Dear Parents,

We hope you had a lovely week and we hope you are enjoying our new class pages in our fabulous newsletter. Year 4 children are continuing to work really hard on their multiplication and division lessons in maths and year 3 have started to learn all about length and perimeter. In English, we have been analysing non-chronological reports and will be writing our own about Chinese New Year. In guided reading, we kept to the theme of Ancient China and we read, discussed and compared two different stories from another culture. In art, we discovered all about Willow plates and designed our own.

As you may have noticed, we are taking part in cross country in PE. Next week, if your child would like to bring in a second pair of (old) trainers to change into, specifically for cross country then please feel free to send them in.  🏃

Lots going on in the next few weeks!

Buy books, change lives

Want to support our school?

Buy books through LoveReading and LoveReading4Kids and we get  25% of the cover price to buy more books!

The LoveReading family — LoveReading, LoveReading4Kids and

LoveReading4Schools — exists because reading matters, and books change lives.

We know that reading for pleasure, and improving reading standards, has a huge

impact on our children’s wellbeing, academic achievements, and future success.

Alongside that, we also know that the current funding crisis has resulted in

devastating cuts to budgets in our schools, which is why LoveReading is redressing

that shortfall through creating an online bookstore with social purpose.

How it works:

● When you buy any book from LoveReading or LoveReading4Kids, 25% of the

cover price will be given to a school of your choice, such as us!

● Book prices are competitive with at least 10% off the RRP

● After you’ve searched for the books you’d like to buy (after reading reviews

and accessing opening extracts of highly recommended titles), at checkout,

you’ll be able to search for your school, by adding your school name or

postcode, and you allocate that money to us. It will even tell you how much

your purchase has donated to us!

● We can then spend our allocated funds on LoveReading4Kids to get more

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LoveReading has a huge selection of books for all ages, across all genres, at

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Like we said at the start, reading matters and books change lives - buying books

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Thank you for your ongoing support!

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Storytelling Week

Storytelling week runs from 27th January - 4th February and we will be taking part in various activities at school to celebrate this, including meeting up in our houses to share stories and listening to our adults share a story with us too. Please feel free to join in! It would be great to hear about stories you have been sharing at home. Also, feel free to share any photos of you reading in different places. 

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Wednesday 14th February - PTA Coin Run
Friday 16th February - Break for half term
Monday 26th February - Back to School

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Thursday 25th January
Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday is super important. The children will have taken their Reading record home for parents to comment in. These will be collected by teachers and checked regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Spelling Frame
  This week the children will be set tests based on spelling rules. The rules that they will be focusing on can be found on Spelling Frame. Your child has their login details glued into their Reading diaries. This week we would like the children to focus on: 
  Spelling Rule 4 - Part 1 of looking at prefixes.

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English  - Page 28 + 29
Maths  - Page 14 + 15

Year 4 
English - Page 27
Maths  - Page 40 + 41

• Accelerated Reader - when you have finished your book, you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - next week we are learning our 4 times tables including division facts. Please practice these on TTRS.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS and Sumdog - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Maths - Year 4 will be completing their statutory Multiplication Tables Check in June this year. To this end, please can you ensure your child is regularly accessing and practicing these at: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
• This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication Tables Check' that will be given to children at the end of Year 4. They are tested on their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12. There are twenty-five questions and children have six seconds to answer each question and three seconds between questions. The questions are generated randomly using the same rules as the 'Multiplication Tables Check'.
• With Storytelling Week coming up, it would be great to hear about the stories you share at home. What is your favourite story and why? Who do you share these with? When do you share a story? Anywhere different?

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs. Hurley, Mr. Greenfield & Miss Harvey 💚