Welcome to Class 3

Teacher: Mrs Goff       Teaching Assistant: Miss Barnett

Class 3

In Class 3, we support and encourage the children to be hard working, enthusiastic, positive, determined and most of all happy. We aim to build on their year 2 and 3 work by developing their independence, encouraging the children to be critical thinkers and problem solvers. We like to create a learning environment that is fun and interactive, which engages and motivates the children helping them to make good progress. We provide plenty of opportunities for the children to express themselves, share any worries or concerns and build resilience all within a safe, secure, and caring environment.

Uniform and daily essentials

Please ensure your child's uniform, including the sweatshirts or hoodies they wear on PE days, are labelled to ensure everything goes home in the evening with the correct person. Our P.E. days this year are a Tuesday and Wednesday. P.E will mainly take place outside, so please make sure children have appropriate clothing and shoes. Please be mindful that sessions can take place on the field so clothing can get muddy. Long hair must be tied up and no jewellery is to be worn.

Homework.

All homework will be set via Google classroom. It will be set on a Friday and will need to be completed by the following Thursday evening, if not before. Completed homework should be submitted/turned in on Google classroom or it can be brought into class. The work can either be completed using a Google doc or the children can write it by hand and then submit a photo of the completed activity and bring that work into class. The Google classroom app on a mobile phone makes it a lot easier to upload pictures. This can be downloaded for free. There is no expectation for any of the worksheets to be printed off at home.

The weekly homework can consist of the following:

• Spelling activities
• Handwriting practise
• Mathletics activities
• Times tables practise
• Reading Eggspress comprehension sessions
• Regular reading to an adult

However, they may also receive other pieces to support with their leaning in class.

The children’s logins for Google Classroom, Mathletics and Reading Eggspress are stuck in the front of their reading records. If the children should forget or lose any of their login details, then they can access them on a clip board in the classroom.

To develop active engagement and enthusiasm for vocabulary and spelling, key stage two children will now be asked to carry out activities, which will support their spelling in different ways. The weekly activities will help the children to understand words and use them in the correct context. This work will relate to what has been covered during our spelling sessions in school each week. The spelling activities will also be a great opportunity for the children to practise and develop their handwriting skills.

The Mathletics work will relate to the work we have been covering in class each week.

The children will completely a weekly times table test in school, based on the tables they have been practising that week for homework. Please find some useful website links below where children can practise their times tables. This work will help to prepare the children for the times table check which will take place in the summer term.   

As well as completing sessions on Reading Eggspress, the children should also be reading 5 times a week to an adult at home. It is excellent practise for the children to read out loud, as this helps to improve fluency, expression and pace. Reading books can be selected from the class library or children can choose their own book from home. Please ensure a comment is made in the reading record each time they read. These should be brought into school every Friday, so we can check participation and progress.

Things to remember:

Tuesday – PE kit

Wednesday – PE kit

Wednesday PM – Mrs Goffs'  PPA (planning preparation and assessment time)

Thursday evening – Homework to be completed

Friday – Homework handed in.

              Reading records handed in.

              New homework set on Google Classroom

How to help your child at home.

Literacy

The following websites provide SPAG activities, games and videos. We hope you and your child find them useful.

KS2 bitesize revision: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/

Grammar videos: 

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-site/expert-help/grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-made-easy

Terminology & games: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=47

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html - 20 Key Stage 2 Literacy interactive teaching resources for Primary Schools.

English educational kids games and activities. Teach your child, spelling, sentences, verbs, collective nouns, compound words, singular to plural, story sequencing, alphabetical order, and grammar with these English learning games.

Maths

Helpful links to develop and consolidate maths learning:

Woodlands Junior -  http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/index.html  is an excellent site with games and challenges in maths.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/ 

https://www.teachwire.net/news/5-of-the-best-times-tables-games-for-key-stage-2 - great websites for online interactive times table games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing  - has a huge selection of games which have been split up into all the different sections of maths, making it incredibly easy to pick the area you would like to practise.

https://uk.ixl.com/maths - This website has all year groups and within each year group has the maths broken down into the different sections. It helps children master essential skills at their own pace through fun and interactive questions, built in support and motivating awards.

https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/maths/ - maths quizzes

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/content/ - Corbett Maths - Maths videos, activities and answers for all areas of KS2 mathematics.

https://mathszone.co.uk/tag/ks2-upper/ - maths activities

https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-8-12/ - money activities. These games, videos and interactive activities could turn you into a money genius in no time!

https://nrich.maths.org/primary

Other subjects:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-2.html

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/

https://wowscience.co.uk/

See the attached link below for some really helpful videos from White Rose Maths which will explain the teaching methods used in school for place value, subtraction, multiplication and division.  These parents guides are really useful for understanding how to help your children with their maths homework.

https://whiterosemaths.com/for-parents/maths-with-michael/

Times tables

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Year 4 children will complete a multiplication check later in the school year.  The Oxford Owl webpage below explains the check in detail and provides lots of hints and tips to help children develop rapid recall with multiplication and division facts.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/at-school/primary-school-assessment-tests/year-4-multiplication-tables-check/

The activity below exactly mirrors the check.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check