Welcome to Class 3

All About Us

General Information

 In Class 3, we follow a broad and balanced curriculum to allow our children to be successful learners, develop independence and be responsible citizens. We are ambitious and want our children to develop positive relationships with adults as well as their peers, this will then allow them to be confident individuals ready to be successful in the next stages of their lives. Children will be challenged with their work, in order to help them fulfil their learning potential.

Class 3 have PE on a Thursday and go for swimming lessons on a Friday morning during the Spring Term. We have a music specialist on a Wednesday afternoon, who supports the delivery of our music curriculum. Our kitchen time is a Thursday Morning, during the year we will cook a range of items, looking at food preparation skills and considering the healthy swaps we could make.

As a school we also have 2 mini buses, which we try to use as much as possible during the school year to enhance our learning and experience capital culture.

English

In Class 3 we aim to teach our English Curriculum using a class book. This term we are using Meerkat Mail as our key text. Through the book we will look at comprehension skills such as inference and deduction. We will also use the text to support the teaching of grammar. Alongside this, we will be reading a class story at the end of each day, to instil a love for reading in the pupils.

Maths

As a school we follow the White Rose long term plan, encouraging children to develop their learning using the concrete – pictoral – abstract approach (CPA). On a morning, children complete ‘Morning Maths’ work, normally focussing on the four main operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. On Friday’s children will have the opportunity to practice using money and spending money in a real-world situation, with our ‘Rewards Shop.’ Children also practice their times tables in numerous ways such as chanting, actions, singing, worksheets and ‘Times Table Rock Stars.’ We will also have weekly times table assessments.