Kingfishers Class

Welcome to Year 3 ~ The Kingfishers! My name is Mrs Cuthbertson and I will be teaching alongside Mrs Pritchard who will support our class each morning and Miss McKenzie who will be a 1:1 support. 

This year will be my 7th year teaching but my 5th year at Wolvey and I am very excited to be back where I started my career - in Year 3! Although to many this year I am a familiar face, I am very excited to get to know those who I have not taught in the past. In my classroom, I focus on building solid relationships with all children to enable me to meet everyone's individual needs. I like to have fun and lots of giggles along the way but I have very high expectations. As long as children try their absolute hardest then I am sure we will have a great time together. 

Swimming and PE

Children will partake in weekly swimming lessons which will alternate with PE sessions on a half termly cycle. The half terms whereby children are partaking in swimming, children need to bring a full swimming kit to school. On the half terms whereby children are partaking in PE, the children need to attend school in the correct PE kits. This should be a plain, dark coloured tracksuit/shorts, white t-shirt and plain trainers. Children should also ensure they have a refillable water bottle. Children will go outside in all weathers therefore extra precautions should be made for the weather, e.g. hats and sun cream for warmer months or extra layers for the colder months. 

Water Bottles

All children should bring a drink with them each day. The bottle should be refillable and ideally reusable. Water bottles should be leak proof with lids that are sealable to avoid spills. Children will have access to their water bottles throughout the day. 

Class Dojo 

We communicate with parents regularly through the Class Story on Class Dojo as we think it is an invaluable way of helping parents to stay informed of what is happening with their children on a day to day basis in school. We also upload children’s work to their Personal Portfolio pages so that they can talk about what they have been doing with their families. Parents and children can also upload things that they have done at home to share with me.  I use the Class Dojo messaging service and am happy to answer simple queries through this, during office hours.

Homework

Each week, children are expected to read to an adult at least 3 times, practice times tables on TT Rockstars and spellings on Spelling shed. Paper copies of High Frequency words will sent out each week. Children will be expected to practice reading and spelling these words ready to go through them will an adult the following week.