Cornwall

Thursday 25^th April 2024

Dear parents and carers,

It was such a pleasure to see so many of you last week and earlier this week at our parent consultations. The children have all made such good progress and we are excited to see how much they continue to thrive in the last few months of Year 3.

In English this week, we have delved deeper into the character of Corky, the caretaker at Ruskin’s school. We have explored his friendship with Ruskin and looked carefully at the dilemmas facing them both. We have also found out about ‘Krindlekrax’, the creature lurking in the sewers. The children have revisited their understanding of main and subordinate clauses and looked closely at the importance of commas in a sentence.

In Maths, we have started our new topic on Money. The children have been given plenty of opportunity to explore coins and notes in class and over the next week they will be adding, finding change and problem solving. Please encourage your children to use coins and notes at home and talk about money to further reinforce their understanding.

In History, we are all really enjoying the topic of the Romans. So far we have placed dates on a timeline and looked carefully at artefacts to make links to everyday life in ancient Rome.

Finally, we have begun our new French topic of ‘les transports’. The children have learned about cognates (words with a common origin such as ‘le train’) and near cognates (words which are not exactly the same but look familiar such as ‘un hélicoptère’).

Have a wonderful week.

Mrs Britton, Mrs Nash and Mrs Charlwood.

Home Learning Term 5 Week 2  

Red Spellings:

Words ending in -al

The ending that sounds like l can be spelt al.

Lots of adjectives end in al

magical

plural

capital

animal

signal

vocal

comical

festival

Topic words:

tiles

grout

Blue spellings:

prefix -sub

subdivide

submarine

subsoil

subtitle

subway

submerge

subheading

subordinate

Topic words

ancient

grout

Attached is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).

* SpellingWordList_Y3-4.pdf

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

We recommend children in Year 3 read for at least 20 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be entered in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.