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Laurance Haines School
Enjoy, Care, Aim High and
Succeed Together
Welcome to Year 3
Mr Tipton
Mr Stephenson
Miss Lane.
Teaching Assistants
Mrs Shehzad
Miss Cheung
Mrs Ciucan
PPA – Mrs Gomez, Mrs Green, Mrs Morgan - Wednesday
New curriculum
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The Government has introduced a new National Curriculum which
took effect from September 2014.
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At Laurance Haines School we have used INSET days and staff
meetings to review our previous curriculum and adapt it in light of the
National Curriculum changes.
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To date we have successfully:
•agreed aims for our curriculum
•developed 2014-2015 curriculum maps for Years 1 to 6
•resourced and developed progressive medium term coverage planning for new
topics
•revised our weekly planning formats for all subjects
New curriculum
• The different National Curriculum subjects are taught
through a chosen theme
• Children are set learning challenges in the form of open,
exciting, questions – for example, how would you survive
in the rainforest?
• We are aware of the danger of 'tenuous' links and ensure
that English and maths - whilst sometimes present in
themed work - are also taught daily as separate subjects
• Similarly, other subjects such as P.E. and computing are
taught separately as well as within themes
Year overview
½ Termly topic overview
Core learning
Timetable
Preview home learning
• Learning in any subject can be significantly enhanced by
pupils undertaking work out of lesson time.
• Pre teaching home learning - Research into pre teaching
shows that previewing work can double the rate of pupil
progress. The idea behind the weekly pre teaching
homework is that through familiarisation, talking about
and practicing things at home, will enable a child to have
a far higher rate of success when they come to visit a
subject or task in class.
• Preview home learning tasks are things that you can do
together with your child to give them a higher chance of
succeeding in the week ahead.
Behaviour for learning
• The recent questionnaire that was sent home is
very important to us
• The more we know about your children, the
more we can use that information to motivate
and better engage them in class
• We are trying to instil self-motivation to want to
learn in all our children
• We can do this best with your help. If your child
has any success to celebrate outside school, let
us know so we can celebrate them in school
School hours
It is very important that your child arrives and is
collected on time.
8.50am - 3.20pm
If your child is late for any reason and arrives after
8.50, the classroom door will be closed and you
must take them to the school office to be
registered.
Attendance and holidays
• As parents, please help us by:
Ensuring your child arrives on time
Ensuring your child is properly dressed in
the correct uniform
Encouraging good behaviour
Notifying us if your child is ill
Avoiding appointments in school time
Not taking holidays in term-time
Uniform
• Our school uniform provider is
Mapac. See school website for
details or call 01923 255 525.
• School uniform and jewellery
• PE kits should be house
colours and black shorts.
House system
Link books
• The link book is designed to improve communication
between home and school.
• It is used to record the class timetable, weekly
homework and reading books.
• It should also include useful reminders, such as PE kit
prompts or planned visits.
• Parents are encouraged to use this book to comment
upon their child’s homework, reading or anything else
you would like the class teacher to know.
• A member of the class team will check this book every
day, so they will be aware of any comments made or
reading books that need changing.
Lunchtime
• School meals for all Reception and KS1 children are
free! KS2 meals are £2.00.
• You do not need to register for free meals. Your
child simply needs to request a meal at the morning
register.
• Your child can have a school meal every day or on
specific days of their choice.
• Packed lunches must follow the school guidelines
sent home with your annual consent forms.
Access to class
• Our 3 classes have 3 different entry points
• Only Nursery children can enter the Nursery garden.
• Your children are very welcome to use the school
grounds after school to play but please ensure that
you supervise them.
• Unfortunately our car park does not accommodate
parental parking or dropping off. If you have a
medical condition or disability, please contact Mrs
Dodd.
Reward & sanctions
• Rewards – house points,
certificates, excellent book,
class dojo
• Behaviour ladder – whole class
• Class rules – owned by the
children.
Educational visits
• Parental consent form
• Butterfly World – rainforest
animals
• British Museum – Egyptians
• Chiltern Open Air Museum –
Iron Age.
Parentview
• Parent View gives you the chance to register what you
think about the school. This information is used by the
LHS leadership team to inform strategic decisions as
well as by Ofsted when they inspect the school.
• Search ‘Parentview’ in Google or go to
https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk
• Follow the on-screen instructions to enter your email
address and password .
• You’ll be sent an email with a link to activate your login.
• Log-in and answer 12 simple questions.
Questions