Our Year 3 class teachers: Mrs Rhodes, Miss Robinson and Miss Green

Teaching assistants: Mrs Bickford, Mrs Dean

Mrs Rhodes

Year 3 Teacher - 3JR

I have been teaching at Webheath Primary School since January 2008.

I am currently a teacher in Year 3 and the PSHE lead.

I love teaching as every day is different! I love to create enjoyable and fun learning experiences within the classroom that creates happy memories for the children I teach that will hopefully last a lifetime.

Outside of school I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I am a doting grandmother to 3 beautiful granddaughters who I love playing and having fun with. I have a white Boxer dog called Ghost who loves to go on long walks and roll in muddy puddles!

Miss Green

Year 3 Teacher - 3KG

I have been a teacher for eight years and love to have a sing and a dance in the classroom to make our learning as fun as possible. My favourite lessons are Art, Maths and Geography. In my free time, I enjoy going for walks and spending time with my family.

Miss Robinson

Year 3 Teacher

Ms Bickford

Teaching Assistant Year 3

Mrs Dean

Specialist Teaching Assistant / Reception (Speech & Language Intervention)

I joined the school in 2009. I work across the school as the Speech and Language intervention Teaching Assistant. Outside of school I enjoy going running.

Homework

Children should read at home for at least 10 minutes three times a week and record it in their homework diaries.

They should also use Times Tables Rock Stars for roughly 10 minutes, 3 times a week.

A list of homework activities will be set on Seesaw each half term for children. They are expected to complete one of the activities a week in any order and post it on Seesaw.

Book bags only to be bought into school. We do not have room to store large school bags.

Equipment children will require:

• A clear pencil case
• School style pencils
• Blue handwriting pens (not biro)
• 30cm ruler
• Selection of colouring pencils
• Glue stick
• Pencil sharpener
• Optional: small selection of highlighters

Reading

In KS2 we use the Accelerated Reader Computer Program to develop, manage and monitor children’s reading skills.  The children pick a book within their own ZPD range and read it at their own pace.  We allocate at least 15 minutes a day to reading their book. When finished, they will take a short quiz online in school – this helps to home in on their reading skills and give an indication that they understood what has been read. AR gives both children and teachers feedback on the children’s understanding and reading habits which the teacher then uses to help the children set targets and ongoing reading practice to ensure personal growth.

Daily ‘Book Club’ is also timetabled.  This provides opportunities for the children to work in small groups with an adult to develop reading skills and build a love of reading, and it gives an opportunity to read books of choice for pleasure.

We use high quality text to deliver our English Curriculum and focused reading lessons are taught within a sequence of learning.

Times tables

In Year 3, we focus on all children being able to recall and use the multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.