Year 3/4 Blog Post 1.12.23

Dear Parents,

We have had a very busy week this week finishing off our poetry in English and moving on to looking at Christmas stories. Next week is Assessment week and the children will be completing assessments in English and Maths. Below is a link to the spellings that the children will be tested on:

Autumn 2 Spellings

ESSEX YEAR OF NUMBERS

The Lord Lieutenant competition has launched across schools in Essex

The Lord Lieutenant has launched a competition to kick-off the Essex Year of Numbers. We’re inviting children and young people to create a 2D/3D display (maximum size 1m2 or 1m3), with a short video presentation creatively showing the many ways numbers are used in everyday life.  

Entries can include number patterns, diagrams, calculations, explanations, photographs and models. The competition offers students the chance to think creatively about maths and its everyday use. Further information and terms and conditions are available in our latest news article.

Jennifer Tolhurst, Essex Year of Numbers Competition - Essex County Council

CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY

Our Christmas Jumper Day is Thursday 7th December.  On this day children can wear their fabulous festive jumpers and donate £1 which goes to our continued sponsorship of Thoko in Malawi.  The charity Action Aid use this money to ensure that Thoko and the other children in her community enjoy their right to an education, just like all of us at Down Hall. (Articles 28&29)

 

                                  

HOMEWORK
Must Do:
Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 7th December
Homework Pages:
Year 3
English Pg 10
Maths - Pg 27
Year 4
English Pg 7
Maths - Pg 28

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes at least 3 times a week is super important. You will have taken your Reading Record home for your parents to comment on. These will be collected by teachers and checked from time to time. Please make sure you bring your book and your reading record in with you every day. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3x 100% scores to move up a level.

• Practise the spellings for next week's assessment. 

• Times table practice - this week we are looking at 6s. Please practice these as we do in school.

• TTRS - Year 4 please can you log on and complete the MTC check and practise. Thank you.

Can Do:

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog - your log ins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Earlier this week, the children had an assembly all on Railway Safety. Can they create a poster reminding others of some of the important facts they learnt? 

Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs. Hurley, Miss Harvey & Mr. Greenfield