Cressing Primary School

WELCOME TO CLASS 3!

Dear Parents,

We would firstly like to warmly welcome you to Year 3! The children have been delightful and they have settled really well into our new class, already working hard and getting used to the expectations of Key Stage 2. We have been impressed with their enthusiasm and keenness to engage in all the learning, asking intelligent questions and explaining their thinking.

Please support your child to complete their homework, helping them where necessary. Homework will be given out online and children have logins in their reading diaries to access this homework. If you have any questions, please come to speak to us and we will do our best to help. There may be times when tasks are given out on paper but we will explain to the children if they are.

We really would appreciate you taking time to read with your child. Even 10 minutes practice a day can make a real difference to their progress. . Your child does not always have to read a school book. Any reading is beneficial.  Discuss their books with them and encourage them to read magazines, newspapers, poetry and information texts even if this is on the computer.

As your child progresses with their reading, most of the reading teaching in class will be part of guided reading. As children gain confidence with reading, guided reading is a very good way for children to develop reading comprehension skills and for us to guide them with their skills. Discussion which comes out of guided reading is extremely valuable and other peers can act as good role models.

Please also try to practise times tables at home alongside homework as these are crucial throughout Key Stage 2. They can do this via TT Rockstars or any other games or activities even if it is just counting in the car!

We will always encourage your child to achieve their best and work their hardest and keen trying even when things are tricky. Please reinforce this message at home. Progress is really important and we will always praise efforts and mastering those small steps.

House Keeping

• PE days are Monday and Thursdays. This term, our PE will be swimming so children will need their kit in school and Mr Chambers will be taking them.
• Homework will be set on Friday and should be completed by Thursday. Please log in online and ask if you have any questions.
• If you need to contact me urgently, please do this through the office- they will forward the email to me- however during a working day I rarely have time to look at my emails and anything that is an emergency may therefore be missed so please contact the office.
• No pencil cases needed in Year 3. But the children may use their own pencil cases in the afternoons if we are colouring etc.
• Our parent workshop will be on Thursday 2^nd October from 9:05 to 9:35.

Key Adults

Mrs. Sedgwick – Class teacher

Mr Chambers– PPA Cover on a Monday afternoon

Miss. Schonenberger – Learning Support Assistant

This Term’s Learning

Our main theme is ‘The Stone Age’. This is a Historical theme- we will be studying life in the Stone Age and how things changed throughout this period. We will be writing Stone Age recounts; looking at cave paintings in Art; in Science we will explore rocks and fossils, including the types of rocks and how fossils are formed, continuing on to question what is light.  In DT, we are going to design and make Stone Age purses/pouches.  In RE we will explore how people express commitment to a religion, focusing on different religions including Jewish, Sikh, Christian. As a class we will also be reading the book ‘Wild Robot’.

In Maths we will continually practise arithmetic skills, understanding place value and working on our addition and subtraction skills. We will then move onto multiplication although we will be covering this throughout the year with fluency practice.

We all look forward to working with you. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries

Kind Regards,

 The Year 3 Team