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To enable parents to meet the year 3 staff To help your child make a smooth transition between infant and junior school To inform you about routines and expectations at William Cobbett Junior School To give suggestions for how you could support your child in their learning 3BP Class teachers: Mrs Bunkham Miss Payne Year Co-ordinator TA: Mrs Downes 3C Class teacher: Mrs Cleaver TA: Mrs Hall 3M Class teacher: Mr Mynard Mr Wuestner (training) TA: Mrs Higgins 3S Class teacher: Mrs Strachan TA: Mrs Hains Other staff working with Year 3 Mrs Magee – Special Needs support, reading, class cover Mrs Wilson – Special Needs support, class cover A year in Year 3 Equipment needed Homework Reading Spelling Meeting the needs of all children Maths Fronter/website/E-Safety Assessment General information Y3 CURRICULUM MAP 2014-15 Autumn Spring Summer Science Forces & Magnets Plants (seeds) Animals/Humans Animals/Humans Rocks Plants Light Computing Desktop Publishing Digital photos, Photostory Scratch (animation) Databases, podcasting Hopscotch Storybook Logo Digital film Scratch (shapes) Stone Age to Iron Age Romans History Geography Our World World & Local Area focus Climate, Rainforest Rainforest, Brazil focus Volcanoes Art Mark making, sketching Printing Rousseu, collage Paper mache volcanoes Cave painting D.T. Cooking (pizza) Photo frames Cooking – Roman food (Hooke Court) Levers P.E. Tennis Invasion Games Gymnastics: floor level Dance Invasion Games OAA Gymnastics: higher levels Dance Swimming (10 weeks) Athletics Striking and Fielding Music Three Little Birds Nativity Animal Magic Rainforests Do-re-mi (Blackcat Compose) Glockenspiel Stage 2 R.E. The Bible: What’s it all about? Why is prayer important to Christians? Why Do We Give Presents at Christmas? Who are the Jews? Easter 3 – What happened during Jesus’ last week on Earth? Who brought Christianity to Britain? How do Christians celebrate milestones in life?: Birth and Belonging P.S.H.E. New beginnings Getting on/Falling out Going for goals/jobs Good to be me Medicinal drugs Relationships Changes Keeping safe French France Bonjour Les animaux Va-t’en, Grand Monstre Vert! En classe Mon corps La famille Bon anniversaire Weaving (In front of homework diaries) Friday 26th September: Macmillan Coffee Morning Friday 17th October: Harvest Assembly led by Y4 (only Y4 parents to attend) Any donations of food items greatly appreciated Tuesday 21st October & Thursday 23rd October: Parental Consultations Week of 27th October: Half term Monday 3rd November: INSET day Saturday 6th December: Christmas Fair Tuesday 9th December: Children’s Christmas Fair Wednesday 10th December 2pm & Thursday 11th December 9.30am: Y3 Christmas Nativity performances to parents Thursday 18th December pm: Y3 Christmas Party Friday 20th December: Last day of term Children bring in cakes and £1 Friday morning between 8.30 am and 10.30am £2.00 entry includes a raffle ticket, and as much tea and coffee and cake as you can consume. An opportunity to buy cakes. AUTUMN TERM Local Area study SPRING TERM Living Rainforest or Kew Gardens Stone Age day with Farnham Museum Visitor from Birdworld Visitor with fossils SUMMER TERM Residential at Hooke Court Educational Centre: 15th -17th April 2015 near Dorchester, Dorset (letter to follow) Investigate life in Roman times including cooking, jewellery making, weaving, mosaics. Meet a Roman Legionary and visit Maiden Castle. OR Butser Ancient Farm and Roman activities at school RHS Wisley or a farm visit? All Year 3 classes swimming at All Hallows School Hearing individual children read Accompanying us on trips or to swimming in the summer term Sharing a particular expertise Becoming involved in School Association events Supporting your child at home Helping in the library Helping with clubs Helping with gardening in the class raised bed All regular helpers need to be CRB/DBS checked – please see office staff if you are interested. Pencil case – plenty of pencils, rubber, sharpener, ruler, glue stick, black handwriting pen, colouring pencils Art shirt Water bottle (sports top preferred) PE kit: Indoor (Mondays 3BP & 3C, Tuesdays 3M & 3S): White or Black shorts, white t-shirt (bare foot) Outdoor (Thursdays 3BP & 3S, Fridays 3C & 3M): White or Black shorts, white t-shirt, trainers/plimsolls optional black/purple/grey jogging bottoms/ girls purple pleated games skirt NO jewellery to be worn for P.E. lessons Please could you check that all school uniform , PE kit and equipment is named! •Reading every night for 5-10 minutes (please record in reading record book) •Spellings – please practise the common words which will be given out at parental consultations. We will not be sending home weekly spelling lists in year 3 as we are going to be focusing on consolidating phonics and learning spelling patterns in class. English homework will sometimes be linked to spelling. •Maths homework fortnightly on a Thursday to be completed by Tuesday (30 mins). •English or topic task fortnightly on a Thursday to be completed by the following Tuesday (30 mins). This will be on alternate weeks to Maths. •Holiday homework - this may be related to other topic areas such as Art, Science, History or Geography. Please use the homework book as a means of communication between you and your child’s teacher. We would appreciate you signing this book weekly. If your child has difficulty with any homework task please do not hesitate to ask their teacher for advice or use their book to communicate any problems. There is no need for your child to spend hours on any task! If they have spent the allotted time and have not finished you may feel it appropriate to stop them and write a note to their teacher. We thank you for your support with your child’s homework. Guided reading Independent reading Teacher reading aloud Our reading books are organised into the coloured book bands. We have a variety of reading books from schemes including PM, Big Cat, Project X and Alien Adventures. The emphasis in class is on developing reading and comprehension skills. This is largely done through guided reading sessions with children of a similar ability. Individual reading is mainly done with the TA or parent helpers. We greatly appreciate your support with continuing to hear your child read regularly at home and discussing what has been read. Please record this in your child’s reading diary. There is a booklet about ‘reading at home’ in your child’s reading diary. What if my child is struggling with the book they are reading? Is the book too hard? Are they using picture cues/diagrams/ illustrations to help? Praise their effort Don’t be afraid to take over Talk to the class teacher or write in the reading record diary As your child begins to develop as a reader: Let them re-read known books If they don’t want to read the whole book – take turns Don’t correct all the mistakes – if the mistake does not make sense, re-read the sentence Children’s reading development is not always predictable Keep reading to them Let them see you reading for pleasure • Phonics • Memory and experience • Existing knowledge • Independent spelling strategies e.g. use of rules • Practise common word spellings regularly: use strategies that work for your child to help them learn them e.g. look/cover/write/check, using for handwriting practice, flashcards, magnetic letters… • Encourage children to think for themselves first before asking you to spell a word – remind of strategies they can use such as sounding the word out and thinking about other words they know. Start to encourage the use of a simple dictionary. • When your child has finished their homework there is no need for you to correct all spelling mistakes but you could point out some spellings that you know they have been practising. Help children to spot their own spelling errors, encourage them to check when they have finished writing. • Play spelling games – board games, online games (e.g. through school website, Education City) •10 minutes oral & mental starter – practice of number facts etc. •Main Activity - Whole class input, independent work •Plenary – review of what has been learnt in the lesson, identifying any problems The focus in year 3 is initially on informal written methods. FOR EXAMPLE: Partitioning 57 + 34 50 + 30 = 80 7 + 4 = 11 80 + 11 = 91 Number line +10 57 +10 67 +10 77 +1 87 +1 +1 +1 88 89 90 91 Later in the year we will introduce expanded column methods which are a step towards compact standard methods. and and and and and and Number games Roll two dice. Make two-digit numbers, e.g. if you roll a 6 and 4, this could be 64 or 46. If you haven’t got two dice, roll one dice twice. Ask your child to do one or more of the activities below. Count on or back from each number in tens. Add 19 to each number in their head. (A quick way is to add 20 then take away 1.) Subtract 9 from each number. (A quick way is to take away 10 then add back one.) Double each number. Please take a leaflet! • Practising number facts (number bonds to 10 and 20 and for numbers up to 20, times tables) • Using Maths in ‘everyday’ life e.g. shopping, cooking, measuring, telling the time • Playing games School website Library Maths games Year 3 Maths Packs Attend Maths parent & child workshop Tasks are differentiated to meet children’s needs either by task, by level of support or by expected outcome. The children are in ability groups within the classroom for areas such as Reading, Writing and Maths when such grouping is appropriate, at other times they work in mixed ability pairs or groups. Handwriting, motor skills and phonics groups - TAs Project X Code – Mrs Magee and Mrs Wilson Structured programme for reading and phonics First Class @ Number 2 – Mrs Soane Structured programme for Maths Maths support – Mrs Magee Small group support during Maths lessons English support – Mrs Magee and Mrs Wilson Small group or individual support during English lessons Special Educational Needs Some children will be identified as needing extra support in a particular aspect (e.g. English skills, Maths, Social or Behaviour). These children will have targets which will be shared and reviewed with you at parental consultations. Assessment FOR learning Assessment is an ongoing process. Throughout every lesson the teacher will be assessing where the children are at in their learning. This assessment will help the teacher to adapt the lesson as needed or feed into future planning to enable children’s needs to be met. Assessment OF learning It is necessary at certain times for assessment to take place in the form of tests and tasks. This enables teachers to check children’s progress, particularly at the end of a unit of work or school year. Some of these assessments are statutory. September – PIPS (Performance Indicators In Primary Schools – electronic assessments of reading, Maths and non-verbal skills) October –Unaided writing task February – Unaided writing task May – Year 3 assessments including unaided writing task June – PIPS Listening Collaboration Questioning Imagining Reasoning I am learning to actively listen, think and share ideas. Planning Revising Managing Distractions Perseverance I am learning to avoid distracting others. The school website has a section all about how to stay safe online. The School Learning Platform’s Parent Area includes a dedicated area for E-safety with useful links, up to date information and practical support. A letter will come out shortly with details of Fronter. E-safety workshops will be held later in the term. They aim to: • Keep you up to date with some of the new technologies available and how they may affect your child’s safety when online. • Give you up to date practical advice on how to keep your child safe online. • Make you aware of how we teach E-safety at school. Parents need to attend one of the school e-safety workshop in order for children to be given their log on for Fronter. School Council & Eco Committee Buddying Newsletters Clubs Playtime snack – fruit/veg only Playground supervision (not before 8.40am) Learning Partners What is WAL/WALT? Marking Behaviour School website Online payments We are sure that between us we will make your child’s time at William Cobbett happy and successful. 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