Elephants & Gorillas (Year 3)

Teachers: Mr Hadden, Mrs Cragg, Mrs Rowsell and Mrs Appleby-Jones (PPA cover)

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Rounsefell, Mrs Fox, Mrs Mulcahy, Miss Katsifaraki

Academic Year 2022/2023

Welcome to the year 3 page on the school website! We are Elephants and Gorillas.

We will upload a weekly review letter to our Google Classroom page. This contains information about weekly learning and any home learning.

Each half term we carry out our learning through different topic. Please see below for an update on this term's learning.

Attached are the Knowledge Organisers used to plan learning each half term:

Home Learning

Click the links below to access Times Tables Rock Stars or SpellingFrame.

To learn maths through high quality games, use the Topmarks website.

Use the White Rose Maths website for daily lessons from a national leader in maths learning. Please click on the relevant week, watch the lesson video then print out and complete the activity.

For further information and links please see https://www.stmichaelsacademyexeter.org/maths-in-school/

Reading

In year 3 we will be teaching reading following the V.I.P.E.R. acronym. This stands for Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation and Retrieval – hopefully this sounds less scary than a poisonous snake. Each week we would like you to focus on a different VIPER element when listening to your child read.

Please download the attachment below for some example questions to support your child with their reading. 

Further home learning links for English 

Writing: Whole units of work (we will specify which are appropriate in the event of a pod closure)

10 minute writing challenges set by well known authors https://authorfy.com/10minutechallenges/ 

Reading: Listen to authors read their books aloud on YouTube.