Thursday 16^th January 2025

Dear parents and carers,

In English this week, we focused on using emotive words in our writing. The children acted out village scenes in groups and wrote thought bubbles about how Ivan and his friends were feeling about the summer. They then went on to write a diary from the viewpoint of Ivan’s father. We also revised our knowledge of subordinate and main clauses.

In Maths, we continued with multiplication and division, in particular multiplying and dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number. Children were taught to use various strategies such as place value charts and partitioning a number using the part-whole model. We will be continuing this topic next week.

In Geography we have been looking at rocks and their properties. The children have been taught that the three main types of rocks are: sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic. We identified which rocks are used for various purposes such as granite being perfect for kitchen top surfaces due to being impermeable and hard. The children also learnt about the process of fossilisation and made their own fossils using salt dough. Next week we will be diving deeper into the world of fossils and researching about Mary Anning: a renowned fossil collector and palaeontologist.

A big thank you to Reverend Nick, who welcomed us to his church on Tuesday morning. He introduced the children to the Trinity and gave us all a guided tour of the church and its features.

Please may we request that all children bring their reading books to school everyday so that we can listen to them read at every opportunity. 

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Britton, Mrs Nash and Mrs Charlwood.

A typical week in Surrey 3

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 tested in class every Wednesday. There are no spellings set over the Christmas holidays.

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

Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words

actually

imagine

minute

question

special

appear

guide

separate

enough

exercise 

Red group (Miss Arnott)

suffix –ful  

painful

hopeful

helpful

thoughtful

wonderful

thankful

cheerful

delightful

colour 

Purple group (Mrs Smith)

suffix -ly 

nearly

slowly

quickly

quietly

weakly

weekly 

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: