Year 3/4 Blog Thursday 24th February 2022

Dear Parents,

We hope you all had a lovely holiday and are looking forward to lots of lovely learning at Down Hall this half term.

We have posted this blog a day early due to the Parent teacher conferences taking place tomorrow. Please remember there is no school FRIDAY 25th FEBRUARY.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 2nd February

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English 
Foundation Pg 48-49 Targeted Pg 54 Stretch  Pg 50

Maths
Foundation Pg 29 Targeted Pg 2 Stretch  Pg 29

Year 4 
English 
Foundation Pg 54-55 Targeted Pg 56-57 Stretch Pg 50-51

Maths
Foundation Pg 30 Targeted Pg 30 Stretch Pg 30

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday 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 regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books. 

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenge..

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Math's - 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

As always, we are available on our email. However, we are also available if you have any quick questions at the end of the day on the playground. Just give us a wave and we will pop over! 

year3_4@downhallprimary.com

Have a fabulous weekend!

Best wishes

Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey

Year 3/4 Blog Friday 11th February 2022

Dear Parents,

We hope you have had a good week and that you are looking forward to the half term break. There has been a small homework task set relating to our RRS if you choose to do it. Other than that, we would like you to relax and enjoy a well deserved rest. The Year 3/4 teachers look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 21st February.

RRS HOMEWORK

Your child will have bought home their favourite recipe from our cooking sessions in class. We would love it if your child could show off their culinary skills by making this dish for their family. Please share any photos of your child's meal on Google Classroom.

Article 24 (health and health services) Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy.

Article 31 (leisure, play and culture) Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

CHINESE NEW YEAR

As part of our learning about the Chinese New Year, we carried out Chinese
cooking and art activities with the children.
This included making and tasting different foods such as rice, chicken noodles, spring rolls

and sweet and sour sauce and Chinese spices.

We hope that by cooking more regularly in school, we will help the children to develop

a love of cookery and a willingness to try new and different foods. 

A slideshow will be available to view on Google Classroom at some stage soon.

MID-YEAR REPORT

Today your child will come home with their Mid-Year Report. This report is different to previous years in so far that we have focused fully on areas for development in reading, writing and maths. "What can we do to help my child at home?" is probably the most common question as teachers that we are asked so we have very clearly set out 3 next step targets that we will be focusing on for your child in school for the rest of the year ahead. This will give you a clear understanding of areas for development in each curriculum area and enable you to further support these at home too. There will be a chance to discuss this report with us on Friday 25th February on our Parent/Teacher Consultations day - details of which can be found in the letter below:

Parent/Teacher Consultations

INVITATION TO ALL PARENTS

Times tables are at the heart of mental arithmetic, which in itself helps form the basis of a child’s understanding and ability when working with numbers. Once children have learnt their times tables to fluency and instant recall, they are then able to work more confidently through a wide range of calculations and problem solving. 

Join us for a Parent Workshop based on Times Tables and how they are taught at Down Hall Primary.

Tuesday 1st March 2022 1.30-2.15pm

At this stage Mrs Hurley will be conducting this session via Zoom but there may be a change in restrictions which will enable the session to run in the school hall with social distancing measures put in place. If this is the case then we would need to limit numbers to a maximum of 30 people. 

With special guests (Times Table Champions)

If you would like to attend, please email Mrs Hurley: year3_4@downhallprimary.com

MESSAGE FROM MISS SHARMAN - PE

After half term, we will be making some exciting changes to our PE lessons.  

We will be welcoming some new coaches from Jack Of All Sports to our team. 

Mrs Perrins, Mr Attfield, Mr Gray and Mr Harrington will deliver lessons along with Mrs Williamson.  

Please ensure that your child has the correct PE uniform on PE days.  This should consist of:

• Plain, navy blue tracksuit (No logos please e.g. Nike/Puma etc)

• Plain, navy blue shorts

• School t-shirt

• Plain, black trainers (No bright coloured soles or stripes please)

We are really looking forward to working with Mr Harrington and his team and can't wait to welcome them to Down Hall.

If you have any questions regarding PE, please email me using the Year 5/6 email address:

year5_6@downhallprimary.com

Miss Sharman

PTA COIN RUN

Thanks so much to the wonderful PTA parents for organising today's coin run. It was lovely to

see you all back in school! I hear that you have a lot of fun activities planned

for the children over the next few months.

Thank you to all parents who contributed money to today's fundraising event.

Have a great holiday!
Mrs Hurley Mr Greenfield Miss Harvey

YEAR 3/4 BLOG - Friday 4th February '22

Dear Parents,

We hope you've had a great week and also hope that you are all well! This week in Year 3/4 we have been completing our half termly assessments in the morning. We will use the results to inform our next steps in teaching and to ensure that we continue to close any gaps in the children's learning.

INVITATION TO ALL PARENTS

Times tables are at the heart of mental arithmetic, which in itself helps form the basis of a

child’s understanding and ability when working with numbers.

Once children have learnt their times tables to fluency and instant recall,

they are then able to work more confidently through a wide range of calculations and

problem solving. Join us for a Parent Workshop based on Times Tables and how they are taught at

Down Hall Primary School.

Tuesday 1st March 2022 1.30-2.15pmAt this stage Mrs Hurley will be conducting this session via Zoom but there may be a change in

restrictions which will enable the session to run in the school hall with social distancing

measures put in place. If this is the case then we would need to limit numbers to a maximum

of 30 people. 

With special guests (Times Table Champions)If you would like to attend, please email Mrs Hurley: year3_4@downhallprimary.comWe would love to hear from you!

CHANGES TO PE LESSONS

After half term, we will be making some exciting changes to our PE lessons.  

We will be welcoming some new coaches from Jack Of All Sports to our team. 

Mrs Perrins, Mr Attfield, Mr Gray and Mr Harrington will deliver lessons along with Mrs Williamson.  

Please ensure that your child has the correct PE uniform on PE days.  This should consist of:

• Plain, navy blue tracksuit (No logos please e.g. Nike/Puma etc)
• Plain, navy blue shorts
• School t-shirt
• Plain, black trainers (No bright coloured soles or stripes please)

We are really looking forward to working with Mr Harrington and his team and can't wait to welcome them to Down Hall.

If you have any questions regarding PE, please email Miss Sharman using the Year 5/6 email address:

year5_6@downhallprimary.com

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 9th February

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday 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 regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books. 

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English 
Foundation Pg 64-65 Targeted Pg 64-65 Stretch  Pg 52-53
Maths
Foundation Pg 26 Targeted Pg 26 Stretch  Pg 26

Year 4 
English 
Foundation Pg 64-66 Targeted Pg 64-66 Stretch Pg 52-53
Maths
Foundation Pg 26-27  Targeted Pg 26-27 Stretch Pg 26-27

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - Please log on to TTRS and complete your challenge.
• Chinese New Year - research this topic and bring your notes into school on Monday.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Math's - 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

As always, we are available on our email. However, we are also available if you have any quick questions at the end of the day on the playground. Just give us a wave and we will pop over! 

year3_4@downhallprimary.com

Have a fabulous weekend!

Best wishes

Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey

YEAR 3/4 BLOG - Friday 28th January '22

Dear Parents,

We hope you've had a great week and also hope that you are all well! This week in Year 3/4 we have been continuing to draft and publish our creation stories and we aim to share these across all the 3 classes soon. In math's, we have been looking at area and perimeter. We were able to go outside; and using a variety of measuring tools, we were able to find the perimeter of different objects that contained a square or an oblong/rectangle.

PE - MONDAY

Could all children in OPAL and GARNET class please wear their PE kit to school on Monday? They will be taking part in some PE taster sessions. Tuesday will be normal PE for all of Year 3/4. Thanks

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 2nd February

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday 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 regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books. 

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English - 
Foundation Pg  30-31    Targeted Pg 34-35 Stretch  Pg 22-23
Maths - 
Foundation Pg  25 Targeted Pg  25 Stretch  Pg 25

Year 4 
English -  
Foundation Pg 30-31 Targeted Pg 29-30 Stretch Pg 27-28
Maths - 
Foundation Pg 20-21  Targeted Pg 20-21  Stretch Pg 20-21

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practice - this week we are learning our 7/8 times tables. Please practice these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• Math's - 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
• Reading Comprehension - Chinese New Year.Chinese New Year. Please write your answers fully by including the question in it. Answers on a piece of paper or share as a Google doc. You can complete as much of this selection of work as you would like. House points will be given to those who extend their own learning.

As always, we are available on our email. However, we are also available if you have any quick questions at the end of the day on the playground. Just give us a wave and we will pop over! 

year3_4@downhallprimary.com

Have a fabulous weekend!

Best wishes

Mrs Hurley, Mr Greenfield & Miss Harvey

YEAR 3/4 BLOG - Friday 21st January '22

Dear Parents,

Happy Friday everybody! It has been a very busy beginning of the Spring Term in Year 3/4 - we have been continuing to write our creation stories to their conclusion in English. In Maths, we have been looking at length and area. Part of our lesson involved measuring our feet and using cm and mm to accurately do so. We also ordered and compared these measurements as seen in the photo below. The children came up with a thought provoking question. Does the tallest person always have the largest foot?

In Science, the children have begun growing some cress seed as part of an ongoing investigation. This photo marks day one of this task.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 26th January

Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday 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 regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.
• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books. 

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English -  Apostrophes
Foundation Pg   46-47    Targeted Pg 50-51 Stretch  Pg 40-41
Maths - Length/Area Questions ONLY
Foundation Pg 38-39  Targeted Pg 38-39 Stretch  Pg 38-39

Year 4 
English -  Apostrophes
Foundation Pg 52  Targeted Pg 50-51   Stretch Pg 40 and 44
Maths - Area
Foundation Pg 46-47  Targeted Pg  46-47   Stretch Pg  46-47

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practise - this week we are learing our 7/8 times tables. Please practise these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - 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 practising 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' 

Watch this video together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct5cDctLVTI

YEAR 3 - feel free to do this as well!

Have a fantastic weekend,

With love from the Year 3/4 teachers

Friday 14th January 2022

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a wonderful week. It flew by! The children are continuing to work really hard on their division in maths. It is great to see all their hard work in learning their times tables now paying off. In English, we are writing our own creating stories based on an ancient Chinese example, Pan Gu. We hope to be able to show you these at some point. 

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 19th January
Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday 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 regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

• Please make sure that your child is continuing to read and work on the Year 3 and 4 spellings which can be found in their reading record books.  If there is not a copy already in you reading record, one will be glued in on Monday or sent home as a paper copy. Year 3/4 spellings can also be found in the Year 3/4 section in our school website. 

HOMEWORK PAGES

Year 3
English - Suffixes
Foundation Pg 70-71  Targeted Pg 72-73   Stretch  Pg 66-67
Maths - Counting in Multiples
Foundation Pg 8 Targeted Pg 8 Stretch  Pg 8

If you have completed these previously, please revise multiples and remember to apply them in your maths work.

If you are finding your homework a bit tricky please ask your teacher for some help 👍


Year 4 
English -  Suffixes
Foundation Pg 76-77  Targeted Pg 76-77  Stretch Pg 61-62

Maths - Mental Multiplying and Dividing
Foundation Pg 23 Targeted Pg 23  Stretch Pg 23

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practise - this week we are learing our 7 times tables. Please practise these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.

• Maths - A TTRS battle has been set up between the three classes.  The battle will run from today until next Wednesday.

As always, we are available on our Year 3/4 email. However, we are also available if you have any quick questions at the end of the day on the playground. Just give us a wave and we will pop over! 

Have a great weekend.

Lots of love from

Mrs Hurley, Miss Harvey & Mr Greenfield

Friday 7th January 2022

Dear Parents,

Welcome to 2022 and a new term at Down Hall Primary School. We hope that you all had a wonderful festive break and are now ready to settle in to the Spring term.

PROJECT

This term we will be studying China and the Ancient Shang Dynasty. Chinese New Year takes place on the 1st of February this year and we will be making some Chinese food to celebrate. If you have any connections at all to China and its culture please let us know as it would be great to have you share your experiences.

Year 3/4  Homework Tasks - Due Wednesday 12th January
Must Do

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes everyday 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 regularly. Please bring your homework books back to school when you are finished so that we can check them. Thank you.

HOMEWORK PAGES
This week your homework is to review time. We have not covered this in class but learning to tell the time is a super important life skill.

Year 3
English - Prefixes
Foundation Pg 62-63  Targeted Pg 68-69  Stretch  Pg 60-61
Maths - Clocks
Foundation 
Pg 43  Targeted Pg 43  Stretch  Pg 43


Year 4 
English -  Prefixes
Foundation Pg  68-69 Targeted Pg  68-69  Stretch Pg 56-57

Maths - Clocks
Foundation Pg 50 Targeted Pg 50  Stretch Pg 50

• Accelerated Reader - when you are finished your book your teacher can change it for you. As soon as you are ready you can take a quiz at school. Remember that you need 3 100% scores to move up a level
• Times table practise - this week we are reviewing 1-6 times tables. Please practise these as we do in school.

Can Do

• Continue logging on to TTRS, Sumdog and Myon or Big Cat - your logins are stuck in the front cover of your Reading Records.
• For our project this term we are looking at China. Please can you research a landmark to share with your class ie. The Great Wall of China.

As always, we are available on our Year 3/4 email. However, we are also available if you have any quick questions at the end of the day on the playground. Just give us a wave and we will pop over! 

Have a great weekend.

Lots of love from

Mrs Hurley, Miss Harvey & Mr Greenfield