Year 3 Class Routines

School Day

Children may arrive from 8.30a.m and will be directed to the playground. Children will be supervised in the playground from 8.30a.m by a member of staff. The whistle will blow at 8.50a.m, when the children will line up.

When they come in from play they should hang up their blazer and bag on their peg, and bring all that they need to the classroom for registration at 8.55a.m.

Please call the school if your child is going to be absent for any reason.

Snacks should be brought into the classroom and should be healthy. No nuts please.

School finishes at 3.50 and at the end of the school day, the children will collect all their belongings and be dismissed from the front door, children will need to line up in the entrance hall and wait for a member of staff to dismiss them to their parent/carer outside.  All children must stay with a teacher until an adult comes to collect them (please let us know, in writing, the alternative adult if it is not you picking them up).  At 4pm they must go to late club and be collected from there.

Timetable

Download the Year 3 Timetable

Messages

The homework and reading record book work very well as communication tools between school and home.  Anything you would like us to know, please write in the homework book e.g. homework took 50 mins, found this aspect particularly difficult, lost swimming trunks etc.  This prevents small problems becoming big problems and is a good tool for communication.  Please tell your child you have put a message in their book and ask them to show us.

If you have a message you would like to convey personally we are in school, but this time is often used as preparation for the day and we will need to be in the playground promptly by 8.50am to collect your children, so would prefer you make an appointment if the discussion is likely to be longer.  Always come to us first with any problems, if we cannot help you we can refer you to Mr Broad.

Parents’ evenings are held every term with short reports in February and October and full written reports issued in the final term.

Children’s targets will be stuck in the back of their homework book each term.  We will set both individual and group targets.

For those children previously on IEP’s, we will no longer be compiling IEP’s but ‘Provision Maps’ to help with your child’s progression.

Termly Topics

Below is a list of the topics we will be looking at during Year 3.  If you have any useful resources it would be wonderful if you could allow us to use them.  Also, if you or anyone you know have any relevant experiences and would like to talk to the class about them please let me know.

• Autumn – first half – Mighty Mountains
• Autumn – second half – Once Upon a Time (traditional stories)
• Spring – all term – Invaders and Settlers (Roman, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings)
• Summer – first half – Weather Around the World
• Summer – second half – The Big Outdoors (Mini-beasts and plants)

Mental Mathematics

Tables Tests occur on Wednesday.  As the learning of tables is such a crucial element in Mathematics you child will continue to participate in the ‘Tables Club’ to challenge them in a positive way.  Each week, the children are given questions on the tables they are learning and if they are able to answer them all correctly in seven minutes they will win a coloured badge.  The following week they will try the next table test and further challenges can then be introduced by reducing the time allowed to complete the tests.

This has proved to be an exciting system and the children are keen to improve their tables knowledge in an enjoyable way. They will also be shown websites to help with their tables. We hope you will practice with them and celebrate their success as they swap their badges for the next colour (see below for colour explanation).

Tables are important for mental mathematics speed.  Also, please ask your children some mental mathematics questions daily e.g. what is the product of 5 and 6 (5X6)?, I spend 58p. how much change from a pound?, 10 more than 23 etc.  Often the journey to school is a good time for this sort of mental exercise.

Tables Club

After this they use all their tables with division and multiplication and work their way up to a platinum badge.

Homework

Spellings are sent home on Monday for the following Mondays's test.

Literacy and Topic homework is combined and is a range of activites.  One activity should be chosen each week and completed.  It is due in on the following Monday.  This allows children time to do their work over a period of days.  Each activity should take approximately one hour to complete.

Maths homework is sent home on Thursday and due back to school completed on the following Monday.  They should also be practising their time tables on a regularly basis and reading at home at least twice a week.

See Year 3 Homework section for more information.

QCA Results

QCA tests are taken at the end of Year 3 to monitor your child’s progress in numeracy, literacy and science.  The numeracy test is divided into mental maths and written questions.  The literacy is divided into reading, spelling and writing (fiction or non fiction).  Science assesses the topics taken in Year 3. The results, as ever, will be on the final reports.  An average Year 3 child should be achieving Level/3c.

Lost Property

Remember to label all clothes clearly, and then it will always be returned.  There is a lost property box in the changing room.

Birthday

We are happy for children to bring in treats for the class on their birthday but please either cut the cake into pieces, or provide individual cakes or sweets and these should always be given to the teacher to distribute at the end of the day.  As with all food in school, please avoid nuts.