Welcome to Year 3

Meet the Team:

Class teacher: Mr Neill

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Platt, Mrs Lee, Miss Waters

In Year 3, we want children to experience a smooth educational and emotional transition from year 2 to year 3. We nurture and inspire independent learning and decision making to build effective self-led learners. Encourgaing children to demonstrate our school values and learning behaviours in all that we do, as we prepare them to become resilient, creative and confident in their abilities and what they can achieve.

Our way of working in year 3 complements the work already taken place in year 2. Children are familiar with our teaching structure used across the curriculum, which supports the gradual increase to more formal and independent learning.

Curriculum

We have an exciting curriculum that builds on the knowledge and skills from Year 2. 

Throughout the year we will learn about settlements, biomes, Italy, historical ages from the Stone to the Iron Age and the Egyptians. We will have workshops and trips to enhance children’s learning further and bring it to life including a visit to Tatton Park. Please see the overviews below for more information on each term

Within the curriculum we study significant people who are relevant to our themes, such as: Cleopatra, Mary Anning and Andy Goldsworthy.  Our curriculum is further enhanced by the study of additional significant people, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. We learn about the significant people to inspire and motivate our children as well as promoting our values and learning behaviours.

Homework

• access TT Rockstars throughout the week
• complete their White Rose Maths homework book weekly in line with our current class work
• read regularly at home, reading with an adult at least 3 times a week and recording it in their reading journal
• learn weekly spellings that they should know the meaning of, be able to use correctly in a sentence and be able to spell them, applying the words accurately in their work

Class Dojo

Class Dojo is a platform we use for acknowledging positive behaviour, sharing children’s learning and communicating with parents.

Children can earn Dojo points for demonstrating our school values and learning behaviours and this is celebrated in our weekly assembly.  To promote team work and collaboration, a whole class Dojo target is set and when it is achieved the children receive a reward of their choice.  These have included, a pyjama party, a scooter day, arts and crafts afternoon, outdoor learning/forest day, a disco.

My Happy Mind

At Moss Hey we follow myHappymind which is an NHS-backed curriculum for primary schools. It focuses on building resilience, self-esteem, and happiness in children. The lessons and activities contain quizzes, songs, animations and feature lovely characters. The children will complete five modules, Meet Your Brain, Celebrate, Appreciate, Relate and Engage. Each Year group works through the 5 modules allowing for a whole school culture to build. Within each module children learn positive habits which they will then use all of the time. The children have journals to record ideas and feelings.  In Year 3 we will use myHappymind strategies and the journal to help with smooth and happy transition into Key Stage 2.

Please see the 'Meet the Teacher' presentation below for more information about Year 3.