Welcome to Class 3! Croeso i Dosbarth 3!

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Teacher: Miss Jones Teaching Assistant: Mrs Bostanci

Communication

Contact us on Class3@stmellonsprm.cardiff.sch.uk

Google Classroom code: fw23wewu

Twitter (X) - @stmellonsprm

Schoop ID - 1339

Overview of the day

8.55 - Children arrive and settle down to complete their Morning Activity / Register

9.05 – 9.25 Worship

9.25-10.30 - Literacy, Languages & Communication

10.30 – 10:45 - Snack / Break Time

10:45 - 11:00 - Helper Heddiw

11.00 – 12.00 - Mathematics & Numeracy

12.00 – 1.00 - Lunch

1.00 – 1.25 Read Write Inc

1:30 - 1:50 Guided Group Reading

1.50 – 2.45 (Topic/Science/RE/ICT/Welsh)

10 minutes daily mile

3.00 Daily Welsh Activities

3.20 Home Time

PE will be held every Tuesday. Children should wear black shorts, house colour or white t-shirt and trainers, labelled clearly with their name. They may also wear black jogging bottoms when completing activities outdoors.

Uniform

Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your child's name.

Snack

Please bring a bottle of water to school daily, clearly labelled with your name. Healthy snacks can be purchased from the snack trolley (ordered via ParentPay) or brought in from home.

Important dates

Christian Value – Trust

13 th April – Return to School - Christian Value Day

14th April - Celebrating World Autism Day

15th April - Clery Worship - Trust 9.15am for children

22nd April - World Earth Day

4th May – Bank Holiday

5th May - Buddhism Celebration Day

11th - 16th May – Christian Aid Week

11th - 15th May – Welsh Government National Tests Block

18th - 22nd May - Walk to School Week

20th May - Pentecost Worship 9.15 for Children

22nd May – End of term

Summer Half Term - 25th - 29th May

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Our Christian Value

This half term we will be focusing on 'Trust' as our Christian value.

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Trust means knowing that the people around us will be kind, honest, and keep us safe. When we trust someone, we believe they will listen to us, treat us fairly, and do what they say they will do. Trust helps us feel confident, valued, and secure, and it is an important part of building positive relationships in our school community.

You can find a copy of the Trust handout here

Trust in the lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 3:5–6

Context

Our context this half term is 'What's on my plate?' under the whole school umbrella of Healthy Habits, Healthy Growth with Health and Wellbeing as the main driving AoLE.

How to Eat A Healthy Diet in 3 Simple Steps

In this topic, we will explore where our food comes from and how it reaches our plates. Children will learn about foods grown locally and around the world, investigate farming and food journeys, and compare what we eat today with diets from the past. Through geography and history, pupils will also discover how food links to different cultures, make connections to healthy choices, and develop an understanding of how food brings people and places together.

LLC - To be added soon

Maths and Numeracy - Time and Measurement

Humanities - We will be looking at where our food comes from

RVE - Big Question: What kind of world did Jesus want?

Health and Well Being - Our PSHE Jigsaw topic this term is 'Healthy Me' and PE we are focusing on footwork

Expressive Arts - Film and Digital Media

Pupil voice questions

Where does chocolate come from? Y.S

How does food grow? A.W

How do bees make honey? R.R

Where does butter come from? M.F

Where was spaghetti first made? L.R

How does food travel from different countries? M.M

What is the first food that people ate? J.M

What is the healthiest food? R.R

Where do peanuts come from? S.R

What foods should we put on our plates? M.R

Where do bananas come from? R.MG

What foods come from seeds? C.N

How does food stay fresh when it travels? E.R

Why do supermarkets sell process foods? R.R

Why do certain foods have seeds on the inside? L.R

How does food stay fresh in packaging? M.R

Literacy, Languages and Communication

In Class 3, we will focus on continuing to develop our reading fluency and comprehension.

The children will also be continuing to develop their Welsh language skills through daily Helpwr Heddiw sessions as well as their weekly Welsh lessons.

Reading is an extremely important part of the children's learning. We will take every opportunity to immerse the children in books and stories and we will also take part in a guided reading session at least once per week.

Homework

Choose from the activities on the homework grid :

This is also available for you to download here

Daily reading (20 minutes)

Times Tables Rock Stars - click here for information for parents.

Weekly homework – Numeracy / Literacy alternated each week. Usually based on something we have learned that week. Set on Friday, due in on Wednesday. Please submit via Google Classroom or sent to class email.

Termly homework – Choose at least one activity to complete by the end of each term – to present to the class.

Literacy

We will be looking at variety of genres in literacy this half term, which will support our learning context. We will focus primarily on writing leaflets / non-chronological reports.

We will also continue to develop the children’s phonics knowledge and letter formation, to support progress in their reading, writing and spelling skills using Read Write Inc.

Read Write Inc is taught daily (Monday- Friday) across PS1 & 2. Children are grouped in according to their current ability. In each session we focus on identifying and learning Read Write Inc sounds.

Numeracy

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This term we will be focusing on Time and Measurement. We will also be learning the 3 and 4 times tables. There are times tables songs that your child can listen to at home to help them practice these.

We will continue to use Doodle Maths regularly. Please encourage the children to use this regularly at home using the link below:

https://doodlelearning.com/

Times tables songs -

2x - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWMPqh04o4

3x - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVyBQ5uTbo

4x - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4ooLN7Bmo

5x - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPffpuHYIhc

10x - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlW6YRLriHU

Welsh

We will be completing daily Helper Heddiw sessions for the children to enhance their oracy, written and reading skills in Welsh language.

Modern Foreign Languages

MFL is under review at the moment. It is a section of the 'Languages Connect Us' in our Literacy Curriculum.

Planning

Weekly planning will be available on Google classroom, so you can see what the children have been learning about that week. Please see the Inquiry planning document for our topic.

Four Purposes

The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:

Ambitious, Capable Learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.

Enterprising, Creative Contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work.

Ethical, Informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.

Healthy, Confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.

Internet Safety

At St Mellon's, we promote the use of 'SMART' rules daily, as we know how important it is to stay safe online.

Please encourage your children to use these 'SMART' rules at home too.

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As part of the Curriculum for Wales your child will discuss and learn how we can all stay safe online and about the dangers we may face on the internet. We get involved with national Internet Safety Day, which is held on the second Tuesday every February each year.

Jigsaw and PSHE

Jigsaw is a whole-school approach and embodies a positive philosophy and creative teaching and learning activities to nurture children’s development as compassionate and well-rounded human beings as well as building their capacity to learn. Jigsaw is a comprehensive and completely original PSE programme for the whole primary school from ages 3-11. The Jigsaw Programme also delivers Relationships and Sexuality Education. Ensuring it meets the requirements set out in the RSE Code for Phases 1 and 2. Life cycles and human reproduction will be taught in a sensitive manner, age related in all schools in Wales. This means that all learners must receive this education. There is no right to withdraw from RSE in the new curriculum.

Jigsaw has two main aims for all children:

• To build their capacity for learning

• To equip them for life

Jigsaw brings together PSE, Relationships and Sexuality Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. It is designed to support a whole school approach, with all year groups working on the same theme (Puzzle) at the same time at their own stage of learning. There are six Puzzles (half-term units of work) and each year group is taught one lesson per week. All lessons are delivered in an age- and stage-appropriate way so that they meet children’s needs.

Curriculum for Wales Guidance for PSHE

Healthy snack

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Healthy snacks are provided at £2 per week which can be paid for half termly via parent pay or please provide one piece of fresh fruit or vegetable for your child's snack every day. We are a healthy eating school so only provide a healthy snack such as an apple, banana, carrot sticks, oranges etc. Please note that grapes need to be sliced longways. Children may bring a bottle of water with their name clearly labelled to school to drink. We are happy to refill their bottles for them during the day.

Active travel

We record how we travel to school each day and gain badges and awards every month if we have met our target. Help us to travel safer and greener by walking, cycling or scooting to school! You could always park and stride or catch a bus.

Picture News

During our worship time on Mondays, we have been learning about current news, topics and events. Then we have been exploring the key questions linked to these further in class. Here are some of the questions we have been discussing.

Remember

Class 3 PE has changed to a Tuesday. Please wear your PE kit. PE kit is a white polo shirt (or your house colour) and grey or black shorts/joggers & trrainers. Plain kits please, no patterns or large logos.

Reading books should be taken home daily to practise at least 10 minutes per day at home.

Maths we are having a real focus this half term on improving of time tables, so please encourage your child to use TTRS to practicec their time tables:

NEW! Practice maths for 10 minutes a day on Doodle Maths to make great progress.

Click HERE to logon to TTRS