Year 3Parent Information Meeting

WELCOME

‘Inspiring children to be the best that they can be.’

The year 3 team

• Mrs Angela Sayer

Mrs Becki Gibbs

• Miss Sara Newton

• Ms Gill Hudson

Mrs Jen Roberts Mrs Debbie Workman & Mrs Alison Westwood (Indoor PE)

Mrs Jackie Pidgley (German) Mrs Alison Wood (SEND coordinator)

Morning Routines• The gates to the school are open at 8.30am every

morning.

• Only children who are monitors are allowed to enter the classrooms before registration e.g. chair monitors.

• Children should stay out in the playground before school with their coats and bags.

• Late children must report to the office.

Afternoon Routines

• After School Club children go directly to the cabin from the classroom.

• Children attending clubs go directly to the meeting point for their clubs.

• 3S children exit the school by the front office and 3N exit through the gate at the near side of the school.

• It is important that we know who is authorised to collect your children from school. If there is any change to arrangements please let the office or the class teacher know.

• If you are late to collect your child for any reason they will wait on the blue chairs inside reception.

Necessary equipment• Pencil case –pencil, rubber, sharpener and

blue handwriting pen once they have earned a pen licence.

• Coloured pencils.

• Felt pens are occasionally used, but not regularly in books, as they ‘go through’ the paper.

• We always have spares available.

Necessary equipment

• Water bottle, with fresh water daily.• Coat - Essential.• PE kit.

PE is on Thursday and Friday. Children are not allowed to do PE wearing earrings.

Outdoor trainers (in a named carrier bag) for the field.

If your child cannot do PE for any reason, they must have a note.

Mid-morning snacks

• Fruit or vegetables or cheese.

• Cereal bars / oatcakes / dippers / biscuits must be kept for lunchtime.

• We have a no nut policy and with packed lunches we encourage the children not to share their food.

Meeting Teachers

Should you have any worries or concerns please let your child’s class teacher know. You could:• Write a brief note in your child’s planner.• Catch us before lessons or at the end of

the day.• Make an appointment via the school office.

Meeting Teachers

• Parents evenings:

Wednesday 21st October – late appointments.

Thursday 22nd October – early appointments.

• Book an appointment with your class teacher by signing up on the sheets outside the classrooms or calling the office with availability so that they can book for you.

Homework Diaries

• This year all children in KS2 will have a homework diary in which to record their home learning tasks and their reading.

• The children can record the books they are reading but the diary needs to be signed at least once a week by a parent/carer and will be checked at school.

• Diaries must come into school on a daily basis. • Diaries provide a useful tool for communication between

home and school but please do not write messages relating to picking up children at the end of the day. If there is a change to the normal arrangements for pick up it is important you ring the office or talk to the teacher before school.

Home learning• Reading - Please encourage your child to read a wide

variety of genres in year 3, at least three evenings per week (to be noted in homework diaries).

• Spelling – Ongoing half termly word lists, which will be displayed in the classroom.

• Writing - Tasks should be presented neatly in pencil (or blue handwriting pen) to the same standard as in school.

• Maths – Home learning will be linked to the work covered in class.

• Theme – Occasionally science, art, history or geography tasks may be set .

• Homework will be set on a Thursday and is due in the following Tuesday.

• There is a homework club which runs on a Friday lunchtime if children would like to complete it at school.

Teaching & Learning

• English and Maths are taught every morning.

• Broader curriculum subjects are taught in the afternoon.

• Links are made across the theme based curriculum, which builds on skills and values.

Curriculum 2014• Carefully mapped our existing theme based

curriculum to meet new NC requirements – whole curriculum overview on website.

• Statutory testing on the new NC will take place next May for our current year 6.

Spelling expectations• Changes to spelling expectations.• Banks of words children should know by the end

of yr3/yr4/yr5/y6.• Children will be taught to learn spelling patterns

and the statutory words.

Curriculum 2014Grammar expectations• Higher expectations in terms of what

children are expected to learn and the terminology they are expected to know and use i.e.

noun phrase – yr 2

subordinate clause – yr 3

adverbial – yr 4

modal verb – yr 5

active and passive – yr 6

Curriculum 2014Geography

NC requirements• KS1 name and locate the world’s 7

continents and five oceans. Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK and its surrounding areas

• KS2 Locate the world’s countries, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical features and human characteristics and major cities

Curriculum 2014Geography news book

KS1 - Each class will have a

news book which children will take home weekly which will focus on events in the UK. They will then have the opportunity to discuss their news event and pin point on a map the location (copy of world map and map of British Isles on display in classroom and use of digi-map). Regular opportunities for children to rehearse locational knowledge will be built into every unit of work throughout the keystage.

Curriculum 2014Geography news bookKS2 focus on

Local and national events (year 3)

UK and Europe (year 4)

Events in the wider world incl UK (year 5)

Compare news from 2 different sources from anywhere in the world (year 6)

They will then have the opportunity to discuss their news event and pin point on a map the location. Regular opportunities for children to rehearse locational knowledge – naming and locating countries of the UK and the world, geographical regions, human and physical features including hills, mountains cities, rivers, key topographical features and land use patterns and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time to be built into every unit of work.

Curriculum 2014

Geography news book• The class news book will come home on a

weekly basis and the children should be encouraged to talk about the local and national news.

Curriculum 2014

Changes in the way schools assess attainment and progress.

New assessment criteria in line with the new curriculum.

Move from levels to end of year group expectations.

• The children found a dragon’s egg in the school ground and are becoming dragonologists, learning all about these mythical creatures.

• We have a wow day this Friday when the children will have an opportunity a real reptile man and hold a range of unusual creatures.

• The theme also links to our work in art when we be exploring patterns in nature. Visiting artists will come and work with each year 3 class for a morning this half term.

THIS TERM’S THEMEScales and Tails

Teaching & Learning

• Assessment for Learning (AfL) is used throughout the school to help children become more independent learners and to help them understand their learning journey.

• Assessment for Learning (AfL):– Learning Intention (LI)– Steps to Success – What Went Well (WWW)– Even Better If (EBI)

Swimming• Swimming is in the summer term.• The children walk to Dorking

swimming pool.• It is a National Curriculum

requirement that all KS2 children be able to swim 25 metres

Year 3Parent Information Meeting

‘Inspiring children to be the best that they can be.’