Year 3 Newsletter
Welcome Back
A big welcome back to all the pupils! The teachers, Miss Connor, Miss Cooper
and Mr Cooper have been hard at work preparing for the new term and getting
the new Year 3 classrooms ready.
Curriculum
This term, Year 3 will be looking at Ed Stafford as part of their RESPECT curriculum. Ed
Stafford is a celebrated adventurer and he holds a Guinness World Record for being
the only person in the world to walk the entire length of the Amazon River. Stafford
trekked more than 4,000 miles through the Amazon—surviving hostile locals,
venomous snakes, and huge distances without food resupplies—for nearly two and a
half years (860 days).
During this topic, children as adventurers will travel to the Amazon rainforest,
through Brazil and Peru. We can’t wait to step in to the shoes of Ed Stafford and learn
all about the Amazon rainforest. We will need to show determination, team work and
resilience to overcome the many challenges we will face.
Home learning
To help support your child at home, we encourage parents to read with their child
daily! Frequent reading will enable your child to increase their language fluency,
comprehension skills and reading stamina and will help with all areas of the
curriculum. Please can children bring in their reading books and reading records daily,
this will help their teachers to do additional reading and change their books.
Support with homework where possible would help enable your child to progress
further throughout the year. Please take a look at our fantastic homework menus,
which you can find on the school website. English and Maths homework is given out
on Thursday and is due in the following Wednesday. We also ask that the children
practice their times tables as often as possible to help consolidate their skills.
Another excellent way to support your child at home, is by practising spelling their
high frequency words or practising the spelling rule they are being taught that week.
Please see the attached letter for more information.
General information
We are really looking forward to our PE sessions with City in the Community sports
coaches every Thursday. For safety reasons, please ensure that your child brings
appropriate footwear for these lessons. Can we also try and avoid sending children in
with earrings on these days, to avoid any possibility of injury.
Club letters will be sent out in due course. Please return reply slips as soon as
possible to guarantee your child’s place.
During breaktimes, fruit is available for children to purchase. The cost for fruit is 20p
a day or you can send in £1 on a Monday to pay for the week.
Our Year 3 Team –
JC – Miss Connor
EC – Miss Cooper
AC – Mr Cooper
Miss Mooney, Miss Hill, Mrs. Rigby and Mr. Fletcher.
If you do have any concerns or need more information, please speak to one of the
class teachers on the playground before school, or make an appointment through the
school admin office.
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook where you will be able to catch up on our class
news!
Here’s to a fantastic year