Dear Parents and Carers,
A warm welcome to all new year 3 parents and children, from Mr Butler, Miss Watson and Mr Parker. We hope your children are settling in well – they certainly seem keen, from our perspective!
Reading and Homelinks
Children should all now have their Reading Records, Homelink Diaries (for messages) and a reading book from the school library. A book ‘matched’ to their reading ability will be sent home over the course of the next few weeks, whilst we assess them. Please ensure children have these every day in their bags, to bring into class. Also please check your child’s home link book every day for any messages, or letters. Usually, letters are posted at the same time on the website, but some letters (see below) are not, as they contain login information.
Times Tables Rock Stars
Over the next few days by the end of the week, children should be bringing home a letter about Times Tables Rock Stars, and a login, which is stuck to the inside of their Homelink book. We would like to encourage you to get your children to login daily to play Times Tables Rock Stars for at least five minutes, so that they can develop their times tables ability. The program should start to recognise your child’s ability, and adjust the tables accordingly, once they have played at least 10 or so games.
Fiction Express
We are getting through the issuing of logins for Fiction Express (an online book library) which children can have access to at home and read books from. This should be completed by the end of next week. Once issued, their logins can be found on the inside front cover of the home link books. Please try to encourage some reading of ‘real’ books also, at least once a day.
Emergency Contact Information
It has come to our attention that some children have still not returned their contact information to the office. If your child is ill, we will find it difficult to contact you. Please return these ASAP. Thank you if you have already done this.
That’s all for now. If you have any questions, please email your child’s class teacher or contact the School Office on the following emails:
School Office: a3082@telford.gov.uk
Andrew.butler@taw.org.uk
Nicholas.parker4@taw.org.uk
Chloe.watson@taw.org.uk
Thank you for your support,
Regards,
The Year 3 Team.
