Happy Friday everybody,
We hope you have had a great week and are enjoying this beautiful weather. Please may we remind you that your children need to come to school wearing suncream and a hat. Likewise, when it is raining please bring in a coat to school. We encourage the children to drink plenty of water during the day also so please continue sending your child in with their water bottles.
This week we have focused on fractions in Maths. In particular, equivalent fractions. Mrs Hurley and Mr Law have also been teaching times tables across the school and we are going to be trialling these methods in each class. Times tables are the foundations of all reasoning and problem solving and children are expected to know these to instant recall and fluency by the end of year 4.
Year 4 Multiplication Check
The multiplication tables check (MTC) is optional for primary schools in 2021.The purpose of the MTC is to determine whether pupils can recall their times tables fluently, which is essential for future success in mathematics. It will help schools to identify pupils who have not yet mastered their times tables, so that additional support can be provided. We have been practising in class so that the children can complete the check in school next Wednesday.
New School Website
Over the past few months we have been working on refreshing our school website. This started with the individual phase group pages and now includes the whole of the website. We have added lots more photographs of our wonderful children and premises and hope to add more in the future. We have also had a little rearrangement of the information available to hopefully make it easier to access the information you need. There is also a "Children's Hub" tab at the end of the taskbar which gives quick links to many of the common learning platforms that your child might find useful to support their learning. We hope you like the changes and a massive thank you to Mrs Balkwill for working so hard in driving this project through to completion! Visit our lovely new site here:
Classes For Next Year
One reason to visit our new website today will be to check out the letter that explains arrangements for classes in September. The letter explains how the classes will be organised in September and, on Monday 21st June, your child will come home with a slip of paper that will tell you exactly which class they will be joining in September.
Homework Tasks
Must Do
Reading Remember 15-20 minutes everyday and then discuss the text afterwards, asking for opinions, favourite part or questioning what happened so as to ensure that your child is understanding the text as well as reading it.
Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and MyOn.
Year 4 - please continue practising your times table check on Mathsframe
Can Do
As we have been learning about reflections in Science, can you make a list of any reflective surfaces that you can see outside of school. If you would like to make a diagram of these objects that would be great too.
End of term reports
On the 8th of July, your child will receive their end of term report detailing their progress and areas for future development. Although there are no formal assessments made this year, due to the National lockdown at the beginning of the Spring Term, the report will contain an indication as to whether your child is working towards or working at national expectations. There will be an opportunity to discuss this report in a Zoom parent/teachers meeting after you have received the report. Further details of all of this will follow shortly so keep an eye on the weekly newsletter!
Have a wonderful weekend and see you all on Monday.
Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey
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