Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Welcome to the Year 3 ‘Getting to know you evening’ Please make sure you take a copy of the ‘supporting materials’ handbook. Could we also ask you to tick your child’s name on the class list so we can send on copies to those who were unable to make the meeting tonight. Thank you!

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Assessment Miss N Jones

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Statutory Assessments Baseline – end of Foundation Key Stage 1 – end of Year 2 Key Stage 2 – end of Year 6

From this term children will be working from the New National Curriculum. This does not have levels in the same way that the old curriculum did. There are now Age Related Expectations. The expectations of what the children will know at the end of each year have been increased. Children will then be assessed as to how many of these expectations have been achieved or exceeded. We are able to relate this to the old levels and will do so to help us track pupils progress during this transitional year. We will offer further explanation Assessment

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Our Assessment Procedures November & February – Formal Assessments May – QCA optional SATS in Literacy and Numeracy Teacher Assessment - End of Every Term APPWritingTracking and Targeting

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world How to help Continue to listen to reading Be involved in homework Help with developing basic numeracy Encourage independence/organisation – notes, reading books, water bottles etc. Male role model especially for boys Coming on trips if you are available

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world E- Safety. This is an important issue for children and adults. There are some documents to support E- Safety in your pack. They will be available along with the PowerPoint for this evening in your ‘Supporting Materials’ pack.

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Expectations and Daily Organisation Mr. S. Griggs

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world More emphasis on subjects – less play and discovery related activities Less activity time Different groupings for different subjects Learning partners Increased independence and responsibility - Personal organisation, books, bags, playground, homework, letters, behaviour (developing strategies to deal with different situations etc. Importance of water bottles (named and refilled regularly) Break time snacks (healthy fruit / veg or similar) as no free fruit scheme in KS2 – no nuts please!!

Adults that help us 3NJ Mrs Churchill Mrs Stone (1:1) Mrs Rhodes (Tues pm) 3SG Mrs Massey-Clamp (inc Tues pm) Mrs Hawkins (1:1) Other supporting adults: Mrs Ferme Mrs Fox Mrs Lakey

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Literacy Miss N Jones

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Literacy Organisation Two classes of 30/30 Mr Griggs Miss Jones Fri – children to remain in whole class groups for spelling and handwriting activities.

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Introduction New Curriculum objectives Ability groups Differentiated Objectives (L.I.’s) Focus on pride in all written work Homework: 20 minutes SPaG homework linked to work learned in class the previous or following week. The ‘Write Time’ Daily reading for approx minutes New weekly spelling investigations. You will find fun spelling strategies on the website on our Year 3 page.

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Reading Home reading books – Project X Shared reading Guided reading – Project X Independent reading

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Speaking and Listening Speaking to different audiences Vocabulary Learning partners Expressing ideas and reasoning Encouraging children to speak in full sentences

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Writing Handwriting Spelling & phonic strategies Sentence construction and punctuation Vocabulary Extended writing: particular focus on GHaSP aspect.

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Spelling Continuation of phonics with the emphasis on spelling Weekly spelling input Spelling to be sent home and tested the following Friday. Correcting and testing of High Frequency words

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Mathematics Mr. S. Griggs

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world New Curriculum Objectives These are grouped under 4 main headings (see supporting materials): Number Sense Additive Reasoning Multiplicative Reasoning Geometric Reasoning

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Introduction Ability groups based on TA’s and SAT’s Differentiated objectives (L.I.s) Homework – 20 minutes per week & weekly times tables Weekly Mental Maths Tests & times tables starting after October half term Parental support at home – methods & strategies First 5 weeks of term investigating the 4 number operations and place value

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Addition Rapid recall of addition facts, numbers up to 20. Big emphasis on mental methods & strategies Pencil and paper methods (non-formal methods)

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Subtraction Rapid recall of subtraction facts, numbers up to 20. Big emphasis on mental methods & strategies Pencil and paper methods (non-formal methods) *Examples – demonstration*

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Multiplication Know by heart multiplications facts for 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 up to 10x Mental methods through jottings

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Division Differences between sharing and grouping; in KS2 we concentrate on grouping. Mental Methods through jottings.

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Other key areas within Maths Fractions of shapes and numbers – ½, ⅓, ¼, ¹/ 5, ¹/ 10. Time Money Problem Solving Symmetry and Right Angles Interpreting Data KEY OBJECTIVES: see page in ‘Supporting Materials’ pack

Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Thank you for attending tonight; we hope it has been useful! We look forward to seeing you at the forthcoming parents’ evenings throughout the year!