Parent Progress Meeting

1. Parent Progress Meeting Year 3 Mrs McMahon and Mrs Davidson

2. Aims of the meeting… • Understand the tests your child has completed. • What your child has achieved in their test. • Information in envelopes explaining your child’s results. • Results • How you can help at home.

3. Assessments… • Complete three tests each term. • Aims of the tests are to celebrate children’s achievements and identify next steps. • Tests consist of: - Maths - English Reading - Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling - Writing (moderated throughout the year)

4. Assessments… • End of National Curriculum expectation is a scaled score of 100. • Guidance of results… • Each envelope contains 3 sheets with your child’s outcomes for Reading, Maths and Grammar punctuation and spelling.

5. SAMPLE of Results… Strands showing how your child performed in the different topics within the subject. Raw score is then converted to the age standardised score. Breakdown of you child’s total score within a specific topic. The raw score your child achieved.

6. How you can support… Maths Working towards • Times tables – 2,5,10, then 3,4,8 (times tables rockstars) • Learn Its – addition facts • Place value (H T O and then Th H T O) • Basic addition and subtraction in columns. • My Maths homework (every 2 weeks) Working at – All of the above + All times tables – times table rockstars (same log in as mymaths) Column method for multiplication (start with 2 digit and then 3 digit) Bus stop division. Look at multiplication facts and how they link to division facts Working at greater depth All times tables. All of the above + Telling the time. Problem solving. Working with moneyand decimals Practise on times tables rockstars and play extra games on mymaths.

7. How you can support… Reading Working towards • Read at home every night- understanding vocabulary/ summarising. • Cracking comprehension on line (every 2 weeks) 212799 • Retrieval questions who/when / where/ why … Working at • Reading and sharing at home every night – wide range of texts (read library books) • Cracking comprehension on line • Inference – understanding characters motives and feelings Working at greater depth Inference questions using key pieces of evidence from text with explanations. Read to other family members. Extra reading books from school. (You can write ANY book in the reading record, not just their home reading book)

8. How you can support… Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Working towards • Learn Year 3 target board spellings (on school website) • Ensure KS1 spellings are secure (in reading records) • Understand noun, verb, adjective, adverb (you can do this whilst reading) • Checking sentence punctuation is secure (capital letter and full stop at first) Working at • As above + • Fronted adverbials followed by comma. (e.g Quickly, she ran into class.) • Identifying noun phrases. verb phrases, adverbial phrases (e.g the kind, helpful teacher) • Varied punctuation including apostrophes and inverted commas for speech Working at greater depth • Understand tenses • Clauses (subordinate and main)

9. Weekly Homework • Daily Reading (Please sign reading record, any book/paper) • My Maths every 2 weeks • Beat That Score that are brought home every week by children (learn 3 new facts a week. DON’T TRY TO LEARN THEM ALL AT ONCE!) • Weekly spellings (practise more than once) • Cracking Comprehension online every 2 weeks 212799 • Multiplication tables (times tables rockstars) • Library is open daily after school until 4.00 p.m

10. Any questions?

11. Thank you for your continued support.