This year your child’s class teacher is Mrs Beecher, who is also the French lead and Music lead. Working in our classroom we are have Mrs Merryweather who is our teaching assistant, Mrs Reilly who will be teaching the children on Mondays and Friday mornings. In addition to that, we have a specialist teacher, Mrs Bailey who comes in to teach Music.
Reading
The children read every day, in school, as part of individual or guided reading activities. However, reading at home is also important in helping the children to make progress and apply the skills they have learnt in school. Please use ‘Seesaw’ to record pictures or videos or comments about your child’s reading. You can encourage your child to add these themselves.
Proud Cloud
The children help to choose the target for the ‘Proud Cloud’ from our ‘Links Learning Powers’ and the aim is to get everyone’s names up on the cloud by the end of the week.
Certificates
We have weekly certificates for ‘Star of the Week’, ‘Writer of the Week’ and ‘Mathematician of the Week’. I will also award certificates to children who read at home and have shown this on ‘Seesaw’.
P.E.
P.E. currently takes place on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon. The children need to come dressed for P.E. (white top and navy bottoms), making sure it’s suitable for outdoor as well as indoor activities.
Children will receive their spellings on a Monday, these will be assigned on ‘Ed Shed’ and a paper copy will also be given. Spellings will be tested on the following Monday morning.
Time Tables
Times tables are extremely important. Children need to be able to recall multiplication and division facts for 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables. Please practice these at home regularly. All children have access to ‘Times Table Rock Stars’ and this is a fantastic tool to helping them learn and recall their tables. https://ttrockstars.com/
Break Time Snack/Water
KS2 – can bring in a healthy snack – fruit/veg only. We also strongly encourage your child has a water bottle in school to keep them hydrated throughout the day
Marvellous Me
‘Marvellous Me’ is used to send messages and reminders as well as to let you know when your child/children are doing particularly well with a project or activity in school, including ‘Star of the Week’, ‘Writer of the Week’ and ‘Mathematician of the Week’.
Seesaw
‘Seesaw’ is used regularly to add photographs of the activities your child/children have been involved in. We also encourage the children to record their reading on ‘Seesaw’ at least three times per week.
Dates
Please remember that all key dates of latest school news can be found on our website and the weekly newsletter. I will continue to update you via Marvellous me and Parent mail if any new dates are added or any dates are changed.
Contact
If you have any questions or queries throughout the year please do not hesitate to get in touch. You can contact me through the school telephone number and leave a message and I will get back to you.
Alternatively, you can email me on
year3@thelinksprimary.org.uk
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Beecher, Mrs Merryweather and Mrs Reilly
