1. Welcome to Year

2. Staff in Year 3 Miss Turnbull Class Teacher Mrs Walsh
Teaching Assistant
Ms King
Teacher - Fridays

3. Typical Day
8.50am – 9.00am Registration 9.00am – 9.20am Spelling/handwriting 9.20am – 10.00am Maths 10.00am – 10.15am Worship 10.15am – 10.30am Break 10.30am – 10.50am Maths 10.50am – 11.45am English 11.45am – 12.10pm Reading 12.10pm – 1.10pm Lunch 1.10pm – 3.10pm Curriculum sessions

4. Class Routines
Changing reading books – bug club will be changed as the children are ready and children need to have these in school everyday. Children are currently being reassessed but will get a book by the end of this half term.
Children will have the opportunity to change their library books weekly but are welcome to keep them for longer.
PE lessons – Tuesday afternoon and Friday mornings

5. What has changed from year 2?
KS2 – older half of school
No free milk or fruit – however they can bring some fruit in if they want for morning play
No afternoon play
Different cloakroom and toilets
New routines – leave book bags on pegs and bring in reading, spelling and library books and put in trays
Shorter lunchtime – instead of 12.00
Different playground

6. School Uniform For Girls:
Grey skirt/pinafore dress/smart school trousers Gold or bottle green polo shirt or white blouse Bottle green jumper or cardigan Summer - Green or yellow check/stripe dress
For Boys:
Grey (not black) smart school trousers (or shorts in summer) Gold or bottle green polo shirt or White shirt Bottle green jumper or cardigan
Boys & Girls:
Black sensible school shoes (flat heels) or plain black trainers Black pumps

7. PE Uniform
P.E. and games kit Black PE Shorts Plain round necked t-Shirt (in team colour) Change of socks Trainers for outdoor activity (on days required) – will wear black pumps for indoor activity Jogging bottoms, sweatshirt/waterproof coat (for outdoor PE) Teams and colours: LION - Red TIGER - Blue PANTHER - Yellow JAGUAR – Green Pupils must remove all jewellery for PE lessons.

8. IMPORTANT: IDENTIFICATION OF CLOTHING AND PROPERTY
Naming clothing
IMPORTANT: IDENTIFICATION OF CLOTHING AND PROPERTY
Please mark all items of clothing, footwear and other property brought to school with the child's name.
Lost property boxes are located in the cloakrooms but these get really full and are hard to return to the correct owner without names!

9. Art / Design Technology
Curriculum
Core Subjects:
English
Maths
Science
ICT RE
Foundation Subjects:
History / Geography
Music PE
Art / Design Technology
PSHCE
French

10. Homework
Reading and discussing a book with an adult at least three times a week. Please record this in your child’s reading record book and on their challenge sheet if applicable
Weekly spellings (Ms King to test and give out on a Friday) multiplication tables (your child will tell you which timetable they are working on)
A Maths, Literacy or Topic task given out on a Wednesday and expected back on a Monday
Termly/half termly topic challenge

11. Topics
The Stone Age
What makes the earth angry (earthquakes and natural disasters)
Lowry
Plants
Saltaire
Healthy eating
Roald Dahl

12. Trips & Visits
The Yorkshire Museum of Farming – Murton Park (The Stone Age) – 18th November = £27 per child
Chinese New Year workshop – 10th January Dance =
= £20 per child
Saltaire (History topic) - Summer 1 (May/June – waiting for call back)
Eureka (Science) – (July – can’t book until Spring term) workshop and Gallery £7.25 plus coach …?

13. Rewards
We praise and reward children for good behaviour in a variety of ways:
verbal praise;
stickers or stamps;
ticks - certificates for every 10 ticks they receive;
achievement award and ethos award – one child from each class each week;
lunchtime award;
class rewards chart to encourage the children to work together;
all classes have an opportunity to lead a class assembly where they are able to show examples of their best work.

14. Discipline Traffic light system: Green – good behaviour
Amber – verbal warning
Red – spend 5 minutes in another classroom, reflecting on their behaviour.
Continued misbehaviour:
Work in another classroom for a longer period of time where they will be asked to copy out the class rules so they understand what part of their behaviour needs improving. They will also miss the next playtime. During this playtime they will be expected to discuss with an adult what they did and how this behaviour has impacted on themselves and others.
Meeting will be called between the classteacher and the parents. Following on from this meeting, a meeting with the headteacher would be requested if an improvement to behaviour had not occurred.
If a child threatens, hurts or bullies another pupil, the class teacher records the incident and the child is punished. If a child repeatedly acts in a way that disrupts or upsets others, the school contacts the child’s parents and seeks an appointment in order to discuss the situation, with a view to improving the behaviour of the child.

15. General Information
Friday Worship 9.00am – please join us Church services – You are welcome to join us for ANY Church services (including Y6 leavers’ service). Trips – I would love you to come along. Sometimes spaces are limited but please let me know if you are interested. PTA – You are all automatically members of the PTA, please join us for meetings or to help at any fundraising events. Talent/expertise – If you would like to share something with the class please let my know and I will feed that into my lessons. The more ‘real’ we can make it for the children the better.

16. Questions