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.
We had a great visit to Get Fired and Stone Age Dress up day last week. We will be building on these activities in our learning this week.
- In mathematics we will learn to estimate the answers to addition and subtraction calculations and to check our answers using the inverse operation.
- In English we will plan and write a set of instructions for painting a pottery tile.
- In topic time we will create our own cave paintings.
- In Science we will investigate magnets.
- In PE we will develop our ball skills and learn to play benchball.
Congratulations to Emiliana who represented the school in Cross Country Running on Thursday and to Mariah, Kianna and Bianca who came second in Howard’s Got Talent last Saturday.
Our second Parent’s Evening is on Thursday 19th October. Don’t forget to make an appointment if you have not already done so.
In Waterloo Bridge Class this week our learning will be as follows#
- In mathematics we will continue our work on addition and subtraction using the expanded written method. We will learn to estimate the answers to addition calculations.
- In English we will look at the features of instruction writing before writing our own instructions on how to paint a pottery tile. The work will draw on our visit to Get Fired.
- In Science we will investigate magnets.
- In topic time we look at examples stone age paintings and plan our own design to be painted on tile.
In RE we will look at the story of Rama and Sita
We are looking forward to our visit to Get Fired on Wednesday and out Stone Age dress up day on Friday.