1. Welcome to Sycamore Class
Tea with Teacher
16th September 2016
Welcome to Sycamore Class

2. Staff and Timetable Miss Russell Mrs Goodwin/Mrs Babb - PPA Cover
Mrs Leese and Mrs Brown PE
Tuesday – Miss Russell
Indoor (ball skills, team games)
Wednesday – Mrs Goodwin
Outdoor (rugby coach)
Catch me at the end of the day or mail the office

3. Class Organisation Whole class teaching Group teaching
Differentiated questioning and tasks
Work to match ability
Opportunity to choose their own challenges
Individual targets to aim for
Assessment for learning
Traffic light system
Circle times
Targets in books are what they need to achieve by the end of the year
Own targets are their personal goals
AfL – they traffic light their work which gives an indication of how confident they feel with it
Circle times – as and when is needed

4. Topic Based Curriculum
Detectives
These are the current ones but they are very likely to change.
Looking Back…
Perilous Journeys

5. Year 3 - Maths Recognise place value of each digit (3 digits – HTU)
Read, write and order numbers up to 1000
Add and subtract mentally and using written methods up to 3 digit numbers
Use inverse operations to check answers
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for 3, 4 and 8 times tables
Identify 2D and 3D shapes, right angles and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines
Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables
Already started on the written methods with the theory being it will then support them with their work throughout the year

6. Year 3 – Maths (cont.)
Measure, compare, add and subtract lengths, mass and volume/capacity
Add and subtract amounts of money to give change
Tell and write the time from an analogue clock
Count up and down in tenths
Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects
Recognise and use fractions as numbers
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
Compare and order fractions
Fractions plays a much bigger part now

7. Year 3 - English Using dictionaries to check meaning and spelling
Reading a wide range of texts/genres
Developing their comprehension
Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions
Predicting what may happen
Evaluating, up-levelling and proof-reading their work
Extending themselves with the next level of VCOP
Handwriting
Joined up writing
Increase the legibility, consistency and quality
Emphasis on SPaG – Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

8. Reading and Spellings Reading Spellings
In groups or as a class – focus on comprehension
Reading books will be changed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Reminded but children’s responsibility
Spellings
Teaching them rules
New curriculum word guidance
Revision to start
Applying in their writing
Differentiated and extra support where needed

9. Other Homework E-Safety Joined up handwriting Good Morning Challenges
Maths and English/topic
Set on Friday and due in the following Wednesday
E-Safety
Joined up handwriting
Good Morning Challenges
Book Bags
In daily with reading book and reading record
Behaviour
Merits
House points
Headteacher awards
Celebration assembly on a Friday
Book bags – consider the size of the book bag because we are limited for peg space and we don’t want rucksacks ending up on the floor

10. Uniform – please name it all!
PE kits to be brought in every week and kept on pegs. The best PE bags are the drawstring bags as they hang well on pegs.
Please do name it all.

11. How you can support your child’s learning:
Hear your child read as often as possible from a range of different books
Ask them questions about their reading to gage their understanding
Use everyday maths around the home such as money and measures
Chant times tables everywhere and anywhere!
Encourage them to develop routines and independence with their homework
Any problems at all, come and see us straight away

12. Any questions?
Please find your child’s home-school agreement and sign it