World Around Us

The Emergency Services: What is an emergency? Who can help? Making a 999 call. Exploring each service- Police Service, Fire and Rescue Service, Ambulance Service, RNLI & Mountain Rescue in terms of their uniform, equipment, vehicles, range of duties and history. Keeping ourselves safe.Educational Visits: PSNI, NIAS & RNLI to visit school. Class visit to Portadown Fire Station.

Toys then and now:Modern toys- What are they made of? Different types of toys. Favourite toys. Baby toys- Where are they now? How are they different? Why? Investigate parents and grandparents favourite toys- How are they different and how are they the same? Teddy Bear history.Toys around the world with Barnaby Bear.

Personal Development and Mutual Understanding

Getting to know me: I am and I can/ Sticks & Stones/ It’s ok to make mistakes.

Take Care, Be Safe: Risks/ People, places & things/ Rules about medicines/ Growing means changing.

Why Should I? If there were no rules/ Rules have reasons/ Classroom contract

Literacy

Fiction: Investigating a range of texts with familiar settings. Focus on the different settings, the language of time and the plot. Link to own experiences.Poetry: Recite and discuss poems linked with World Around Us topics.Non-Fiction: Investigating key structural features of instruction texts.Children will experience a variety of writing tasks and will be encouraged to revise and edit their work so that it is the best they can produce. Presentation will focus upon correct letter formation and placing on the line, distinguished upper and lower case letters and correct spacing.Sentence & Word Level: Sentence structure & punctuation/ use of capitalisation / common nouns & proper nouns/ alphabetical order/ use of a & an/ plurals/ syllables & rhyming words. Phonics activities from the Jolly Phonics programme.Spelling: Spelling activities from the Complete Spelling Scheme.Reading: Guided reading groups, library books and class topic books.

NumeracyNumber:

Recognise, read and write numbers within 50 Know number after/ before/ between within 50

Identify missing numbers within 50 Order consecutive & non-consecutive numbers within 50 (increasing &

decreasing) Addition & subtraction within 50 Solving problems involving addition & subtraction within 50 Money within 50p Use ordinal terms to tenth place

Measures:

Revision of o’clock & half past Introduce a quarter past- analogue & digital time Calculate durations involving hour, half hour & quarter past start and finish times

Shape & Space:

Recognise & name 3D shapes- cube/cuboid/sphere/cylinder/cone/pyramid Recognise & name 2D shapes-

square/rectangle/circle/triangle/pentagon/hexagon

Handling Data:

Use of Tree and Venn diagrams to sort using 2 criteria Collect information and record in a table

Tables: Addition and subtraction of 1, 2 & 3 within 20.

Mental Maths: (Competencies)

Count forwards in 1’s within 50, from different starting numbers Count backwards in 1’s within 50, from different starting numbers Count forwards in 2’s within 50, from different starting numbers (even then odd) Count backwards in 2’s within 50, from different starting numbers ( even then

odd) Add 1,2 or 0 to any number within 50 Add a single digit to 10 Subtract 1, 2 or 0 from any number within 50

Homework

Homeworks are copied down each morning and ticked when they have been checked. This will list what homework is to be completed for the next day.

Each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the children will be given spellings, tables, reading and a short homework. On Thursday the children will revise all the spellings and tables for that week in preparation for a Friday test.

Spellings: Each day the spellings will consist of a number of rhyming words and one/two high frequency words. The number of rhyming words will vary depending on the sound for the week. These words are discussed during class time and strategies taught to help learn them. The rhyming words are focussed around the sound for that week whilst the high frequency words are learned using the Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check strategy.

Look --- Look at the word Say --- Say the word Cover --- Cover the word Write --- Write the word Check --- Check you have written the word correctly and try again.

The Spelling Homework book is to be used daily (Mon-Wed) to copy out each spelling in the spaces provided to aid the retention of them. They will be collected in every Thursday to be checked. Friday test books are sent home every Friday so parents can view their child’s progress and need be returned the following Monday.

Reading is logged each day in the Reading Record book. Parents need to sign in the space provided to show that reading has been reinforced at home.

Written homeworks are completed in the Numeracy/ Literacy homework books and need to be signed before return.

Other Important Information

PE: Monday ( IFA coaching with Chris Wright) and Thursday.Please ensure that all clothing is clearly labelled and encourage your child to take responsibility for bringing their own kits on the correct days. A bottle of water can be brought too.Healthy break: Healthy break may be purchased from the canteen costing 30p or alternatively the children may bring their own healthy break – fruit and vegetables only.P3 home times: Monday – Wednesday at 1.55pm. On Thursday & Friday at 2.40pmAfter school activities: Choir- every Tuesday to 3.30pm & Irish Dancing- every Friday to 3.45pm

PRIMARY 3

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