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Welcome to Year 3
English
Autumn 1.
English lessons this half term are themed around fairy tales involving wolves. These may include 'The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig' written by Eugene Trivizas and 'Little Red Riding Hood' written by Jonathan Langley. These books will encourage and inspire the children to use their imagination and develop their sentence structure and writing skills. Over the course of the term, the children will have an opportunity to develop their understanding of direct speech, commas in lists and use of correct punctuation through writing stories focusing on familiar traditional tales and characters.
The teaching of reading will focus on retrieval and inference skills as well as widening their current vocabulary base. Children will begin to use accelerated reader to select books which are appropriate for their current reading level. Their reading level will be assessed half termly and levels changed in accordance.
There will be an Accelerated Reader parent workshop on Tuesday 1st October.
Grammar and spelling patterns and skills will be taught specifically in SPaG lessons whilst being integrated into English lessons. Whilst we are not sending home weekly spellings, the year 3/4 statutory list is available below and also attached to the front of your child's learning log. Please support your child in learning these in a way that suits their individual needs.
Maths
Weeks 1, 2 and 3 - Place value
Weeks 4, 5, 6 and 7 - Addition and Subtraction
100 club - In year 3 the children begin to complete a weekly times table quiz in preparation for the statutory times table assessment in year 4. They are given an allotted time of 6 minutes to complete 100 random times tables up to 12 x 12. This will carry on until the end of year 6. Whilst we understand that the children haven't been formally taught all of these times tables at present, over the course of this year and next they will have the opportunity to explore the full range of times tables in class and improve recall speed.
Diary Dates
Accelerated Reader parent workshop - Tuesday 1st October
S.T.E.M week - Begins Monday 7th October
Parent/ Teacher consultations - Monday 14th and Wednesday 16th October
Half term ends - Thursday 17th October
General reminders
- Please remember to take out earrings on P.E days.
- Pencil cases only need a small range of essential stationery.
- Please ensure your child is wearing the correct uniform and all items of their clothing are clearly labelled with both their name and class.
- Log ins for purple mash are inside your child's reading record.
- Please make sure your child reads at least 3 times a week and gets their reading record signed.
- Please ensure your child's learning log is completed and sent back into school on the date specified.
