Getting ready for next yearMeet your new year 3 team for September 2019

(this presentation will be on the school website)

Your year group team

Mrs Jackman (Tuesday – Friday)3J class teacher

Mrs O’Hara (Monday 3J)

Mr Ballantine3B class teacher

Mrs Major3M class teacher

Teaching Assistants (Year 3&4)

Mrs Jackson , Mr Kingsley, Mrs Sheldrake, Mrs

Yousaf

Friends of Chase Bridge – our PTA

Jo Humphreys

What does Friends of

Chase Bridge do?

Community,

communication,

curriculum and class reps

Cash!

Inclusive – every parent,

staff member, child is a

Friend!

Can you help? YES!

Admin and paperwork!You will be sent information about:

Our Chase Bridge Agreement

An updated ‘permissions slip’

Next year’s activities, trips and visits

Parent contribution for our annual

trips and children’s workshops: £35.00

Reading list: fiction and non-fiction

linked to topics

More to come in September …

Chase Bridge Agreement:Excel at Learning, Express your Talents, Care for Others

Our vision is for all children to

• excel at learning, be able to

• express their talents and know how to

• care for others.

Your child’s happiness and success at Chase Bridge

is a shared responsibility between the home,

school and all sections of the school community.

Children’s Responsibilities

Responsibilities of Parents

School and Staff Responsibilities

Governors’ Responsibilities

Chase Bridge Agreement:updates … on-line behaviour

Children’s Responsibilities

• behave sensibly and responsibly

with on-line activities

Responsibilities of Parents

• Help your child use digital

technology in an

appropriate way

Uniform and school bagsPlease refer to the uniform policy

and remember that:

No jewellery should be worn apart from a plain watch and small stud earrings

Plain black school shoes no boots or sport shoes & school socks

Long hair should be tied up no fussy hair accessories or shaved patterns

Children come into school in

their P.E kit – Thursday spare kit is no longer available

Bagsplain, compact/sensible small size

Being prepared

A small pencil case containing …

a pencil,

handwriting pen,

pencil sharpener,

rubber,

glue stick,

high-lighter pens,

colouring pens and pencils

Start and end of the day Children enter school via the back playground. There is supervision in the

playground from 8:30. Classroom doors open at 8:45 and the whistle blows at 8:50

for the start of the day.

Children are dismissed from the hall. They wait in the hall until they see an adult.

Children who are not collected on time are sent to the office area to wait.

Looking forward to learning

Year 3 topics and themes …

Poles Apart:

A study of the

Arctic and Antarctic

Stone Age to

Iron Age: A

study of life and

change in the pre-

Roman era of the

British Isles

All year 3 curriculum details are available on the website:http://www.chasebridge.richmond.sch.uk/Year-3

The year ahead – what to look forward to…

Wider Opportunities: Strings & Recorders

Curriculum based trips

Chiltern Open Air Museum, Gurdwara, Museum of Richmond, Pizza

Express

Egyptian Day

Safer Walking Training

Reading Writing (including

spelling, grammar

and punctuation)

Maths Extended tasks

(typically

linked to

curriculum

themes)

On-line

resources

Expectations of

children, parents

and teachers

Daily reading of

a range of books

and children

should make

diary comments

twice a week.

(10 minutes

daily)

Weekly spellings

using Spelling Shed

(5 minutes daily

practice) with

associated spelling

task (30 minutes

once a week)

Differentiated

task once a

week

reflecting

maths focus

that week.

(10-15

minutes once

a week)

Alternates

with

Mathletics

Topic based

activity sheet

given out with

curriculum

booklets, at the

start of each

topic.

Set

Mathletics

and Spelling

Shed

activities on

a fortnightly

basis

The main

responsibility for

completion of

homework rests

with the child

Diary must be

signed weekly by the

parent and teacher

(All of KS2)

Homework in Year 3

How you can help in school

Can you …

Help in class?

Listen to readers?

Volunteer in our

library?

Help on a school trip?

Share your expertise

with the children?

Please make sure you talk

to your class rep. and/or

teachers and attend one

of our new helper

induction sessions

Year 3 Reading listFlat Stanley by Jeff Brown

The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine

Roald Dahl Books

Beast Quest Books by Adam Blade

The owl who was afraid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson

Horrid Henry Books by Francesca Simon and Tony Ross

There’s a Pharaoh in our Bath by Jeremy Strong

The Time–Travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess, Julia Jarman

Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley

Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo

Look Inside the Stone Age by Abigail Wheatley

Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura

The Polar Bear Son by Lydia Dabcorich

The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris

Moving Up with Science

Forces and Magnets

Rocks and Soil

Plants

Light

Have a great summer holiday!