Year 3
Welcome to Year 3
Welcome to our class page! We hope you have had an amazing Summer holiday and we look forward to welcoming you into your new classroom and Key Stage 2.
Please click here to information that you will need this year.
Year 3/4 Spring Show – ‘You Are Special’
We are delighted to announce that our Year 3 and Year 4 show will be called ‘You Are Special’ based on the book by Max Lucado. The dates for our show are:
- Wednesday 26th March at 2:00pm
- Thursday 27th March at 2:00pm
The children are excited to perform this for you and have been given their roles and parts in the play. Some are speaking, some are singing but all children have a crucial part to play. Parents and families are welcome to come along on the above dates; the children will perform their show to the rest of the school as a dress rehearsal on Monday 24th March. Children have been sent home with their costume letters. We have given some suggestions as to clothing/costumes for the play, but appreciate anything you are able to contribute in terms of clothes/costumes. We would like this to be as hassle-free and cost effective as possible.
General information
Please send children into school wearing their PE kits on PE days. For Autumn term, this will be on Mondays and Tuesdays. For Spring term, this will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There will be some half-terms when our class will have a PE coach. This will mean that PE will be on a different day; you will be made aware if/when there is a change to our PE days.
Please note that Key Stage 2 children are not provided with free fruit at morning break. Please send your child in with fruit if you wish for them to have a snack. No cereal bars or any food product containing nuts.
We will provide everything the children need in terms of stationary and equipment for everyday use in the classroom, including a pencil case, so there’s no need to buy pencils, colouring pencils/felt tips etc.
SWIMMING
Swimming lessons begin on TUESDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2025.
They are scheduled to run until TUESDAY 8TH JULY 2025.
Children should attend school wearing their school PE kits and bring a separate swimming kit with them in a bag.
Their swimming kit should include:
- appropriate swimwear,
- a towel
- goggles
- Swim caps are permitted
- Please do not send children in with shower gel, shampoo/conditioner or deodorant. They will have a quick shower after they have been in the pool. They don’t need any accessories or toiletries.
- Earrings and jewellery are NOT permitted in the pool.
We will leave school for the swimming pool once the children have had their dinner and will return for the usual home-time of 3:30pm. Whilst we would like to stick to the time, there may be occasions where we are running slightly behind due to traffic. The children need to walk from the coach back to school. Please collect your child from the usual LKS2 gate; do not take them from the coach/line. The swimming lessons are co-ordinated and led by trained professionals who have had years of experience and the children will never be in the pool unsupervised.
Our curriculum overview is here.
Your class email address is year3@hollinsgrundy.com.
The class teacher will reply to class emails as soon as they are able to, but please speak to a member of staff on the gate or contact the office should there be any urgent issues.
| Who works in the class? | Mr McKenzie (Class Teacher)
Mrs Güler (Teaching Assistant) Mrs Moran (Thursday afternoon PPA cover) |
| What are this terms topics? | Science – What do rocks tell us about the way the Earth formed?
History – Who first lived in Britain? PE – Swimming and PE Coach-led activities |
| When are weekly spelling tests? | Friday.
Children can practice their spellings using the Spelling Shed, which can be found here – Ed Shed Login. |
| When is homework sent out? | Weekly – Spellings/Maths practice on Ed Shed.
Half-Termly – Homework grids. Children complete each task, which is worth a set number of housepoints. Each term, we will have a celebration day where children can bring in and showcase the work that they have completed. |
| What are procedures for reading books? |
Children are responsible for changing their own reading books in school. Reading books can be changed in school on any day and children need to let their teacher know when they have changed their book so their reading record can be updated. Teachers will prompt and remind the whole class each morning to change their books. *Children still on Read, Write, Inc will have their books changed weekly by their Read, Write, Inc teacher. Please send books into be changed every week. |
| When are PE days? | Tuesday
Thursday |
| PE kit is coloured house t-shirt (red, green, yellow or blue depending on house), black shorts and black pumps.
Later this academic year, Year 3 will have swimming lessons. They will need to bring their swimming kits into school on these days (Tuesday). Swimming kit should be appropriate length shorts (no speedos) or a swimming costume. This should be sent into school with a separate bag including a towel. Children are encouraged to bring goggles as well. More information will be sent out nearer the time. |
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| Rewards for hard work & good behaviour. | All children can earn house-points for their house and for themselves.
Smile Assembly celebrates achievements and good behaviour weekly with My Happy Mind Awards and an Always ticket draw. Class reward tokens will earn the whole class a reward when they reach 100. |
| Consequences for lack of effort and poor behaviour | Letters home for 3 Always tickets in a week lost or 3 Reflection Room sessions at lunchtime over a half-term |
