Welcome to primary 3! We have 26 wonderful children in our class and our teacher is Miss Norris.

In Primary 3 we concentrate on developing fluency in our reading. Parents can really help by modelling fluent reading every night for your children. Exposing them to lots of stories will help them become better readers more quickly. Try to engage with your child's reading every night, even at the weekend whenever possible. In other areas of Literacy we will encourage and develop our writing and talking and listening skills using various methods. Accelerated Reading is also being used to enhance reading for meaning in our class.

In numeracy we continue with the new White Rose Maths online scheme. We access this in class every day and this year we are focusing on numbers to 100 with an emphasis on place value. We will focus on other areas such as addition & subtraction as well as length & height, shape, money and time. Children practise Mental Maths daily and homework will often entail learning number facts to promote quick recall of these facts.

In the World Around Us we will be learning about Them bones and the human skeleton as well as looking at dinosaurs. Alongside this topic we will also be looking at celebrations from home and around the world as well as minibeasts. All of our World Around Us topics enable the children to experience geography, history and science lessons all through the one topic.

In primary 3, weekly spellings will be sent home every Monday. Homework is an opportunity for you to support your child’s learning and to keep up to date with what is happening in the classroom and should be completed in Monthly Homework books Monday to Thursday.

Reminders:

- P.E days – Wednesday & Friday

- Library day – Friday