We hope that you had a lovely Easter break. Welcome to the summer term where we look forward to the continuing partnerships between home and school.

Reading

Our goal is to create confident, fluent and independent readers. We prioritise reading at Latchmere School and have very carefully chosen the texts your child will study this term. In Year 3, we focus on word reading to develop fluency and encourage the whole class to join in through strategies such as choral reading (the whole class read together) and echo reading (the teacher models the reading and the class echo back). We also have the Latchmere Reading skills. These are based on comprehension skills such as retrieval, inference, summarising, making links, prediction and vocabulary.

In Year 3, we will be studying ‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Christina Balit, ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies, ‘Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes, ‘Dear Greenpeace’ by Simon James and ‘Eric’ by Shaun Tan.

Maths

Our curriculum is based on the White Rose Maths programme. This research-based initiative ensures that the skills and concepts children taught are fully embedded before moving on. The children are taught strategies such as bar modelling and have plenty of opportunities to use ‘manipulatives’ such as place value counters and dienes all the way through the school. This term we will be focusing on: fractions, money, time, shape, and statistics. Please refer to the Programme of Study for the objectives. Children should also use the TimesTables Rockstars program to increase their quick recall of multiplication and related division facts.

Curriculum Highlights

This term, we will be learning about:

• History – The Romans

• Science – Plants

• PSHE – Citizenship ‘Our rights and responsibilities’

• RSE – Body differences, personal space and help and support

• Physical Education – Athletics, Dodgeball, Cricket and Fundamental Skills

• Religious Education - How and why do people mark significant events in life? In Summer 2, the children will be taking part in RSE lessons. For more information about our RSE curriculum please read our RSE Policy which can be found on our trust website. The resources used in our lessons can also be viewed at the school office.

You can find out more information about all of the summer term learning by looking at the overviews and programmes of study on the school website.