WELCOME TO Y3 INFORMATION EVENING

‘Excellence with Care’

Agenda

Aims

Expectations for the year

Keeping you informed

Curriculum content and key changes

Homework and Project Homework

Extra-Curricular Opportunities and Clubs

How can you help?

Any questions?

Home/School PartnershipParent Responsibilities

We expect all parents and home adults to work in partnership with school staff to promote a happy and successful school life.

Working Together Trust us, Engage with us, Confide in us.

Support Learning Talk to us, Quality Learning, Practise skills, be on time.

Encourage the Best Get involved, Support us.

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Keeping you informed 1. Home / School Agreement

2. Newsletters & other school letters. (go out on Tues, Weds, Thurs)

3. Termly Year Group Newsletter

4. School website.

5. Reporting Progress - Progress Meetings

Autumn Progress meeting dates-

Tuesday 20th October 3.30 – 7.00pmThursday 22nd October 3.30 – 7.00pm

Contacting Us

1. Class Teacher.

2. Leader of Learning.

3. Mrs Westhead – Deputy Head

4. Mr Howard – Head Teacher

Requests to see the teachers – telephone the school office or send a note to the teacher.

Please let us know what you would like to speak to us about.

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Velmead Values

At Velmead we celebrate our values and incorporate them into our everyday life.

They are: NURTURE TRUST RESPECT ACHIEVEMENT ENJOYMENT INCLUSION LOYALTY

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Taking Responsibility

Independence

Organisation 

Listening

Getting started

Respecting other children

Having a go, developing resilience

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Pupil Responsibilities

School Councillor

Eco Rep

Trailblazer

Ambassador

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Behaviour for Learning

1) Respect and Care for each other

2) Adults are here to help you

3) Always use good manners and be polite to other children and adults

4) Care for all of our learning spaces and equipment

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Rewards & Consequences

1. Rewards (Golden Points) Gold Certificates are awarded when pupils gain 40 golden points.

2. A warning (Amber) is usually given before a Red Point. Each session is a fresh start.

3. Consequences (Red Points) for rule breaking and making wrong choices. Children then have time to reflect on how to get it right next time.

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Curriculum and Homework

Cross-Curricular Topic Cycle Year 3

Autumn Stone Age to the Iron Age, Light and Shadows

Spring Let’s Rock- Plants, Rocks and Soils

Summer The Romans and Violent Volcanoes Fantastic Forces

A project overview will be glued into planners

at the start of each term.

Year 3 Curriculum Map: 2015 – 2016

Autumn Term History: Stone Age to Iron Age

Science: Skeleton in animals and humans Light and shadows.

Literacy: Information texts, stories, poetry, explanation texts.

Maths: Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, times tables, measures, data handling, shape, fractions, problem solving.

ICT: E safety, Scratch, Email, Inspiration note-taking

Art/DT: Sketching, painting, levers, puppets

PE: Dance, football, netball

New Curriculum A year 3 guide for parents is attached to our

school website.KEY CHANGES

Higher pitch and expectations

Literacy: Greater attention on spelling and grammar. Joined handwriting and use of adverbials and conjunctions. In reading use of inference skills.

Maths: Greater emphasis on arithmetic and mathematical reasoning. Refer to our calculation policy on school website.

Science: Greater emphasis on thinking scientifically.

New Curriculum The new National Curriculum has been written

to give age related expectations rather than levels.

We track achievement of objectives from within ‘Band 3’ (The band that year 3 work on) and will report to you at the end of the year and update you at Parent's Evening.

Working below band 3 Working within Working within upper Working above

The ‘pitch-up’ means that some children will be working below age related expectations.

HomeworkWeekly basic skills homework tasks are set to give

your child the opportunity to PRACTISE and APPLY independently the skills they have been taught at school.

Read at least 5 times a week for 20 minutes. Reading diaries will be checked weekly on a Monday.

Fortnightly spellings to learn or an activity to reinforce spellings. (Testing once a week)

Weekly learning of times tables (Testing once a week)

On alternating weeks there will be either a maths task or Literacy task for 20 minutes.

Homework is handed out on a Monday and is due in the following Monday. Page 147

Homework Evaluation Please encourage your child to complete the

evaluation so we know how they found the task.

You are welcome to jot a note if you wish.

DATE TASKTASK MY ASSESSMENT I needed:

No help. A little help. A lot of help. I am f eeling:

My Learning note:

Tick one of

the boxes

Reading Homework: FortnightlyBook bags/Plastic wallet : Useful for protection of

books, planners, homework and somewhere to put letters. (No food or drink inside!)

Reading diary – Yr 3 children should spend time at home developing

skills and discussing what they are reading. New reading book: child to write in date, title. Each night (or at least 5 times a week) read for 20

minutes, record the date, number of pages read. Parent’s comment and signature at least once a week. Comment on progress, discussion, further practice

needed on same book or a specific problem. Reading Comprehension and general understanding. Reading diaries will be checked every Monday.

Spelling Homework: Fortnightly

Spelling – Fortnightly spelling word list. Practise little and often and keep previous word lists ‘simmering’.

Please help your child practise the pattern and to recognise any other words with that pattern.

Try to make learning spellings fun. Use a range of ways to learn and retain words and patterns.

http://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list_search.cfm?words=Y3+%26+Y4+non-statutory+words

Some children will need to reinforce the following:High Frequency and Medium Frequency words

Literacy Homework:

Fortnightly Reinforcing reading or writing skills.

Reading Reading comprehensions to develop

information retrieval, inference and deductions skills.

Writing Sentence level work to reinforce grammar

or spelling rules. Sentence level work to reinforce and

develop topic work.

Maths Homework: Fortnightly

Reinforcing Calculation Methods - Velmead Calculation Policy- copy on the website.

Use of number lines initially before moving on to more formal methods. We will include an example on homework.

Order of learning tables is outlined in the Bronze stage of the planner.

Make children aware of numbers and maths in real life situations. (money, measures – cookery etc.)

Help your child learn to tell the time.

Maths Homework:

FortnightlyMy Maths

Computer based learning.

Your child will be given login details that they can use at home and at school.

Homework set will reinforce learning objectives taught at school.

Your child can have more than one attempt at a question.

Teachers can check your child’s progress.

Bronze Tables SchemeStage Table Date completed

1 10s in order

2 10s mixed

3 5s in order

4 5s mixed

5 10s and 5s mixed

6 2s in order

7 2s mixed

8 4s in order

9 4s mixed

10 8s in order

11 8s mixed

12 10,5,2,4,8 mixed

13 3s in order

14 3s mixed

15 6s in order

16 6s mixed

17 9s in order

18 9s mixed

19 10,5,2,4,8,3,6,9 mixed

20 7s in order

21 7s mixed

22 2-10s mixed

23 BRONZE TEST

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Project Homework The children will complete 5 projects in Year

3.

3 projects will be set by the teachers, one each term.

2 projects will be selected by the children from a selection of ideas in the planner.

Projects are an opportunity to work with your children to develop their learning. They also give your child the flexibility to present their ideas in a range of ways.

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Project Task List

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Due:

2. Due:

3. Due:

Pers

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Task 1 - Games Make a game that practises lots of your Maths skills Completed:

Task 2 - Authors Create a book review or a review of a f avourite author Completed:

Task 3- Around the World Create a project all about a country of your choice Completed:

Task 4 - Hobbies Tell us all about your f avourite pastime Completed:

Task 5 - Community What do you do that helps out your community, or what could you do more of ? Completed:

Task 6 - News Present a news cast to the class: it could be a local, national or international topic Completed:

Task 7 – Poetry Create a collection of 3 of your f avourite poems – learn one off by heart to present Completed:

Task 8 – Art Create a picture using the medium of your choice – prepare to share your planning and background to your idea Completed:

Task 9 – Days Out Tell us all about somewhere you have been to: a

Gallery, a Museum, a famous building, Zoo, sporting activity Completed:

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School Clubs

Encourage your child to take an active part in school life

ClubsSee newsletter, website, children’s table under

notice board and listen out in assemblies

Instrument TuitionPlease speak to the office about information

relating to lessons to learn other musical instruments.

How can you help? Get involved by helping: -

in the classrooms as a regular helper in the school library as a regular volunteer hearing readers first thing in the morning on school trips on occasional one-off activities by sharing your knowledge, skills or hobbies by standing as a governor when the opportunity

arises by joining the Velmead Parents’ Association

(VPA), or volunteering to help with their events

Any Questions?