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.
Welcome back to everyone after the half term holiday. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematic we will be working on geometry. We will be learning to recognize angles as a property of shape or turn and to find right angles and angles bigger or smaller than right angles.
- In English we will start a new unit on film. We will start by exploring a short film entitled For the Birds.
- In science we will introduce a new topic on light and dark.
- In history we will learn about the Stone Age settlement at Skara Brae.
- In RE we will learn about how and why Hindus celebrate Diwali.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f5e87c” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]On 15th November we will be visiting the Cinema on Purley Way as part of Croydon film festival.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ea8bf1″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]We enjoyed our Stone Age dress up day on 18th October. Many thanks to parents and carers for organising the wonderful costumes.[/dropshadowbox]
The children enjoyed their visits to Get Fired last week and produced some beautiful artwork. Their tiles have been left in Get Fired to be fired in their kiln. The children will be able to take their tiles home after the half term holiday.
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will continue to use formal written methods to carry out addition and subtraction calculations. We will learn to check our answers using inverses.
- In English we will write instructions for making a Stone Age tile.
- In science we will test the strength of different magnets.
- In topic time we will continue our learning on the Stone Age.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#38d9c4″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]We are looking forward to our Stone Age dress up day on Friday and hope that as many children as possible will dress up.[/dropshadowbox]
