Delves Junior School

Welcome to the new academic year at Delves Junior School. This year the Year 3 term comprises 4 teachers, 1 teaching assistant and 1 support assistant, we are:

• Mrs Naylor            (Class 1)
• Miss Ubhi              (Class 2)
• Mrs Dangerfield     (Class 3)
• Mrs Archer            (Assistant Head)
• Mrs Pace               (Teaching assistant)
• Mrs Brady             (Learning Support assistant)

We are all looking forward to the coming year and hope that we can work in partnership with you in order for your child to reach their full potential this year. We will keep you informed about the subject that your child will be studying throughout the year, their homework and any special year group events that will be taking place via our half termly newsletters.

Click on the link below for full details:

 y3-autumn-1-newsletter-2.doc

The Romans in Britain has an enormous amount of information about the Romans, which might help you with projects.

If you’re interested in seeing Roman remains, here are 3 local places you can visit.

• Lunt Roman Fort, near Coventry
• Wall, near Lichfield
• Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury

Espresso aims to stimulate children´s learning through providing a rich cross-curricular resource to help teachers plan and create exciting lessons that meet National Curriculum objectives and cover QCA Schemes of Work. Espresso looks and works like a website but you won´t find it on the Web. It lives on a computer at your school, which means you can access it quickly and reliably whenever you want. What´s more, you get instant access to high-quality full screen video as well as sophisticated multimedia activities that would take forever to download across the Internet.

New resources are automatically added every week to ensure content is always topical. In addition there is also a huge archive of print based resources. Espresso is a self-contained site - there´s no links to the World Wide Web which means safe surfing is guaranteed. Espresso is the proud winner of two BETT 2004 awards for Best Online Learning Resource and Best Primary software. Espresso web site.

Class 2 had a whale of a time dressing up for their literacy lesson today. You can see their costumes in the Photo Gallery.