Year 3/4 Weekly Update 22.01.21

Dear Parents,

We have got to the end of the third week! We are completely overwhelmed (in a good way!) by the volume of work that is being submitted. We know it takes time and effort to do this and it is such a valuable way for us to see the progress that the children are making as well as helping out if needed. Please continue to submit your child's work via email or Google Classroom. And remember it is not necessary to hand in every single piece, every single day... So thank you for all of the support you are clearly giving your children.  We appreciate the challenges you face, especially if you have more than one child and/or are trying to work from home yourselves.  We are mindful of this and are here to support you and your child/children in whatever way we can. 

Sumdog Message from Mrs Hurley

WHOLE SCHOOL SUMDOG ESSEX COMPETITION

Calling all of you amazing mathematicians! 

You have been entered into the Sumdog Essex Competition. It starts on January 22nd at 3.30pm, and finishes at 3.30pm on January 28th

Why not have a go and get your class on the school leaderboard?

I will be monitoring how well each class is doing. The winning class will get a mention in the school newsletter!

Let's show our school what great mathematicians we are!

Good luck.

Mrs Hurley 

Whilst on the subject of maths, White Rose have Parent Workbooks which are available to download for Kindles free of charge at amazon or you can access them at the link below:

https://whiterosemaths.com/parent-workbooks/

HOMEWORK 

We want to ensure that we are making the most of all available resources so we are asking you to complete work from the Maths Homework Books. This work will have been covered via the home learning maths lessons.

Next week can you please complete: 

Year 3 page   26-27    Year 4 page 23-24

Answers will be uploaded on Friday 29th January. 

REGARDING LIVE LESSONS

There have been some questions regarding whether the school will be adopting “live lessons” and we would like to take some time to explain our stance on this.

Government advice on remote learning stipulates that remote education should have “recorded or live direct teaching time and time for pupils to complete tasks independently.”

Teachers are currently in school everyday teaching the children of key workers as needed. Work in school directly mirrors the learning set on the blogs in order to provide equality of opportunity and to ensure the consistency of learning where children are in part time, so there is no opportunity to record live at this time.

What the school is providing are recorded direct teaching that is bespoke for each year group, professionally edited and presented to a high standard by both White Rose and Oak Academy (the Government endorsed remote learning platform). Another reason that we have adopted these platforms is because it allows parents greater control over the timing of their home learning so they can best balance their work commitments or if they are supporting more than one child at home.

Teachers are still available, however, to give detailed feedback on work submitted by children via email where requested. Teachers are also available via email or telephone to support you in any aspect of home learning.

We firmly believe at this moment in time the school’s current approach offers the best means of delivering quality teaching at home which both supports you as parents and enables teachers to continue to teach in class and continue to assist parents in home learning.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend. Please remember we are only ever an email or phone call away. 

Take care and stay safe,

Mrs Hurley  Miss Harvey  Mr Greenfield

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