Moving up to Year 3
We have prepared a selection of resources for parents designed to help you become familiar with Hook Junior School before your child joins us in September. We hope these resources answer some of the questions that you may have as a year 3 parent.
The year 3 team look forward to working in partnership with you and your child over the coming school year. We hope your child will be very happy as a member of Hook Junior School.
To fully care for your child when they arrive at Hook Junior School, it is essential that we have current and accurate information on record. We must be sure that the information we hold is correct - for example, details of medical conditions and appropriate contact information for use in the event of an emergency.
Login to the Arbor Parent Portal and verify all information that we already hold about your child. We emailed your login details to you at the start of the summer term - your Username is the email address to which we sent our email. If there is anything else we should know, please make sure you update the records in the portal, or contact us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Slides from our information evening on Wednesday 18 June are now available for you to download.
Transition Timetable
Activities to prepare for your child to join Hook Junior School are well under way by the start of the Summer term. The timetable below sets out the transition activites and events that take place between the start of the Summer term and the new academic year in September 2025. Note that many of these events are for pupils only and will be taking place during the school day. If your child is currently enrolled at a school other than Hook Infant School, we encourage you to liaise with their current school, share these dates and request that their absence to participate is authorised.
| Date | Time | Participants | Venue | Event |
| 7 May | 09:00 | Year 2 Parents | Hook Junior School Hall | Coffee Morning for Year 2 Parents |
| 6 June | 09:15 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School Hall | Year 2 tour of school with Year 6 Prefects |
| 9 June | 10:45 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Year 2 playtime with Year 3 |
| 13 June | - | Year 2 Parents | By email | Letters to Year 2 parents informing them of their class. |
| 17 June | 11:30 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Year 3 and Year 2 sharing stories on the playground |
| 18 June | 11:00 - 12:00 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Junior Sports Day - Year 2 to observe some races |
| 18 June | 17:00 – 18:00 | Year 2 Parents | Hook Junior School Hall | Information evening for Year 2 parents |
| 23 June | 10:10 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Year 2 to join assembly |
| 24 June | 09:00 - 14:45 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Transition Day – children will return to Infants for lunch |
| 1 July | 15:30 | Teachers | Hook Junior School Hall | Year 2 teachers meet Year 3 teachers transition |
| 4 July | 14:00 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School Hall | Year 2 watch community performance of Year 6 production |
| 7 July | 10:15 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School Hall | Year 2 joins Year 3 and 4 for playtime |
| 14 July | 10:15 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Year 2 joins Year 3 and 4 for playtime |
| 16 July | 14:15 | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School Hall | New Year 3 teachers share story with new class |
| Summer Term | - | Year 2 Pupils | Hook Junior School | Additional transition sessions for SEND Support Children |
Key Information for Parents
These key sections of the school website are relevant to all new parents:
- The Home School Partnership Agreement: explaining the partnership and commitment of all parties in educating your child
- Absence and Attendance: attendance expectations for all pupils and responsibilities of parents and carers
- School Uniform: uniform expectations and details of how to purchase
- School house groups: house teams and colours
- School Meals: an explanation of the meals that can be provided for your child
- Events Calendar: details of all forthcoming events, including term dates and INSET days
- Letters for Parents and Carers: we publish weekly and occasional letters here
Attendance
We are committed to meeting our obligation to the Department for Education with regards to school attendance through our whole-school culture and ethos that values good attendance, including:
- Promoting good attendance
- Reducing absence, including persistent and severe absence
- Ensuring every pupil has access to the full-time education to which they are entitled
- Acting early to address patterns of absence
- Building strong relationships with families to ensure pupils have the support in place to attend school
Where parents decide to have their child registered at school, they have an additional legal duty to ensure their child attends that school regularly and on time. This means their child must attend every day that the school is open, except in a small number of allowable circumstances such as being too ill to attend or being given permission for an absence in advance from the school.
For a child to have high levels of educational achievement, a high level of school attendance is essential. We are committed to providing an education of the highest quality for all our pupils and endeavor to provide an environment where all pupils feel valued and welcome. Parents and pupils play a part in making our school so successful. Every child has the right to access the education to which they are entitled. Parents and teachers share the responsibility for supporting and promoting excellent school attendance and punctuality for all. It is our duty to consistently strive to achieve a goal of 100% attendance for all children. Every opportunity will be used to convey to pupils and their parents the importance of regular and punctual attendance.
For our pupils to take full advantage of the educational opportunities offered at our school, it is vital children are at school on time, every day the school is open unless the reason for absence is unavoidable. The routines children develop around attendance and punctuality at school are the same as the expectations of any future employer in the world of work. High attainment, confidence with others and future aspirations depend on good attendance.
Our attendance expectations, including Attendance Policy are explained in full on the Absence and Attendance page of our website. Here you will also find related resources and a form to request absence from school.
All parents are encouraged to read and understand the attendance expectations before the start of the Autumn term.
Home Learning
All children complete their home learning activities via SeeSaw, our online learning platform. We will provide you with a username and password for your child to login. If you have not received this by the start of the new term, please let us know by emailing the school office. You can find the email address at the foot of this page. Home learning will usually consist of:
- Weekly spelling list – high frequency words, words following a spelling rule, new curriculum statutory requirements for spelling
- Reading daily
- Times tables practice; we use Times Table Rock Stars and will provide your child with login information when they join us.
- Two pieces of maths home learning per week. These are only ten minute activities and are revision of what has been taught in maths that day or week.
Useful Links
These documents will help you to become familiar with some of the key aspects of the English curriculum. Each is published in Adobe PDF format, for which you may require a free viewer application.
- Glossary for the programmes of study for English
- English Appendix 1: Spelling
- English Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
Further Assistance
If after reviewing the resources presented above you still require further assistance, please in the first instance send details in an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..