Teachers: Miss Wilson (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)

                   Mrs Haisman (Wednesday)

    Teaching Assistants: Miss Jagger, Mrs Gorthorpe and Mrs Hill

Spellings

Spellings will be sent home on a Friday. Children are expected to practise their spellings ready for a spelling test in school the following Friday. They will have chance to practise these spellings at school and learn about the spelling rule for the week, but any extra practise you can do at home will be very useful.

We will be practising the Statutory Year 3 and 4 spellings throughout the year too and these will appear in the spelling lists as the ‘stinkers’.

Homework

Homework will be handed out on a Friday and due in the following Wednesday.

Times Tables

   Developing recall of all multiplication and division facts is important in Key Stage 2.

   This year, along with recapping and developing further fluency in the 2, 5, 10 and 11 times tables which should have been learnt in year 2, your child will focus on learning and developing fluency in their 3, 4, 8 and 9 times tables. We will use games, lessons, homework, ‘Hit the Button’ and ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ to help consolidate these facts too.

Reading

Let me explain how reading books, reading records and reading journals work in Year 3:

   Reading books - Children should be encouraged to read their reading book every day.

 Children reading RWI Phonic books will have their book changed each week. When they finish reading their book the children should be encouraged to re-read the book to develop fluency and confidence.

 

If your child is off the RWI Phonics books, then they will be able to choose books from our ‘Year 3 Class Reading Books’, found on the bookshelves of our reading area. Once they have finished their book and completed their activity in their Reading Journal, they can change their own book at school. They will have a chance throughout the week to change their book and choose a new one when needed.

Reading Records - Once a child has read at home with you, whether it be their reading book from school or a book from home, then please record the date, name of book and how many pages they managed to read, then sign ready to return to school. Reading Records will be checked on Mondays and a series of ‘Reading Rewards’ will be awarded for regular home reading.

Reading Journals - These journals are for children to use to celebrate the books they have read. Once your child has finished a book, we will encourage them to complete an activity from available reading journal activities. When they have completed this journal entry they are free to change their book and start the whole process again!

Throughout the year we will also hold a range of ‘Reading Races and Challenges’ to help develop children’s love of reading by encouraging them to read and explore books in a wide range of ways.

  Reading books, records and journals should be brought to school every day in your child’s book bag. When they get to school in the morning, your child will take them out of their book bag and place them in their drawer so they can be used that day. In the afternoon, children will return them to their book bags so they can go home.

   As children are now Juniors, they need to begin to take more responsibility for this, we will of course remind them but will not physically check or change the books for them.

 

Rewards in Year 3

• Special Mentions
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• Star Reader
• Sticker Charts – Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards
• Star Table – points earned for each table throughout the week
• Star of the Week – Winner of this will get an ‘Oscar’ to look after for a week and a book to write, draw or put photos in about what Oscar did when spending time with the star of the week!
• Marbles – Whole class wonderful work and attitude helps fill the marble jar to earn a day of their choice!
• Class Dojo Points! – Children earn ‘Class Dojo’ points by:
  • Completing their homework on time

• Scoring well in their spellings
• Reading regularly at home and getting it signed off by a parent/guardian
• Completing extra times tables practise or extra time spent practising on ‘Times Tables Rockstars!’
• Going above and beyond in learning and working hard at home – Points turn into prizes at the end of each term.

General Information:

• Class 3’s P.E. days are Wednesdays and Fridays. Please ensure your child wears their full P.E. kit on these days and removes any jewellery.

 

• Now that your child is in Key Stage 2 (the Juniors), they are no longer given free fruit for playtimes. If you would like to provide your child with fruit for playtimes then you are more than welcome to send your child in with it. I will provide a basket to put the fruit in so that your child has somewhere safe to store their fruit until playtimes.