1. VICTORY HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL 2015-2016 NURTURE-CHALLENGE - EXCEL

2. Welcome to Year 3! Miss Julia Miss Ashley Miss Ruth Miss Susie

3. Specialists PE & Swimming Art Computing Music EAL Learning Enhancement Spanish

4. Timetables

5. The rocket and how it works… House Points Parade of Excellence ELLI Awards 3x on Gold

6. Chris Quigley and the New Curriculum - Child led learning. Jungle Fever, Amazing Aztecs, Dangerous Planet, To Infinity and Beyond, Groovy Greeks, Outstanding Olympics. Trips: Chocolate Factory in October! Topics

7. Writing End of Year expectations – 3B Alan Peat SPAG Coverage: myths and legends, poetry (performance and haikus), newspaper reports, adventure stories, recounts, persuasive writing, information texts, instructions, author study

8. Maths Mathletics… coming soon Coverage and Expectations Setting from Yr 2 to 6

9. Arabic & Islamic Fadia Daas-Blue/Abir Tayfour-Yellow/ Salam Abdul-Red/ Al mekawy Green / Joumana AA Arooj Nisar ISB & Muhamed Hussan. Who will be teaching me Arabic and Islamic this year?

10. Arabic & Islamic AA,AB,ISA&ISB information has been sent to parents via the Welcome letter. The AA,AB,ISA&ISB outcome will be sent as soon as possible. We expect each student to spend 20 minutes weekly working on Arabic & Islamic homework.

11. Collaborative Learning! Differentiating, challenging and extending… Streaming (where applicable to year group) Learning Enhancement… English as an Additional Language… Supporting learning and how we work…

12. Questioning Engaging students through effective questioning Our focus this year at VHPS with regard to improving student learning is questioning techniques. Blooms taxonomy of questions is a widely-accepted framework that many teachers use to guide their students through the learning process. Though not necessarily sequential, the hierarchy of bloom’s taxonomy is often depicted as a pyramid, with simple knowledge-based recall questions at the base. Questions higher on the pyramid are more complex and demand higher cognitive skills from the children.

13. SCHOOL COMMUNICATOR IS BEING PHASED OUT- INFO ON MOBILE APP AND WEBSITE REPORTS AND ASSESSMENTS (NUMBER PER YEAR - X2 REPORTS AND X4 ASSESSMENTS) HOMEWORK - HOW MUCH, WHAT, WHEN, ONLINE ACTIVITIES, GIVEN ON THURS, BACK IN WEDS. READING BOOKS – CHANGED SAME AS LIBRARY PARENT SKILLS - TOPICS CLASS REP Communication

14. NURTURE – CHALLENGE - EXCEL ‘PARENTS AS PARTNERS’

15. Collaborative Learning Activity