Sussex

Thursday 25th April 2024

Dear Parents and Carers,

First, it was lovely to see so many of you at our Parent-Teacher consultations. If you were not able to attend, please contact the office, and I will make time to see you one day next week, at the end of the school day. Well, this week, we have been continuing reading our new English book, 'Krindlekrax', which we are all enjoying. We have written letters from some of the characters, and have predicted what we think will happen, given that we are already a third of the way through the book! In Maths, we have started a new topic on Money. We have looked at coins and notes, explored which values can be made out of which coins, and solved various word-problems based upon coinage. Please see a really good at the bottom this page too! In Science, we have looked at root systems: taproots and fibrous roots, whilst in History, we have looked at the Roman bath house. In Art, we have looked at Roman mosaics, and have started to plan our own mosaic designs, whereas in P.E. we are improving our skills in relation to Athletics and Rounders.

Please ensure that your child has their full P.E. kit - sports top, trousers/shorts and trainers - in school every Monday morning: thank you.

Have a lovely weekend!

Dr Wilson and Ms Sham

Home Learning - Term 4:

Spelling:

In Year 3, the children are set for spelling in two separate groups: red and blue. Here are the spelling words for next week for each group. Our spelling test (for each group) will be on Thursdays:

Red Words ending in -al

The ending that sounds like l can be spelt al.

magical

plural

capital

animal

signal

vocal

comical

festival

Topic words:

tiles

grout

Blue words: prefix -sub

subdivide

submarine

subsoil

subtitle

subway

submerge

subheading

subordinate

Topic words

ancient

grout

In addition, please find some information to support your child at home with their spellings: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

Also attached is the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know by the end of Year 3 (please see below).

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.

Boom Reader:

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school and home each day.  Children are asked to change their book when it is finished using the guidance and support provided by the teaching team within the class.  

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. Instructions on how to log on to Boom Reader have been sent home in your child's bag.  Please ask if you have any questions.

https//boomreader.co.uk

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 enter 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.

Fun Maths: Money

Ron divided 15 pennies among four small bags.

He labelled each bag with the number of pennies inside it.

He could then pay any sum of money from 1p to 15p without opening any bag.

How many pennies did Ram put in each bag?