Thank you & an assembly update

 

World Book Day was a wonderful celebration of reading and personal interests. Thank you for all the effort you put into providing a costume for your child. The children looked fantastic and clearly enjoyed sharing their favourite characters and books with each other.

I have included some photos at the end of this blog, and I plan to use the whole-class photo in the end of year reports, so you will have an opportunity to see everyone’s wonderful costumes.

As well as a day filled with books, stories and reading, the children also had the opportunity to choose a book to take home. We held a whole-school book swap in the hall, where every child was able to choose a book. Thank you to those who were able to donate pre-loved books.

We also had our very own Year 3 Book Share, as my two children kindly went through their books at home and donated some that they thought the Year 3 children might enjoy. Any children who didn’t find a book during the hall swap were given first choice from our classroom selection. As a result, every child should have come home with at least one book that they like, with many children taking home two.

 

We also began rehearsals for our assembly today, with each child reading their lines. Tomorrow we will send their lines home (this will be their home learning) along with their spellings.

In addition to individual lines, there are also some class lines, which are clearly indicated on the scripts. Where your child has a suggested costume, please do not worry—we have almost everything the children will need. The only exception is the Roman costumes. The children who are playing Romans have assured me that they already have their costumes ready from our Year 3 Romans Day.

As part of the assembly, the children were asked who would like to showcase their growing skills on the recorder. I was delighted that a good group volunteered to play. Mrs Burgess will be sending a recorder home with these children, and it would be wonderful if they could practise playing London’s Burning twice a day. I hope to have a sheet ready for them as well, showing which notes to play, and this should come home over the weekend.

Learning to play an instrument is such a wonderful skill, and I am very proud that so many children wanted to share their playing with an audience.

Just a reminder that our assembly will take place on Friday 13th March at 9:30am.

This week the children have worked incredibly hard and should be very proud of themselves. I am really looking forward to sharing their assembly with you.

Best wishes,

Moose, Harold and the Purple Crayon
(also known as Ms Browne, Mrs Burgess and Miss Morgan)

World Book Day tomorrow and our Assembly next week

 

A quick reminder that World Book Day is tomorrow, Thursday 5th. Children are very welcome to dress as a favourite book character. Alternatively, they may choose to dress as a character linked to their own interests — for example, a sportsperson from a book, a scientist, a musician, or another inspirational figure connected to reading.

Another reminder that our class assembly will take place on Friday 13th at 9.30am. The children will be bringing their lines home this weekend, and we would be very grateful if you could support them in learning these.

Further details will follow, including costume guidance — these will be intentionally simple and low-demand.

Tea tasting

 

One of the parents, Mr Perry, works for Clipper Tea and very kindly provided us with the teas for our tea tasting session today. 

He has also given us enough teabags so that the children can take a tea bag of each type home to share with you. 

In class over the term, we will be learning more about tea and the work that companies like Clipper Tea do provide fair trade tea products. If you would like more information about this please check out:   

https://www.clipper-teas.com/tea-talk/25-stories-to-share-over-a-cuppa 

Desperately seeking Mystery Readers

 

Dear Parents, Carers, Grandparents, Older Siblings and Relatives,

We are still looking for a few Mystery Readers to join us next week on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday at 3:10pm.

The children absolutely love this special activity and are always so excited to discover who will be reading to them. We would be delighted if you were able to come in and share a book of your choice — or I would be very happy to provide one for you.

If you are available to be one of our Mystery Readers, please do let me know and I will add you to the list.

Thank you so much,
Ms Browne

Welcome Back to Spring 2

 

Hello everyone,

Year 3 have had a wonderful first week back for Spring Term 2. We were even lucky enough to enjoy some sunshine during playtime and PE on Wednesday!

In Science, we have begun our new topic on Light. The children have loved using light meters and exploring what can be seen in the presence  and absence of light using our ‘bear caves’.

For this week’s home learning, we would like the children to continue their scientific investigations at home by identifying different light sources and finding the brightest and darkest places in their houses. A hard copy of the homework sheet will be sent home today (Friday), but here is a link in case it doesn’t make it home.

Spellings on EdShed are now live. Please encourage your child to practise next week’s spelling rule as well as their individual spelling lists. Paper copies of the spelling sheets should also be coming home today, but here are the links:

Group 1 spellings list here.  

Group 2 spellings list here. 

On Monday, we will begin a new English text, Cloud Tea Monkeys. As part of our introductory lesson, the children will take on the role of apprentice tea tasters and sample a small selection of teas on Monday afternoon. The quantities will be tiny, and we hope this will provide an engaging sensory experience as they explore different flavours — if they are happy to take part. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

A few reminders:

- Swimming continues on Thursdays until Easter.

- World Book Day is next Thursday.

- The Year 3 class assembly will take place on Friday 13th March.

Kind regards,

The Year 3 Team

 

Half term home learning and upcoming dates

  

Hello everyone, 

We hope you are having a lovely half term break so far.

Hopefully your child brought home their home learning sheet, but just in case they didn’t, I thought it would be helpful to share the details here on the blog.

🛡 Roman Day Home Learning Challenge

Your challenge is to create a Celtic or Roman shield, ready to take into battle on our Roman Day on Friday 27th March.

Please bring completed shields into school by Monday 9th March, as we will be using them in our Year 3 assembly later that week.

We can’t wait to see your creative designs!

🎭 Year 3 Assembly

Our Year 3 assembly will now take place on Friday 13th March.

Please note that this is a change from the date shared at the parents’ information session — apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Our assembly will be based on the History topics the children have studied at POW:

• The Victorians

• Moon Landings

• Trains

• Great Fire of London

• Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole 

• Stone Age to Iron Age

If you have any suitable costumes linked to these topics, please do get in touch.

📚 World Book Day & Mystery Readers

During the week of World Book Day, we will once again be welcoming Mystery Readers into school.

Volunteers are invited to come in and read to the class at 3.00pm. At the moment, we have a Mystery Reader booked in for Friday.

If you are available to be a Mystery Reader on any of the other days, please let me know — the children absolutely love the surprise!

World Book Day itself is Thursday 5th March.
Children are invited to come to school dressed as:

• Their favourite book character, or

• A character linked to their interests

We are looking forward to a week filled with stories and reading for pleasure.

📅 Upcoming Dates

• Monday 23rd February – INSET Day

• Tuesday 24th February – All children return to school

• Monday 2nd – Friday 6th March – Mystery Readers at 3pm

• Thursday 5th March – World Book Day

• Friday 13th March – Year 3 Assembly

• Monday 16th March – Science Week begins

• Friday 27th March – Last day of term

• Monday 30th March – Easter Holidays begin

Here be dragons

 

What a wonderfully dragon-filled inspired writing week we have had at the Prince of Wales School!

The children were absolutely delighted by a visit from Teach Rex, who brought Luna the dragon along for us to meet. After some inspiring storytelling from the TeachRex team, the children returned to class brimming with ideas and enthusiasm, ready to design their own unique dragons.

This provided a fantastic opportunity for oracy, with the children talking about, exploring, and justifying the different features, powers, and skills their dragons might have. The children then went on to write about their individual dragons, developing their ideas in more detail. We also made links to our DT learning, where the children designed and created castles that could be used to defend their occupants from dragons.

This week’s home learning will be for children to create a comic strip involving a dragon. Hard copies of the template will be coming home on Friday.

There will be no new spellings sent home this week. Instead, we invite children to access their personal spelling lists on EdShed and practise these where possible.

On Monday, we will be saying goodbye to our trainee teacher, Ms Baker, who has been with us since September. It has been a pleasure working with her, and we would like to thank her for her hard work and contribution to the class. We wish her all the very best at her new placement school.

Finally, a reminder that the last day of term is Friday 13th February. After half term, there will be an INSET day on Monday 23rd February, and all children will return to school on Tuesday 24th February.