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Welcome to the
‘Getting To Know Year 3’
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!
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Assessment
Mr D Bradford
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Terminology
Year Age by 31st August
“Reception”
Foundation 5
“Infants”
Key Stage
2 7
“Juniors”
Key Stage
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4. Statutory Assessments
Baseline – end of Foundation
Key Stage 1 – end of Year 2
Key Stage 2 – end of Year 6
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Results at KS1 W 1 2c 2b 2a 3
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Schools Assessment
Old Scales
0.5
0.8
1.2
1.8
2.2 2c
2.5 2b
2.8 2a
3.2
3.5 3
3.8
4.2
4.5 4
4.8
5.2
5.5 5
5.8
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7. New Assessment Scales 1c 1c+ 4a 1b 4a+ 1b+ 1 4b 1a 4b+ 4 1a+ 2c 2c 2c+
2a 2a
2a+ 3c
3c+
3b 3
3b+ 3a
3a+ 4a
4a+ 4b
4b+ 4 5c
5c+
5b 5
5b+ 5a
5a+

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Our expectations
Year a
Year b
Year a
Year b
Year a
Year b
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9. Our Assessment Procedures APP Writing Tracking and Targeting
Year 1 September entry Teacher assessments May/June end of Year Teacher Assessments
Year 2 May/June KS1 SATS Reading Writing and Maths
Year 3 February – Mock Optional SATs May – QCA optional SATS in Literacy and Numeracy
Year 4 February – Mock Optional SATs
May - QCA Optional SATS in Literacy and Numeracy
Year 5 February – Mock Optional SATs
Year 6 February – Mock Optional SATs
Mock SATS during the year
May – KS2 SATS in Literacy and Numeracy
APP Writing Tracking and Targeting
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How to help
Continue to listen to reading
Be involved in homework
Help with developing basic numeracy
Male role model especially for boys
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11. Expectations and Daily Organisation
Mr. S. Griggs
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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
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Literacy
Mrs M Rimron
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Introduction
Primary National Strategy
Ability groups
Differentiated Objectives (L.I.’s)
Focus on pride in all written work
Homework:
20 minutes ‘Big Talk’ homework per week in preparation for Thursday’s* ‘Big Write’
Daily reading for approx minutes
Fortnightly spelling investigations (in Reading Logs)
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Reading
Home reading books
Shared reading
Guided reading
Independent reading
Higher reading skills
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16. Speaking and Listening
Speaking to different audiences
Vocabulary
Learning partners
Expressing ideas and reasoning
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Writing
Handwriting
Spelling & phonic strategies
Sentences and punctuation
Vocabulary
Big Write
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Spelling
Continuation of phonics with the emphasis on spelling
Daily spelling input (10 minutes)
Access to Spelling Logs
Correcting and testing of High Frequency words
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Mathematics
Mr. S. Griggs
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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
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Addition
Rapid recall of addition facts, numbers up to 20.
Big emphasis on mental methods & strategies
Pencil and paper methods
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Subtraction
Rapid recall of subtraction facts, numbers up to 20.
Big emphasis on mental methods & strategies
Pencil and paper methods
Time for a little task!
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Multiplication
Know by heart multiplications facts for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 up to 10x
Mental methods through jottings
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Division
Differences between sharing and grouping.
Mental Methods through jottings.
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25. 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 of ‘Supporting Materials’
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26. 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!
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