1. Welcome to Year 3!

2. The Current Year Three Team
Pasteur
Miss Coppard
Mrs Catchpole
Curie
Miss Beard
Miss Smith
Nightingale
Miss Talbot
Mrs Grieve
Mrs Stiff
Phase Leader – Mr Hipkiss

3. Routines Morning work during registration.
English and Maths mostly morning sessions.
Topic, Science, Music, RE, Art, Design Technology, French, Computing and PSHE in the afternoons.
PE:
Pasteur – Friday indoor and Swimming on a Tuesday afternoon.
Curie – Friday morning indoor and Tuesday afternoon outdoor.
Nightingale – Tuesday afternoon outdoor and Thursday morning indoor.

4. Swimming
Swimming will be on Tuesday afternoons at Larkfield Leisure Centre:
Terms 1 and 2 – Pasteur Class
Terms 3 and 4 – Curie Class
Terms 5 and 6 – Nightingale Class
Children will need to bring a named bag with a swimming costume/ swimming trunks, towel and goggles.
Larkfield have asked that the children come with their earrings out and their hair tied up.

5. example timetable

6. Sink your Teeth into the UK
Year 3 Topics this year
Stone Age to Iron Age
Sink your Teeth into the UK
Groovy Greeks

7. Times Tables Times tables
- Tests are differentiated and they move up as they achieve.
- The tests are timed so speed and fluency is essential
- By the end of year 4 they should know up to 12x12.
- Reward for weekly improvement.
Learning tables weekly is part of Year 3 homework.
Times
Tables

8. Presentation
As a whole school, and particularly LKS2, we are concentrating on improving children’s presentation.
We will expect:
Children to begin to join their handwriting.
Form all letters correctly and cursively.
To date and write their learning intentions at the top of all work.
To underline the date and learning intention.
We will be really hot on this over the next few months, particularly with dates, learning intentions and the sticking in of work, so please support us in getting the children into good habits.
If children do all of this consistently in all work books, then they will receive their pen licence!

9. Reading In Year 3 we encourage reading for enjoyment.
We expect the children to read every night and where possible to a family member. We would like the children or adults to record the reading that has taken place in the yellow reading record books – we will be checking that children are reading and rewarding them when they do so. We recommend asking questions when reading with your child.
Your child is responsible for handing their reading record in each day.
Look out for the reading challenge and spelling homework
which will also be stuck inside this book!

10. Free Readers
Once children have reached the end of the reading scheme they will become ‘free readers’.
Children can select their own reading material from school or home. We encourage children to experience a broad range of texts.
Please still note down what is being read at home so that we can keep track of their reading.
It is really important that children who become free readers are still being read with.

11. Reading Challenge
Those children who complete the reading challenge on time will be rewarded with a film on the last day of term. This film will always be a ‘U’ rating and will often be linked to our topic in some way. Those that don’t complete the reading challenge, or don’t bring in their challenge sheets on time, will carry out a reading-based activity in a different Y3 classroom.

12. Spelling
We will be sending home a list of spellings each week for the children to learn.
Our focus to start with will be the High Frequency words.
Over the course of the week we will be carrying out a number of different spelling activities to help them to learn their spellings and we will also be helping the children to focus on specific words that they personally find tricky.

13. Homework Expectations, in summary
Reading every night.
Times table practice – Keep using ‘Rock Stars’
Weekly spellings to learn.
Additional ‘Reading Challenge’.

14. Provision Maps
Children will receive differentiated provision based on their needs.
Provision will be changed throughout the year which will be shared at parent evenings or on reports.
Most children’s need will be covered through quality first teaching strategies used in class.

15. Independence and Expectations
Children in Year 3 are expected to:
Put their books in the book basket first thing in the morning.
Bring in PE/swimming kits on the correct days.
Use their initiative to solve classroom problems.
Get things ready for home independently.
Bring their own healthy snacks for play time.
Keep themselves smart throughout the day.
Go to the toilet at break times and lunch times.
Apply a Growth Mind-set and show a resilient attitude
They are expected to be hugely more independent now that they are in KS2. “My mum didn’t pack my PE kit,” is no longer an excuse!

16. Collecting Children
If there are any changes to who usually collects your child then please let us know. This can be done either in person the night before, via (with at least 24 hours notice), by writing in their reading record, or via the school office.
If your child is to be collected by a number of different adults on different days, please could you write this down and give it to your child’s class teacher to ensure that pick-up goes as smoothly as possible!
Remember, if we haven’t been told that somebody different is collecting, or we are unsure, then the safest thing for us to do is to keep your child and phone you – we aren’t doing this to be difficult!
In order to support us in this, we ask that if you wish to talk to us at the end of the day, you wait until the other children have been collected. This helps us to ensure that all children are going with the correct adults and stops us being distracted at such an important time.

17. Rewards and Sanctions Rewards Sanctions
Stickers, raffle tickets, house points, behaviour ladder, star of the week, head teacher awards, deputy head awards, excellence awards and sharing good work with other classes and staff.
Sanctions
Warnings, isolated learning within class or within the year group, missed minutes from playtimes.
Sent to Phase leader, Deputy head or Head teacher.
Parents informed as appropriate.

18. Terms 1 and 2 Yabadabadoo! Stone Age to Iron Age Topic
Entry activity day.
Forest Schools Day– Curie, Nightingale (23rd), Pasteur (16th) - £12.50.
Parent Consultations – 20th November and 21st November.

19. Open Door Don’t forget to check out the Year 3 web page!!
Face to face afterschool (Wednesday we have a staff meeting).
Telephone – ask for a call back.
office – change of pick up, appointments, absence etc.
or our individual s are on the website.
48 hour response, therefore not the most efficient means of communication for most queries.
Don’t forget to check out the Year 3 web page!!

20. Year 3 teacher’s e mail addresses: