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:
Best Books for Year 3 | Ages 7-8 | BooksForTopics
Expertly selected books for 7 and 8 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
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 hope that everyone has had a great Easter weekend and is finding the websites which we posted last week helpful. This week we would like to suggest some activities which might help with fitness and well being.
Physical Activity
We know that many families will be trying to stay fit at this time. We previously provided details of the Real P.E website. The children have been following the Real P.E programme at school and can now access the website and access activities at home using the following detail.
The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com
Parent email: parent@howardprim-1.com
Password: howardprim
If you log onto facebook and join their closed group-you can then post photos of you and the family taking part in these activities. They have weekly competitions with winners announced on their facebook page. There are all sorts of different prizes so have a go!
Facebook: Join our real PE at home – tips & ideas
Other useful sites for keeping fit are;
- Cosmic Kids Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
• The Body Coach: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
• Fitness activities for kids https://www.youtube.com/user/5adayTV
Health and Well-being
Click on the link below and you will be sent through to some amazing resources that will help create routines for children at home and different things children (supported by parents/carers) can do to keep happy and healthy-including looking after their emotional health. . Have a look at the well-being wheel-5 different daily tasks to keep your mind and body healthy during this difficult time (Day 6). This is updated daily so will be useful to keep looking back at the website whenever you can.
Supporting children’s mental health – Harold’s Daily Diary
Harold the giraffe is posting daily ideas. This is going down really well, particularly with younger children.
https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/harolds-daily-diary
Reading
We hope that your child is being able to keep up with their reading and is finding the websites recommended last week helpful. In addition audio books for children are available at https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Audio books can help children to access books at a level just above their reading ability. They also allow children to listen to stories while doing other activities or can just be an enjoyable way of accessing a story.
Music
Please see attached week 4 of the Out of the Ark music resources.
Please see attached the latest reading from The Twits. I will post the next reading on Tuesday after the bank holiday weekend.