Class 3 / Dosbarth 3
Meet the Team for 2023-2024!
Shwmae! Mrs Millard ydw i. I am the partner class teacher for Class 3 and work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition to my class teacher role, I am the Assistant ALNCo supporting Mrs Cheeke. I spend Thursday and Friday with my daughter who is now toddling around keeping me very active. I love going out to fancy restaurants and trying interesting foods.
Mrs. Withanage- LSA
Shwmae, Mrs Withanage ydw i. I have been at Cyfarthfa Park Primary for many years. I have worked in the Nursery and am currently working in Reception, which I enjoy. I am orginally from Sri Lanka, which is a small island in the Indian Ocean. I enjoy spending time with my family.
Croeso i Dosbarth 3! Welcome to Reception at Cyfarthfa Park Primary. This year your class teachers are Mrs Millard and Mrs Davies and your LSA is Mrs. Withanage.
Our PE day is a Friday, while the weather is on our side, PE will take place outdoors. Please send your child into school WEARING their PE kit in order to minimize bags and other items being brought to school.
We will be sending Home Reading Books once a week. Reading Books will be sent out on a Tuesday and expected in on Monday. Please make a comment in your child's Reading Record to let us know how they read.
For homework, pupils will need to access Seesaw. Homework will be uploaded every Wednesday. You will be expected to complete at least one activity per week. Log in details will be sent home but please ask your class teacher if you need them again or if there are any issues.
Please provide your child with a snack of fruit or vegetables in a labelled pot/bag as well as a bottle of water.
Please can you ensure that all bags, coats, jumpers, cardigans, hats etc. are clearly labelled.
Key information
Monday- Return reading book to school.
Tuesday- Reading Books to be sent home.
Wednesday- Homework set online through Seesaw.
Friday- PE (wear your kit to school).
Contact us:
Please do not hesitate to chat with us during drop off or pick up at the gate, we will do our best to help in anyway we can. Alternatively, you can ring the school and ask to speak to us or contact us by email.
Mrs Davies: cdavies@cyfarthfapark-pri.merthyr.sch.uk
Mrs Millard: shodgkiss@cyfarthfapark-pri.merthyr.sch.uk
ABC Easy as 1, 2, 3.
Our topic this year is ABC Easy as 1, 2, 3. We plan to focus pupils learning around the key concepts:
Resilience, Happiness and Creativity.
We will explore these concepts through an enquiry based approach with focal questions such as:
Is it ok to make mistakes? Does learning make us happy? Do we need to know our numbers and letters to be creative? Who am I?
Talk for writing
This term our story is Billy Goats Gruff. Every day we practice learning parts of the story using a text map and physical actions developed by our class. Every day we build on our knowledge of the story by learning the next sentence and over the term each individual becomes more confident at retelling the story orally.
"Children who are read to at home, or who come from an oral tradition of storytelling, embed such patterns without really knowing it, as if some form of linguistic osmosis was at work. At this early stage, it is significant that the child is ‘hearing’ the language. This matters because we learn language by hearing it and then by saying it. So, storytelling and rhyme chanting are powerful aspects of acquiring language patterns that might not be met in everyday talk." Pie Corbett 2008.