Class 3 (Y3/4)
Welcome to Class 3
Our class teachers are Mrs Borthwick (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday) & Mrs Palmer (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). Our amazing learning support assistants are Mrs Honey and Miss Bishop. Mrs Biddle teaches science on a Wednesday afternoon.
Weekly reminders (Autumn term)
Please remember to bring reading records and reading books into school everyday.
Monday:
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Science with Mrs Biddle
Thursday: Spelling test.
Friday: P.E (Argyle)
We encourage the children to come to school in their PE kit on the days that we have PE.
Mrs Jade Palmer (Class Teacher)
Miss Bishop (LSA)
Mrs Jo Borthwick (Class Teacher)
Mrs Kelly Honey (LSA)
Our Learning this term: Spring Term 2025
Our exciting Topic for the Spring term is called 'Raid, Invaid and Stayed'. We have lots of exciting learning to look forward to this term, please have a look at our overview below to see everything we are getting up to.
Our topic show and tell will be on Friday 28th March.
We always love to see all of the exciting work that the children bring in.
Reading
All children will have their own reading record books, we encourage children to really take care of their reading record books. We ask that all children read daily at home and adults record in their books. A useful resource for question prompts is included below.
Every time an adult listens to children read and records this in their reading record the children will recieve a raffle ticket. The raffle is then drawn during celebration assembly on a Friday and a winner from each class is able to choose from a range of exciting prizes.
*Top Tips for Reading Success *
Daily reading can make a massive difference to your child's progress.
Here are some easy ways you can make reading a part of every day:
1. Don’t worry about how long you read for.
Every minute spent reading makes a bigger difference than you realise!
2. Don’t worry about what your children are reading: recipes, cereal packets, catalogues ... it’s all useful! Keep books and other reading materials close by.
3. Reading to children of all ages is helpful. If your little one isn’t reading by themselves yet, read with them.
4. Ask lots of questions: Who, what, where, when and why and ask them to summarise when you’ve finished.
Make sure you record all of your reading achievements, we love to celebrate these in school too.
Accelerated Reader
We are excited that we are able to use Accelerated Reader (AR) as a tool to assist children in finding a book they they enjoy, is suitable for them, that they have chosen independently and that helps to spread the love of reading throughout South Petherwin. See below a document to explore AR in more depth.
Parent's Gudie to Accelerated Reader
Guide to Accelerated Reader (1).pdfDid you know?
The importance of parental engagement to vocabulary acquisition.
Researchers looking at the impact of parents reading with their children evaluated how many words children would have heard by the time they were 5 years old:
Never read to: 4,662 words;
1–2 times per week: 63,570 words;
3–5 times per week: 169,520 words;
Daily: 296,660 words;
Five books a day: 1,483,300 words
Reading cafe...
We are excited to offer a reading cafe in the reception of our school. In addition to the children's library books children and parents/ carers/ family members are welcome to make use of the range of texts we have in our reading cafe. Ensuring we have a true love of reading is vital to our school. We are always looking to add more books to our book shelves if anyone has any they would like to donate.
Spellings:
Please refer to the Spring term spelling list that your child was given at the beginning of the term. The words are linked to the year 3 and 4 spelling objectives from the National Curriculum. Pupils need to be able to read and spell these words.
We encourage practise of spelling the words on several occasions during the week, using the 'Look, cover, write, check' method.
We will complete a weekly spelling test every Thursday.