 They are soon to be Year 3 and …. in the JUNIORS!!!!!!

USP Unique Selling Point  Your children  Our community  Looking for VALUE

Our School  ‘Happiness at the Heart of Learning’  High expectations of everyone  Valued, effective staff  Very good organisation systems  Excellent quality of teaching  Fantastic pupils  Expanded building- good facilities

Values led  Respect  Self confidence  SEAL

What’s our child’s new school like?  Presence of staff on the playground  Informative website  Newsletters  Wellbeing team of staff  Assertive Mentoring - half termly reports on your child’s progress  Opportunities to come in to join learning

Happy Individuals  Class contracts  Home school agreement  Investor in Pupils  Social Emotional Aspects of Learning  Aware of their own potential but respectful of others  Clear behaviour policies with positive approach but clear sanctions

Year 3 team  Miss Lattimore – team leader  Miss Haukim – current Year 3 teacher  Mr Papadarkis – joining our school with recent experience of Year 3, 5 and 6  A team of teaching and learning support assistants  Mrs Kelly working with Miss Lattimore until she starts her maternity leave

Transition programme  Playtime  Assembly  Lunch  Show  Tried and tested routines  Meet new teachers next Tuesday  Very good relationship with the Infants school

Pupils engaged in their learning

Your child will be given:  A planner  A school pencil case  Contents for the pencil case  School dictionary  Log-ins for: Bug Club (reading tool), Mathletics, Fronter for homework, homework book

You can…..  Visit our school library with your child after school on a Monday and Tuesday  Help your child save at our school bank  Come to gardening club on a Wednesday lunchtime  Volunteer in class –will need a DBS check

Children Involved  From ringing the bell in the morning..  School Council, eco warriors, maths ambassadors, reading champions  Planners - homework  Clubs- early morning, lunch and after school( will be getting a letter)  Investors in Pupils

 To be in the playground by 8.45am when the bell sounds  Send with dinner money or packed lunch and P.E. kit  Expect to have a reading book and planner come home  Not take them out of school for dentist or doctor appointments  Bring to school unless they have been sick or have a temperature  Speak with us if you have any concerns You need:

Exciting New National Curriculum  National Curriculum with a Whitehall ‘twist’  Some ability grouping-much learning from one another  Will be taught French and learn the recorder (other instruments in Year 4)  Will go swimming in Year 5  Will have at least one educational experience offsite per term

If your child has additional needs  We have an Inclusion Team  Coordinator of Special Needs – Louise Huse  Special Needs teacher – Kim Hague  EAL coordinator - Heather Brooks  G&T coordinator - Joanne Norman  All teachers will offer Quality First Teaching  Learning mentors- Debbie Simmonds and Bina Gadher  Service Family Support Worker – Louise Mullins

Teaching respect  Modelling by all adults  Simple courtesies  Some conversations need to be private = off the playground  Sanctions  Uniform  Bullying- keeping safe and secure policy

Uniform expectations – all named!  Red jumper  White shirt  Black trousers skirt  Headwear in school colours  Black shoes or trainers  P.E. kit in named bag to stay in school red top and black shorts/trousers and change of shoes

Ongoing partnership  September meeting with teachers  October achievement report  Early morning and after school  Inform about life outside school  Parents and Friends Association  Governors  Parent group- Leading Parent Partnership Award

Family matters

September 2014 and beyond…  Lovely children in supportive community;  Excellent Ofsted and good follow up audits;  Very good standards of attainment and rates of progress;  Focus on high expectations, good teaching of the basics and motivational learning;  Good partnership as we move forward.