Spirituality Home Learning Project

Please see this document for details of an exciting whole school project that we would like the children and families to take part in for home learning over the half term break. 

We would like children to bring their findings in to school by Wednesday 29​​^th October please.

Term 2 Week 3 WB 3/11/25

It has been lovely to see L3 embrace the home learning challenges that have been set this term. Thank you for supporting your children in these tasks and helping to enhance their learning in this way. 

In maths we are coming to the end of our unit on  subtraction and addition and the children have all worked hard to embrace some tricky new strategies. Thank you for your continued support at home with this.

In English we are all enjoying the comic book style of our text 'Ug'. This week we have been looking at persuasive writing and the language that we need to make our arguments convincing, maybe you will also see these persuasive skills at home!

We are all excited to have begun rehearsing for our Christmas play, I am sure you will start to hear the songs soon! Parts will be allocated and costume details sent home very soon, watch this space! 

In History we have moved on to study of the Bronze Age and have enjoyed comparing it with the Stone Age using our knowledge from last term's learning. 

 Please ensure that fully named PE kits are in school Monday to Friday. Please ensure also that your child has a named waterproof jacket or coat in school everyday. 

In year 3 fruit snacks are provided by parents, rather than school as in the lower years. Please send your child with a healthy snack that they can enjoy mid-morning. 

A reminder also please that children do not need pencil cases, all their stationery is provided in school. Please also keep soft toys and other treasures at home. Thank you for your support with this.

Spellings

Our next test will be Weds 19th November.

Your child should know which group they are in. Please note that Mrs Charlwood's group is now led by 

Mrs Lambert. 

Mrs Hughes' /Mr Grimes'/ Mrs Strudwick's groups

wave

wavy

shine

shiny

spice

spicey

simple

simply

Mrs Smith's and Mrs Georgiades' groups -

Words ending in -ture

nature 

capture 

adventure 

mixture

fracture

creature 

future 

temperature

Mrs Lambert's group ( formerly Mrs Charlwood's group)

old

cold

gold

hold

told

fold

sold

L3 Usual weekly timetable (please note that there may be changes to this at times).

Home learning:

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below.
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

Reading:

Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom Reader: 

https://www.boomreader.co.uk/parents

Children ibring home a book from the Discovery Centre which is levelled according to the Accelerated Reader (AR) scheme  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/accelerated-reader-1/

These books can be returned and swapped as soon as they are finished. There is also a quiz                    associated with these books which children must complete after they have finished each AR book:  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/year-2-1/

Some children will bring home both a RWI Reading book and an AR levelled reading book - please read both with your child. Both books should be left in their bags so they can read them at school, as well as at home, to enhance their fluency.

Maths:

Times Tables Rockstars/Numbots! 

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!

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/

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

Spellings: 

More information about how we teach spelling at Southborough and strategies to support your child at home can be found here: https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/spelling-3/