 Expectations higher  Children have more responsibility  KS2 Break Time - snacks  Pencil cases  Growth Mind-set  More fun!

 Pen licence/handwriting  Spellings (Friday – High Frequency, RWI)  Poetry  Fables  Plays  Instructions  Explanations  Reports

 Group reading weekly  Various reading tasks  Library visits  Reading at home and recording in reading record every night  Children are responsible for taking home their book Reading books can be changed when they have finished the book. Assessed every 6/7 weeks. Written in reading record.

 Times Tables (Friday)  Big Maths  Number bonds  Mental + and –, x and ÷  Place value  Measurements  Time  Shapes  Fractions, ratio and proportion

 Daily worship  Meditation  First Holy Communion for many of the children  The Christian Family  Mary, Mother of God  Sacrament of Reconciliation  Celebrating the Mass  Celebrating Easter and Pentecost  Being a Christian

 Light  Forces  Plants  The World Around Us  Animals Including Humans  Rocks and Soils  Taught by Mrs Dunlop Thursday afternoons

 History/Geography  Art/Design/Tech  Rock through the Ages (Stone to Iron Age)  Farm to Fork  Active Earth  Street Detectives  Veni, Vidi, Vici (Roman Invasion)  Robots

 Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age  Understanding timelines  Celtic stories and poetry  Cave painting  Telling stories through art  Ryanna’s story; a child’s life during the pre-historic era

 Charlotte’s Web  How farming has changed over time  Artwork to represent farming  How crops and animals are farmed  Understanding where our food comes from

 Volcanoes  Earthquakes  The power of nature  Rocks and soils  Building a volcano  Colour mix painting

 The geography of Ware  Investigating our school’s location  Emil and the Detectives  Easter Play

 The Roman invasions of Britian  Boudicca and the Celts  What the Romans did for us  Hadrian’s Wall  The Roman Army  Roman myths and legends

 Building robots  Understanding how robots are used in manufacturing  Improving designs and working to a design brief

 Mrs Kee will be teaching music, specialising in learning the recorder.  Easter Play  Choir

 Mondays and Thursdays (Fridays)  Correct P.E. kit  Tracksuit  Note in homework diary if your child is not doing P.E. that day please  Hair tied back, no jewellery

 Programming  Bug Fixing  Presenting  Network Engineering  Communicators  Opinion Polling

 French used in cross curricular lessons, as well as the register.  PSHE across lessons as well as dedicated sessions and circle time discussions

 Fun!  Recap and securing knowledge from in class  It should not take longer than an hour  It should not be onerous Learning Log/Maths  4 days to complete the work; set on Friday and collected on Thursday Spellings/Times Tables  Given out on Friday, tested on the following Friday

 Formative; daily lesson assessments, groupings based on assessment of progress  Summative; half-termly teacher assessments completed in class  Self-assessment; learning logs, traffic lights  Changes in the 2014 curriculum that will particularly affect this Year 3 – higher expectations  Age related expectations dramatically rose last year  This is the first year your child will be on the ‘new’ 2014 curriculum  The curriculum is more challenging but we will get there!

 Class behaviour contract  I have high expectations for behaviour and learning attitude  Behaviour codes

 Reports and 1 parent’s evening  Updates on the website page  Marvellous Me Any concerns?  Notes in homework diary  Make an appointment through school office

 Red Jumper or Cardigan  Blue Trousers or Skirt  Blue Dress  White shirt with a tie  White polo shirt  Black shoes  White socks  Long hair to be tied back

 Celtic Harmony Stone Age Day – 5 th October Volunteers?  Colchester Castle  TESCO Farm2Fork  Ware Museum  Library

I hope you and your child enjoy Year 3 as much as I will. Any questions? Please take a curriculum letter.