Leyland St James’ C.E. School Year 3 Mrs Stewart, Mrs Lawell, Mrs Rogers, Mrs Clarke, Miss Lerning, Mrs Dugdale, Mrs Kay

Curriculum and Presentation Welcome Year 3 Aims Curriculum and Presentation Intervention/overlearning groups Homework/ Targets E-safety Concerns

provide a rich & varied curriculum Aims provide a rich & varied curriculum independent and responsible for own learning ensure the children achieve their full potential

homework/ expectations continue to improve presentation of work

Autumn Term Curriculum Numeracy The work in Year 6 builds on that done in Year 5. Some of the topics covered this term include: Place Value and ordering numbers-including ordering and rounding decimals with up to three places Measures: area and perimeter-including calculating the area of irregular and compound shapes Shape: 2-D shapes and 3-D solids Mental and written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Fractions,  percentages, ratio and proportion- linking fractions and percentages with ratio Data handling: pie charts and line graphs and interpret frequency tables Problem solving Autumn Term Curriculum Maths Place value and ordering numbers – including ordering and rounding up Measures –perimeter of a 2-D shape Mental and written methods for all operations Data handling – tally charts, graphs and frequency tables Problem solving Time

English Folk Tales Recount: biographies Fables Poems with a structure Persuasion letters READING – Children are encouraged to read at home and at school on a regular basis. Your child is encouraged to change their reading book and library book as soon as they have completed it. We have 2 parent volunteers in Year 3 who come into school to hear the children read If parents can hear their children read at home regularly, it would be extremely helpful. All the children have reading records and a reading book. Please encourage your child to read comics, newspapers and reading/ library books.

(Forest School this half term) Science (Forest School this half term) Nutrition, diet, movement and the skeleton Topic - includes Art, DT, ICT links UK and World places/ human and physical geography, my local environment History Local History and chronology Computing Programming PE Gymnastics – balancing and rolling Dance RE Harvest Advent Music Michael Jackson

Handwriting

Why are we continuing with a cursive script? To speed up independent writing skills when mastered. Improve presentation of work Pride.

Intervention

Intervention All children get teacher/ TA support over the course of a typical week. This could be to extend & challenge, consolidate or support.

Intervention different groups of children being boosted over the course of the year and for many different things – phonics/ maths/ precision teaching/ reading some overlearning takes place in the school day as and when required extra homework may be set

Homework Maths and GPS homework is sent home every Friday to be completed and returned by the following Wednesday Spellings are sent home on a Friday to be tested on the following Friday Reading every night

E-Safety

games consoles (Playstation, Wii, DS, Xbox) iPods e-readers How can children get online? PC laptops tablets (iPad etc) games consoles (Playstation, Wii, DS, Xbox) iPods e-readers smartphones smart TV/ blu-ray players

talking to people (Skype) sharing information What could they be doing online? playing games talking to people (Skype) sharing information searching for information sending messages social networking making friends purchasing goods/ apps/ services

accessing inappropriate websites Risks children face online cyber-bullying accessing inappropriate websites losing control over images and videos they post viruses hacking of files grooming fines for using photos/ images without permission slander or contempt of court for reposting tweets and posts

Tools to protect your children – Parental Control Every parental control package is different, but most provide services such as: Filtering – content to restrict access to particular sites Time limits – restrict the amount of time your child can be online, or set periods of time where your child can access certain sites Monitoring – where you are informed of certain sites that your child is attempting to gain access to.

Reporting – where you are provided with information about what sites your child has used.

Let them teach you The people who know best about what your children are up to online, are your children! Get them to tell you about the sites they’re using. Ask them questions such as: ◦Why do they like the site? ◦What can they do on it? ◦What’s so fun about it? ◦Who uses it at school? ◦Who you can talk to? ◦Who are their friends on it? This is a good way to develop a trusting relationship with your child about what they are up to online.

1.Do not delete the message 2.Don’t show the message to other children E-Safety (Messages) Your children may have their own mobile phone, email account or social network page, so it is important they know what to do when things go wrong. 1.Do not delete the message 2.Don’t show the message to other children 3.Go to a grown up to tell them, not a friend 4.Do not respond to any messages

Seesaw is an app that we are continuing with in school, allowing teachers to communicate with parents/carers about their children. It is useful for providing daily information about what is happening in your child’s class as well as allowing both children and staff to send photos of their achievements.

Homework and spellings are also posted on Seesaw in case of forgotten or misplaced work. Reminders are also posted e.g church, photograph deadlines, upcoming events.

The children can get immediate responses to the work they have posted, making them feel really special. If you have not yet signed up, please ask for a parent handout

If you have any queries, concerns or worries please feel free to come into school or phone me.