Welcome to Year 3

Your classes are Hawthorn and Kauri.

Welcome to the Year 3 Class page. The Year 3 teachers are Mrs Cavill and Miss Pope. Miss Ashford will be supporting across both classes this year. Mrs Stones will be supporting in Kauri class. 

In Term 5, the teachers have PPA (preparation, planning & assessment) on a Friday morning. Children are welcome to come in with separate boots/wellies on Friday for their forest school session with Mr Welti. Wellies are to be taken home again each Friday to keep cloakroom clear and tidy. Children will also do forever sport on Friday too.

PE days will be Tuesday and Friday for Kauri Class.

PE days will be Monday and Friday for Hawthorn Class. 

Our Term 5 topic is The Anglo- Saxons with History as the main driver. Our knowledge organiser is on History and Science. 

We look forward to another very busy term of working with your children!

Mental Maths 

During Year 3, we will be teaching these mental maths skills alongside main maths lessons. Highlighted are the goals:

• Number bonds to 100
• Find 10 or 100 more or less. 
• Count in multiples of 3, 4, 8, 50, 100 from 0
• Doubling and halving

Here are some games to play to assist your child’s learning at home:

Number bonds game: https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_20.html

This game is number bonds to 20: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

1, 10, 100 more or less: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/flipCounter/   

Flip counter is great for teaching to count up in 1s, 10s and 100s. Make it into a game by getting a point for correctly guessing the next number.

Doubles and halves
This year children are doubling and halving numbers to 100. Progression of doubling is shown below.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button - the children play Hit the Button for doubles and absolutely love this.
Recap doubles to 20. Eg 7 + 7 = 14

Doubles - multiples of 10. Eg 40 + 40 = 80

Doubles - teen numbers. Eg 14 + 14 = 28

Doubles -  2 digit numbers not bridging 10.   See sheet attached for example.

Doubles -  2 digit numbers bridging 10. See sheet attached for an example.

Reading

It is really important for the children to bring their reading book to school every day. As part of their morning routine, they are to put their book and water bottle by the sink. 

Reading books will be changed as needed on Monday and Thursday. We encourage children to read their book at home at least three times through. Once for decoding, again for comprehension and finally for prosody. 

Please sign the book every time you read with your child and when possible please also write a comment. If your child is a free reader, please continue to listen to your child read and comment in their record. 

Thank you

Spelling and Mathletics

We now follow a new spelling scheme that looks visually similar to the phonics that the children will have learnt in previous year groups. Under the new scheme children will learn all of the spelling rules, rather than learning specific spellings by rote. Children will be exposed to a wider range of words and become more confident with spelling rules. 

There is no longer a weekly spelling test. Instead, we have low stakes quizzes on whiteboards in class, where children get to apply their learning. 

If your child finds spelling less of a challenge, please feel free to learn some further words from the statutory Y 3/4 list on this page or find further words with same rule or pattern. Finally, please ensure your child understands the meaning of each word and can use it meaningfully in a sentence.

Mathletics activities will be ready to commence on Friday at 3:30pm and will be checked for completion the next Friday. Mathletics passwords have been stuck at the back of your child's reading record.

The children now have Rock Stars passwords. This enables children to become fluent with times tables which underpins so much of the maths that we do. Please encourage them to play in their own time.

If there are any issues, please talk to us or let the office know.