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Welcome to Year 3

Welcome to Year 3. Karen Turner Jack Oliver Virginia Jackson. Topics. Term 1- Around the world- myths and legends, skeletons and nutrition, savoury dish Term 1 b- Cracking contraptions- Forces and magnets, animation, design contraptions, explanations

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Welcome to Year 3

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  1. Welcome to Year 3 Karen Turner Jack Oliver Virginia Jackson

  2. Topics Term 1- Around the world- myths and legends, skeletons and nutrition, savoury dish Term 1 b- Cracking contraptions- Forces and magnets, animation, design contraptions, explanations Term 2- Horrible Histories- Stone Age to Iron Age, rock types and classification, cave art, newspaper reports Term 2b- Theatre- Shakespeare, masks of characters, light and shadows, Macbeth and R. Dahl The witches, making our own theatres with levers and pulleys. Term 3- Town Planners- imaginary worlds, local Geography about Hatton Locks, window collage, link to Curse of Wear rabbit –persuasive writing. Term 3b-Great Artists- Plants and animals, Hodgeheg-DK Smith, IT to create pieces of art, UK region of Britain

  3. Reading • Key stone to learning • 3x per week for about 15 minutes • Change their own reading books. • They have a library book of their choice this might be to share with you or for you to read to them or for them to read. • They have a guided reading book that we choose and we change when they have achieved all the Assessment foci. • Book banded books (scheme books)–can change when they want to. • They add a sticker to the reading record book to show you what they are working on in school.

  4. Homework and spellings • Spellings will given each week to be learnt for a weekly spelling test. • Look, Cover, Write, check, kinaethestic ways of learning • Mix of key words and phonic spellings set in 3 groups. • Times tables test and mental maths test weekly. • Homework is a mix of literacy/topic and Numeracy. Each week they have to complete either a maths tasks or a topic task. • Generally it is expected that you will sit with your child and provide some support.

  5. Equipment • Need a pencil case- scissors, ruler, felt- pens, coloured pencils, a pencil. • Water bottles- must have this as we have no sink!! Must be water in them. • PE kit- shorts, t-shirt, tracksuit, pumps and trainers all must be named and in a named bag. • They need a reading bag. They will be used to carry the various books etc. home and to school. • They will be expected to empty their own trays and hand in their own homework.

  6. Beginning and end of the day • At 8:45 children enter the school from the junior playground and walk to their cloakroom. • There will be morning work set that they can start. • A bell and registration will take place at 8:55. • At the end of the day a teacher will be present in the junior playground for the children to be released at 3:15.

  7. Communication • We place letters in a tray which they can collect and place in their own tray. • You can make an appointment with the office. • There will members of staff on the playground at the end of the day.

  8. Any questions???

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