Welcome to Waterloo Bridge Class
Class teacher – Miss Brown
Teaching assistants – Mrs Preston and Mrs Patel
We are pleased to welcome your child to Waterloo Bridge class and are grateful for your help and support.
Recommended reading books for Year 3:
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Reading
Children are asked to read at home on a daily basis and their book should be brought to school each day. It is helpful if parents can comment regularly in their child’s Reading Record, particularly when their child has finished their book. Children are responsible for changing and selecting their own books in the morning.
Homework
Children will be given homework each Friday to be handed in by the following Tuesday. Children are also asked to learn spellings and times tables at home. They are responsible for recording their homework in their homework diary.
Other
Children are asked to bring to school a water bottle. They should have a waterproof coat when it is raining or the forecast is for rain.
It was lovely to speak to parents on School Cloud last week. We will see parents on Tuesday and Wednesday again this week and still have availability. If you have not already booked your appointment you can do so using https://howardprimary.schoolcloud.co.uk/. Please speak to your child’s teacher or e-mail us on year3@howard.croydon.sch.uk.
- This week our learning will be as follows;
- In English we will write a playscript based on Into the Forest by Anthony Browne.
- In Mathematics we will learn to find fractions of a whole and on finding and counting in tenths.
- In Science we will continue our work on shadows.
- In RE we will begin a new unit on Christmas symbolism.
- In Relationship and Health Education we are following a unit of work on celebrating diversity.
We are running virtual Parents’ Evening Appointments on School Cloud on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for the next two weeks. Don’t forget to log in to School Cloud to book your appointment.
https://howardprimary.schoolcloud.co.uk/
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In English we will learn about the features of play scripts and write our own play based on Into the Forest by Anthony Browne.
- In mathematics we will learn how to use unit and non unit fractions.
- In science we will make shadow puppets and investigate how the distance of the puppet from the light source affects the size of the shadow.
- In history we will learn about Bronze Age mining.
- In Relationship and Health Education we will introduce a new scheme of work called Jigsaw.
- In computing we will introduce a new programming unit using Scratch.