1. Welcome to the Year 3 Information Evening

2. Mrs Gray- Class Teacher Mrs Beeden- Music & English small groups
Our Year - Our Team
Mrs Gray- Class Teacher
Mrs Beeden- Music &
English small groups
Mrs Chamberlain- French & ICT
Mrs Stimson- ICT English & Maths
Mrs Green- Maths small groups
Mrs Oakley-Sport
Mrs Ruddy & Mr Tindale

3. Differences in Class 3
The children will be expected to be more independent by getting out books and equipment, handing in homework and changing their reading book.
They will have a job in the class every week.
They will no longer have an afternoon play.
They will play on the Key Stage 2 playground.

4. Year 3 Timetable

5. What are the themes in Year 3?
Term 1 & 2 – Stone Age to Iron Age
Term 3 & 4 – World War 2
Term 5 & 6 – Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

6. How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
The children will be working on the Year 3 standards in the new National Curriculum.
How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
Sharing learning objectives and success criteria together.
Questioning
Partners/Small group work
Self evaluation
TASC/ Using and Applying
Guided groups
Recorded work
Summative assessment

7. Maths: Term 1 Block 1 Place Value
Block 2 Mental Addition and Subtraction
Block 3 Multiplication and division Fractions
Block 4 Measurement
Block 5 Statistics
Block 6 Written Addition and Subtraction
School website –> Our Learning -> Maths support

8. English: Term 1 Active English input on Grammar
English – Writing and Grammar
The Beasties –write own short story based on the structure
Roald Dahl 100 celebration Week – Character, settings and plot
DK Children’s Book of Sport
Stone Age information texts - Writing own information texts, developing paragraphs, using headings, picture and captions, ICT
Seasons of Splendour, The Tiger Child, Sita and Rama –
Stories from other cultures, acting and writing own, linked to RE
Recipes for Friendship – Values work

9. Writing expectations for Year 3
Children will build on previous learning
Extend the range of sentence types, simple, compound (using and, but, or, so), complex (using when, if, because, although)
choosing nouns or pronouns to avoid repetition
using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
Punctuation
capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contractions
inverted commas for speech
Possessive apostrophe in single and plural nouns
Plan, draft and re-draft
Spellings will follow Letters and Sounds phonic work where there are gaps in use. Children will follow Year 3 guidelines to include word families, prefixes and suffixes and then the Year 3 &4 lists
Joined handwriting

10. Reading expectations for Year 3
using dictionaries to check the meaning of words
discussing words and phrases of interest
read and perform poems and plays and recognising some different forms of poetry [shape, performance]
checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context
asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and predicting what might happen next
identifying the language, structure, and presentation of text

11. Science
Rocks, Soils & Fossils
Food
Light
Plants
Forces and Magnetism

12. Homework
Homework will be given out on a Friday which will consist of Spellings (8 -10 in Year 3), Maths or English. This will be returned on the following Thursday.
Reading books should be read daily
Times tables should be learnt
The amount of time that we ask pupils to spend on their homework in Year 3 equates to approximately 1 ½ hours per week.

13. What’s happening? 4/10/16 – Harvest Festival
12/10/16&19/10/16 Parents’ Evenings
13/10/16 Individual Photos
21/10/16 Disco
2/12/16 Christmas Fair
3/12/16 Grimethorpe Concert
6/12/16 Carol Service
16/12/16 Whole School Christmas Service
20/12/16 Carols on the Playground

14. What can you do to help your child?
Listening to your child read and questioning them about what they have read.
Times tables need to be learned – part of the SATs at Year 6
Provide a quiet place and encouragement for homework to be completed.
Use Maths in everyday situations, ask your child to tell you the time, what will it be in …?
Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, using the right amount of coins etc.

15. Useful Information
PE – This is on Wednesday with Mrs Oakley. Children will need trainers and track suit bottoms on this day and on Friday with Mrs Gray.
Swimming will be on Wednesday afternoons in Term 2, 4, and 6
Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on these days.
Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Further information will be sent out in due course.
Children need to bring their water bottles containing water every day.
Please keep big bags to a minimum as we do not have room to store things that do not fit in their lockers.
Instruments can be stored in the classroom cupboard on lesson days, but do take them home.

16. Remember the school website for additional information.

17. We look forward to an exciting term ahead! Thank you for your time.