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Welcome to Year 3!
We are looking forward to continuing your child’s learning journey from Key Stage 1 into Key Stage 2. The Year 3 teaching staff work collaboratively with the Year 2 teaching staff to ensure that we continue to provide high level teaching, alongside exciting learning activities.
Welcome to Year 4!
This marks the children’s second year in lower KS2, building and consolidating their learning from Year 3 and preparing them for upper KS2.
Please remember it is important to hear your child read at home or share stories with them. The homework policy is to read 5 times a week at home. Your child will bring home a coloured reading book but is also encouraged to read a book for their own enjoyment, for example an information book, a magazine or a poetry book.
Homework will continue to be set on a Thursday and needs to be handed in on a Tuesday. The expectations are:
In June all children in year 4 will complete the multiplication tables check (MTC). The purpose of the check is to determine whether your child can fluently recall their times tables up to 12, which is essential for future success in mathematics. It will also help the school to identify if your child may need additional support.
Additonal information can be found in the Information for parents:Â multiplication tables check document.
As a school, we are delivering the Mastering Number at KS2 program which is run by the National Excellence for Teaching Mathematics. The aim of this program is to help children develop their automaticity of multiplication and division facts. Â
How the children are chanting their multiplication facts has changed. Instead of saying:Â
1 x 4 = 4 ‘one times four is four’
2 x 4 = 8 ‘two times four is eight’Â
3 x 4 = 12 ‘three times four is twelve’ etc.Â
We now say:Â
1, 4, 4 ‘one, four, four’
2, 4, 8 ‘two, four, eight’
3, 4, 12 ‘three, four, twelve’ etc.Â
You can support your child by encouraging them to regularly access Times Tables Rock Stars. This will help them to instantly recall times tables facts which they will use when problem solving. Also, it will help to develop their confidence and enable them to make further progress in maths.Â
Please only bring essential items to school on a daily basis ie: reading book, spelling book, reading diary, lunch box (if not having hot school meals). Pencil cases and equipment are provided in school.
Your child needs a refillable water bottle that is taken home daily for washing before returning to school the next day.
Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit (they do not need their school uniform to change back into). Long hair should be tied up and no jewellery should be worn – including earrings. Ears that have been recently pierced and cannot be removed will need to be covered.
We will have PE on the following days: