Year 3/4 Blogpost 19.04.24

 

Year 3/4 Blogpost 19.04.24

We hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday and welcome back for another fun term!

We started the week with a fantastic art day - please see the newsletter for photos and make sure you ask your children about their day

Spelling Frame Week 13

Over the holidays we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 13 - Suffixes with the sound /shun/ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian. https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3

English - Page 44-45

Maths  - Pages 36-37

Year 4 

English - Pages 40-41

Maths - Pages 44-45

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. Make sure you are reading and recording what you read in your reading record. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you have finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

• Accelerated Reader - when you have finished your book you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level

• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenges.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRSS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Math's - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

• Science - Complete this sheet on appliances found on Google Classroom - https://classroom.google.com/c/NjIwOTQ3MDI5Njc0

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Hurley, Mr. Greenfield & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blogpost 28.03.24

Happy Thursday everybody! We have made it through another term at Down Hall. Please make sure you rest up over the Easter break. Please do read our newsletter for all our wonderful news!

Parents Evening

Thank you to all the parents who attended Parents Evening this week. We hope you found it informative and relaxed. Our children are thriving in Year 3/4 and we would like to say a huge thank you for all your positive feedback. It makes our jobs so rewarding when we hear the difference we make every day.

Spelling Frame Week 12

Over the holidays we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 12 - The suffix ‘ous’

Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. 

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3

English - Page 44-45

Maths  - Progress Test 2

Year 4 

English - Page 46-47

Maths - Progress Test 2

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level

• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenges.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRSS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Math's - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

Have a wonderful Easter break, stay safe and we look forward to welcoming you all back for a very exciting summer term!

Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blogpost 22.03.24

Dear Parents,

We hope you are enjoying our class pages in the newsletter! It is lovely to share pictures and work with you all. A big well done to all the children for their excellent work this week during Assessment week. They have all worked so hard and we can see the good progress they are making.

Spelling Frame Week 11 

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 11 - The suffix ‘ous’

Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. 

Autobiographies

Next week in English, the children will be writing autobiographies about their life so far. It would be great if you could find any pictures and give any information about your children so that they can use them in their autobiographies. If you would like to send this in, please feel free to do so either by printing this out or sending it over ClassDojo.

Parents Evening

We look forward to seeing you next week and discussing how your child has been getting on so far this year. A gentle reminder to those of you that haven’t booked, if you would still like to make a booking you can do so through Teachers2Parents. You should have received a message with the link last Wednesday.

Wellbeing Day

Next Thursday, we will be having a Well-being Day. Children can come to school wearing comfy clothes, not their school uniform. There will be activities planned to enhance everyone's well-being such as mindfulness activities, art, music and yoga!

MATHS WORKSHOPS FOR EVERYONE. DON'T MISS THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!

We are delighted to announce that we are running a number of

Maths workshops for adults. You can be a parent, grandparent,

carer, aunt or uncle - you are all welcome! Are you someone who

feels they need some support with maths? Perhaps your own

experience in school wasn’t a good one. Well fear not, we have the

solution to this!

Multiply courses are free and fully funded by Essex County Council as part of their Multiply Maths

programme.

Each course is 6 hours face-to-face in school. Each session will be between 1pm-3pm on the dates

below:

EYFS 16th / 23rd / 30th April

KS1 18th / 25th April, 2nd May

KS2 10th / 17th / 24th May

Here is the link for you to register your interest.  https://forms.gle/BV9pj1FmAegMRLhw8

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 28th March

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3

English - Page 89

Maths  - Page 40

Year 4 

English - Page 87

Maths - Page 38

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level

• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenges.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRSS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Math's - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

If you have any issues or questions, please come and see us at the end of the day - we would love to see you!

Have a great weekend!

Kind regards,

Mrs. Hurley, Mr. Greenfield & Miss Harvey

 

Year 3/4 Blogpost 15.03.24

 

Year 3/4 Blogpost 15.03.24

Dear Parents,

We hope you are enjoying our class pages in the newsletter! It is lovely to share pictures and work with you all.

Spelling Frame Week 10 

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 10 - Endings which sound like /sh/ and /zh/ (e.g. erosion, pension... etc.)

Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. 

https://turnonthesubtitles.org/parents/ 

Turn on the Subtitles!

Turning on quality subtitles means your child will read a staggering number of words. Put them on and your child will read the equivalent number of words that are in all the Harry Potter books, all of the Lord of the Rings, all of the Chronicles of Narnia and everything Roald Dahl wrote, combined!

Research has shown that it can double the chance of your child leaving school as a proficient reader. You can turn them on for the whole family or most streaming services will now allow you to do it just for children’s profiles.

Perhaps, after all, there is a magic button…

Comic Relief

A reminder that this year we have set up a justgiving page as an additional way to donate to our Comic Relief collection so if you prefer, please use the link below to do so.  As always, thank you for your continued support in our teaching and learning about Children's Rights.

Down Hall Comic Relief Just Giving Page

RRS A2:  Children's Rights apply to every child, everywhere, all of the time.

WHOLE SCHOOL SUMDOG ESSEX COMPETITION

Calling all of you amazing mathematicians! 

You have been entered into the Sumdog Essex Competition. Taking place 15 March - 21st March

I will be monitoring how well each class is doing. The winning class will be announced in the school newsletter and will each receive 2 Dojo!

Let's show our Down Hall community what great mathematicians we are!

Good luck.

Mrs Hurley 

MATHS WORKSHOPS FOR EVERYONE. DON'T MISS THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!
We are delighted to announce that we are running a number of
Maths workshops for adults. You can be a parent, grandparent,
carer, aunt or uncle - you are all welcome! Are you someone who
feels they need some support with maths? Perhaps your own
experience in school wasn’t a good one. Well fear not, we have the
solution to this!
Multiply courses are free and fully funded by Essex County Council as part of their Multiply Maths
programme.
Each course is 6 hours face-to-face in school. Each session will be between 1pm-3pm on the dates
below:
EYFS 16th / 23rd / 30th April
KS1 18th / 25th April, 2nd May
KS2 10th / 17th / 24th May
Here is the link for you to register your interest.  https://forms.gle/BV9pj1FmAegMRLhw8

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 21st March
HOMEWORK PAGES
Year 3
English - Page 82-83
Maths  - Page 34-35

Year 4 
English - Page 82-83
Maths - Page 38-39

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level

• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenges.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRSS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Math's - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

If you have any issues or questions, please come and see us at the end of the day - we would love to see you!

Have a great weekend!

Kind regards,
Mrs. Hurley, Mr. Greenfield & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blogpost 08.03.24

Dear Parents,

Wow! What an exciting week here at Down Hall. The Year 3/4 children have been learning all about fractions in maths. It is great to see how our times table programme is having an impact on our children's learning experiences. In English, the children have very much enjoyed creating their stories based on the ancient Chinese legend, Mulan.

Thank you so much to the parents who have been sending in clean egg shells. We will be using them as part of our science investigation about teeth next week.

Spelling Frame Week 9 

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Frame Week 9 Words with endings sounding like /ʒə/ or /tʃə/ (e.g. adventure, creature... etc.)

Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. 

World Book Day - Thursday 7th March

Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day at Down Hall! Our aim, as teachers, was to promote a love of reading and it was so lovely to see the children to bring in their favourite book to share in class with each other. It was also fantastic to see children and staff dressing up. Please see the school newsletter for more details. Miss Trunchbull AKA Mr Greenfield certainly caused a stir!

Comic Relief

As a Gold RRS school we are proud to be raising money to help children achieve their Rights within the UK and in the wider global community.  This year we have set up a Justgiving page as an additional way to donate to our collection fund if preferred.   

Down Hall Comic Relief Just Giving Page

On the day children will be able to buy a red nose for £2, bring in some jokes or something funny to share in class and come to school in non-uniform for a donation of your choice.  Thank you for helping us to teach your children about The Rights, and to learn that small actions together can make a big difference!  We are looking forward to a fun Friday taking part in Comic Relief next week!  

RRS Article 2:  Children's Rights apply to every child, everywhere all of the time.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 14th March
HOMEWORK PAGES
Year 3
English 
Page 80-81
Maths 
Page 32-33

Year 4 
English 
Page 84-85
Maths
Page 32-33

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level

• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenges.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRSS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Math's - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

If you have any issues or questions, please come and see us at the end of the day - we would love to see you!

Have a great weekend!

Kind regards,
Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blogpost 1.3.24

Dear Parents,

We hope you all had a lovely holiday and are looking forward to lots of lovely learning at Down Hall this half term.

Cross Country

A big well done to all the children that were selected and took part in the Cross Country competition on Wednesday. You all did fantastic and were a real credit to the school. You definitely earned all of your dojos for the day!

WORLD BOOK DAY
This year, World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March. To promote reading within our school community, for this day the children can bring in a favourite book from home which they can share with the other children in their class.
They can also bring in prop which serves as a clue to their favourite book/character or come dressed up as a favourite character too if they so wish. On this day all the children will also receive a £1 World Book Day voucher!

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 19th January
Homework Pages
Year 3 - English everybody Pg 80
Maths - everybody Pg 34
Year 4 - English everybody Pg 80
Maths everybody Pg 34

Spelling Frame

From this week, the children will now be set tests based on spelling rules. The rules that they will be focusing on can be found on Spelling Frame. Your child has their login details glued into their Reading Diaries. This week we would like the children to focus on: 

Spelling Rule 8- The suffix- ly

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes at least 3 times a week is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked from time to time. Please make sure you bring your book back when you are finished and your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3x 100% scores to move up a level.

• Times table practice - this week we are looking at 7s

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Please can you create a healthy plate as we are focusing on Healthy Me. What should your plate consist of? 

As always, we are available to speak to at the end of the school day. Just give us a nod and come down and see us!

Have a great weekend.
Lots of love from
Mrs Hurley, Miss Harvey & Mr Greenfield

On Friday 9th February, Years 3 and 4  had a lovely time celebrating Chinese New Year.

We have been learning about China and the Ancient Shang Dynasty. As you can see, we have been super busy and have achieved a lot in a very short time. In English, we have been writing non-chronological reports on Chinese New Year. In art, we looked at the story of the Willow Pattern. The two doves are together forever and we thought it was a beautiful story. We coloured beautiful dragon pictures, made lovely lanterns and all the adults worked hard t help us make lovely pieces for our class displays. Finally, on Friday 9th February we marked Chinese New Year by participating in a number of activities. These included cooking in our classrooms, making Chinese lanterns, dressing in red clothes as red is a very lucky colour in Chinese culture. Miss Sharman bought us all fortune cookies so thank you to her for being so kind. We wrote our names in Chinese writing and coloured in masks.

On Friday afternoon, we invited our parents to come into school to taste our lovely food creations: egg fried rice, chicken chow mein and spring rolls. We also got to share some of our lovely learning.

We had an absolutely wonderful day!

  

 

   

                 World Book Day            

This year, World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March. To promote reading within our school community, for this day the children can bring in a favourite book from home which they can share with the other children in their class.

They can also bring in props which serves as a clue to their favourite book/character or come dressed up as a favourite character too if they so wish. On this day all the children will also receive a £1 World Book Day voucher!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Friday 16th February - Break for half term
Monday 26th February - Back to School

Thursday 7th March - World Book Day

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 15th February
Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. The children will have taken their Reading record home for parents to comment in. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Spelling Frame
  This week the children will be set tests based on spelling rules. The rules that they will be focusing on can be found on Spelling Frame. Your child has their login details glued into their Reading diaries. This week we would like the children to focus on: 
  Spelling Rule 6

There is no homework set from the books

• Accelerated Reader - when you have finished your book, you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - Please practice these on TTRS.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS and Sumdog - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Maths - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
• This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication Tables Check' that will be given to children at the end of Year 4. They are tested on their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12. There are twenty-five questions and children have six seconds to answer each question and three seconds between questions. The questions are generated randomly using the same rules as the 'Multiplication Tables Check'.
• Continue your learning outside the classroom and find out more about The Shang Dynasty.

Mrs. Hurley, Mr. Greenfield & Miss Harvey