experience with a little bit of research. ‘Carpe Diem’. Research it…
Take care and have a smashing day in the sunshine (hopefully!) …
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: evb (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Also, have a look at the video below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/zxcfjty
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Her you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. We are remembering VE Day (Victory in Europe) as a theme and hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 5th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 7:42am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Another fine example of some lyrics I have been playing over and over and over to start your day with all, a bit of Oasis this time, “…we’ll find a way, of chasing the sun ” Have a smashing day all!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code xwx (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Also, have a look at the video below:
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Her you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. We are remembering VE Day (Victory in Europe) as a theme and hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Swallows 4th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 7:50am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Well, what do we have here?
A ‘gaggle’ of children and parents in my midst! It is Swallows back for some more! Hello all, hope the weekend treated you well and the sunshine did your spirits some good, definitely did with me! I have recently been trying to dig up some of the lawn here to lay a small patio – pictures to follow, so we went for a walk instead. This is what chaos looks like –
Anyway, hope today is a good one, I will be back later with some excellent learning example and shouts, give it your best as always. I am missing the happy smiling lot you are, take care today…
Here are today’s tasks Swallows:
LBQ – Code: rhg (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, have a look at the video below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise/length-and-distance/zrkrpg8
Or, use the key that 1meter (1m) is the same as 100 centimetres (100cm). Some of the questions with conversion will ask for this to be carried out first, as below.
1. 
The question asks ‘which is longest?’. Well we should convert all to the SAME unit first. So convert all to centimeters first –
200cm
800cm – the longest
100cm
500cm
Reading
Everyday, I set you a task on LBQ. Over the week, try to complete one other task on Read Theory. Congratulations if you did this last week.
Other ideas:
Take a look at the discussion blogs which I have posted to find your spellings, your writing and your afternoon tasks. I love to see what you are up to, so please do not forget to blog on the discussion blog or main blog for pupils using your school spider logins with what you have been up to 😊
Remember the pupil verification is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Our learning in Swallows - 1st May
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 2:06pm
Afternoon Swallows!!!
Time for some outstanding learning examples and the chance to make some of you famous! I have been most impressed with some examples of creation, imagination and enthusiasm. Have a wonderful weekend with your family. Miss the laughter and giggles at my ‘not so funny’ jokes Year 3!
Here come the shouts –
Hannah, Aiden, Hibah, Olivia, Hayden, Tiana, Braxton, Lewis, Dario, Harrison, Aron, Maisie, Isabella, Phoebe, Paige, Jenson Barr
10 house points for all and a well-deserved…
See you on Monday all, keep safe and enjoy the rest!!!
Mr P :)
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 11:00am
VE Celebrations – WB 4.5.20
Dear Parents,
Next week marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day and despite not being in school, we would still like to be able to celebrate this with the children.
It would be brilliant if at home you could have a tea party or a picnic on Friday as a special celebration on this day. Some streets are planning a ‘Stay at home street party’.
At home, it would be great if your child could make a VE Day t shirt (decorate a plain t shirt using felt tips of fabric paint) which they can wear to their own VE Day tea party/picnic.
Here are some ideas for your child to complete at home if they would like to. If you do complete any of these activities, we would love you to share them with us on the blog.
Here are some websites which you may like to visit:
Useful websites:
Swallows 1st May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:13am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
As Bob Marley said, “The sun is shining, the weather is sweet yeah…” Have a smashing day all!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code unv (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Spelling/ Writing
Remember that these tasks are due in today on the ‘discussion’ pages of the school blog. Ask an adult to test you on spellings, then upload your results. I can’t wait to see the results and read some incredible efforts with writing. Congratulations to those who have already handed in the writing, some excellent examples which I will share later today!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:10am
Star of the Week – Swallows
Good Morning you lovely people!
Well done Jenson! This is for some excellent contributions in your home learning, superb resillience with tasks set and for an outstanding piece of writing including MULTIPLE similes. You have been dedicated to your learning and It has been wonderful to see your smiling face on the school blog this week! Keep up that support of your younger brother, I know you will both thrive in the coming weeks!
I must say, It was a VERY diffocult decision this week and I can physically see how hard you are all trying. Being distant doesn’t mean I don’t feel the emotion you put into everything you do. I have the upmost respect for the level’s you are producing, keep this up Year 3.
Our learning in Swallows - 30th April
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 2:43pm
Afternoon Swallows!!!
I have been out in the garden yet again Swallows! This time to mark out an area to build a patio this week. I hope you are all keeping safe and sound, please let me know what you have up to at home, as well as your learning. One little girl has provided some excellent examples of this!
Time for some outstanding learning examples and the chance to make some of you famous! I have been most impressed with some examples of creation and some that I have missed form this week!
Here come the shouts –
Maisie, Olivia, Braxton, Dario, Aron, Phoebe, Paige, Tiana, Hibah, Lewis, Ava, Aiden, Jenson Barr, Harrison, Hayden, Alfie, Viyan and…
Hannah x 2 for yesterday also!
10 house points for all and a well-deserved…
See you tomorrow all, keep it up! 
Swallows 30th April 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 7:47am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Happy 8th Birthday to a happy chap!
Have a cracking day, from all in Swallows, take care…
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code dej (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Use this video to help today:
Reading
Everyday I set you a reading task on LBQ. Over the week try to complete at least ONE comprehension on Read Theory.
Other Tasks
Have a look at your ‘discussion’ feed on your ‘school spider’ log-ins. Here you will find the spellings, writing tasks and your afternoon task for this week. I have really enjoyed seeing all your smiling faces and the learning you have undertaken so please remember to blog as much as you can.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Our learning in Swallows - 29th April
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 2:48pm
ATTENTION SWALLOWS!!
Thought I woukd share some home learning and some house points with you all today, its been a good few days since I handed out these! As Dario let me know so well last week, "Mr Pryle you like to hand out consequences but wouldn't it be nice for some house points?"!!! Cheers Dario! Anyway, for some outsatnding leanring on LBQ today,
here come the shouts:
Maisie, Hibah, Braxton, Harrison, Jenson Barr, Alfie, Hayden, Phoebe, Dario, Aron, Paige, Ava, Viyan, Aiden, Isabella, Olivia... Super completion of today's activities - 10 house points each and a shiny star!
See you tomorrow all, keep it up!
Swallows 29th April 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 7:28am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code kjc (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Use this video to help today:
Reading
Everyday I set you a reading task on LBQ. Over the week try to complete at least ONE comprehension on Read Theory.
Other Tasks
Have a look at your ‘discussion’ feed on your ‘school spider’ log-ins. Here you will find the spellings, writing tasks and your afternoon task for this week. I have really enjoyed seeing all your smiling faces and the learning you have undertaken so please remember to blog as much as you can.
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao all, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈