Peace (Year 3) Class
Hi! I’m Miss Wilmot and I'm so excited to be teaching your child this year! Our Year 3 team is made up of myself, Miss Woodcock and Ms Evans, who are really excited to work alongside your child and make some amazing memories through learning. Year 3 will be an extremely important year for your child as they are starting to gain more independence now they are in KS2. We want their learning to be engaging, relevant and memorable whilst learning the key skills and knowledge needed to complete the Year 3 curriculum.
In Autumn 1, our class texts are ‘Diary of a Killer Cat’ and ‘Grey’. The former is a funny, engaging story told through diary entries from a mischievous cat called Tuffy! Our first piece of writing is a diary entry and the text will help your child to find the tone of voice of the characters they are writing from the perspective of. We’ll then move onto reading ‘Grey’ - analysing both the text and illustrations to help them in writing some brilliant informal letters.
Spellings and Times Tables will be undertaken each week; children will be expected to learn them and will be tested on their spellings every Friday. Times Tables and spellings will be stuck into your child's reading record. For spellings, please encourage your child to use the words given in sentences; this will help them use the words in context. Children should practise their times tables on the TTRS (Times Tables Rock Stars) every day for at least 10 minutes.
Reading
Children are expected to read at home every day - please sign their reading records. This only needs to be for 15 minutes each morning or evening. Children should bring their reading record and their class reading book to school every day and they will change books on a Thursday. Alternatively, children can access books via the 'Oxford Reading Buddy' website.
Homework
This will be given on Fridays each week and will be expected to be completed by Thursday the following week. It will usually be a Literacy and Maths task but occasionally it will be topic based. Each task should not take longer than 30 minutes to complete and if your child is finding the homework too difficult, please don't worry about completing and come and speak to me; we'll work something out together!
PE
PE is on a Tuesday. Please ensure that earrings are removed on PE days. Children must wear the appropriate PE kit to school on this day: white top with black or red bottoms. They should also wear their school jumper.
My team and I are delighted to start exploring and learning these new topics with your child, as we work together to develop and improve the skills they have acquired in Year 2.
Thank you,
Miss Wilmot :)