Year 3

Below are a few details about Year 3 Home Learning. If you need any further help with what your child should be doing at home or how you can help, then please feel free to pop in and see us.

SPELLINGS

At our school, we believe that learning to spell is most meaningful when children can apply their knowledge confidently and independently in their everyday writing. Rather than sending home weekly spelling lists to memorise or carrying out weekly spelling tests, we explicitly teach spelling patterns, rules and strategies in school and encourage children to use these in their writing across the curriculum. Teachers assess spelling through the work children produce in lessons, looking for evidence that taught spellings are being remembered and applied in context. This approach allows us to identify misconceptions, provide targeted support and focus on developing confident, accurate and independent writers.

Ofsted – Research Review Series: English (2022): Recommends connecting spellings to curriculum content rather than relying on isolated word lists, and giving pupils opportunities to practise spellings in their writing

DfE – KS2 Teacher Assessment Guidance: States that pupils' spelling ability should be evident throughout their writing, while recognising that spelling tests can provide additional evidence.

READING

The children have two reading books from the library (one of which is at their level based on their Accelerated Reader assesment and one of which is free choice.) Additionally, all children accessing a phonics intervention will also bring home a phonetically decodable book form the level they are part of.

We encourage the children to read as often as possible (for 10-20 minutes) to any willing listener! Please record when your child reads in their Home School Reading Record . Please feel free to read and record any other books /magazines /comics /picture books etc. your child enjoys. Furthermore, the children are encouraged to take part in the Monster Reading Challenge. This entails children reading a wide range of books from a given list to branch out their reading to new genres they may not normally select on their own. As they read more books from the list, children can earn certificates for different levels. 

TIMES TABLES

The current national age-related expectation for children at the end of Year 3 is that they know all times tables and related facts for the  two, five, ten, three, four and eight times tables. This should mean that they can recall them instantly and that they know the related division facts. We will teach these as part of our usual maths curriculum however in order to support your children to achieve this, we ask that they practise the table they are currently working towards daily for about 5 minutes. This has huge benefits in other areas of maths such as fractions, ratio, percentages and division (not to mention increased confidence). Children will learn strategies to help them do this at the outset of the year and move later towards being tested weekly in class and earning stickers as they progress. Your child has been given a Times Table Rockstar logon which is set to automatic training mode which progresses them on as their fluency and confidence grows. Please speak to your child's class teacher if you need support with your child accessing Times Table Rockstars.

Click to access Times Table Rockstars

Thank you for your support.                                                                                                                                  

Miss Collins and the Year 3 Team

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