Miss Howard – Class Teacher

Mrs Gruszka – Monday’s Teacher

Mrs Sheldon – Teaching Assistant

Great start in transition! – Friendship Focus!

Great supportive network

Fab personalities!

Monday – Mrs Gruszka-The BIG Ten!- R.E- Science- Independent Literacy HourTuesday AM PE

Tue – Fri – Miss Howard Literacy/ Math/Guided Reading/individual readingLearning through theme/topic,Geography, History, ICT, Science, Music, Art, D&TPersonal, Social & Emotional DevelopmentFriday PMStudy Time

PE day is Tuesday Morning.

Class of the week reward – Extra P.E time – so would be ideal to keep PE kit in school throughout week.

PE Kit – White top, black shorts and trainers (long trousers for outdoor PE)

AIMS - to provide a creative, inclusive, challenging and real-world curriculum that inspires future thinkers, innovators and problem solvers in an immersive environment that stimulates and supports high quality learning.

1ST KEY ASPECT - Environmental Stimulus– This is a key teaching approach that promotes engagement for all learners. The classrooms have a variety of flexible learning spaces, which allow children to feel empowered to make daily decisions about how they would like to learn, therefore engaging them further.

All across the school

Y3 – Lucky to have already started this last year!

USEFUL, FLEXIBLE, SAFE AND COMFORTABLE SPACES/ AREAS TO LEARN IN!

2ND KEY ASPECT - Project based learning– is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working over a term to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge.

The projects are planned with the children’s interests in mind.

Therefore flexibility is a key point in where the topic and project will go depending on where the children will take their learning.

Children are guided to make choices that will influence the outcome of their exciting project. All work carried out has a real meaning with a significant endpoint in front of a valid audience. (Having a real audience enhances the quality in their work)

3RD KEY ASPECT - Critique–The children are empowered to complete multiple drafts of work to ensure that they are proud of their work and that it is of the highest quality possible.

Children are asked to follow three main rules when completing critique sessions; be kind, be helpful and be specific. The children are enthusiastic about making their work the best that it can be.

TGI Assembly – TRIED, GOOFED, IMPROVED!

Our immersive learning this term - ‘Famous Firsts’ All school has a History (past) focus. Our key question – What is the best British

invention? Classroom environment – Old inventors laboratory

into a new modern inventors workshop. Exploring inventors throughout the times, as well as

uncovering the history behind these times. This will also help us alongside our project of

creating our own inventions.

End Point/ meaningful audience – inventors’ fair – displaying their own inventions

Big Spell Activities Children will have a specific coded spelling

set that they will practice each morning. Each week day there will be a different

activity to undertake with these spellings. Every Monday, spellings will be checked by

an adult in a spelling test but will only be changed if children are using them consistently in their writing.

Independent Literacy Hour – It is up to the child to independently prove to us why they should move on.

Promoting Independence in a morning

Morning Tasks

• Levels have changed this year. Children’s progress will now be recorded in steps.

• Year 3 should be at step 24 by the end of Y3.

Reading every day at home- KS2 do not use reading diaries but any

information you or your child would like to tell us regarding their reading can be put in their school diary.

-Every child will have an individual reading session once a week – this is an opportunity to change book if needed but please state in diary if this is needed sooner.

Practice spellings Big Spellings Look at the tricky parts in the word. Put into sentences to understand the word in

context.