1. Welcome to Year 3 Parents’ Information Session
Mr Clark & Mr Taylor
Kingsnorth…
The best days of OUR lives

2. What happens in Year 3
Expectations
Keeping you informed
Questions

3. Year 3 Middle School – Years 2, 3 and 4 Blyton Class – 3C
Teacher: Mr Clark
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Potts
Student Teacher: Miss Hobby
Stanton Class – 3T
Teacher: Mr Taylor
Teaching Assistants:
Mrs Routley covers PPA on Monday AM

4. Daily Routine 8.45 Early morning work & registration time
English / Literacy & Language
Collective Worship
Morning break – whole school
Reading AR
11:00 Maths
12:00 Lunch – (The Daily Mile 12-12:15)
1:00 Feedback marking time and spellings
1:30 Afternoon subject
3.15 End of school day

5. Parents’ evenings & reports
Mutual contact through…
End of the day
Phone call
Notes & letters
Appointments
Parents’ evenings & reports
Drop-ins
Ask your child to show you their books and talk about their learning
Texts
Noticeboard

6. We will be trying to develop children’s
Children to have things they need – trays
Responsibility for behaviour – inside and outside the classroom
Showing required effort
Going ‘above and beyond’!
Talk to adults if they have a problem
and

7. In school – as often as possible
Some may need to read daily in school
At home for 20 minutes every day and please sign their reading log each time
Children may be asked to read their AR book more than once – we want them to succeed!

8. “To learn to read is to light a fire.”
Star Reading Test determines the AR range
Book choice within their range
Encourage to make good book choices and finish
Independence
Incentives – whole school competition

9. Follows on from
Read Write Inc.
In groups
Trained staff
Ongoing assessment
Writing is a high priority – whenever and wherever
Practice in school. Pens are given at the teacher’s discretion.

10. MASTERY Having a secure knowledge and understanding
Fluency + reasoning + problem solving
learning through concrete – pictorial – abstract
recognising links and patterns
explanations

11. Please ensure earrings are removed and that a full kit is in school.
Place value – numbers to 1000
Addition and subtraction
Times tables: 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s and 6s
Stories with familiar settings
Poetry
P.E. will be on Mondays.
Please ensure earrings are removed and that a full kit is in school.
Science – Rocks / Volcanoes
R.E. – People of God
Computing – iSimulate
Geography – Volcanoes & Earthquakes
P.E. – Tag Rugby & Hockey
French – Greetings and numbers

12. Homework Daily reading to an adult Having a story/text read to them
Practising current spelling rules and patterns
Maths and English in real life
Times tables - TTRS

13. Continual teacher assessments
Termly assessments – not necessarily a test

15. Thank you for listening. Questions…