Week beginning 22nd April 2025

It’s been lovely to welcome everyone back after the Easter break!

On Tuesday, we started our new class text for the term – Krindlekrax. We've already been introduced to some interesting characters and have been busy using expanded noun phrases to describe them. There’s been lots of great predicting happening too – we’re excited to see how the story unfolds as the term goes on!

In Maths, we’ve started a new unit on fractions. It’s great to see that many of the children have remembered their learning from before the break and are confidently building on it as they learn to add, subtract, and partition fractions.

A typical week in Cumbria 3:

Home Learning

Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

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 and build your knowledge 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. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

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.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

Spellings will be checked on Wednesdays.

Blue group (Mrs Nash, Miss Owen & Mrs Charlwood)

prefix- super 

supersonic

superstar

superhero

superhuman

superstar

supermarket

superpower

supersize

supermodel

superglue

Red group (Mrs Whitmore) 

dislike

disagree

dishonest

incorrect

invisible

incomplete 

Purple group (Mrs Smith)

baking

riding

making

shining

racing

Below 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).

The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: