Year 3/4 - School Closure

Dear Parents/Carers,

In response to the Government announcement made yesterday, school will only reopen for the children

of Critical Workers on Monday 4th January.

If you are a Critical Worker and would like to book a place for your child, please contact us via the

phase email address. 

year3_4@downhallprimary.com

Home learning work will be uploaded onto Google Classroom on Monday morning. 

Please ensure your child logs in and completes the work set.  

Any further updates will be posted on the school website, blogs and our social media platforms.  

We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. Stay safe.

Mrs Hurley Mr Greenfield Miss Harvey

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE

Dear Parents,

Firstly, thank you for your continued support this term, it’s been a challenging one for all of us, but your cooperation and understanding has been really appreciated by us all.

The children have all be so resilient and worked very hard this term, we are extremely proud of you all.

HOMEWORK

This week's answers have been uploaded to Google Classroom. We will not be setting any formal homework over the Christmas holidays but please could your child continue to read for 15 minutes per day? It would great if they were able to log into MyOn and TTRS if they are able to as well.

CHRISTMAS SONGS

We would like to share with you a bit of Christmas cheer. We all had such fun making these clips and wanted to share them with you. Please click on the link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NeARaIptrd5cI7MySOaDhGysJU_NKW81/view?usp=sharing

If this link does not work please can you try logging on to Google Classroom to access it instead. Thanks.

Merry Christmas to you all. May 2021 be kinder to us all.

Kind regards, and stay safe! 

Mrs Hurley  Mr Greenfield  Miss Harvey

Friday 11th December 2020 Y 3/4 Blog

 Dear Parents,

Happy Friday to you all!

Today we have had a lovely day in Year 3/4. We have all been wearing our Christmas Jumpers and making festive hats for our Christmas Party Bag lunch. Plenty of excitement going on at Down Hall Primary School.

Zoom Calls

It was so lovely to speak to you on Monday and Tuesday. Our deepest apologies for the Zoom hosts letting us down. We can assure you that it was a programme glitch and no fault of our own. We were able to fix this very quickly and appreciate your flexibility in our moment of need! Looking forward to seeing you all in person in 2021 (fingers crossed!)

FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2020 

There has been much in the press and on social media regarding the end of term. Please be aware that we will be OPEN on Friday 18th December as normal. 

ESSEX LIBRARIES READING CHALLENGE 

Essex Libraries have launched The Winter Reading Challenge 2020 and they would love to invite all of our children and families to take part. All you need to do is visit your local library and collect a Giant Bookmark which will be stamped with a special woodland creature stamp for each book read.

For more information go to: https://libraries.essex.gov.uk/news/the-winter-r eading-challenge-is-here/ 

Maths Homework

This week we would ask you to complete the following pages of the children's homework books.

 ESTIMATING AND CHECKING

Y3 pg 25   Y4  pg 20/21

Next Week

Today we have been putting all of the children's assessment papers from last week and Christmas items into a plastic bag - they are currently "quarantining" on our children's pegs.They will be bringing this bag home next week.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Year 3/4 Team 

SUMDOG COMPETITION WINNERS

Congratulations to all who participated in this weeks Sumdog Contest. The winners are as follows:

1st   Alfie L

2nd  Dylan W

3rd  Noah H

4th  Jessica DQ

5th  Harrison F

6th  Lottie M

7th  Drake H

8th  Conor R

9th  Dougie D

10th Amelie V

Well done Moonstone class on winning the extra free playtime.

Keep playing Sumdog and you will become A+ mathematicians.

Friday 4th December 2020 Y 3/4 Blog

Dear Parents,

Where did that week just go? It's been a super busy one and the children are all trying hard and are showing more positive and independent learning behaviours. We have been doing assessments over the last few days. We are currently analysing these and will be using the results of these tests to inform us of what the children are really good at and what we need to be working on in order to close any gaps in the children's learning. To this end, next week we will be sending these papers home. We would like you to look through these assessments with your child and use them to assist you in helping your child.

COLD WEATHER

Due to the nature of the current weather, could you please ensure your child comes dressed appropriately to school? Hats, coats, gloves and scarves are needed. All windows and doors must remain open in our classrooms. It is Government guidance that we must all follow. We do it so that we have constant airflow into the classroom, lessening the risk of spreading infection. We have all had to wear extra layers of clothing to counteract this. The children may benefit from wearing an extra layer under their uniform.

ZOOM PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

Thank you to all of you for signing up to discuss how your child is settling into school this term. Obviously we would prefer to hold face to face meetings but due to current restrictions this is not possible. The next best thing would be to hold a Zoom conference. We are looking forward to discussing your child's learning journey with you. Please find details on how to sign up on our school weekly newsletter.

HOMEWORK

We hope your child was able to mark their maths homework. The answers are uploaded on to our Google Classroom page every Thurday at 3.30pm. If there are any issues, please email your child's class teacher. This weeks maths homework is as follows:

Page numbers - Written Subtraction

Y3 pg 21     Y4  pg 19

FRIDAY 11th DECEMBER - Xmas Jumper Day

Next Friday we would love the children to wear their Christmas jumper to school. We will be raising funds to support our sponsored child, Thoko. Please can you bring in some gold coins to drop in the bucket? Thank you for your generosity.

Here is a message from Thoko.

My community benefits from sponsorship from people like you through partnership with Action Aid.  This helps me and my friends get an education.

THANK YOU FOR WEARING YOUR CHRISTMAS JUMPERS AND SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY!

Wishing you all a lovely and warm weekend. See you next week!

Mrs Hurley  Mr Greenfield  Miss Harvey