Mr Wright, Mrs Payne, Mrs Hart and Mrs Milligan Welcome to Year 3 Mr Wright, Mrs Payne, Mrs Hart and Mrs Milligan

Diaries Children will be bringing home diaries this week. They will be used for recording homework and communicating. The diaries should be brought to school every day so that they can be used at school and at home.

Reading in Year 3 The children will continue to use the Accelerated reading programme, which involves reading books that they will bring home and back to school on a daily basis. When they have finished their book, they will take part in a quiz on the school computer before progressing to the next book. We aim to hear the children read in a group situation twice a week within the classroom. Reading for ten minutes before bedtime will have a big impact on your child’s English skills.

Expectations in Year 3 We try to encourage children to become more responsible for their own belongings. To help them with this, please could we ask that all items are labelled with their names. Children are able to bring in small, flat named pencil cases to use at designated times during the week.

Homework Reading is still very important for your children and we ask that you read to them or hear them read every day. Maths homework will be given three days a week, which involves the children answering three questions that night, based on their maths lesson that day. SPAG homework will also come home on a Friday. (A list of year 3/4 spellings will be given to parents so that you can support at home) The SPAG homework needs to be completed and returned by the following Wednesday. Occasionally we will give children little tasks to do related to their learning journeys.

Physical Education The children should have a PE bag containing: a red polo shirt, red PE shorts, red long socks, white short socks, trainers and for football/rugby - football boots. Earrings cannot be worn during PE lessons due to health and safety regulations. Therefore a disclaimer from the school office would need to be signed if your child has just had their ears pierced. Children can wear blue or black and jogging bottoms and red sweat shirts for outside games during cold weather. All children will participate in PE, unless a short note has been given to the teacher explaining why a child cannot join in. Swimming lessons for 3LW will commence on 15th September and 3WP/3HM after Christmas. Further details will follow.

Food and drink If your child would like to bring a snack, please can we ask that they bring a piece of fruit or vegetable. We do encourage children to bring water bottles to school so that they can drink at regular intervals. These bottles are kept in the classroom. As we are a healthy school please can you ensure that there is only water in the bottles. Other non fizzy drinks can be included in the lunch boxes.

The Creative Curriculum The children’s Learning Journey this term is all about Dinosaurs. We will let you know in future correspondence the Learning Journeys for the following terms.