Monthly Archives: March 2018

We have started another reading practice paper today, please support your child to complete the reading paper at home and we will go through the text and questions next week. In class we read the text together and discuss the questions. Please do this at home, to give your child confidence to read the text and to learn how to answer the tricky questions. These papers are not a test, they are to develop reading skills and to model how to answer the questions using their literal and inference skills which we teach during whole class guided reading sessions.

This week we have been working on subtraction using mental strategies, the one we have focused on is counting back the tens and units. Choose the chilli you want to complete. Remember you can draw your own number line in your books if it helps and you have a 100 square in your book.

mild

35-4=

67-5=

86-2=

94-1=

63-10=

spicy

54-21=

88-24=

97-41=

74-24=

85-57=

hot 

148-24=

187-46=

139-20=

182-65=

192-77=

Year 3 have new log in details for a new app and computer programme called ‘Maths Rockstars’. We encourage you to use this at home to help understanding of times tables and to help mental maths.

Y3 have started a reading challenge from a previous Y3 reading paper today. Pupils are bringing it home to complete at home. The text is demanding as are the questions. We have worked on particular types of questions during guided reading sessions. We want to give pupils the opportunity to work on these questions at home to have their parents as support to help and give confidence in preparation for the National Tests in May. We will go over the questions next week in class to discuss any queries or questions for pupils to learn from their mistakes. We plan to send out further reading papers over the next month to give our pupils the best preparation for the upcoming reading challenges!!!

In class we have looked at examples from past maths papers and we do plan to send parts of the procedural papers home over the next month.

Please do not worry with the papers being sent home, yes they are challenging and pupils will really be tested with them but they are one assessment tool we have to use from the Government.  We assess pupils throughout the year and make our own teacher assessments. We are sending past papers home for pupils to have your support at home to look at the questions and for parents to see the types of questions our Year 3 children will have to answer.

As part of Internet Safety this week, we have been talking about digital footprints. Can you talk as a family about how you leave a digital footprint? These are things like going onto websites to research, browse, shop, game and uploading photos, videos and comments onto social media. We have talked about how you can see some of your digital footprint by looking at the history in your web browser. In class Year 3 have recorded some of their digital footprint they  have left this week and next week they will record what their family members have used.

Oracy presentations will continue next week. Year 3 have each been given a day they will present to the class. Can we just remind you that  this is an oracy presentation and we are assessing pupils’ oracy skills and not their reading or ICT skills.

Thank you for your support

Mrs Williams and Mrs Poiner