Hello and welcome to Year 3.
We are now in Key Stage 2.

The staff in Year 3 are Mrs Perrett, Miss Ward, Mrs White and Mrs Malpass.
We are really looking forward to the new year and excited to see your children grow and mature in their learning. 

Miss Ward

Mrs Perrett

Mrs White

Mrs Malpass

Our three school rules are:

• Be Ready
• Be Respectful
• Be Safe

We also have four listening skills that we actively teach across school. These are:

• Good listening is…sitting still
• Good listening is…staying quiet
• Good listening is…looking at the person who is talking
• Good listening is…listening to all of the words

Click below for slides from the parents meeting on 16th September

Developing reading skills

Our first class novel is The Midnight Fox. Through this gentle story we will be ensuring the children's understanding of new vocabulary and identifying with the feelings of each character.

We will teach reading every day through choral reading for fluency, checking the understanding of vocabulary and helping the children to understand and enjoy what they read.

The children will have a reading book that they bring home every night. Please could you ensure that they bring it in every day as they will read it every day in class. The children will also bring home a reading record so that you can lets us know how your child is reading at home.

Developing writing skills.

During the first half of the Autumn term we will be helping the children to understand how important it is to understand sentence and grammar structures to write a variety of coherant sentences.
The children will be looking closely at key punctuation and ensuring they can write independent, coherent statements, questions, exclamations and commands.
They will also learn how to extend sentences using conjunctions, adjectives and adverbs.
As a part of the writing process, they will review their work and make changes and revisions.

Spelling
Spelling will be a key aspect of developing writing skills and will be taught daily. Twelve spellings, linked to phonics sounds, will be learnt each week and will be found in the homework section of our page, where you will find other words that children need to learn to spell whilst in Year 3. 

Spelling tests will take place on Friday and include the 12 words learnt that week plus 8 words from previous weeks work.

Handwriting.
Handwriting will be taught every day. The children will be expected to use joined handwriting in their independent work by the end of Year 3. It is a key component in developing children's writing.

Children will build on these fundamental building blocks to write longer pieces of work as we move into the end of the Autumn term.

Developing number skills.

During the Autumn term the children will be learning to order, read and manipulate numbers up to 4 digits. They will be developing and securing their addition and subtraction calculations and increase their recall of known facts, eg. number bonds to 20, number bonds to 100.

Multiplication is an important aspect and the children will need to remember their knowledge from Year 2 (2X 5X and 10x) and moving onto 3X 4X and 8X. By the end of Year 3 they will need to be able to recall all of their multiplication facts in readiness for the Statutory Multiplication Test at the end of Year 4. They will be working on multiplication daily and recieving multiplication homework every week. 

We will be looking at these words as part of our handwriting sessions.
Please read them at home and encourage your child to find out what they mean.
You might even challenge them to write them in a sentence?

Science: 
Biology - The Human Body

Religious Education:
Creation Stories

PSHE: 
What makes a family; features of family life.          

Geography:
Spatial sense

French:
Colours and numbers
             

Art: Line

Music: Rythmic patterns, singing, using tuned and untuned percussion and improvisation.

PE: 

Monday - Dance

Thursday - Football

Homework

Please read your stories and information books.

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