Friday 8th November 2024

Friday 8th November 2024

 Happy Friday everyone!

Upcoming Events

A few notes for your diary for things coming up soon - more details will be on the newsletter as we get nearer to the time so keep a look out!

• 19th/20th November - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• 6th December - KS1 PTA Movie Night
• 10th December - KS1 Pantomime Trip
• 17th/18th December - KS1 Christmas Production

Gentle Reminder

Please ensure that your children come to school with a coat every day especially now as the temperature is beginning to drop. We tend to go out at break and lunchtimes unless it is heavy rain. Also, please ensure your child is in the correct uniform every day, with a buttoned shirt and tie. - These MUST be named. We have a lot of lost property left over that can be checked through after school.

Spelling Frame Rule 8 - https://spellingframe.co.uk/

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 8
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 9x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Year 3 are on the 7x tables.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks

Year 3 English - Page 64 - Paragraphs

Maths - Pages 24 - Written addition

Year 4

English - Page 64 - Paragraphs Maths - Page 26 - Multiplication

Must Do
Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important but we understand this is not always manageable. Make sure you are reading as much as you can - at least 3x a week and recording what you read in your child's reading record. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly.  When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog -  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your reading records. 

Romans

This is a good site we have used this week: 

https://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

Reading Skills

Every week we encourage you to keep up all your reading at home as this makes such a huge difference. We wanted to spend a little time this week speaking more about reading skills.

Understanding what they have read (or comprehension) is vital for the children  and we support this through our VIPERS reading skills. This stands for:

Vocabulary    Infer    Predict    Explain    Retrieve    Summarise

You can explore these ideas with your child after reading using some of the following question prompts:

Vocabulary - have a good range of vocabulary in order to understand the text

• What does the word _____ mean in this sentence?
• Find a word that means _____ on this page.

Infer - understanding reached through reasoning about what you have read

• Why was _____ feeling _____?
• Why did _____ happen?
• How do you know?

Predict - what you think will happen based on what you have read

• What do you think will happen next?
• How will this character's action affect what will happen next?

Explain - what your thoughts and opinions are about the book

• Who is your favourite character? Why?
• Would you like to live in this setting? Why?

Retrieve - discuss the characters, events and setting of the story

• Who did _____?
• Where did _____?

Summarise - pick out the key events

• Retell the story in your own words.
• Pick out the important parts.

We hope this helps you discuss the books your child reads at home as the more they practice these skills the more fluent in comprehension they will become.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Harvey and Mrs. Devlin

Friday 8th November 2024

 Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome back to the second half of the Autumn Term. The children have had an exciting start to our new project 'The Romans'. They thoroughly enjoyed being Romans for the day and learned a lot about Roman soldiers and life as a Roman. If they haven't told you what the Romans used sponges for then be sure to ask! Please take a look at the news letter to see some photos capturing some of the activities they enjoyed.

Gentle Reminder

Please ensure that your children come to school with a coat every day especially now as the temperature is beginning to drop. We tend to go out at break and lunchtimes unless it is heavy rain. Also, please ensure your child is in the correct uniform every day, with a buttoned shirt and tie. - These MUST be named. We have a lot of lost property left over that can be checked through after school.

Spelling Frame Rule 7 - https://spellingframe.co.uk/

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 7
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 6x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks

Year 3 English - Page 71 - Prefixes

Maths - Pages 22 + 23 - Mental addition & subtraction

Year 4

English - Page 74 & 75 - Prefixes Maths - Pages 54 & 55 - Area

Must Do
Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important but we understand this is not always manageable. Make sure you are reading as much as you can - at least 3x a week and recording what you read in your child's reading record. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly.  When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog -  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your reading records.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Harvey and Mrs Devlin

Friday 18th October 2024

 

Friday 18th October 2024    

Happy Friday!

Please ensure that your children come to school with a coat every day. We tend to go out at break and lunchtimes unless it is heavy rain. Also, please ensure your child is in the correct uniform every day, with a buttoned shirt and tie. - These MUST be named. We have a lot of lost property left over that can be checked through after school.

World Food Day

The class had a fantastic time during World Food Day moving around to different classes to cook different foods from different places. The taste testing after school was a hit too! 

We learnt about Goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals, No Hunger, and how the small actions we can all take at a local level can make a big difference!  On this note, we are collecting food for Harvest so if you feel able to contribute please do send in some food for our collection.

Harvest Festival

We are still collecting non-perishable items for Harvest so please keep sending them in.

Upcoming Events

A few notes for your diary in the coming months - more details will be on the newsletter as we get nearer to the time:

• 25th October - PTA Halloween Disco
• 19th/20th November - Parent/Teacher Consultation Evenings

Spelling Frame Rule 6 - https://spellingframe.co.uk/

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 6
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 8 x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks

Year 3 English - Page 70 - Prefixes

Maths - Pages 12 + 13 - Partitioning

Year 4

English - Page 70 - Prefixes Maths - Pages 16 + 17 - Solving Number Problems

Must Do
Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important but we understand this is not always manageable. Make sure you are reading as much as you can - at least 3x a week and recording what you read in your child's reading record. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly.  When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog -  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your reading records.

Challenge
Next week, we are continuing with our Autumn shape poems so keep gathering ideas from any outside visits or walks you do over the weekend.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Harvey and Mrs. Devlin

Friday 11th October 2024

 

Friday 11th October 2024    

Happy Friday!

With the weather on the decline, can we ask that the children come to school with a coat every day. We tend to go out at break and lunchtimes unless it is heavy rain.

Also, please ensure your child is in the correct uniform every day, with a buttoned shirt and tie.

Science Day 

We had a great day with Sublime Science and will share the photos in due course. Here are some of the activities we took part in. Let us know if you every try anything like this at home. https://www.sublimescience.com/free-science-experiments/ 

Upcoming Events

A few notes for your diary in the coming months - more details will be on the newsletter as we get nearer to the time:

• 16th October - World Food Day
• 25th October - PTA Halloween Disco
• 19th/20th November - Parent/Teacher Consultation Evenings

Spelling Frame Rule 5 - https://spellingframe.co.uk/

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 5
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 4 x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week. These have been stuck in your child's little blue book. If your child did not have theirs in school, they were given the spelling list.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - there is no homework this week. Please ensure homework is up to date and feel free to complete the progressive tests at the front of the book if you have not already done so. Please bring your homework books back to school when you have finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

Must Do
Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important but we understand this is not always manageable. Make sure you are reading as much as you can - at least 3x a week and recording what you read in your child's reading record. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly.  When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog -  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your reading records.

Challenge
Next week, we are looking at Autumn shape poems. An Autumn walk is a fantastic way to gather ideas. Send us a Dojo if you do this.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Devlin & Miss Harvey

Friday 4th October 2024

 

Friday 4th October 2024    

Happy Friday! We can't believe we are in October already! 

We have seen lots of reading at home taking place so please make sure this is still being done and recorded. When the children read their book, they can complete a quiz. Each week, the child who reads the most words will receive a ticket which goes in a jar. At the end of each half term, some are picked out to attend a Harry Potter tea party!

With the weather on the decline, can we ask that the children come to school with a coat every day. We tend to go out at break and lunchtimes unless it is heavy rain.

Also, please ensure your child is in the correct uniform every day, with a buttoned shirt and tie.

Science Day - Thursday 10th October

On Thursday next week, we have invited Sublime Science to Down Hall to provide the children from the whole school with a day full of scientific experiments. In light of this, could we please ask that your children come into school wearing clothes that you don't mind getting a little messy.

Should you wish to embrace your little scientist further at home, the link attached will take you to their website, where you can access over 100 free experiment ideas.

Sublime Science activities

Spelling Frame Rule 4 - https://spellingframe.co.uk/

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 4
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 3 x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks

Year 3

English - Pg 7 - Adverbs

Maths - Pg 12 + 13 - Partitioning

Year 4

English - Pg 10 - Adverbs

Maths - Pg 12 + 13 - Rounding

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. When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog -  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your reading records.

Challenge
Next week, we will be writing a magic spell or potion to turn someone into a frog! Gather some ideas of what you could use e.g. 'a lizards tongue gathered on a stormy night'

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Devlin & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blog Daisy and Sunflower Classes

 

Year 3/4 Blog Daisy and Sunflower classes

 

Friday 27th September 2024    

Happy Friday! We've made it to  the end of another busy week. The children have all been working hard looking at instruction writing in English and Stone Age cave paintings in Art. On Tuesday, they also enjoyed  a Virtual School visit with author and wildlife photographer workshop with Hamza Yassin.  

We have seen lots of reading at home taking place so please make sure this is being done. When the children read their book, they can complete a quiz. Each week, the child who reads the most words will receive a ticket which goes in a jar. At the end of each half term, some are picked out to attend a Harry Potter tea party!

With the weather on the decline, can we ask that the children come to school with a coat every day. We tend to go out at break and lunchtimes unless it is heavy rain.

Spelling Frame Rule 3

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 3
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 10 x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks

Year 3

English - Pg 8 - Verbs

Maths - Pg 10 & 11 - Ordering & Comparing

Year 4

English - Pg 6 - Verbs

Maths - Pg 10 & 11 - Ordering & Comparing

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. When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

Challenge
Why not try following a set of instructions to make something or do something. Remember to take photos and share them with us - we'd love to see them!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Devlin & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blog Daisy and Sunflower classes

 

Year 3/4 Blog Daisy and Sunflower classes

 

Friday 20th September 2024    

Happy Friday everyone! Well we've come to the end of our week and the children have all been working hard. We have seen lots of reading at home taking place so please make sure this is being done. When the children read their book, they can complete a quiz. Each week, the child who reads the most words will receive a ticket which goes in a jar. At the end of each half term, some are picked out to attend a Harry Potter tea party!

Spelling Frame Rule 2

This week we would like the children to focus on: Spelling Rule 2
Your child has their login details glued into their reading diaries. They will be tested at the end of every week on these spellings so PLEASE practise at home.

Times Tables

This week we are looking at the 5 x tables and the children will be tested and taking part in times table activities throughout the week.

Spelling and Times Table Books

The children will bring home a book with their weekly spellings and times table focus stuck in. Please initial these to say you have gone through them with your child. We will continue to practise these in class through testing and handwriting practice but extra practice at home is vital.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks

Year 3

English - Pg 36 + 37 - Capital letters for names and I

Maths - Pg 9 - 10 or 100 more or less

Year 4

English - Pg 36 + 37 - Capital letters and full stops

Maths - Pg 9 - 100 more or less

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. When you have finished your Accelerated Reader 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 TTRS and Sumdog-  your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Devlin & Miss Harvey