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Teacher : Mrs Geoghegan

Learning Support Assistant: Mrs Jiggens/Mrs Drury

Curriculum letter

                                                                                                                              Dear Parents and Carers, 

Welcome back! I hope you all have enjoyed the summer break. I am very much looking forward to teaching the children and getting to know them. We have an exciting year of learning ahead of us. 

Topic

This term our topic is ‘School of Rock’. In History, we will be learning about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The children will be learning about various aspects of the hunter-gatherers’ lives, Skara Brae and Stonehenge. I have booked an experience day for the children on the 24th September. The children will be immersed into their topic through many other subjects. In English, we will be writing stories based in the Stone Age era and instructions on how to wash a woolly mammoth.

P.E

This term the children will be taking part in P.E lessons Wednesdays and Fridays Children are required to come into school in their PE kit on these days. Please ensure that your child has an appropriate outdoor P.E kit consisting of tracksuit bottoms, a jacket and trainers for the colder days. Any earrings need to be removed for P.E lessons in line with health and safety requirements and long hair should be tied back. 

Homework

Reading for pleasure is our aim, I will be working hard this year to encourage the children to read regularly at home. It really does make an impact on children’s learning across the curriculum when they are fluent and confident readers and reading at home consolidates and supports the work that we do in class. Your child will be sent home with a ‘practise book’ however if they are reading other books outside of school for pleasure, then please record this in their reading diary too. Please remember to write a small comment or initial when your child has read. Things are slightly different this year but you will receive a separate letter to explain our new initiative .Reading records must be in school daily and will be checked on a Friday for the minutes read.

Spellings will be sent home weekly on a Monday once we have taught the children the spelling rule/pattern that will be the focus for the week. Spelling tests will no longer be taking place on a weekly basis but it is still as important as ever to ensure that your child learns and practises their weekly spellings. The children have a ‘Spelling Shed’ account. Their login details will be stuck in the front of the children’s reading diaries for easy access.  We will be looking to see whether the children are able to spell particular words on a half term basis and whether they can apply the words they are learning at home to their writing.

Times tables will be a big focus this year. The children already have a Times Tables Rock Stars account. Their login details will be stuck in the front of the children’s reading diaries for easy access. We will set up challenges for the children to take part in throughout the year. As with anything, the more the children practise, the better they get so please ensure they practise regularly.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. 

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Geoghegan

Year 3 Class Teacher

Topic: School of Rock

Meet and Greet

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vGhQ8hSDRIe-KCIMn3enkc_cd91tUFzi_5pIoRvpjI8/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

Times Tables

In maths, there will be more of a focus on times tables. These are really important as this forms a large majority of the work the children will cover over the next two years. Please encourage your child to play Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS) at home (let us know if your child needs reminding of their log in details).

https://ttrockstars.com/ 

Recommended reading for Year 3 children

Reading-

We do not follow a reading scheme, our early reading books are split into colours based on phonics phases.

We also use VIPERS-

What are Vipers?

VIPERS is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum.  They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.

VIPERS stands for

• Vocabulary
• Inference
• Prediction
• Explanation
• Retrieval
• Sequence or Summarise

Spellings

PSHE

Here is a copy of the Alresford PSHE curriculum for your information

Please see the Year 3 curriculum targets below...