Year 3 - Beech

Dear Beech Class,

Welcome to our class page! I'm extremely excited for the year ahead and I can’t wait to get to know each and every one of you! I look forward to seeing you all on Monday 4th September!

Miss Muskett

Some helpful information!

Class Teacher: Miss Muskett

Other adults: Miss Venables and Mrs Yeowell

Communication:

If you would like to contact me, please use the class email below (this is for both parents and children). I love to see what you have been getting up to!

beech@balliolschool.co.uk!

Water bottles:

Please bring your water bottle every day and take it home every evening. Water can be accessed during lessons at all times (the children will be aware that this should not interrupt their listening and completion of tasks/activities) and can be used at lunchtimes.

P.E.:

This term, Beech's P.E. will be on Tuesday (Indoor) and Thursday (outdoor) afternoons. On these P.E. days, children must come to school in their P.E. kit. Please ensure correct Balliol P.E. kit is worn and, in colder weather, that warm long-legged and long-sleeved clothing is provided, alongside appropriate footwear.

French

If you would like to find out more about what we have been doing in French with Madame Kaler, watch useful videos or find more information about challenges that she has set you, you can find all this here: https://www.petite-etoile.co.uk/balliol-primary

The School App

We use this to send home important information and to keep you up to date. Please consider downloading this (if you do not already have it) so that you don't miss anything important.

Homework:

We appreciate and thank you for all the support you give to the children in relation to their home learning. Below is what we hope is useful information for you to continue with this support.

Reading: Children will have a reading book to take home to share and read with you. They will be able to change these throughout the week, Please listen to your child read as often as possible for 10-15 minutes at least 3-4 times a week.

Spellings: Children will have new spellings every week with a dictation test on Fridays. Spellings will of course be available on this class page so please encourage your child to practise at home regularly too!

Times tables: these help with so many areas of maths; please encourage your child to practise 10-15 minutes every day. (TT Rockstars)

MyMaths: All usernames and passwords can be found in reading record, please use MyMaths to further knowledge through games and complete tasks.

Maths and English: We will continue to set children homework in their CGP SPAG and Maths books based on their learning from the week. This will be set on a Friday and expected back in the following week to be marked. The pages that children need to complete are listed on the inside of the front cover, please ensure children do not do more pages than this.

General Information

We are learning

E-Safety

No doubt over the past few months you've heard children (and maybe a few adults) talk about the latest Tik Tok challenges or their favourite celebrity's lockdown live stream.

Here are activity packs for parents and carers to deliver to their children to explore how children and young people can stay safe while live streaming. Click on the age group below.

Lamb Visit - 22/3/24

Today, we had two special visitors come into Year 3 today. Their names were Buttercup and Daisy and they were only 2 days old. We enjoyed having cuddles and feeding them milk.

Sign Language Week - March 2024

We used our OAA skills to navigate and the BSL alphabet to work out what the missing words were. We also learnt how to spell our names using the BSL alphabet.

World Book Day - Thursday 7th March 2024

Today we had a lot of fun in Beech class. We created a book review from the book Peace on Earth by David Litchfield. Then we decorated biscuits to represent our love for the planet. We created wind chimes and friendship bracelets.

E-Safety Day - Together for a better internet

Today we spoke about e-safety rules, recapping the importance of staying safe online and looked at the PEGI rating of different websites and games. See below our rules for being online:

E-safety Rules