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Hello and welcome to Year 3! We are Badgers, known for being hardworking and loyal!
Please take note of our school times. The school day begins at 08:45 (this is when the register will be completed) the gate will be open from 08:35 and will close at 08:40. The school day will finish at 15:15. Also with our daily assembly, on a Friday you may be invited in if your child has got special envelope or writer of the week so please look out for this on your emails but also please don't tell them as it is a lovely surprise.
We are all here to help you:
Miss Whitehead (Class Teacher)
Mrs Hussain, Mr Wheat and Miss Maltby are our TA's
Please click on the link below to access our class timetable for Autumn 2 so that you can see what is happening each day:
Here is our topic overview for this half term:
P.E.
P.E. this half term is on a Tuesday and Friday afternoon and the children will be doing Outdoor Adventurous and Cricket. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on Tuesdays and Fridays and that earrings have been removed in advance.
Homework
Maths Homework:
It is ESSENTIAL that your child fluently knows their times tables both division facts and multiplication and have quick recall on these. Therefore, Maths homework will be sent home weekly on a Wednesday and will be due in for the Friday of the same week.
Reading: 
Reading as much as possible will really help your child’s progress at school. Please ensure that your child reads at home at least three times each week you need to record reads on the Boom Reader App.
Literacy
Please look at the literacy non-negotiables to see what is expected in Year 3.
This half term we are focussing on: narratives, myths and legends, non-chronological reports, descriptive writing and instructional texts.
We will be focussing on these texts:
Our SPAG sessions will focus on: nouns, verbs, subject focus, building single clause sentences, co-ordinating conjunctions, a or an and apostrophes for possession.
Our spelling focus, is the Year 3/4 statutory spellings. We will be doing an investigation on different spelling rules every two weeks and finding words with the same phoneme and graphemes as our spellings. We will also be having daily spelling tasks every two weeks, focussing on different skills.
Maths
Please look at the maths non-negotiables to see what is expected in Year 3.
This half term the children will be focussing on place value and addition and subtraction.
We will be focussing on the following skills:
-Representing and partitioning numbers to 100.
- Number lines to 100.
-Representing and partitioning numbers to 1000.
-Flexible partitioning of numbers to 1000.
-Hundreds, tens and ones.
-Finding 1, 10 or 100 more or less.
-Number line to 1000.
-Estimating on a number line to 1000.
-Comparing and ordering numbers to 1000.
-Counting in 50s.
-Applying number bonds within 10.
-Adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s.
-Identifying patterns.
-Adding 1s across a 10 and 10s across a 100.
-Subtracting 1s across a 10 and 10s across a 100.
-Add 2 numbers with and without exchange.
-Add and subtract 2 numbers across a 10.
-Add and subtract 2 numbers across a 100.
Our topic for this term is Modern Greece- Wish You Were Here
Our Topic work will, link closely to our Literacy work. We are focussing on modern Greece and its physical and human geography. Each week we will be exploring a key question which will develop our History and Geography skills:
Week 1: Which countries are in Europe? Where is Greece?
Week 2: What are the major cities and islands?
D&T- How can objects use air to make them work?
Week 3: What are the differences and similarities of Greece and the UK?
D&T- How do pneumatic systems work?
Week 4: What are the human features of Greece?
D&T- Designing a moving monster.
Week 5: D&T- Creating a moving monster.
Week 6: What are the famous landmarks of Greece?
D&T- Finish and evaluate moving monsters.
Week 7: What are the key facts we have learnt about Greece? Creating a fact file.
Please see our knowledge organiser for key vocabulary and knowledge the children will be learning this half term.
We also have topic homework that should be completed in the purple homework books and we will have a show and tell every Friday to show what we have done.
Awards 2023-2024
We are very excited to be starting work on our new values system when we come back in school in January. Each week we have a new value – 12 in total. The children will have an assembly Monday morning about how to show our care values both in school and at home! We will be expecting this to be demonstrated to all members of our Coppice community, it is important that even when we move onto a new value, the old one isn’t lost.
Our new core values will now form the basis of our ambassador passports (these have now been renamed – core value passports and the children can achieve their bronze, silver and gold awards throughout the year for each core value. We will of course keep you informed about how your child is getting on with this throughout the year.
Each week Mrs Seaton will send out a Newsletter that will reflect the value we are working on so that it can also be supported at home. We look forward to seeing our children bright and early ready to embrace the new weekly challenges
Wednesday 4th September- INSET Day
Thursday 5th September- Back to School!
Friday 27th September- Macmillan Morning
Wednesday 2nd October- Flu Immunisations
Friday 25th October- Break up!
Monday 4th November- INSET Day
Tuesday 5th November- Back to School!
Friday 20th December- Break up!