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Ms Helen Johnson |
Year 3 Class Teacher |
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Ms Ella Ward |
Year 3 Class Teacher |
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Miss Emma Gleave |
LKS2 Teaching Assistant |
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Mrs Swathy Somasundaram |
LKS2 Teaching Assistant |
Welcome to the Sun class page. We are looking forward to a busy year and we have some really exciting topics ahead. Sun class are lucky to have our LKS2 teaching assistants working with them supporting their learning. We have lots of enthusiasm and are looking forward to the year ahead. Please feel free to come and talk to Miss Groom if you have any questions.
|
Ms Helen Johnson |
Year 3 Class Teacher |
|
Ms Ella Ward |
Year 3 Class Teacher |
|
Miss Emma Gleave |
LKS2 Teaching Assistant |
|
Mrs Swathy Somasundaram |
LKS2 Teaching Assistant |
Outdoor PE will be on a Friday and Indoor PE will be on a Wednesday. Children can come to school dressed ready in their PE kits.
In Year 3 our Cornerstones topics this year are:
What will my child learn in Year 3?
As in all other year groups, Year 3 follow the National Curriculum set out by the government. Children will access the full range of curriculum subjects. Generally speaking, reading, writing and maths will be taught daily; geography, history, art and design, music and computing will be taught in blocks to match the topics listed above, and PSHE, RE, science and Languages will be taught at least fortnightly across the year. At HCP, we strive to make teaching and learning personalised, exciting and creative.
The curriculum for English in Year 3
We follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme ‘Pathways to Write.’ Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for writing. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the writing activities provided. Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Write approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.
Here are some of the books we plan to use this year:
By the end of Year 3, children’s reading and writing should be sufficiently fluent for them to manage the general demands of the curriculum in Year 4 across all subjects. They should be able to reflect their understanding of the purpose and audience of their writing by selecting appropriate vocabulary and grammar.
In Year 3, children’s confidence, enjoyment, and mastery of language will be extended through public speaking, performance, and debate.
The curriculum for maths in Year 3
The main focus of maths teaching in Year 3 is to ensure that children have an increasingly confident understanding of the number system and place value to include integers up to 1000. This evolves into addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, where children will be introduced to basic formal written methods so that their work becomes more efficient. Established pictorial methods and mental methods will also be developed further. Please see the school calculation policy for the methods that will be introduced in Year 3. This improved command of number is then applied in units of work on fractions, geometry, statistics and measurement.
How will my child be assessed in Year 3?
Throughout the year, our Year 3 teaching team will be assessing children against the National Curriculum for Year 3, making observations, looking at the work the children complete during lessons and gathering evidence to determine how children are attaining in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 3. This end of year teacher judgement will be shared with parents through your child’s end of year report and will show parents whether your child is working:
Updates regarding how your child is attaining will also be shared at our autumn and spring term parents’ consultations in November and March.
Y3 Partners in Excellence (PiXL) Tests
Throughout Key Stage 2 (from Year 3 to Year 6) we will continue to use PiXL (Partners in Excellence) assessments throughout the year. PiXL tests have been designed to check children’s knowledge and understanding against the end of year expectations for each year group in reading; grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) and mathematics.
As well as informing each teacher’s assessments of each child in their class, PiXL tests also enable diagnostic evaluation of gaps in children’s learning and are supported by therapies and interventions which can support children in closing their gaps in learning.
The expectation for homework in Year 3 will begin with regular use of Times Tables Rock Stars to practise times tables. Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice. Each week concentrates on a different times table, with a recommended consolidation week for rehearsing the tables that have recently been practised every third week or so.
We are also updating the whole-school approach to spellings via a new programme of learning: Pathways To Spell. This programme aims to develop a range of skills which enables students to use and apply ambitious vocabulary in the context of extended writing across the curriculum.
There is also an expectation that the children read daily and record their reading in their reading records.
Autumn Term 1 - Year 3 Home Learning Tasks - Predator!
Please let us know if there are any other websites or apps that you use at home. We can add these to our website for other parents and children to enjoy too.