Welcome to Year 3
We would like to take this opportunity to officially welcome you to Year 3, to introduce our team and tell you a little bit about the year group and what our first term will look like. We know things may look a little different to normal in September but we are really excited about getting back together and starting our year.
Please click here to view or download our Year 3 leaflet
Our Team
Our teaching team is Mrs Mulligan, Mrs Benford and we welcome a new teacher to the school Miss Ellis. Our learning support team are Mrs Kirk, Mr Hiscutt and Miss Bentley.
Daily Structure
Our school day is going to look a little different with our staggered starts and finish, staggered playtimes and lots of handwashing!
Our drop off time will be 8:55 at the main gate and our collection time will be 3:15 also from the main gate.
8:55 – 9:10
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9:10 – 10:45
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10:40 – 10:45
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10:45 – 12:00
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12:00 – 1:00
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1:00 – 3:15
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Morning Task |
ENGLISH |
Playtime |
MATHS |
LUNCH |
Afternoon Curriculum
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Our Curriculum
We have lots of exciting learning opportunities planned for the Autumn term and want to assure you that we will be working hard to revisit and integrate the Year 2 curriculum that has been missed. Our first unit of English is based on a Defeat the Monster text and we will be looking at a book called The Clockwork Dragon. We are really looking forward to our Geography unit on The Rainforest and getting our hands dirty in science doing lots of planting.
COSMIC Lessons
The outdoor curriculum in the Boulter Building and our PSHE curriculum are known as Cosmic and will continue to taught by Miss Tester and Mr Jones on a Wednesday morning. Children will need to wear their own coats outside during COSMIC. Although we will do our best to keep children away from mud, don’t wear best coats. As usual we will provide foot wear, which will be cleaned as part of our routine
PE Days
Children will not be able to keep PE kits in school so they should either wear them on their day or bring it with them for the lesson. Please ensure the kit is suitable for running and includes suitable foot wear. Our outdoor PE day will be Wednesday and you will be sent a text when your indoor PE day will be.
For your child’s safety we do not allow any jewellery to be worn during sport. Earrings have to be taken out and if your child can not put them back in we ask that they don’t wear them on PE days to ensure they don’t get lost.
Home Learning
In Year 3 we follow the school policy on home reading and ask that your child is reading at least three times a week to an adult, for each home read they will be rewarded with a raffle ticket for the weekly book raffle.
We will also be sending home a times table record book. Our expectation is that the children practice their tables at home at least three times a week. This can be writing them out, completing the tasks we will send home or on the interactive computer app Times Tables Rockstars. If you haven’t used it before this is a great programme that allows the children to practices tables in a fun, safe interactive way that we are able to monitor and control in school.
We will also be sending home six spellings every week for your child to practise.
Behaviour
We follow the school behaviour policy and believe in praise and positive reinforcement. In both classrooms, we have zoneboards where the children are rewarded if they finish at the top of the board. On the rare occasions a child ends the day at the bottom of the zoneboard, they may be asked to stay in at playtime.
We are really looking forward to working with your children this year, seeing the great progress they make and creating lots of happy Warren Park memories. If at any time you do have any questions, queries or problems please don’t hesitate to come in and speak to us.
Year 3 Team
