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WBJS – William Barcroft Junior School

SEN – Special Educational Needs

SENCO – Special Educational Needs Coordinator

IEP – Individual Education Plan

G & T – Gifted and Talented (More Able)

NNS – National Numeracy Strategy

Comprehension – Analysis, understanding of and application of readying skills.

Big Cat Scheme – New reading scheme for individual children to choose from a band. Children are assessed as to what band they should read from.

Phonics – Phonics is a reading method involving letter recognition: a method of teaching reading in which children learn to associate letters with the speech sounds they represent, rather than learning to recognize the whole word as a unit.

Reading Scheme – A progressive set of books in the same style.

Progress – How much a child has moved to acheive their goal.

Attainment – A level that the child has been awarded and acheived at a particular time.

DfE – Department of Education

PAN – Published Admision Number (Amount of children that can join the school)

Barnett Place,
Cleethorpes,
North East Lincolnshire,
DN35 7SU
Tel: 01472 501777
Fax: 01472 501774

Year 3

This term we have been investigating the Stone Age period up until the change into the Iron Age era. We have been using our enquiry skills to find out about our early ancestors, particularly the first early human we know of, Lucy. We had a fantastic time investigating...