Download Welcome to Year 3 - Chaddlewood Primary School

Welcome to Year 3
Mrs Anna Roberts
3AR
Mrs Nicky Barron-Robinson 3BR
Year 3 Expectations
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To work their hardest according to their ability
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Allow and encourage their peers to achieve
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Present their work well – take pride in what they do
Have the right equipment on the right day
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Water Bottles
Healthy Snacks
Spelling books – Monday
Reading books – Everyday
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PE kits
Tape for Earrings – or ability to remove them
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Focus on mastery of the four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division – both mental and written methods
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Examples of End of Year expectations –
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compare and order numbers up to 1000
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add and subtract numbers to 3 digits
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x3, x4 and x8 (with corresponding division facts),
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multiplication and division with 2 digit numbers
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recognise simple equivalent fractions plus order simple fractions
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Add and subtract amounts of money - give change
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Tell the time to the minute on an analogue clock
Areas you can support –
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Telling the time
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Support learning of the times tables
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Using ‘money’ opportunities whenever possible
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Support use of the main operations – See Chaddlewood’s Calculation Policy on our website
for methods used.
Year 3 Focus
Develop skills with spelling and punctuation including apostrophes and speech
punctuation, joined up writing, encourage independent writing, develop
understanding of grammar and meet/write using a range of genres.
Examples of End of Year 3 Expectations
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Write interesting stories in narrative
Use paragraphs to organise ideas
Use increasingly complex punctuation - ? ! “ “ , .
Extend sentences using conjunctions - and, because, so, while, but,
Review, improve, edit own work and that of others
Write interesting sentences without over-using pronouns (they, we, he, she) but
include prepositions, verbs, adverbs and conjunctions for time and cause
Example of
an average
end of
Year 3 piece
of writing
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How you can help at home – support weekly spellings, encourage/praise
legible, joined up handwriting with correct use of capital letters and
punctuation.
Reading
Why it’s important
Brings pleasure and enjoyment
It’s the basis for a huge proportion of school based learning
Reading
Enhances social and economic prospects
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End of year expectation –
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Read a range of genres
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Extend decoding skills to be able to tackle more complex vocabulary
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Ask questions about a text / make predictions
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Summarise what they have read
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Find information – non-fiction plus a dictionary
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Our reading reward scheme -
We reward children with certificates and badges to help encourage and motivate readers. Target by end of year 3 is 100 books!
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How you can help at home
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Read with your child at least x3 weekly - encourage a love of reading – discuss texts you share
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provide a range of genres
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reading games
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word play