Year 3 Remote Learning

On this page you will find the weekly Planning sheets for Year 3. Click on the buttons below to download.

Guidance

These are extremely challenging and difficult times, and our main concern, as will be yours, are that the children feel safe and happy. This will be a period of time talked about for generations to come. Thank you for all your support and for wherever possible, keeping the children at home.

We know having the children at home will pose some challenges, including trying to undertake your own work, as well as perhaps worrying about the academic impact of not being in school.

As already stated, our main concern right now is that the children are safe and happy. We can pick up with the learning once we are ‘out the other side’ of this. However, we wanted to provide you with regular resources and ideas to support you with helping your children while school is closed. However, please do not worry too much about this. The sheets are provided for you if they are any help, if not, then don’t worry! These are stressful times for all - yourselves included. Our staff have trained for many years to become teachers and we don’t expect you to be able to develop a thorough working knowledge of pedagogical approaches, subjunctive forms of verbs or the difference between Phase 2 and 3 phonics! Especially as you try to balance your own work and adapt to new working from home systems.

Therefore the work set by teachers has been carefully considered so that it doesn’t require any specialist knowledge, and is as independent as possible. This page will be updated every Monday with a new downloadable plan. Use them. Don’t use them. Use bits. Adapt them; whatever works for you and your situation.

Please do take any pictures of your child’s home learning and email them to school office and we can then upload them to Twitter so that others can see the great work you are doing.

Finally, below is a list of some guidelines you may find useful; but again, find whatever works for you. The downloadable plans are then below the Top Tips.

From all at St Joseph’s, we hope you are safe, healthy and we miss you and are thinking of you. See you soon

Top Tips

Create a routine. This is what the children experience at school, and will help them focus and keep a structure to their day. However, go with a routine that works for you and your family rather than change your systems to try to match the school timings.
Create a timetable together as a family and display it so that everyone knows what is happening and when. However, also be flexible - if they are really engaged in a task, don’t stop them.
Create a work space in your home if possible. Keep paper, equipment and other resources nearby. The children are really respectful of their environment in school and know how to tidy and keep it organised - so don’t let them trick you otherwise!
Build in some physical exercise time - even if this is as simple as some gentle stretches. It is really important to stay active.
Plan in some ‘down time’ and break time. The children don’t work solidly from 9.00-3.30; they have time to relax, unwind, socialise etc so have plenty of time for this.
Ditto for yourselves!
Read, Read, Read! Look for as much opportunity as possible for reading - with you, to you, for you, to others, to themselves. Lots of reading!
Keep a diary and scrapbook. We are living through history, and anything you create may be used by future historians! So diaries, pictures, blogs, vlogs - it will be fascinating.
Play with your children - board games, computer games, physical games etc. This social interaction is a really important developmental aspect and at the moment won’t be happening as usual. So play games with them, and importantly - make sure you win some of the games! Learning to lose and handle it is also something they develop with friends.
Household jobs can be really useful as they provide a sense of responsibility and allow the children to feel they are making a contribution. In school, they have lots of important jobs such as collecting the fruit, giving out work, delivering messages etc.
Technology can be really useful for learning, as well as a treat or as part of their relax time. However, do limit it and be extra vigilant to what they are accessing.
Please do send any pictures to schooloffice@stjosephs-birkenhead.wirral.sch.uk and we will post them on Twitter.
For the next few months ‘learning’ is going to look very different. But different is good, and different is still very worthwhile. Social skills, independence, care and compassion - this is all learning and is extremely worthwhile. We can pick up the subjunctive forms of verbs, Phonetical graphemes and improper fractions when we return!
Take care and look after each other. ‘And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is Love’. Corinthians 12

Learning Plans

Online Classroom

The sector-led Oak National Academy has launched its online classroom and resource hub. The Academy offers 180 video lessons each week for schools to use, across a broad range of subjects. The lessons cover children in Reception through to Year 10 and are free to use by both teachers and young people.

The Oak National Academy can be accessed here: https://www.thenational.academy/

Maths…No Problem

Here’s a list of free resources, how to’s, and parent videos to help you support your child’s maths learning at home during Covid-19. We hope it helps parents and caregivers as you navigate this new challenge. https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/programs/school-at-home/

BBC Bitesize

The BBC has launched an education package across TV and online, featuring celebrities and teachers, helping to keep children learning at home and supporting parents. BBC Bitesize can be accessed here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize