Hello and welcome to Year 3!
My name is MrsFranceand I am the class teacher. I aim to make learning as fun and interesting as possible as we have a lot to learn during this year. In Year 3 Mrs Pietersen supports children with their learning. As well as helping in lessons, she is very friendly and always has time to listen to any concerns children have. Mrs Collison and Mrs Cooper teach on Monday afternoons. Mrs Collison teaches children to become confident, talented artists and Mrs Cooper teaches music in a fun and inspirational way.
If you have any questions, please feel free to come and see me after school
Rules and Class Motto
At the start of the year we will, as a class, create our class rules and a motto.
Routines
Children need to have shorts, t-shirt, tracksuit, socks and trainers in school for P.E. When we go swimming children will need to bring a swimming kit into school. I will let you know which term we will go swimming.
Homework is given on a Wednesday and due in on Monday.
Children need to bring in their own snack in Key Stage 2. It can be a piece of fruit or vegetable.
Reading
All children will take reading books home to read and share with their families. All children need to do is write in our reading folder which book they have borrowed. They then need to mark in when they have returned it.
Attendance
It is really important that children are in school every day. Days missed mean children miss out on key skills and knowledge which will affect their progress. It can also be hard to pick up in the middle of a topic as children will have missed crucial lessons.
Here is information about just some of the learning that takes place in Year 3.
Lovely Literacy
In literacy this year we discover many different types of stories, learn about non-fiction texts and have some fun poetry mixed in among all of this! Most of our literacy work will be done through our topics to help develop our understanding even further.
Marvellous Maths
Maths is a chance for us to really be confident about our ability, consolidate our learning from last year and explore new ideas in a creative way. We make sure we are really good at our times tables and learn these with a song or dance routine! Knowing different ways to add, subtract, multiply and divide gives us the confidence to try out lots of different types of sums and problems. We explore 2D and 3D shapes as well as carrying out investigations and recording our results in a variety of ways.
Tantalising Topics
We will plan our topics throughout the year based on the children’s interests and prior knowledge. These will cover science, history, geography, R.E. and PSHE in depth. We will use the computers to learn new skills and develop skills leant in Year 2.
In P.E. we learn how swim. We also learn how to balance, co-ordinate our bodies, develop our sports skills and play in teams.
In I.C.T we will use lap-tops to create graphs, typed pieces of work, the internet and power points to enhance our learning.
The photographs show the different ways that children in my class learn.
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