Welcome back to the new academic year! We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.
Homework:
Our expectation at Mead is that every child should do the following every night:
- 15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult and note in the reading record
- 15 minutes practicing spellings
- 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)
If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Learning Challenge for children to attempt this half of the Autumn Term. All of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their challenge. We hope that children will take their time with the challenge and be proud of the work they produce they should hand this into their teacher at the end of the half term.
Spellings:
Spellings will be given out on Fridays. The children should practice their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. Children in Read, Write, Inc groups could have their spellings given out and tested on different days.
Rockstar Times tables:
Children will be completing their timestables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise timestables with your children at home. A parent guide to Rockstar Timestables will be sent out separately to this letter.
Curriculum Information
We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Winters, Miss Cunningham, Miss James & Miss Morgaine
Year 3 Team
Autumn Term
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1st Half Term
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2nd Half Term
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Literacy
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Spelling, grammar and punctuation
Creating a setting
Instructions
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Spelling, grammar and punctuation
Playscripts
Information Texts
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Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read.
For a good selection of children books visit the local library.
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Numeracy
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Place Value & Number Reasoning with 3 digit numbers
‘Count on us’ weekly session - tangrams, pentonimoes etc.
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Multiplication and Division
Addition & Subtraction
Time
‘Count on us’ weekly session - tangrams, pentonimoes etc.
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My Maths: https://www.mymaths.co.uk/primary.html
This can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
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ICT
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Using Chromebooks
Google Classroom
Keyboard Skills
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E Safety
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Science
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Human Body and Senses
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Human Body & Senses
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You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
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History/ Geography
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How has architecture influenced society across the ages?
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How has architecture influenced society across the ages?
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R.E
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Hinduism - Festival of Diwali
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P.E
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Netball/Football/Tag Rugby
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Netball/Football/Tag Rugby
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PE will be on Mondays. Please ensure your child brings in their PE kit.
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Music
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Rhythm and Pitch
Music around the world
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Rhythm and Pitch
Christmas Production
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Art/ Design and Technology
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Drawings
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3D Sculptures
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French
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Greetings, classroom instructions, animals, numbers.
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Genders, storytelling, French names, Christmas.
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P.H.S.E
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Rights & Responsibilities
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Trips
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Our first trip will be to the new MOD Pizza resaturant in Romford, where the children will be making their own pizzas to support their writing of instructions in Literacy & Language.
This will take place between 2-4th October. A separate letter will be given out about this.
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