Hello and Welcome to Year 3

Our class email address is: blue@cka.srscmat.co.uk

Parents are welcome to use this email address to contact class teachers with any questions regarding their child’s learning, homework, personal updates or details of class specific events. Please ensure class teachers have your up to date email address and that you have been added to the class mailing list. Please use the main school email address enquiries@cka.srscmat.co.uk for absence notifications or general questions relating to trips, contact information updates, school dinners or any other enquiries.

Our class Gospel value is Service. We try to show Service by respecting others, learning to be helpful and kind especially to those who are different. We learn new skills such as leadership skills and patience.

We nurture the children’s development of service by encouraging…

  • Imagination
  • Resilience
  • Goal setting
  • Curiosity
  • Autonomy

Our curriculum has been carefully designed to achieve this, based on research about how children learn best.  Your learning will be broken down into small steps that should enable you to build your knowledge piece by piece and to help you to have that knowledge at your fingertips whenever you need it.  We give you lots of opportunities to revisit and retrieve this knowledge throughout the year and we encourage you to think about what you have learnt before and how this knowledge helps you as a starting point for building new knowledge.  Our curriculum has golden threads woven throughout it, these drive our curriculum, helping you to make links and to build knowledge.  These golden threads are Communication, Sustainability and Stewardship and Freedom.  It is also important that your learning is relevant to your life and can help you to make better choices as you grow and develop.  Our mission statement sets out the virtues we try to display at all times in school and together, through our curriculum, we learn about a diverse range of people who give us good examples of these virtues in their lives.

We look forward to seeing you thrive this year and into the future, walking together in Christ to try and become the best that we can be – We Can and We Will follow in Jesus’ footsteps!

Below, you will find some useful information about life in Year 3

Children will need their waterproof coat, a bottle filled with water, a bag for reading books and homework and a packed lunch (if required). Pencil cases and other school equipment will be provided for children by school. It is important that we limit what is being brought into school, so pencil cases and other accessories from home won’t be needed.

Children have one breaktime in the morning. For this time the children are welcome to bring a healthy snack to eat during break. In Year 3 the children can choose to have a school dinner or bring their own packed lunch from home. The school meals are nutritionally balanced and cater for most tastes and a vegetarian meal is on the menu every day. We use ‘My School Lunch’ provided by Derbyshire County Council (please see the dinner menu tab on the website to find out more about what is on offer and see the weekly menu). Dinners are paid for via the Parent Pay app.

Reading:

It is essential that your child continues to have daily reading practice at home. We expect the children to read to an adult for a minimum of 10-15 minutes per day. Please be sure to comment in their reading record book. We will check reading records daily to monitor reading and those children who have read will receive a house point. Sharing a book with your child is fun! It’s a time for closeness, laughing and talking together and it can also give children a flying start in life and help them become lifelong readers. Reading books will be changed every Monday.

Homework:

On Fridays, the children will receive a short handwriting task and a maths task to be completed at home, this will need to be returned the following Friday and will be a weekly occurrence. The activities should take the children no more than 15 minutes to complete and is based on the work being taught in class. Please remember that all written homework should be completed in pencil please.

Spellings:

On a Monday, the children will be given weekly spellings to practise and learn. Spelling tests will be on a Monday. The weekly spellings are designed to reinforce previous phonic sounds and spelling patterns and also the common exception words from the Year 3 National Curriculum. Spelling strategies will be taught in class, but they will need reinforcement and repetition at home.

Our PE day is Wednesday. The children will need to wear:

For Indoor PE:

· Yellow polo shirt

· Navy blue or black PE shorts

· Pumps

For Outdoor PE:

· Yellow Polo shirt

· Navy blue or black jogging bottoms

· Trainers

· A navy-blue jumper or cardigan

Parents will be notified of which PE will be taking place each term so please see class emails for details.

Meet the Staff for this Class

Teacher

Mrs Bradshaw

Teaching Assistant

Miss Gregory

Mrs Zubrzycka

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