Broadoak Primary School

Broadoak Backpack Character Values

Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Happiness - Kindness - Love - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Courage - Resilience - Determination - Enthusiasm - Peacefulness - Creativity - Acceptance - Gratitude - Confidence - Humour - Optimism

Welcome to Year 3

Welcome to our Year Three page!

Here you will find regular updates, throughout the year, relating to everything that is happening in Year Three. Please find below key information related to our class curriculum, along with news, dates and important updates. You will also be able to see photographs of the exciting things we have been doing and work that we have been producing via our window into the classroom.

Year Three Team

Mrs. Stribling's Class

2023-2024

Mr. Moran's Class

2023-24

The Year 3 Staff Team

Teaching Team:  Mrs Stribling, Mr Moran,  Mrs Webster, Mrs Davidson, Miss Eastwood and Miss Morrison

Health and Well-being Team:  Coach Kim and Coach Vicki

SENDCO: Mrs. Manson / Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild

Teaching Team

Health and Wellbeing Team

Key Dates / Reminders / Homework

PE: Every Thursday (except for Summer Term when it will be Swimming on  Friday) - children to wear PE kits on this day.  This term the children will be completing their swimming unit of the National Curriculum.

Homework: This is allocated, every Wednesday and should be completed and submitted by Monday - via Seesaw or in their homework books.

TT RockStars: Children are asked to learn their times tables - logins have been issued.

Spelling Shed: Children are issued weekly spellings on Spelling Shed.  These should be practised each evening.

Reading: We ask that all children have their reading record signed by an adult each time they have read at home.  We have adopted a traffic light system to encourage the consistency of reading at home across the school.  On Friday, staff will check the reading records and record either a red, amber or green traffic light:

 Red : Read 3 times or less

 Amber : Read 4 times

 Green : Read 5 times or more

The children's names are put into a 'Traffic Light Treat' draw on a Friday, if your child has read 5 times or more that week and their name comes out of the box, they will choose a special prize from the Traffic Light Treat box!

Window into the Classroom - Twitter

To enable you to gain an insight into some of the learning and experiences that your child will have whilst in Year 3, we will tweet pictures, videos and work which you can use as a starting point for discussion at home with your child.

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Rewards and Celebrations

Class Dojo: Children can earn 'Dojo Points' for any number of positive reasons, such as: following our Golden Rules, demonstrating our character values, excellent attitude, effort and achievement. 

Dojo Dip Winner: Weekly celebration for a child in each class who are awarded the most Dojo Points. The winner selects a book as a reward for their achievement. 

Star of the Day: Child who achieves the most Dojos each day.

Star of the Week: Two children from each class are awarded the Star of the Week to reflect the excellent learning they have demonstrated that week  These certificates are awarded to the children during Friday Celebration Assembly. 

Class Rewards: As a reward for positive behaviour, the whole class receives a treat when they have received  100 merits/points. 

Reward and Celebration Day: Every half-term, each class takes part in Reward and Celebration Day - usually on the Friday before each half-term. 

Star of PE: Our Health and Wellbeing coaches award 'Star of PE' to children who show a commitment to their physical and metal well-being. 

Head Bump Protocol

If children have a head injury when at school, they will be assessed by a First Aider. Should the injury be a minor bump, parents/carers will receive an email to inform them that their child has bumped their head in addition to a sticker and a first aid note being sent home. Parents/carers do not need to respond to this email – it is just another way to ensure parents and carers are informed. If a child has a head injury which the first aider believes need to be checked or the child is unwell after a head injury, a telephone call to parents/carers will be made and they will be asked to collect their child and advised to seek medical advice. In the most serious cases, medical assistance would be called to school.

Handwriting

The Year 3 Curriculum

This year, the children will be exploring all aspects of the Year Three curriculum. We will consolidate learning from the Key Stage One curriculum and embed new knowledge and understanding. The Year Three Team will deliver lessons via quality first teaching. Our lessons will be engaging and accessible for all. We will also be challenging the pupils and encouraging them to tackle investigations and ask questions about the wider world.  Transition to Key Stage Two is a significant step in their education and the Year Three Team will support children in their transition.  

Broadoak Backpack for Life Curriculum

Year 3 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Summer 2023

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Year 3 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Summer

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Click on the link below to download the document

Year 3 Summer Curriculum Overview

Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children

What is Reading at Broadoak?

At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:

  • Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
  • Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
  • Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
  • Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.

We use individual reading books, author focus units, high quality key texts and Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books to engage all our children in reading.

Reading at Home - Support for Parents

Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress.  Below are some suggestion question stems that can be used by parents whilst completing reading at home.

Retrieval Questions

Children have to pick out information from a text in order to answer questions about it.

  1. Who is/are the main characters in the text?
  2. Where is this story set?

Inference Questions

Children have to look for clues in the text in order to answer questions about how someone might be feeling or why something is happening. Encourage children to support their answers by finding evidence in the text.

  1. Why do you think…?
  2. How do you know…?

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

Word meaning and Effective language Questions

Children have to explain how phrases/ words have been used to add to the meaning of the text

  1. By writing this way, what effect has the author created?
  2. What does the word …….. tell you about the character/setting/mood?

Summary Questions

Children have to summarise the main points or main events in a paragraph or whole text

  1. Look at the first paragraph. What is the main theme?
  2. Sum up what has happened so far in less than 20 words.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. 

Jacqueline Kennedy

Summer Author Focus

Mini Grey

Mini Grey is a British illustrator and writer of children's books, especially picture books for young children. She won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, published by Jonathan Cape in 2006.

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Summer Key Text

(Linked to Author Focus)

Summer Key Text

Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 3

Mathematics

The Year Three Mathematics lessons will consolidate the Key Stage One learning.  The children will be taught key strategies, in line with the schools calculation policy.  All lessons will address the Year Three National Curriculum and will seek to consolidate learning from previous years.  They will include 5-a-day activities that revisit and reinforce the four key computation strategies.  Focus will be placed on ensuring that children gain a secure knowledge of the times tables and how to use these effectively to support their mathematical calculations.

Year 3

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Year 3

Multiplication and Division Strategies

Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer

After School Clubs Timetable

Life Skills Curriculum

To download the document, please click on the link below:

Year 3 – Life Skills and Experiences Backpack

Year 3 Home Learning - Our Broadoak Model / Offer

At Broadoak, we are committed to ensuring that our children receive the best education, whether face to face or via remote learning. We acknowledge the importance in ensuring that the provision for those at home is of high quality and continues to support and challenge each child's learning. We will continue to reflect and review provision, always ensuring that we are committed to meeting the guidance provided by the DFE. 

Our platform for delivering home learning when necessary is Seesaw. This platform allows us to post bespoke activities and provide children with teaching videos to support learning. It also enables two-way communication from children to teachers and vice versa.  To access the, please follow the link below:

 

SeeSaw Login Page

 

If you are unable to login, please email debbie.morton@salford.gov.uk and your child's code will be emailed out to you.

Home learning will be issued to all children on their first day of absence due to COVID-19 restrictions.  This platform is not aimed to provide home learning for other absences such as requested leave of absence due to family holidays, absence due to appointments etc.

For more information regarding home learning, please follow the link below:

Home Learning Page