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Welcome to Meteors Class September 2013

Welcome to Meteors Class September 2013. THE ESSENTIALS. Teaching staff – Mrs Hayward-Surry, Mrs Parrott and Mrs Lewis PE days – Monday and Friday (change to original plan) Reading should be a daily activity at home

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Welcome to Meteors Class September 2013

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  1. Welcome to Meteors Class September 2013

  2. THE ESSENTIALS • Teaching staff – Mrs Hayward-Surry, Mrs Parrott and Mrs Lewis • PE days – Monday and Friday (change to original plan) • Reading should be a daily activity at home • Guided reading takes priority in Year 3 – we aim to hear all children read in a group once per week. Less emphasis on individual reading. • Spelling continues to be “drip fed” during the week with activities and games – homework will be set on Friday. Informal testing on Fridays. • Homework set on Fridays and back in on Thursdays. • Children becoming increasingly independent eg responsible for changing their own reading books, coming in on their own, remembering their homework. • New areas of learning – all have the opportunity to learn violin and French on Tuesday afternoons in 2 groups.

  3. MATHS LEARNING • Times tables and related division facts – learn them! • Key number facts – eg doubles, bonds to 10, 20 and 100, adding and taking away multiples of 10, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000, counting on and back from any number in different steps • Calculation strategies – more efficient written methods • Larger numbers – 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers • More emphasis on solving 2 step word problems • Fractions (links to times tables knowledge) • Angles • Scales and measurements • Telling the time using analogue and digital clocks to nearest 5 minutes and calculating time intervals • Knowledge of properties of 2D and 3D shapes

  4. How do children need to apply these skills? Kirsty, Seb and Mina made toffee apples to sell at the school fair. They made 80 toffee apples altogether. Kirsty sold 12 toffee apples. Seb sold 25 toffee apples. Mina sold 17 toffee apples. How many toffee apples were left? A shop is open for 6 days each week. It is open for 8 hours each day. How many hours is the shop open each week? Show how you work it out. Write in the missing number.           633   –      =  34 Sarah’s cat eats one tin of this cat food each day. How much does it cost to feed her cat for a week?

  5. Ways you can help … • Talk maths! Discuss prices in shops - Which is better value? How much will that cost? How many weeks will you need to save your pocket money for? How much change will I get? How many packets do I need to buy? How many will we each get? What is the time? What time will it be in half an hour? Read scales in the kitchen, on thermometers, etc. etc. etc. • Ask your child what they have been learning at school - can they explain how a new calculation method works or tell you about their learning? • Support them when they are doing their homework. This will often consolidate learning in school that week. • Quiz them – times tables, number bonds, how much change? • Make maths fun! Play games – some ideas in handout

  6. LITERACY LEARNING • Writing • Settings, characters, stories (myths and legends, adventure), reports, dialogue, instructions, poetry • Longer and more detailed • Adventurous and well chosen vocabulary • Different sentence structures and variety of sentence length to create different moods • Writing with a reader in mind • Reading • Aim for children to be free readers by the end of the year • Enjoying a wider range of authors and lengthier texts • Beginning to express preferences for genres and authors • Able to discuss what they are reading and comment on author’s use of language and style • Spelling • Following the Support for Spelling programme and new curriculum guidance on spelling – there may be some repetition of learning as the approach is cyclical and consolidation is important • Informal testing – looking for spelling patterns to be applied in day to day writing.

  7. Ways you can help … • Read regularly with your child and discuss what they are reading • Make notes in reading record and ensure that child has books and record in school every day • Good writers are good readers! Discuss vocabulary choices and sentence starters for your child to use in their own writing • Encourage your child to write at home – letters, stories, shopping lists etc. • Encourage good handwriting and presentation • Support homework and spelling activities • Hear readers in school – Tuesday and Thursday morning (8.55 to 9.20), Wednesday and Thursday from 2.45 until 3.15)

  8. TOPIC • Cross-curricular topics – Romans, Roald Dahl and Adventure Island • Teaching is in blocks – allows children to immerse themselves in the learning and see project through to completion – think about absences! • Opportunities to make links with other learning eg apply maths and literacy skills in another context • Opportunities for visits and trips

  9. This Term’s curriculum planner

  10. ANY QUESTIONS?

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