Welcome to Class 3C - St Mary

STAFF: Miss Claffey

Autumn 2024

Key Information

Class Assembly - 7th May 2025 (taking place at school)

Class Mass - 24th June 2025 (taking place at St Mary's Church)

Sacramental Programme Dates:

Meeting 1 - 26th February 2025

Celebration Mass - 2nd March 2025

Meeting 2 - 2nd April 2025

First Confession - Tuesday 8th April 2025 at 6:30pm

Meeting 3 - 11th June 2025

Holy Communion Mass - 22nd June 2025 at 1pm

PE

PE will take place weekly on Monday and Wednesday.

On Mondays we will be inside using the hall, therefore indoor kit can be worn:

1. White shirt
2. Navy Blue shorts
3. Trainers

ALL children should come to school dressed in their PE kit and remain in this all day. 

Outdoor PE lessons will be on Wednesday. Outdoor PE kit includes:

1. White shirt
2. Navy Blue shorts (plain, navy tracksuit bottoms weather dependent)
3. Trainers
4. School jumper/plain, navy jumper
5. Suitable waterproof jacket (weather dependent)

During the Summer Term when swimming is taking place, children should come into school in their school uniform and bring their swimming kit with them in a suitable bag. This should include:

1. Costume
2. Towel
3. Swimming cap (for long hair)

Girls:-

• One-piece swimming costume – no bikinis*
• A swimming hat is required to be worn if the hair covers the eyes or airways
• A towel
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* Please note that in order for your child to benefit from the swimming lessons appropriate aquatic clothing must be worn. Should your children wish to wear items of clothing that cover up parts of the body, there are specific aquatic clothing designed for this purpose. Cotton leggings are detrimental to teaching and are a risk to health and safety.

Boys:-

• A pair of traditional swimming trunks
• A swimming hat is required to be worn if the hair covers the eyes or airways
• A towel 

No Bermuda or long shorts are allowed, as these can be dangerous - for reasons of safety the swimwear should be sufficiently tight fitting to allow the freedom of body and limb movement without causing unsafe water resistance.  

Jewellery of any description should not be worn in the School Swimming lesson.  It is important that earrings in particular are removed.

Goggles are only permitted for medical reasons.  Parents must produce a letter from either a Doctor or Optician to state that your child has a medical condition and is required to wear goggles in the school swimming lesson.

HOME LEARNING

Children are expected to complete home learning activities to help with their Maths and English.

SPELLINGS - Given out on a Monday to practise. They will be tested on Friday. 

READING EGGS - Weekly lessons set at your child's reading level - expected to be completed weekly.

MATHS SEEDS or MYMATHS - Online activities linked to classwork - they are expected to complete the weekly activities when set.

TIMESTABLES ROCKSTARS - Children should be aiming to practice their multiplication and division fact recall as often as possible. 5-10 minutes each day is ideal. Knowledge of these facts feeds into almost all other mathematical units we cover throughout the year. Short, frequent practice can be the most useful to support your child with progress in maths. 

CURRICULUM

RE

This term we will be exploring the themes of Families, Baptism and belonging as well as the season of Advent and our preparations for Christmas. We will also explore Caritas topics including the dignity of the human person, families and communities.​ We will be taking part in Collective Worship as part of our ongoing journey within our faith.

English

In English we will be developing our reading, writing, spelling and grammar skills through a range of fiction writing and non-fiction opportunities. The focus this half term will be on strengthening our writing through character descriptions and narratives, exploring the story of The Stone Age Boy. We will also be learning how to logon to the Google Chromebooks and will be writing a set of instructions about this! Our class reads for this half term will be The Stolen Spear and and Flat Stanley. 

Reading

Guided reading sessions, whole class reading sessions and our daily class read will enable children to develop their reading skills and comprehension alongside an ever growing love of reading. 

Reading at home

We encourage parents to read with their child for 30 mins every night. This can be a school book or a book from home. 

Reading Records should be signed daily and brought in everyday for a member of staff to sign and change the book where necessary. 

Maths

At the beginning of this term we will start by exploring the topic of place value, learning to represent and partition numbers to 1000. We will then move onto addition and subtraction, learning formal column addition and subtraction methods with 3-digit numbers. Finally we will explore our first multiplication and division unit, learning our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

Keep learning your times tables - You should know your 2s, 5s and 10s from Year 2 and will be learning your 3s, 4s and 8 times tables in Year 3!

Practise your times tables everyday by logging onto Times Tables Rockstars and working on the battles and completing soundchecks regularly!

Science

This term we will be exploring forces and magnets, looking at different types of forces and the relationship between north and south poles on magnets. We will then learn about rocks and soils, exploring the development of fossils as well as different types of rocks and soils. 

Topic

In Topic, we will enjoy learning all about the Stone Age and the development of the earliest civilisations. We will look at how the people lived, their houses and their culture before moving on to looking at Mountains in Geography. In Art, we will explore cave paintings linked to our Stone Age topic. In Computing, we will explore connecting computers and how the internet works as well as creating media through desktop publishing. 

PSHE

Throughout the summer term we will be looking at the module 'Created and Loved by God' which explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are made in the image and likeness of God, it helps children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships. For any further information please see the TenTen parent portal.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

Children have been given logins for:

- Reading Eggs

- Spelling Shed

- Times Tables Rock Star

- My Maths

These apps and webpages are fantastic resources for the children to access independently to help improve their core skills of reading, spelling and times tables. 

Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.