Y 3/4 Friday 26th February 2021

Dear Parents,

Well what an exciting week that was! We are thrilled to see that all children will be back in with us on Monday 8th March. We will be operating in exactly the same way that we were during November and December last year, so the children will arrive and leave school at their staggered time slots (or at the same time as their siblings).

Opal - 8:45am-3:10pm

Garnet - 8:50am-3:15pm

Moonstone - 8:55am-3:20pm

Although we only have 5 days left to home school ourselves through,it is very important that you and your child continues to access the learning on our Google Classroom. We need each and every one of you to come back to school having kept up with our programme. We will then be able to transition back into school life successfully.

HOMEWORK

Please complete the following pages this week.

Year 3 - 40 and 41

Year 4 - 44 and 45

Answers will be posted on Google Classroom on Friday

If you have any questions about the return to school please get in touch with your child's  teacher. As always, we are available via telephone or the Year 3/4 email address: 

year3_4@downhallprimary.com

Mrs Hurley, Miss Harvey & Mr Greenfield

Year 3/4 - Welcome back

Welcome back everybody! We hope you have had a peaceful and chilled week off.

We await, with anticipation, the roadmap announcement and with everything crossed we hope we can welcome your children back to school very soon...

In the meantime, we will continue to set work on Google classroom. We will endeavour to provide more video teacher lessons when we have time to do so. If you wish to submit any work then please continue with this. If you would like more specific marking and feedback on what your child is doing, please do ask! We are only ever an email or phone call away!

Look after yourselves and stay well.

Mrs Hurley. Miss Harvey. Mr Greenfield 😃

Happy Holidays From Year 3/4

Dear Parents,

Well we have finally made it! Congratulations to you all on a magnificent job home schooling your children. With great determination and patience you have carefully navigated your way through the last 6 weeks. We applaud your efforts and are so grateful for all your continued support in these challenging times. We are hoping for some clarification from the government and will await the ‘roadmap’ that is to be presented to us all. We have no more knowledge than you do in when schools will be reopening, nonetheless we eagerly anticipate a positive response.

We would love you all to spend some time relaxing and restoring your energy. We will not be setting any formal work over the holiday period as we want the children to have a break from their screens and a rest from school work.

Wishing you all a wonderful half term holiday and fingers crossed for a speedy return of the children in the Spring!

Look after yourselves, stay safe and well.

Mrs Hurley  Miss Harvey  Mr Greenfield 

Year 3/4 Weekly Update 05.02.21

Dear Parents,

We've reached the end of another week, we just wanted to say that you are all doing a great job with the home learning and I am loving the emails you are sending. Thank you for taking the time to send pictures of the children's work and uploading work for us. We know it is time consuming but it is such a great way for your child's teacher to see how much they are progressing along at home.

Parents Feedback Survey

We’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working recently, so I wanted to take the opportunity to say what an amazing job you’re doing supporting your child’s wellbeing and learning during this time. To help us make sure we’re providing the right level of support for you and your child, we’d like to know your thoughts on our approach to remote home learning. Please take the time to complete the survey on this link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/C8G6TBZ

It should take you between 5 and 10 minutes to complete. Please fill out the survey by Thursday 11th February 5pm. Your feedback is very important to us. 

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Hurley

Maths Homework

Please ensure your child completes this week's homework in their maths workbook. Answers will be uploaded next Friday on Google Classroom. If you need any help, check in with your teacher.

Year 3 - Page 8 and 9

Year 4 Division - Page 23

Have a fantastic weekend.

With grateful thanks,

Mrs Hurley Miss Harvey Mr Greenfield

Year 3/4 Weekly Update 29.01.21

Dear Parents,

The children in Year 3 and 4 have been amazing again this week. We have received some lovely work and are super impressed. Thank you, again, for all of your hard work and support with home learning. Remember, as always, if you need us, we are here at the end of the phone or an email.

Google Classroom

It is great to communicate with the children on Google Classroom. If your child is someone who is struggling right now, you could encourage them to reach out to the other children via this platform. We are all here to support and help one another.

Maths Homework

Please ensure your child completes this week's homework in their maths workbook. Answers will be uploaded next Friday on Google Classroom. If you need any help, check in with your teacher.

Year 3 Partitioning page 12-13

This will help with your multiplication methods such as the grid method.

Year 4 Factor Pairs and Written Multiplication page 24-25

Recapping on what you have learned last week in maths.

Have a fantastic weekend. We may even have snow!

With special thanks,

Mrs Hurley Miss Harvey Mr Greenfield

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

ESAFETY - THE 2 JOHNS'

Year 3/4 15.01.21 - Weekly Update

Dear Parents, 

What a week! We would firstly like to thank you all for the overwhelming support you have shown us this week. We have been very impressed with the amount of work your children have been completing. They have engaged with their learning brilliantly, asking for help when they need it and commenting politely on the Google Classroom pages. 

A FEW REMINDERS 

Daily tasks will continue to be uploaded every morning at 7:30 am.

If you need any help please ask your class teacher.

You are doing your best and that is good enough! 😀

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 22-24       Year 4 page 22-23

Answers will be uploaded on Friday 22nd January. 

READING 

Please aim for 15-30 minutes a day reading, it is so important! 

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR TEACHER

Please go to Google Classroom at 3pm to watch a message from you teacher.

Thank you to all of you who have emailed us. It has been lovely to hear from you. We would ask you to send us an email at least once a week with an update of how things are going as your child's welfare (and yours!) is very, very important to us. However, in the meantime, please enjoy a well earned and restful weekend - you have all been amazing! 

 Mrs Hurley Miss Harvey Mr Greenfield