Welcome to P3

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   Miss Convery, Miss Macartney, Mrs Scott and P3       

In Literacy, this term, children will know and understand how to:

• Be aware of stories with familiar settings
• Discuss oral and written stories
• Investigate time/sequential relationships
• Look at story structure and know the term “plot”
• Distinguish between fiction and non fiction
• Examine the purpose of non fiction
• Pose focussed questions

• Sentence

• Re-read own work
• Examine where capitals are used
• Identify phonemes/syllables
• Understand that the same spelling can have more than one sound
• develop talking and listening skills through work linked to other areas of the curriculum
• adopt appropriate roles in small or large groups

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• In Numeracy, this term, children will know and understand how to:

• Choose and use appropriate number operations and mental strategies to solve problems
• Identify missing numbers in a sequence within 20
• Count orally in 1s,2s
• Add/subtract 9/11 to 20
• Consolidate addition facts to 10, extend to 15
• Use + and = signs
• Add/subtract 1,2,0 to any number, answers within 20
• Recognise and use 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, and 20p coins
• Consolidate subtraction facts to 10
• Subtract a single digit from 20
• Use the terms before/after/between to 20
• Order the months of the year
• Recognise o’clock and half past times
• Recognise and name basic 3D shapes from pictures and by handling solids
• Know their properties
• Use and begin to read the vocabulary related to length.
• Estimate, measure and compare lengths using standard units – hand spans, feet and 1 metre

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In World Around Us, this term, pupils will have an awareness:

• Recognise some differences between materials including colour, shape, texture, and behaviour (P)

• Understand that people use materials in different ways and that the properties of a material help to decide how we use it (I)

• Recognise that familiar objects/structures can be made using more than one material (I, P, COT)

• Recognise that a stronger/more gentle push or pull will make a moving object speed up/slow down (S&T)

• Recognise that a push or a pull can stop a moving object (S&T)

• Recognise changes that have occurred over time (H)

• Use words and phrases relating to the passing of time e.g. modern/old/grandmother’s time and be able to place dates and events on a simple timeline (H)

• Describe the past from the memories of older people (H)

• Talk about the past from artefacts and objects from the past (H)