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Year 3 - Sycamore
Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page
Miss Gilleece & Mrs Malik
Welcome to the Autumn term!
We are so delighted to welcome the children back to school and begin an exciting new year. We look forward to getting to know the children and families over the course of the year and growing and learning together; following our new school motto of "nurturing hearts, inspiring minds."
Our curriculum for this term as well important dates and information about PE and homework are set out below and this webpage will be updated each half term with relevant information. For enquiries or questions in the meantime, please get in touch via info@stjohnsrc.net.
The core value for this half term is "gratitude". This is something we will be working on in all aspects of school life, in particular showing gratitude by respecting our belongings and classroom environment.
Please note: Miss Gilleece will be in class on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Mrs Malik will be in class on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Important dates this half term:
Wednesday 3rd September Term begins
Wednesday 10th September Welcome Wednesday
Friday 24th October End of tern
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Autumn 1 below:
English: Our first text this year will be Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman. Through this text, the children will explore language and build vocabulary pertaining to description and position (prepositions). The children will explore recounting events through letter writing.
Maths: As we begin a new year, we will commence maths with learning of Place Value followed by Addition and Subtraction. Children will explore numbers to 1000, reading, writing, partitioning and ordering before moving on to calculations.
In the later weeks of this half term, children will develop addition and subtractions skills by revising methods previously taught and moving on to formal written methods (column addition and subtraction). Revising number bonds to 10, 20, 50 and 100 would be good preparation for this.
Religion:
In Religion, we will be using a new scheme of work which we are very excited about. The first unit of work (branch) will be centered around Creation and Covenant. During this unit, the children will revisit the story of creation as well as explore themes centered around looking after our Earth as well as human life.
Science: Forces and Magnets will be our first unit in Science this year. This topic allows the children to explore science through a hands on approach with lots of opportunity to explore forces including gravity, friction and magnetism.
Humanities: We are excited to be making some changes in this area this year. We have lots of new topics to look forward to but to begin with we will explore the history topic of the Stone Age through the question: Who would prefer to live in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age? The children will explore the lives of early settlers in Britain and will continue this work through their PE (Dance) and Art. There will also be a school trip to Tatton Park to further consolidate all they have learned (trip information tbc).
Homework
We are aware that home lives can be hectic and time for homework limited. In Year 3, homework is set every Monday and children have a week to complete tasks online. However, there is never any negative consequences for incomplete homework. We encourage children to complete homework tasks as and when they can.
ATOM PRIME:
In Key Stage 2, Maths and English tasks are set on an online platform called Atom Prime. Details of your child's login will be sent out in due course with information of how to log on.
Children will have a week to complete homework (from Monday to the following Sunday night). The children are given immediate feedback on their learning and questions are set based on success. With this in mind, it is important that children are encouraged to work independently on the tasks as much as possible so that the questions match their true ability.
Throughout the term, we will do our best to match homework to class based learning but where this is not possible, homework tasks will be based on fundamental skills which can be revised.
Reading:
Your child will come home each Friday with a colour-banded reading book. These books can only be changed each Friday, however they can be kept longer than a week if necessary.
PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO BRING THEIR READING BOOK TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY. THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A READING RECORD SENT HOME.
Times Tables:
The children will soon be given logins for TT Rockstars which is very popular online platform for practising times tables.
www.ttrockstars.com
This website has great activities to help your child learn, practise and enjoy times table facts in a fun and engaging way.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
The above website is also useful for practising times tables as well as mental addition, subtraction and division.
Spelling
In addition to their homework on Atom Prime, your child will be set fortnightly spellings which will be assessed in a non-formal way at the end of each fortnight. The idea being that we expect to see correct spellings in children's work, rather than in an independent spelling test.
Timetable
Please note, children will need to PE kit on Monday and Thursday.
Monday - Outdoor games - navy tshirt, navy shorts or track suit bottoms, navy jumper/fleece (not school jumper) trainers
Thursday - Dance - navy tshirt and navy shorts