Year 3
A very warm welcome to Year 3
Y3O Saxon- Miss Emmerson
Y3T Edwin - Miss Tembey
Mrs Day, Mrs Marsden and Miss Gilberthorpe support in Year 3 throughout the school day.
Miss Tembey - I have taught at Travis since 2015, in year 2, 3 and 4 and have enjoyed every minute. I enjoy reading and creating my own stories. I love drawing and spending time with my two children. We love to go on lots of adventures and explore new places. My favourite football team is Carlisle United and I get to as many games as I can!
Reading.
Please try to read with your child at least three times a week and record it in their reading record book. This can be the Year 3 recommended read, RWI books or a book from home. It is important to check that, as well as becoming more fluent, the children understand what they are reading, especially as they begin to read longer and more complex books. This can be done by discussing the book afterwards, or during reading. Talk about the characters, setting or main events. Encourage children to develop empathy by focusing on characters' emotions and motivations. We have given a bookmark of some question stems you may wish to use with your child.
We encourage a love for reading and aim for our children to be lifelong readers. The children are encouraged to read and enjoy the books in our book area within the school day. Children are welcome to bring their own reading book from home as long as it is of an appropriate level for them to read and enjoy independently. Children will be able to change their reading books to take home each morning during our morning task. Please encourage your child to do this independently. We share core stories at the end of the day sometimes linked to our topic, or one of the Year 3 Recommended Reads and we spend time in the library once a week sharing and enjoying the books in there.
Homework
Homework is sent home weekly on a Friday and will consist of a spelling homework and a maths homework. Both of these will be linked to the learning we complete each week. The spelling homework will alternate between spelling rules taught each week and Year 3 and Year 4 common exception rules. Please help and support your children with this.
Knowledge Organisers
Knowledge Organisers are a good way to give a brief outline of key words and facts that the children will come across. We share half termly knowledge organisers on class dojo.
Long Term Planning
We have a wide range of curriculum learning.
PE
Children come to school in their PE kits.
Both Year 3 classes have PE on the following days - Wednesday (Indoor) and Friday (Outdoor)
Outdoor kit: red t-shirt/polo shirt, dark jogging bottoms, hoody, socks and trainers. Long hair should be tied back and earrings removed.
Maths
TTRockstars is a fun way for children to consolidate their times tables. Please encourage your child to log on as this will improve their confidence and their fluency with their times tables. At the end of Year 4, all children are expected to know and recall all their times tables facts up to 12 x 12.
The children all login to REFLEX which helps support their multiplication and division skills as well as upskilling their addition and subtraction skills.