Welcome to Year 3!
Teacher: Miss Maggs
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Wilson
PPA Teacher: Mrs Liber (Thursday Afternoon)
To read a parents' guide to the National Curriculum click here
Home and Away!
This term we will be exploring different continents and countries around the world. We will be mainly comparing the United Kingdom to the United States, focusing on the state Florida and Gloucestershire.
Year 3's homework is to practice spellings, times tables and reading, including comprehension. Reading books will be available to change on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday and should be signed throughout the week to show they have read at least 4 times, this can be any book they read, not just the book they have chosen from the schools reading scheme. This is stated in the children's reading records:
'Every-day or regular homework is where the children practise a skill or task which requires regular practice; for example, reading, learning key-ring words and/or spellings, and times-tables. This is expected to be done at least 4 times a week. This is to be signed by parents in the home learning book. Class sanctions and rewards are in place to actively encourage this, as the best readers read at home.'
There will also be a variety of different projects based around our topic which the children can choose to get involved in if they wish too. These projects can be handed in once they are completed as some projects may take longer than others to complete.
Spellings
The read, write inc spellings are tested every Tuesday morning. Rainbow spellings are tested on Friday afternoon. If they get all of the same starred colour correct they move up a colour. All the rainbow spellings are in the children's reading records and I have also sent home the list of rainbow spellings for the children to keep at home.
English
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During the first couple of weeks of summer term we will be exploring scripts, writing our very own and have fun acting them out!
We will be continuing with spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPAG) work linked to GIMME 3. This includes punctuation, conjunctions and adverbials. Children are encouraged to think about these elements in each piece of writing they do across the curriculum.
Maths
We have done our units on place value, addition and subtraction, exploring money, multiplication, division, fractions and measure. We are now focusing on visualising and constructing (focusing on 2D and 3D shapes).
I have provided a copy of key concepts and success criteria for the unit.
To view the success criteria for the unit, click here.
For a copy of the Year 3 Calculation Booklet click here.
