Welcome to Year 3

Thank you for coming tonight.

Welcome to our schoolTransition

Our Values• Creativity• Harmony• Life long learning

The Teachers:Vikings Mrs Sajic

Celts Miss Malone

Romans Mrs Newman

Saxons Mrs Wood Mrs Thorne

Teaching Assistants:Mrs Leaver

Mrs Hyland,

Mrs Mott and Miss Guppy

Mrs Da Costa SEN Mrs Guest

Mrs Loder Mrs Simmons

The Year Three Team

Integrated CurriculumMakes learning purposefulChildren working towards a clear outcomeMakes learning fun All topics begin with a hook – designed to engage and enthuse Link objectives from different subjects to create each topic Literacy focus for every topic- Daily Literacy lessons. In Reading Workshop children

usually read books of the same text type as the topic.

Discreet Teaching Programmes Some topics are taught separately to ensure all areas of learning are covered Daily Numeracy lessons – 4 ability sets – target the teaching to meet children’s needs PE and Outdoor games, French, RE Wordwise and handwriting

We plan opportunities for the children to work together across the curriculum

Year 3 Topics Autumn Term

Rotten Romans It’s Showtime! Sculpt and shape

Santa’s Little Helpers Spring Term

Magical Myths Healthy Happy Meals

Summer Term Beautiful Poole Optional SATs

MayBlooming Marvellous

Au Revoir! Termly Curriculum Newsletter

It’s Showtime!Hook- Joe Gladwyn (puppeteer)

Outcome – shadow puppet show performance

Literacy focus – dialogue and plays

ICT – word processing -combining text and graphics

Design Technology- making shadow puppets

Gymnastics- shadowing partners moves

Music – composing sound effects

This is a Science and Literacy based topic.The children will learn the story of the‘Papaya who spoke’,noting how dialogue is written in narratives. They will then read and perform plays learning how they are written and why. Finally they will write a playscript by innovating ‘The Papaya who spoke’. They will learn about how shadows are made and change through science investigations and exploration. Using what they have learnt they will make shadow puppets and perform a shadow puppet show for the children in other Year 3 classes.

Visits and Visitors• Joe Gladwyn –puppet maker- 3rd – 5th

October TBC• Darrell Wakelam – artist – Thursday 8th

November• Graham Rogers – storyteller- Thursday

10th January• Russell Beardsmore – week beginning

25th February TBC• Visit to Poole Park - week beginning

April 25th

• Climbing wall – Tuesday 9th July

Rights Respecting School

• Level 2• Global citizens• Behaviour policy• Rights and Responsibilities

Supporting your child’s learning at home!• Reading

• Maths• Spellings• Topic Projects Write story, poem or facts, DT/Art activity or research linked to the

current topic Children can choose what to do and how to present it Work is displayed and shared with class Certificates are given to all children who participate

• Class Toy Gives the children a purpose for writing and encourages them to practise

their writing skills Children can choose between writing an adventure story, a diary recount

or captions about photographs or pictures explaining what is happening

We love Maths!Creating Confident Mathematicians

• Practise number facts:quick recall of bonds to10 and 20, tables, doubling and halving numbers,

addition and subtraction facts for each number to 10 and then 20, counting on and back in steps of

1,2,3,4,5,10,100 and1000

• Play maths games: Monopoly, Snakes and Ladders, Dominoes and games we send home

• Computer games – for useful websites google:coxhoe, ICT games, woodlands junior, mathletics-

need to subscribe £39 1child, £69 for 2

Spelling

Practising the spellings will enable your child to become a more fluent writer

Weekly spellings are differentiated

Tests are on Fridays of the following week – date in book

Handwriting

• Whole school focus

• Practice for 10 minutes in the morning

• Celebrate handwriting with each class awarding a child ‘Hand writer of the week’.Child is given a certificate and a coloured gel pen to use for the following weeks’ handwriting practice

PE and Games• Dance / Gymnastics Monday (Vikings & Celts) Thursday (Saxons & Romans) • Outdoor Games – Tuesday (All classes)• Swimming Tuesdays from January • No earrings on PE days • Hair tied back • Labelled kit – warmer clothes after

half term• PE bags not rucksacks

Promoting Independence

• changing reading books

• letters

• jumpers and cardigans

• Home spelling books and reading record books

Home School Communication

We want to support you: Weekly surgeries on Wednesdays Consultation Evenings – October 23rd

and 24th Pastoral care worker – Mrs Rance TA’s on the gate in the morning Website – regularly updated Newsletters Email Office staff- hot school meals,

holiday requests, to report absences Appointment with SENCO

We value your

support: • Parent helper - meeting on Friday 21st

September at 2:15 • Reading volunteer - Friday 21st September

at 2:15• Parent Support Group• Volunteer to help on school visits• Volunteer to help with swimming • Read all letters and return, when

appropriate

How can you help?

Assessment• Assessment – In every year group

children are regularly assessed. Assessments inform the planning of the next steps in your child’s learning

• Weekly mental maths tests so they are confident mathematicians who are not phased by optional year 3 mental maths test

• Optional SATs -May 7th –May 24th

Thank you for coming !

Questions and tour of the Year 3 base