Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Thursday 14th March 2024
Dear parents and carers,
Cornwall have had such a fabulous week!
Last week on Thursday the children all looked amazing as they came to school dressed as their favourite book characters. They all took part in many activities throughout the day and were beautifully behaved. For more information please look out for our school newsletter.
In English this week, we have looked more closely at the personalities of the sea-monkeys. We have focused on adverbs and introduced the children to fronted adverbials. The children have also planned an information leaflet about how to care for and train a sea - monkey. This has been a lot of fun!
In Maths, we have started our unit on weight. So far this week, we have focused on reading a variety of scales in grams and kilograms. Please try and encourage your child to read scales at home and weigh different items around your house if possible, as this practical step will help them tremendously.
This week is also British Science Week, where the topic is ‘time’. Year 3 were set the task of making sand-timers and what an amazing job they did. They will be putting them to the test later this week.
We were also fortunate enough to be invited to the local church next door for a special session on ‘The Trinity’ – an important topic being studied at the moment in R.E. Thank you very much to Reverand Nick and Jamie for delivering the session in a very ‘child-friendly’ manner.
Have a wonderful week.
Mrs Britton, Mrs Nash and Mrs Charlwood.
Home Learning Term 4 Week 4
Spelling:
In Year 3, the year spelling is set into two groups: red and blue. We will have a weekly test the following Wednesday. Here are the spelling words for next week for each group:
Red (taught by Mrs McGinley):
Red spellings:
Adding the suffix -ness
We can add the suffix -ness to many root words to make a noun
illness
sadness
goodness
darkness
weakness
softness
fitness
lateness
Topic words
mass
capacity
Blue (taught by Mrs Nash)
Blue spellings: homophones:
weather
whether
seen
scene
male
plain
plane
knight
night
Also 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).
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.
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.