Greenwood
Primary
School
P3 Information
Evening
Linguistic Phonics
• Builds on experience of sound
/symbol relationship : P1-P7
• Phonic activities
• Support at home
• Connections to other areas of
literacy
Reading
• Using a variety of reading
strategies
• Reading for meaning
• Consider the characters, setting
context
• Importance of harder questionshow/why?
• Not simply teaching to read but
making readers
Resources
Literacy activities
• Guided reading activities
• Extending writing skills- genre
• WALT & WILF
Connections in Literacy
Links between phonics,
wide variety of reading
materials, quality of
writing
Numeracy
• Maths lessons: mental maths,
practical maths, activities
• Participating & answering
questions
• Variety of resources- e.g.100
square/Dienes apparatus
• Importance of seeing & doing
before recording
Connecting the learning
• Importance of quick recall of
number facts
• Using knowledge to calculate
harder sums
• Relate to other areas of
maths e.g. money, time
Homework
• Reading, spellings and number
facts (quick recall)
• Written homework will be given
once a week on a Tuesday and
handed in by Friday:
literacy, numeracy or topic based
• We keep a note of completed
homework
• Please sign your child’s homework
Transfer to Strandtown
• Initial meeting between P4
co-ordinator, Mrs Robinson
& Mrs Harper
• Liaison between class teacher
& new P4 teacher
• Pastoral care dimension
• Liaison between SENCOs
Transfer to Strandtown
• Parent information evening at
Strandtown
• P3 classes visit Strandtown
• Forwarding of school reports/
samples of work/ test results/
groupings for Maths &
Literacy
• Follow up meeting in
September