The Year 3 team are

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Welcome to Year 3
The Year 3 team are Mr Rose, Mrs Evans, Mrs
Williams and Miss Sibley.
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Aim of our chat
Welcome to Year 3

• We will talk about the following
• Spelling
• Reading
• English
• Maths
• Curriculum
• An example- Autumn 2014
• Sets, grouping and intervention
• Reminders
• Questions?

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English

• Units of work (fiction, non-fiction and poetry)
• Emphasis on extended writing
• Regular handwriting (cursive script)
• Speaking and listening
• SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar)
• Reading

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Spelling

• New Curriculum focus on SPAG (Spelling,
  Punctuation and Grammar)
• Follow a spelling programme
• Two spelling lessons a week
• Editing, dictionary work
• Marking code -sp.
• Not weekly lists home

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Reading

• Banding
• Personal selection including texts from home
  variety of genres.
• Reading records (at least 3 signatures from home
  per week)
• Guided reading
• Reading with adults in school (parent helpers
  welcome please!!)

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Maths

• New Curriculum focus on fluency of Number,
  Problem Solving and Reasoning Skills.
• Maths Investigations
• Oral and mental starters
• Mental maths tests and times tables
• Guided groups
• Calculation methods
• Real life examples at home
• Sumdog
• www.histonimpington-jun.cambs.sch.uk/ online
  games

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International Primary Curriculum (IPC)

• Subject links Science, Geography, Art, DT,
  History, Computing, Music
• Themes Brainwaves Adventurers and Explorers
  Settlers and Scavengers Temples, Tombs and
  Treasures Lets Plant it Chocolate Time and
  Space, Earth and Place.
• Subjects outside IPC RE, PE, PSHE, French,
  recorders

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Sets, groupings and intervention

• Maths Sets
• Ability groupings in all classes
• Year 3 intervention groups
• Maths Springboard, Numicon and First Class Maths
• English Handwriting, Spelling, ERT.
• Social Skills
• IEPs

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Reminders

• Reading records
• Homework on Wednesday / Thursday
• PE kit labelled, including shoes
• Recorders
• Water bottles
• Size of bag
• Parents evening
• Labels

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Questions?