Mrs Fairnington Mrs Steven Year 3 Autumn Forum 2015 Mrs Fairnington Mrs Steven
Year 3 We work hard to ensure all children in the class can reach their full potential We encourage the children to become independent and motivated learners We have high expectations of all the children We use a range of teaching strategies throughout the day It is a big move from Year 2 to Year 3 due to the new curriculum. In year three I aim to teach so every child reaches their full potential giving them the appropriate opportunities needed in order to do this. This includes differentiated activities, different teaching strategies, include more interactive hands on activities etc. When children reach year three, I feel they do get a shock as I expect them to become independent do things for themselves – this trains them to become more confident in there skills both socially and academically. Finally I have very high expectations. Your child may have already said that they have to do a lot of work or have had to finish work in their own time this is not because they didn’t have enough time but because I have high expectations and they soon get used to the fast pace of the class. At the moment I would like to see the children reading every night, learn their spellings ready for a spelling dictation, put three of they spelling words onto three different sentences and I am also giving them handwriting homework until I see the children forming their letters correctly. In year 2 I aim to teach so every child reaches their full potential giving them the appropriate opportunities needed in order to do this. This includes differentiated activities, different teaching strategies, include more interactive hands on activities etc. When children reach year 2, I feel they do get a shock as the lessons I teach are more formal then in previous year, the pace of learning is quick and they don’t get as much structure play and of course there is SATs!
Reading/Spelling ERIC Spelling Guided Reading Read Write Inc Spelling Individual test on High Frequency words Year 3 spelling list
Spelling use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them spell further homophones spell words that are often misspelt place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals [for example, girls’, boys’] and in words with irregular plurals [for example, children’s]
appear arrive believe bicycle build busy/business calendar caught centre century certain circle complete consider difficult disappear eight/eighth enough exercise experience experiment extreme favourite February grammar group guard guide heard heart height history imagine increase important interest island knowledge learn length library material medicine mention minute natural naughty notice occasion(ally) often
Big Writing We do Big Writing every week. We are currently working on a new method of teaching writing devised by Pie Corbett. The children complete a ‘Cold Task’ and then we teach the skills children will need in order to up level their work. They then complete a ‘Hot Task’. We look at VCOP: Vocabulary, Conjunctions, Openers and Punctuation. We mark it using ‘Pink for Think’ and ‘Green is for Great’. This term I am focusing on: Recounts and fictional stories.
Numeracy USING AND APPLYING MATHEMATICS Solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures, including time, choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations Describe and explain methods, choices and solutions to puzzles and problems, orally and in writing, using pictures and diagram COUNTING AND UNDERSTANDING NUMBER Read, write and order whole numbers to at least 1000 and position them on a number line; count on from and back to zero in single-digit steps or multiples of 10 Partition three-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1 in different ways Round two-digit or three-digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 and give estimates for their sums and differences Read and write proper fractions (e.g. 37, 910), interpreting the denominator as the parts of a whole and the numerator as the number of parts; identify and estimate fractions of shapes; use diagrams to compare fractions and establish equivalents
KNOWING AND USING NUMBER FACTS Derive and recall all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20, sums and differences of multiples of 10 and number pairs that total 100 Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 times-tables and the corresponding division facts; recognise multiples of 2, 5 or 10 up to 1000 Use knowledge of number operations and corresponding inverses, including doubling and halving, to estimate and check calculations CALCULATING Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers Develop and use written methods to record, support or explain addition and subtraction of two-digit and three-digit numbers Use practical and informal written methods to multiply and divide two-digit numbers (e.g. 13 × 3, 50 ÷ 4); round remainders up or down, depending on the context Find unit fractions of numbers and quantities (e.g. 12, 13, 14 and 16 of 12 litres)
UNDERSTANDING SHAPE Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawings of them; describe, visualise, classify, draw and make the shapes Read and record the vocabulary of position, direction and movement, using the four compass directions to describe movement about a grid MEASURING Know the relationships between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres; choose and use appropriate units to estimate, measure and record measurements Read the time on a 12-hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock; calculate time intervals and find start or end times for a given time interval HANDLING DATA Answer a question by collecting, organising and interpreting data; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts to represent results and illustrate observations; use ICT to create a simple bar chart
P.E. This half term with Mrs Pick on a Monday. Next half term Ball Skills The children will be doing; Volleyball Basketball FUNS Skills Next half term Gymnastics
Topic Anglo-Saxons Anglo-Saxons Geography History Identify local towns on map Look at UK map, identify countries Anglo-Saxons History Identify key features of the invasion Looking at the history of the people, houses and life
Science Plants Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers. Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.
Art Pupils should be taught: to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay] about great artists, architects and designers in history.
Homework Daily reading, this can be school and home reading books. Learning Logs Mathletics Spellings Times Tables
Learning Logs Handed in on a Wednesday The children are expected to produce a piece of work each week and it must be to the same high standard as we expect in school. Mrs Rutherford will mark it with ‘green for good’ and ‘pink for think’. If the children receive a ‘pink’ they need to make the correction for the following week. The children can write about any topic that interests them or a fictional story. They can also complete maths work, spellings or art. If children are struggling to find something to write about then we are happy to provide a list of ideas to help them.