Hello and welcome to 3H’s class page

We are a class full of excitement and enthusiasm, and love to learn about the world around us! 3H have had a brilliant start to life in KS2 and have taken it all in their stride. They have worked hard to use their growth mindset when needed, and our daily 5-minute mind really helps us to remain calm and connect as a class. The children have used these to challenge themselves into being the best they can be!  Life in the classroom is very busy, but it is a fantastic, active learning environment – which is what we love! Everybody in 3H is thoughtful and thrive on each other’s successes while supporting each other when needed. We love to bring our learning alive and to use our own experiences to support our understanding. We are ready to work as a team to complete our first year in KS2 with great successes! We know that as a class we have the belief and determination to achieve great things in year 3!

Every day we are determined to show our MASTER values in everything we do; we have high expectations, and we are dedicated to being an Eaton Park person. We have worked as a class to incorporate the MASTER values into our own class rules for us to follow,

M – We will always make the right choices.

A – We will always challenge ourselves to be the best that we can be.

S – I will complete tasks that are given and have good presentation in my book.

T – I will be kind and helpful to others.

E – I will always be ready to learn.

R – I will always listen to others and use my manners.

We love to get carried away with our reading in 3H. At every opportunity, you’ll catch us enjoying reading whether it be during our reading practise time, reading quietly snuggled in the book corner, within our lessons, or in the library. This year, we will be reading the following texts throughout the year:

• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
• The Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
• The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
• Treasure or Origins – Literacy shed film.
• The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• The Tunnel by Anthony Brown

We would love to have as many Bookworm winners as possible in 3H this year, so we are going to work together to encourage each other to read 5 times every week at home! Mrs Hudson would love to see as many children as possible win a gold coin to take to our reading book vending machine.

Over the course of this year, we will encounter many interesting and fun-filled activities to develop our understanding across the curriculum. We will continue to build on our prior learning in Maths, focusing on all the key areas including units like addition and subtraction, shape and statistics. In Geography, we will start the year developing our map skills. Throughout the year, we will travel back in time during our history lessons to find out about different historical periods including The Three Ages, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece . In science, we begin by building knowledge of rocks, before moving on to forces and magnets, then exploring light and plants before finishing the year off by looking at animals including humans topic. Alongside this, we will develop our understanding of religions, artistic techniques, computing skills, musical skills and discussing personal, social, health and well-being.

Routines/key information:

• Toast (£1) money needs to be paid on a Monday for the week
• A homework sheet made up of a Maths activity and the weekly spellings will be issued on Showbie every Friday for the children to complete. Homework will then be due in the following Friday and children will complete a spelling test on a Monday.
• Reading – it is now the expectation that children read at least 4 times a week. For those children who read 5 times or more a week they will achieve the book worm, and they will be entered into a prize draw to win a visit to the vending machine!
• The winner’s medal will be issued on a Friday alongside 2 other children who will pick from the prize box- who is going to shine bright in 2M?

Our trips this year:

• Pantomime
• Farm Visit
• Cathedral visit
• Road Safety Walk
• River Dane
• Library visit

Thank you for taking the time to read about our amazing 3H class, and we hope you have enjoyed learning about us. We will be sharing more of our learning journey with you over the year, so keep a look out on our class dojo page and the school website.