Welcome to Gosling class

We would like to wish you and your child a big, warm welcome to Gosling class. Year 3 is a special stage in your child's education. Importantly, it is a time when they start to grow in dependence as well as their social, moral and creative skills. We will support and encourage your child’s development and that's why we hold our school motto of ‘Together we can achieve anything!' so close to our hearts. We hope that your child will be very happy this year.

We are looking forward to working together so that we can have a very exciting and productive year. We hope that your children enjoy the new challenges and approaches to learning that Year 3 has to offer!

The teachers in Class 3 are:

Mrs Gibson Monday to Thursday and Mrs Fieldwick on Fridays. 

Our teaching assistants are Miss Shakespeare, Mrs Pepper and Mrs Whitehead. Miss Shakespeare also covers PPA time.  

If you have any questions, queries or need to discuss anything, please contact one of the teachers on the following email addresses: lgibson@intakefarm.notts.sch.uk

In Gosling class, we speak multiple languages: 

1. English, 

2. Romanian

3. Polish

4. French (Curriculum) 

Homework expectations:

Children will be set weekly homework which will include: 

• Throughout school we encourage children to take home their reading books and read at least 3 times per week.
• Children have lists of words to learn for weekly spelling tests.
• Children have multiplication tables to learn. In year 3 we are consolidating our learning of the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and beginning to learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.  
• We will set homework that extends learning in school.
• On other occasions we encourage the children to find out information for themselves at home. 

Homework will be given out on a Friday and should be handed in before the following Friday. 

PE kits expectations

Our PE days this half-term are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 

Our Tuesday PE session will be Outdoot Adventure and Wednesday's session will be Rugby.  

Whenever possible, our PE lessons will be based outdoors, so please wear appropriate clothing for the weather.  

PE Kit

Please remember that PE kits should are as follows: a plain white t-shirt and plain black/dark blue shorts or joggers/leggings.

Uniform expectations

Pupils are a required to wear school uniform unless it is a P.E. day. The school uniform policy requires pupils to wear grey or black trousers or skirt, a white or blue shirt or polo shirt, a blue jumper or cardigan and black shoes. School fleeces can also be worn. Pupils are only permitted to wear a pair of stud earrings and a watch and long hair should be tied back. 

Educational Visits throughout the year

Throughout the year, we embark on at least one educational visits.  This year we will be visiting Mansfield Museum.  

Mansfield Museum:
Our visit to Mansfield Museum links to our history topic in the summer term. We will be taking part in a 'Time Trip Tour' which looks at life as a Roman soldier and some of the equipment and techniques that they used. We also look at life as a Roman child, learn some games they would have played and then look at some of the architecture and engineering that they designed and left us. We also handle some Roman artefacts.

Other activities throughout the year: 
In addition to the educational visits, we also provide ample enrichment opportunities across the curriculum. We visit the local church, St Mary's,  to support our learning in R.E. to learn more about Christmas and Easter; we have opportunities to represent the school in sports tournaments; and we participate in the 'Jingle Jog' at Christmas time held at Sherwood Pines.