Welcome to Year 3

1. Welcome to Year 3 Miss Gauci, Miss Glenister and Mr March

2. Meet the Team! In Year 3 next year there will be: Miss Gauci Miss Glenister Mr March (Wilson) (Dahl) (Freedman) Miss McDonagh Mme Feuer Mrs Storey

3. A Typical Day

4. English During our daily English sessions, we will build in GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) practice. This includes: Emphasis will also be placed on Spelling. The scheme will be based on the curriculum requirements for Year 3, which focuses on a variety of prefixes and suffixes, sounds which can be spelt in different ways and homophones. In writing, we will be studying a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry as well as applying what they have learnt in ‘Take One Book’ mini topics. • Language choices • Soundpatterns/phonics • Sentence structure • How we use punctuation

5. Outcomes in English Reading By the end of Year 3, your child should be able to: • Listen to and discuss a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. • Discuss vocabulary and think about the author's intent. • Think about characters actions and feelings in relation to what they have read. • Make predictions about what may happen next. Writing By the end of Year 3, your child should be able to: • Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting. • Plan their writing by discussing and recording their ideas. • Evaluate and edit their work by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements.

6. Maths During Maths, the children will develop their mental and written skills as well as developing their problem solving abilities. Areas covered include: number, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, geometry, measures and statistics. Children will apply these skills to different scenarios throughout to help deepen their understanding and show how mathematics is used in everyday situations.

7. Outcomes in Maths Maths By the end of Year 3, your child should be able to: • To develop formal written methods for the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) including column methods. • Recognise fractions of shapes and numbers. • Discuss and compare the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. • Recognise and read scales using different forms of measurement, for example millilitres/grams/metres. Mental Fluency By the end of Year 3, your child should be able to: • Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones, a three-digit number and tens and a three-digit number and hundreds. • Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 10 multiplication tables.

8. Afternoon Sessions Afternoon sessions will consist of: • Science • Computing • Topic (History/Geography) • Music (Recorders) • French • R.E. • PSHE • PE Topics will include: • Extraordinary Earth • Stones and Bones • Gardeners World • Twisted Tales • Rampaging Romans

9. P.E. Each class will have two lessons of P.E. a week. Both will be with their class teacher. Across the year we will cover football, basketball, netball, dance, gym, athletics and rounders amongst others. Please make sure your child brings their full P.E. kit as it is important that they take part in all P.E. lessons. In the winter, please ensure that your child has warm clothing and trainers for outdoor P.E. lessons in addition to their indoor kit.

10. Homework Homework is set on a Friday and it is due in on the following Thursday. Mini maths is to be completed every evening and will be marked in class the following morning. Spelling test will take place on Thursday. If there are any difficulties with the homework please come and ask, or let us know via the space on the homework top sheet. High expectations If homework is handed in late or incomplete, this will result in a loss of break or golden time.

11. Homework Each week we will be sending out the following each week: • Reading – at least 15 minutes per day • Spellings • Mini maths Topic/Science homework will be sent out once a half term.

12. What kind of things can your child do on there? -Access spelling, English, maths, science, topic homework -Click on links posted by the teacher -Watch helpful videos (e.g. Youtube links to times table songs) -Research topics -Children can upload work using Google Docs/ Slides and ‘share’ to their teacher Online Classroom Supports: -Classroom learning -Homework -Extra home learning to Support class work Google Classroom

13. When your child starts in Year 3, they will be taught how to use the Google Classroom during ICT. How does it work from home? • Open Google Chrome • Students use their school email to log into their Google account • Either search through Google or use the waffle to open Google Classroom

14. Spellings Please support your child at home to learn their spellings. This can be done in a variety of ways, including: • Mnemonics • Look, cover, write, check • Sounding out, using phonics • Finding words within words (root words) • Chunking the word into syllables • Rainbow and pyramid writing

15. Reading at Home Reading at home is very important to your child’s education. All children will have a personal reader to read at home. They should read for at least 15 minutes per day and have their Reading Record signed by an adult, at home, at least three times a week. We are happy for the children to write down what they have read, including a comment – this could be an opinion or a word they want to learn more about. Please try and read with your child at home as often as possible and discuss the text with them, asking questions to check their understanding.

16. We would welcome any volunteers to help with daily reading and activities such as Golden Time. Any questions?