Last week of Autumn 1

 Hello everyone,

As we come to the last week of our first term with the new Year 3s, myself and the rest of the team are so pleased with how the children have settled into the new year. 

It was really lovely meeting so many of you this week during our parent and carer consultations. It was a great opportunity to talk about your wonderful children and discuss any issues that may come up. If you weren't able to make one of these sessions please do get in touch to arrange an alternative meeting time. Also if you ever have any questions or concerns please catch a member of the team on the door or email me directly. 

On our last day of term we will have our Harvest celebration and we hope you can make it. Our assembly starts at 2.50pm and any donations for the Dorchester Food bank will be gratefully received when the children arrive in the morning.  

Thank you to those families that are supporting their child with their home learning.

When we come back to school after half term the children will start learning about formal written methods (column addition and subtraction) but before that it is very helpful if they can securely add number bonds mentally. Children vary and so meeting your child where they are is really important.

- You may find that your child would benefit from using physical equipment like pencils when they are counting.

- It may be that your child understand the number bonds but would benefit from lots of repetition to help them retain them and build fluency. 

- Some children with a secure recall of number bonds may like to use them for number bonds to 20 or by adding then to 2 digit or 3 digit numbers. E.g knowing 3 + 7 = 10 can be used to calculate 43 + 7  or 327 + 3. 

As well as some maths questions, this week's home learning also invites your child to bring in some Autumnal items for Friday. Paper copies should have been brought home on Friday but an electronic copy can be found here.  We would also like your child to get into the regular routine of reading and recording their reading in their reading journal. Regular spellings practice is also really important (I hope to have individual spellings lists for RWI children after half term).    

Spellings for this week should also have been brought home but an electronic copy can be accessed below:

- group 2 spellings

- group 3 spellings 

Kind regards,

Ms Browne & the Year 3 team 🍁😊