Contact Details
- 020 8567 9524
- admin@fielding.ealing.sch.uk
Wyndham Road, Ealing, London, W13 9TE
Year 3
Notices
Welcome to Year 3
Please see below for this year's newsletter for an overview of what to expect this year.
Remote Learning
If your child is at home self-isolating, please refer to the class notebook on Microsoft Teams to access and complete work for this week.
You can find your child's log-in in the 'Report Section' of MCAS. Refer to our 'How to' guides for more details.
Your child is expected to follow the class timetable and complete daily English, (phonics) and maths lessons. As well as weekly lessons from our Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum. Your child class teacher will make contact through the class notebook, and Microsoft Teams each day. This may be though written feedback or a video call. Your child's class teacher will arrange times for this.
Creative Home Learning
Books going home
English and Maths books will also be sent home the weeks beginning:
- 23rd November
English, Maths and Writing books will be coming home with your child on Thursday 26th November for you to look through. Please ensure these books are returned on Friday 27th November
Calendar
Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum
- Weekly Timetable (scroll to the bottom of the page)
- Find out about how we teach the subjects in the National Curriculum Curriculum information
- Whole school curriculum map
- Find out what your child is learning and when: Yearly overview & knowledge organisers
- How do we assess your child’s learning? Assessment
Home learning
Top education researchers tell us that homework has minimal impact for primary age pupils, unless it requires children to rehearse and practise. Our routines to reflect this. The routines for children in this year group are as follows:
- Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent into school daily. Teachers will have a look at these to check regular reading is taking place at home.
- Learning spelling patterns linked to Year Group expectations ready for use in dictation towards the end of every week. These spellings will be on year group notice boards and should be practised at home.
- Reciting multiplication tables to increase their fluency so that they can be applied in other areas of maths and problem solving. Log on to Timestable Rockstars!
- Half-termly creative home learning will be set at the start of each half term and will celebrated and fed back on during our creative home learning showcases.
You will be able to see your child’s progress through class exercise books for English and maths being sent home at least once during every term as well as at parent consultation meetings.
English
- Find out more here.
Spelling patterns
This week, we will be focusing on words with the suffix -es, in relation to words where the root word ends in -y and is changed to an -i before the addition of the suffix. The spellings for this week are as follows:
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tries
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cries
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hobbies
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ladies
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replies
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families
Our other focus words are as follows:
- describe
- decide
- continue
- techniques
- drawing
- evaluate
These are the words that might be included as part of a dictated passage during the week beginning 23rd November.
Reading
Children will bring home their reading book, linked to the phonics or book band they have been assessed at. They also have the choice to select a recommended reading book or library book to share at home with you. More information about reading can be found
Once the children have read a book, it would be great if they could complete one of the activities of their choice outlined below. These can be completed via their Teams account.
Activity Choices (they can be completed more than once):
1. Compare the book to another book you have read. What was similar? What was different? Think about characters/setting and events.
2. Draw a picture of your favourite character and write 5 words or phrases to describe their personality and 5 words/phrases to describe their appearance.
3. As you are reading, list any unfamiliar words and write their meaning.
4. If you could make one change to the story, what would it be and why?
5. Make a note of 3 of your favourite sentences and explain why you like them.
6. Complete a 'story S' which outlines the main events of the story.
5 books = Bronze Award
10 books = Silver Award
15 Books = Gold Award
All books = Platinum Award
- Find out Recommended Reading lists here (scroll to the bottom)
Mathematics
TimesTables Rockstars!
TimesTables Rockstars is an online programme we have introduced to encourage children to have fun with multiplication facts while improving fluency, recall and speed. Children can access it in their own time on any IOS, Android or Windows device.
What is it?
Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of times tables practice.
How does it work?
Incorrect answers are always immediately corrected in front of your child so that they start to associate the correct answer to every question. The clever code behind the scenes works out which times tables facts each child is consistently taking longer to answer and then it gradually starts to present these facts more frequently until they have mastered them. It will also ask related division questions 20% of the time in order to reinforce division facts.
Is this instead of the times table challenge completed in class?
No, this is to supplement the times tables challenge, giving children a fun way to practise and challenge themselves.
Where does this fit with National Curriculum expectations?
All pupils at the end of year 4 in England will take an online multiplication tables check. The national curriculum specifies that pupils at this stage should be able to recall the multiplication tables up to and including 12x12.
The check aims to support pupils to master multiplication skills, which are essential for future success in mathematics. It will help to identify pupils who have not yet mastered this mathematical concept, so additional support can be provided.
How do I log in?
Log in here: https://ttrockstars.com/login, use your child's details that came home at the end of the Summer Term, lost them? Speak to your child's class teacher.
Please see the sites below for other interactive games to help your children's fluency in recalling their multiplication and division tables.
- Find out more about our Mathematics curriculum here
What is my child learning?
This week
- English
This week, we will be writing our Final Drafts of our Non-Chronological Reports on the Stone Age.
- Maths
This week, we are continuing our Addition and Subtraction unit. We will be focusing on finding the nearest multiple of 10, and using the inverse to check a calculation.
Next week
- English
Next week, we will be writing a Cold Write for a setting description and looking at the features.
- Maths
Next week, we will be continuing our Multiplication and Division unit. We will be focusing on Multiplication to begin with.