Friday, 4 September 2026

Year 3/4 Blog - Friday 4th September 2026

 Dear Parents,

A huge welcome to you if you are joining us here in Year 3/4 and a big hello if you were with us last year! The children have had a very busy week and have all settled in well to their new classes. It is so great to see the children smiling when they are coming into school each day. 



Our weekly blog is the best way to receive communication from us. We will also use the Class Dojo from time to time when needed. If you have not received your child's log in please ask their teacher.

ROUTINES
  • Messages to staff on the gate in the morning.

  • Please ensure that children come on to the school grounds on their own.

  • Please send in a note or email the office if collection arrangements are different to normal.

  • Please call the office if collection arrangements change during the day.

  • Please label all clothing including their tie.

  • Ring the office if your child is off sick – must be clear for 48hrs before returning to school. 

  • Please notify the office of any changes to mobile numbers or email addresses.

  • Our PE day will be on Wednesdays.

  • Snacks - Please provide fruit or vegetables for your child’s snack in a named, reusable container.

  • Homework is set every Friday and will need to be handed in by the following Wednesday.


SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS

Next week in class we will be electing our class representatives for the School Council. If your child would like to stand for election, they may wish to use this weekend to write a speech, create a poster or think about the qualities they have to make a great class councillor. Results will be announced in next week's Celebration Assembly.


YEAR 3/4 HOMEWORK TASKS
CGP BOOKS
Your child will have brought home 2 homework books today - a Maths and a Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book. Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

MATHS
Year 3 Pg 6 (Place Value)
Year 4 Pg 8 (Place Value)
ENGLISH
Year 3 Pg 38 (Capital Letters and Full Stops)
Year 4 Pg 36 (Capital Letters and Full Stops)

The spellings for this week have been posted on ClassDojo. Please make sure that your child is looking at the spellings for their year group. The children will be tested on these spellings next Friday.

FREE-WRITE FRIDAY
Every Friday, the children will be completing an independent piece of writing based around a different text type that will be decided via a spinning wheel. To aid the children, they should complete a simple plan with ideas for their writing. This week's text will be:


Poetry

The children will be writing a poem on a topic of their choice. This can be anything such as reading, football or even cake! If they could collect some vocabulary to use for their writing e.g. adjectives or ideas around this topic. THEY DO NOT NEED TO WRITE THEIR POEM AT HOME. We will share some examples via Dojo that the children can use as inspiration.

ADDITIONAL TASKS
  • Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes reading to an adult every day is the optimum. Please also encourage your child to read by themselves and then discuss the text afterwards, sharing opinions, their favourite part or questioning what happened so as to ensure that your child is understanding the text as well as reading it.

  • Times table practise - next week we are looking at 3’s.
  • TTRS/Sumdog - lots of practise on these amazing programmes that complement what we learn at school.

Have a great weekend!
Mr Greenfield, Miss Langley & Miss Smith

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Thursday 16th July 2026

 Happy Friday Thursday, everybody! It seems incredible that we are already at the end of the year - it has flown by! We have all absolutely loved working with all your children this year and it has been a joy to watch them grow and become more confident in their learning as the year has progressed. We are all sure that they will continue to be just as fabulous as they move on to being Year 4's and 5's!

We would also like to give a massive thank you and good luck to Mrs Witherall, Mrs Devlin and Mrs O'Connor who are leaving us. They have all been amazing members of our staff team here at Down Hall and will be greatly missed. Good luck out there!

Don't forget that we are celebrating the end of the term with a picnic on the field with parents and carers tomorrow. Much like the Sports Day arrangements, parents can collect their children from classes at 12:00pm to take them on to the field. At 1:00pm, the children will line up to return to class to collect their things and then will go home straight away. If there are any changes to who is picking up your child, please Dojo your class teacher.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER HOLIDAY!!!

We will be available on ClassDojo up until lunchtime on Friday 17th July and then again from Tuesday 1st September.

Remember: children return to school on Wednesday 2nd September.

All that remains is to say a personal thank you and goodbye. I wrote my first blog back in March 2020 telling people what to do if the school were to close due to Covid. Fast forward some 200-odd blogs and here we are. Thank you for all the kind words and support - I wish you all an amazing summer and all the best for the future!

Much love

Mr Jude

Friday, 10 July 2026

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 10th July 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! We hope you had an amazing week - 1 more week left!

Forest Schools Session

Forest schools will return in September - please look at the newsletter after the summer holidays where new days for your class' session will be announced.

End of Term

On Friday 17th July we will be having our end of term picnic. This will work much like Sport's Day. You can collect your child from class as normal at 12:00 to have a picnic on the field. The children must come back into school when the whistle goes at 1:00 to collect their belongings and be registered before they go home. If there are any changes to normal pick up, please Dojo your child's teacher.

Have a lovely weekend!


Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Miss Langley

Friday, 3 July 2026

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 3rd July 2026

  Happy Friday everybody! We hope you had an amazing week - only 2 weeks to go!

Next Forest Schools Session

Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

  • Friday 10th July - Sunflower (Last session)
New Classes & Open School

On Tuesday 7th July, the children will be spending the afternoon in their new classes and meeting their new teacher. Because of this, Year 3/4 will not be doing PE as normal. Please come to school in normal school uniform on this day. A letter will go home at the end of the day detailing the new classes and teachers.

After school on the 7th July will be Open School. Open School is an opportunity to look at some of the exciting work we have been doing in class this year. Classes will be open for viewing from 3.30pm until 4.15pm. This is also an opportunity to meet your child's teacher from September - please pop in and say hello.

Homework

Thank you all so much for all your support in homework this year. We will be sending the homework books home but are not asking for anymore homework to be completed and handed in. Obviously, feel free to look at any pages not completed and use the book as a refresher for some of the things we have covered before September.

Have a lovely weekend!


Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Miss Langley

Friday, 26 June 2026

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 26th June 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! Well, what a strange hot week that was! Thankfully, everything back to normal from Monday - only 3 weeks to go!

  • Friday 3rd July - Sport's Day

Next Forest Schools Session

Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

  • Monday 29th June - Tulip (Last session)
  • Wednesday 1st July - Blossom (Last session)
  • Friday 10th July - Sunflower (Last session)
Jigsaw - Changing Me

As part of our PSHE curriculum, next week in Year 3/4 we will be covering a lesson on the theme of "Girls & Puberty." This has been carried over from last week.

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Suffixes - "ly" (page 80-81)

Maths - Tables & Bar Charts (page 64-65) 

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Prefixes - "re," "anti" and "auto" (page 72-73)

Maths - Bar Charts (page 73)

Spelling Homework 

We are consolidating words from the Year 3/4 spelling list over the last few weeks. Your child will come home with a sheet with this week's spelling on for them to practice. 

Have a lovely weekend!


Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Miss Langley

Friday, 19 June 2026

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 19th June 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog. We hope you have all had a fantastic week!

  • Friday 3rd July - Sport's Day

Next Forest Schools Session

Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

  • Friday 26th June - Sunflower
  • Monday 29th June - Tulip (Last session)
  • Wednesday 1st July - Blossom (Last session)
  • Friday 10th July - Sunflower (Last session)
Jigsaw - Changing Me

As part of our PSHE curriculum, next week in Year 3/4 we will be covering a lesson on the theme of "Girls & Puberty."

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Apostrophe Practice (page 56-57)

Maths - Progress Test (page 60-63) 

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Prefixes - Sub-, Super- & Inter- (page 74-75)

Maths - Interpreting Charts & Graphs (page 76-78)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 30: Common Words

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Have a lovely weekend!


Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Friday, 12 June 2026

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 12th June 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog. We hope you have all had a fantastic week!

  • Monday 15th June - Book Fair in school this week after school (except Thursday)
  • Thursday 18th June - Father's Day Tea - in hall after school
  • Friday 19th June - Father's Day Sale
  • Friday 3rd July - Sport's Day

Book Sale Next Week

Just a reminder that the Book Fair will be in school next week. It will be open in the hall after school each day (except Thursday) until 3:45pm. Payments can only be made by card.

Next Forest Schools Session

Due to there being no Forest Schools the week before half term, we are readjusting our schedule. Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

  • Monday 15th June - Tulip
  • Wednesday 17th June - Blossom
  • Friday 22nd June - Sunflower
 Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Suffixes -ation, -ous (page 78-79)

Maths - Angles & Lines (page 59) - should have been page 58 last week, sorry!

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Word Endings - The "Shun" sound (page 84-85)

Maths - Comparing Angles (page 63)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 29: Common Words

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Have a lovely weekend!


Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin