Class 3 - Miss Riddell & Mrs Trencher
Class 3's Our Wonderful Planet Museum: The children have made a fantastic museum with rocks, fossils, pressed flowers, conkers, minibeasts and lots of other things from our wonderful planet! I am so proud of them and have learned a lot from them and all the research they have done to write their labels for each exhibit.
Thank you and well done, Class 3.
Thank you and well done, Class 3.
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April 2024
The term started well with our trip to the Black Country Museum last week. Hopefully, we will have some brighter, warmer weather this term and will be able to take some of our learning outside.
Just before the Easter holidays, the children wrote some fantastic prayers having learned about Holy Week and the Easter story, as well as some of the ways in which Easter is celebrated. These are just a few of them. The children take turns in reading out their prayers each day before lunchtime.
Below is the overview for this term, but, as always, please ask if you have any questions or if we can help in any way.
The term started well with our trip to the Black Country Museum last week. Hopefully, we will have some brighter, warmer weather this term and will be able to take some of our learning outside.
Just before the Easter holidays, the children wrote some fantastic prayers having learned about Holy Week and the Easter story, as well as some of the ways in which Easter is celebrated. These are just a few of them. The children take turns in reading out their prayers each day before lunchtime.
Below is the overview for this term, but, as always, please ask if you have any questions or if we can help in any way.
Summer term planning
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January 2024
Happy New Year! It's lovely to see the children back and ready to learn this term, and to hear about all they've been up to in the holidays. Hope you all had a good break.
We'll be reading The Bear under the Stairs In English this term, along with the Bear and the Piano, learning the skills to retell a story, as well as letter writing. In maths, we have just finished our unit on money and are now moving on to multiplication and division.
We had a fun lesson in Science this week, learning about plants and labelling the different parts of them (e.g. stem, leaves, roots) and beginning to explain what each part does. The children really impressed us with what they knew and were excited to suggest experiments and investigations we could try!
The details of our units in PSHE, DT, Music, History and RE are listed below (in the Planning and Timetable section).
As always, please let us know if you need anything, either by email ([email protected]) or at the gate in the mornings.
Dates for the Spring term
Children return to school 8th January
Half Term 19th - 23rd February
Parents Evenings 12th & 13th March
Science Day & Open Afternoon 19th March
Egg Rolling 21st March
Cricket Taster Day 22nd March
End of Term 22nd March
Days children not at school.
Children return to school 8th January
Half Term 19th - 23rd February
Parents Evenings 12th & 13th March
Science Day & Open Afternoon 19th March
Egg Rolling 21st March
Cricket Taster Day 22nd March
End of Term 22nd March
Days children not at school.
November 2023
The term is flying past and the children are enjoying their Nativity rehearsals! We're looking forward to Decoration Day this Friday (1st December) and lots of other fun planned between now and the holidays.
If you would like to see more of how we teach Phonics and ways to help your child, please have a look on the Little Wandle website, but feel free to ask if you have any questions. The children have just recapped the Phase 5 sounds and are moving on to Spelling strategies. For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk). The website shows the phonics covered in Reception and Year 1, as well as tips on sounding out and blending.
Thank you all for your support.
The term is flying past and the children are enjoying their Nativity rehearsals! We're looking forward to Decoration Day this Friday (1st December) and lots of other fun planned between now and the holidays.
If you would like to see more of how we teach Phonics and ways to help your child, please have a look on the Little Wandle website, but feel free to ask if you have any questions. The children have just recapped the Phase 5 sounds and are moving on to Spelling strategies. For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk). The website shows the phonics covered in Reception and Year 1, as well as tips on sounding out and blending.
Thank you all for your support.
Friday 8th September - We've had a really good couple of weeks. The children have settled in brilliantly.
We had a lovely afternoon today making bird feeders outside (in our Forest School area) as part of our Science topic for this half term. The children worked really well together, helping each other with the different parts of the task.
They have also come home today with a login and password for Times Tables Rock Stars. The children in KS2 have been using this website to work on their times tables for a while and Class 3 are keen to give it a try. We will have a good look at it in school over the next couple of weeks, but if they would like to give it a try at home before then, then please do. That would be great.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
We had a lovely afternoon today making bird feeders outside (in our Forest School area) as part of our Science topic for this half term. The children worked really well together, helping each other with the different parts of the task.
They have also come home today with a login and password for Times Tables Rock Stars. The children in KS2 have been using this website to work on their times tables for a while and Class 3 are keen to give it a try. We will have a good look at it in school over the next couple of weeks, but if they would like to give it a try at home before then, then please do. That would be great.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Autumn term 2023
Hope you've all had a fantastic summer. We're looking forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 29th August and hearing all about what you've been up to! We have lots planned for this term. The timetable and plans are attached below and some "Knowledge Organisers", which give more detail about what the children will be learning.
Our PE days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Please could the children continue to come in their PE kits on those days, as well as bringing in a water bottle. Please could bottles, uniform and PE kit be named, if possible. It really helps us!
We'll have an "Author in the Spotlight" each half term, starting with Lauren Child, who wrote the the Charlie and Lola stories. If the children have any stories written by her that they would like to share, we would love to see them. If you could write their names in the books, that would be great to avoid any confusion! Thank you.
We also have a class Reading Scrapbook, which one child will take home each Friday and return by the following Thursday. They choose a favourite book and include some writing about why they like it, draw or print out some pictures from it, create a collage - anything that shows us why they like the book. They can be as creative as they like! The book can be any genre - fiction, non-fiction, poetry. It doesn't matter. The idea is to get the children interested in and enthusiastic about reading!
We will keep you updated with things that are going on and ways to help your children, but if you need anything, please don't hesitate to ask, either send an email to our class address ([email protected]) or catch us at the gate in the mornings.
Jo Riddell and Kerry Trencher
Dates for your diary:
Term starts Tuesday 29th August
Class 3 Welcome meeting Tuesday 12th September (3.35pm)
Harvest service (St Marys) Wednesday 20th September (9.30am)
School photographs Tuesday 10th October
Open afternoon Wednesday 11th October (2pm-3pm)
Last day of half term Friday 13th October
Half Term 16th - 20th October
Teacher Training Day 23rd October
End of Term 22nd December
Planning and timetable information
Spring 2024
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