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• How to help your child in Year 3

WELCOME TO YEAR 3

Autumn Term - First Half 

Year 3 Team: Mrs Hover, Mrs Leake & Mrs Hilsden

Welcome to our Year 3 Class Page! We hope you have had a lovely summer and are looking forward to starting Year 3!

We have been busy getting the classroom ready and planning lots of exciting new activities for your first term! Read on to find out a little bit about some of these activities:

In English, we will be starting our new picture book which will be revealed in the first week back! However, we can reveal that it is about the animal below. Do you know the name of this mammal? Have you ever seen one in the wild?

Linking with this theme, we will be reading another beautifully illustrated book in our Reading lessons. 

In Maths, we will be doing lots of exploring and problem solving together and we will start by looking at 'Numbers to 1000' and then move on to 'Addition and Subtraction'. In Science, we will be learning all about different types of Rocks and Soils and in RE, we will be learning about Hinduism including the special festival of lights called Diwali.

In the Wider Curriculum, we will be learning all about the Rainforest in Geography which links to our Art lessons where we will be doing lots of drawing and printing. We will also be starting a new project in Computing and practising how to greet someone in our French lessons. We will begin our first My Happy Mind session, ‘Meet your brain’ and we will continue to add to our class toolbox with strategies to help us when looking at the Zones of Regulation.

On Wednesday afternoons and on Friday mornings, we will have PE lessons so please come to school in your PE kits. For the first two weeks, our Friday PE session will take place on Thursday (Thursday 5th and Thursday 12th September) and then move to Fridays - we will update the PE notice in our class window.

Finally, Year 3 are going to be learning how to play guitar with our Music For Life teachers up until Christmas :) We also have Forest School with Mr Hadfield to look forward to on Friday 4th October - we will send a reminder about this nearer the time.

YEAR 3 PARENTS

PE Timetable

Wednesday: Netball

Friday: TBC

Timetable (Homework)

Monday: Reading and library books exchanged; 

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Homework due

Thursday: 

Friday: Homework handed out 

PPA (Planning, Preparation & Assessment Time)

On Monday mornings, the Music For Life teachers will be teaching Guitar (Mrs Hover's PPA). On Friday mornings, Mr Brown will be teaching PE (Mrs Leake's PPA).

Other important information

Snack - Toast is 25p a day. Please book your snack on Parent Pay for the week ahead. You could also supply your child with a piece of fruit/vegetable.

Water bottles - children should continue to bring their water bottles in daily.

Please make sure your child has a waterproof coat each day as we go outside during playtimes in most weather conditions.

Please label your child’s clothing, packed lunches and water bottles.

Homework

Homework is one task linked to our learning in school that week - either English, Maths or from the Wider Curriculum. It should take your child about 20 minutes and should be able to be completed independently or with some adult support. When your child is completing their homework, please encourage them to present their work neatly.

There is also a short Spelling task to complete each week linked to our learning in spelling lessons. Click on the Handwriting & Spelling tab above with information to help your child.

Homework will be set on a Friday and is due on the following Wednesday. 

Reading

We love reading in Year 3. Children become better readers by practising reading as much as possible. We would encourage children to read with an adult or to be read to at home every day for 10 minutes. Children will bring home a levelled reading book that they can read with you. When children have read the book twice with an adult at home or at school, they may change it for a new book. We will also share many texts together in class in our English and Guided Reading lessons and the children can borrow a book of their choice from our reading corner to read in class or at home.

Click on the Reading tab above for lots of book ideas or come and chat to us for some book recommendations.

Times Tables

Being able to recall times table facts quickly and accurately helps children succeed in all of our Maths lessons. In Year 2, children learnt the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. In Year 3, we will be learning the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. Repetition is key to knowing the facts quickly and accurately. Please help your child at home to practise these times tables as much as they can. Questions, chanting and Times Tables Rockstars are all good ways to learn (regular short bursts are the best way!) Click on the Maths tab above for further games.

Contacting Class Teachers

The Year 3 class teachers are Mrs Hover (Monday - Wednesday) and Mrs Leake (Thursday - Friday).

Please always feel free to come and speak to us or alternatively our emails are:

katie.hover@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk

jennifer.leake@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk

‘How to help your child in Year 3'

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Gallery

See 'Year 3: Gallery Items' tab below to view photographs from this year.