Welcome to 3R
Welcome to 3R! We are looking forward to a year full of fun, teamwork and being the best we can be. We value relationships above all else and so have included information to help us work together to support your child. Please keep checking in throughout the year to find out what we have been up to.
Our School Day
Our school day begins at 8.45am each day. We will all line up in the playground ready for a calm, focused start to our day and learning. We ask that children are ready in line for this time in order for us to maximise learning time.
Our school day ends at 3.15pm and we will exit via the Lower Key Stage 2 door in order to greet you on the playground. Please bear with us as we queue on the ramp to dismiss each child one at a time to their adult. If your child is being collected by a different adult, please let us know.
Class Councillor
Our class councillor is Isla. She will attend meetings every week, share ideas on our behalf and keep us informed of school events and decisions.
Water Bottles and Snacks
We are a healthy school and believe that hydration and sustenance are important in order to learn successfully. Therefore, we ask that your child brings a bottle of water to school every day. They will be encouraged to take this out to play with them at break and lunch and drink regularly through the day.
At morning break time, your child has the opportunity to eat a snack. We ask that this is inline with our healthy schools policy and so is a piece of fruit, fruit and nut bar, crackers, cheese etc. We ask that this is not chocolate, sweet or cake please.
Homework
KIRFs
Our KIRFs are the recall facts that support our maths curriculum. With a firm grasp and quick recall of these, your child will be well armed to succeed in their mathematics learning. These will be sent home every week with examples of links or activities you could use to help this. Please practise these as regularly as possible.
READING COMPREHENSION
In order to support their learning in reading, your child will be sent home with a reading comprehension activity every week. They will mark this in class every Friday in order to reflect on the answers they have given and learn from them.
HOME READING
Home reading is a crucial way to support your child's progress as reading is a key skill that is used across the primary curriculum. We have benchmarked your child at the beginning of the year to ensure that they are reading a book at the correct challenge level and have used this to create targets.
We will read with your child every week in school and you will be notified of this in their reading record.
When your child reads at home they can out a sticker on their reading chart. Upon completion they are awarded this certificate in celebration assembly.
Age related expectations for Year 3 are book bands 23 and 24. We will put in place any support needed to help your child to meet this but regular reading at home, daily if possible, will enable them to make as much progress as possible.
SPELLINGS
Every week your child will be set spellings linked to the English curriculum. These will wither be linked to a spelling rule we will be learning in school or from the statutory word list.
TEST
Spelling and KIRF tests will take place each Friday.
Homework Projects
Each half-term the children will have the opportunity to complete a homework project linked to the current curriculum. We have had some amazing projects in the past and hope that as many children as possible will submit a piece of work.
Projects can take the form of a model, a piece of writing, research on the computer or artwork. This half-term we are inviting children to work on a project linked to our history topic of The Industrial Revolution. They may want to create a poster about the revolution, mills, machines, jobs in the mill or anything that takes their interest.
Uniform
Please ensure that your child is well equipped with their school uniform including a tie. Please ensure they wear black school shoes. If they do not have these, they will be given a pair of black school pumps to wear for the day.
Please ensure these are named in order to help us find them if they get misplaced during getting changed for PE or on a hot day.
PE
Our PE sessions take place on a Monday afternoon and a Wednesday morning. Please ensure your child has their kit on school for this.
Our PE kit is:
- a blue or white t-shirt
- black or blue shorts or tracksuit
- black pumps
- a pair or trainers
This can be brought in a named PE kit which will live on their peg. Please ensure all items are clearly named.