Year 3 2021 - 2022
Mrs Higginson
Mrs Hodgson
Miss Gibson
Mrs Deakin
To contact Mrs Higginson email Year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk
Love Learning, Love Life, Always Aiming High
Welcome back to school and of course welcome to our first term in Year 3!
I am very excited to see you all on your first day back (2nd September) and cannot wait to work with you over the next year, on all of the exciting units that I have planned.
Some of you may be nervous about returning, but I want to reassure you that all of the adults in Year 3, and across the school, will support each and every one of you to feel safe and secure as you return and to answer any questions you may have.
Year 3 Structure
I will be the fulltime class teacher in Year 3 and will therefore deliver lessons every day. Our fantastic HLTA, Mrs Deakin, will deliver some afternoon sessions, in addition to the usual PE lessons with Dannielle, our PE coach. Throughout the day, we are also extremely fortunate to have support from two fabulous teaching assistants- Mrs Hodgson and Miss Gibson. With Mrs Hodgson supporting in Year 3 throughout the day and Miss Gibson working with us predominantly during reading.
PE
PE will be delivered on a Wednesday and a Friday afternoon, however it is always a good idea to have your PE kit in all week, just in case we do an extra PE session or a practical maths lesson. During the colder months, you may wish to pack warm joggers and a jumper- don’t forget to put your name in all of your PE items.
Homework
In Year 3 you will be given Learning Log and maths homework on a Friday, this needs to be handed back in on a Wednesday. Spellings will be sent home at the start of the half term, and you will be directed to the list we are working on weekly. I won’t be formally testing spellings every Friday, but instead will expect you to use those words in your work each week. Throughout Year 3, we will be working hard on learning our times tables ready for the times table check in Year 4. To support you in learning your times tables, you will have access to Times Table Rock Stars at home and will also be set a weekly times tables to learn.
Reading
As always, reading is the cornerstone of all learning. In Year 3, I expect you to be reading for pleasure every day. It is your responsibility to make sure you are reading, but you also need to read to your grown-ups three times a week. You can fill in your own reading record, but your grown-ups must sign it to confirm that you have read with them. Your reading record must be handed in twice a week to allow teachers to check any comments and support you with reading at home, this will be on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Once you have finished a book or if you decide it is not for you, make sure that you change it for something else! You will have access to our class’s extensive range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction books, magazines, and newspapers as well as fantastic set of levelled books in the key stage two corridor. In class we will undertake guided reading, quiet reading, shared reading and reading for pleasure, in addition to working through a class book in English.
Our Pathways to Read text for autumn 1 is The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner and autumn 2 we will look at Ice Palace by Robert Swindells.
English
In English we will be riding the waves of ‘seal Surfer’ and shivering with ‘Winter’s Child’ through our class texts. In our first term as Year 3, we will engage with a poetry unit and then will start to look at writing letters linked to our first text. We will develop our use of prepositions and paragraphs. We will also start to develop our use of speech, looking at inverted commas. As we enter the second half term, we will develop our use of vocabulary, looking specifically at describing winter settings. Within this unit, we will build up to writing a narrative looking specifically at our use of adverbs, speech, and vocabulary choices.
Pathways to Write –
Autumn 1= Seal Surfer By Michael Foreman
Autumn 2= Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister
Water Bottles
It is really important, particularly at the moment, that you bring in your own water bottle every day. You must take it home each evening for it to be washed. Please bring your own, named bottle each day. You will be allowed to refill it throughout the day, if you drink all your water.
Support
At the top of the page you can find links to download useful files, such as the Learning Leaflets and homework support. You can also find useful website links below and videos to support you at home.
Grown-ups, if you have any questions or would like to speak to me, then please catch me at the end of the day, when I will have the most time to talk, or email year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk . Alternatively, if you have an urgent enquiry, then please contact the school office, who can relay any messages to me.
Mrs Higginson
DREAM TEAM
Doing the right thing
Respecting one another
Everyone following the rules
Always being a good friend
Making a difference to yourself and your school
Because; Together Everyone Achieves More
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