1. Welcome to Year 3 Presentation

2. Welcome to Year 3

3. Meeting Agenda Staff Curriculum Overview Trips and visits
Home learning
Parent help
Useful information
Questions

4. Staff 3CJ- Mrs Clarke (Year Leader) & Mrs Jones (Deputy Head)
3H- Miss Halford
3G- Miss Goss
Supported by
Mrs Hewitt, Mrs Jones, Mrs Lodge & Mrs Swift
SENDCO Claire Branscombe
Inclusion leader: Mrs Howard

5. Planned Events 3 sets of parents’ evenings in the year
Stay and Learn Spellings Tuesday 27th September 9:30 – 10:30
Stay and Learn Maths Tuesday 2nd November 9:30 – 10:30
Restorative Justice Evening – 12th October 6.30
Other events will be organised – look in the newsletter, letters or website

6. Curriculum Overview Autumn 1 and 2 – Iron Rocks
Curriculum Overview Autumn 1 and 2 – Iron Rocks! History unit on changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

7. Spring 1 & 2 – River Deep…Mountain High
Spring 1 & 2 – River Deep…Mountain High. Geography unit on mountains, rivers and coasts.

8. Summer 1 & 2 – Tomb Raiders History unit exploring the ancient Egyptians.

9. Science Rocks & soils Using materials Helping plants to grow Feeding, moving and growing Forces Light and shadow

10. Trips and Visits AutumnTerm Stonehenge Butser Ancient farm Spring Term West Wittering beach Summer Term Ancient Egyptians visitor – Egyptian day

11. School Trips - To help you budget for the years ahead
Stonehenge £ 9.40
Buster Ancient
Farm £ 13.80
East Head £ 11.55
Ancient Egyptians
Visitor £ 7.00
Total £ 41.75

12. Our Learning Skills

13. At DJS we value: Friendship Understanding With PRIDE: P reparedness
R espect
I nspiration
D etermination
E xcellence
2 Certificates each week – Learning Skills and Values

14. Modern Foreign Languages
Children will be taught Spanish at Denmead Junior School by Miss Luxton

15. Timetable Early morning tasks Guided reading Maths express Maths Break
* English
Lunch
Handwriting/spelling
Topic
Assembly
Music on Monday afternoon.
PE on Tuesday with CM Sports and Friday with class teacher.

16. Home Learning
Reading
School – read at least weekly in guided reading sessions
Home expectation is to read at least 5 times a week for 15 minutes
At least some sessions with an adult
Ask questions about the book
Read a variety of different genres – BugClub
Record what they have read with a short comment in the Reading Record
Diaries should be signed by parents weekly
Prizes can be won for regular reading (raffle tickets)
Watch out for holiday reading challenges

17. Home Learning Spellings
School – Activities to learn new spelling rules
Home – Weekly spellings will be linked to a spelling rule, topic vocabulary or key, high frequency words for some pupils
Set on Friday and tested the following Thursday or Friday
Spellings to be written in sentences to show they understand the meaning of the word. Also try to use ambitious sentence construction
Encourage the use of new vocabulary in conversations
Strategies to help learning:
Flash cards
Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Rainbow writing
Mnemonics

18. Home Learning
Maths
Maths homework will be to learn times tables and associated division facts up to 12 x 12 off by heart. This is an essential skill that makes a huge difference to the speed and accuracy of calculations
Tables will be set weekly and tested on a Thursday or Friday
Pupils who are still learning number bonds for all numbers to numbers to 10, 20 and bonds to 100 should be working on these

19. Home Learning
Topic
Each term there will be a choice of longer extended pieces of work linked to the termly topic
Each half term 2 pieces will be completed
A deadline will be given of roughly 3 weeks per piece of learning
Pupils will be given choices in how their learning is presented
This term the first due in date is Friday 30th September and the 2nd is due in on the 14th October

20. Useful Information
Lunchtime home learning club - opportunity for some to catch up/get extra support with their home learning if needed
Healthy eating initiative at breaktime - snacks to be brought into the classroom and not taken out of lunchbox
PE kit - correct one please
Restorative justice - helping children to resolve friendship issues
Open door policy

21. Adult Help
We welcome adults to come and help in school with a wide range of activities including:
Trips
Special events
Reading - Any helpers - e.g. to support reading in that first slot ?
Anyone interested, please contact the office. You will need to be DBS checked and undergo training as appropriate.

22. Any Questions

23. Thank You for your continued support.