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.

 

Hello everyone,

I’m really looking forward to seeing many of you at this week’s parents’ evenings. If you are unable to attend these dates but would still like to catch up, please do get in touch and I will see if I can arrange an alternative time to meet with you.

During parents’ evening appointments, I usually ask whether there is anything specific you would like to discuss first, or whether you would prefer me to share the main headlines of how your child is getting on. As each appointment is limited to 10 minutes, I would warmly encourage you to raise any concerns or questions early in the meeting so that we have time to address them together.

I do my best to keep appointments running on time so that families with later slots are not affected. Please understand that, on occasion, I may suggest arranging a separate appointment if a conversation needs a little more time.

Home Learning and Spellings 

This week’s home learning focuses on researching the skeletal and muscular systems. A sheet has been sent home today which includes a diagram of the main bones in the human body, alongside some shared reading about muscles. You may also wish to explore books or videos linked to these systems.

Purple Mash now has a library of DK fact books, and I have shared one with the children as a 2Do which you may enjoy looking at together. There is no hand-in date for this task, and no proof of learning is required.

The link for Group 1’s spellings can be found here.

The link for Group 2’s spellings can be found here.

As always, thank you for your continued support. I look forward to catching up with many of you over the coming days.

Kind regards,

Ms Browne & the Year 3 Team

  

  

AR number slip up

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you to the parents who got in touch to seek clarification about the AR information sent home on Friday. We have since realised that the figures shared were based on your child’s September assessment.

We apologise for any confusion this may have caused and are currently working to ensure the correct information is shared with you as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding while this is being resolved.

Kind regards,
The Year 3 Team

Year 3 making a splash this week

 

This Thursday morning, I will be hosting the Year 3 Parent Information Session. During the session, I will be sharing what’s coming up in the Spring term and talking through reading, spellings, and ways you can support your child with their maths learning at home. It would be lovely to see you there. If you’re unable to attend but have any questions, please feel free to email me and I will do my best to address them during the session.

This Thursday also marks the start of Year 3 swimming lessons for the term. Swimming will take place every Thursday until the Easter holidays. Children should bring a bag containing a towel, a one-piece swimming costume, goggles, and a swimming hat. Please also ensure your child has a suitable coat, as we have a long-standing POW superstition that it always rains on swimming days… and it does seem to come true!

New spellings will come home on Friday. Home Learning was also sent home last Friday, and the link to this week’s tasks can be found here

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch 

Kind regards,

The Year 3 Team. x