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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.
Encourage IndependencePage 139
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
Page 40
Pupil Responsibilities
School Councillor
Eco Rep
Trailblazer
Ambassador
Pages 21 - 24
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
Pages 101/102
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.
Pages 103/104
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
Sch
ool
Cho
ice 1.
Due:
2. Due:
3. Due:
Pers
onal
Cho
ice
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?
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