Welcome back to Term 3! We hope you had an enjoyable Christmas holiday.

We would all like to thank you so very much for the Christmas gifts and cards that you generously gave, we were very touched.

Please note that this term, there is a change to our timetable - spelling tests will now take place on Thursday mornings. There will be no change to our normal homework routine - see below in the Useful Information section.

Each week you can take a look at what your children will be learning in our Weekly Overview. 

Useful Information

Reading

Please read daily. Reading Records will be collected in on a Tuesday to check – if no reading recorded (at least 3 times a week) children will stay in to read for 15 mins during lunchtime play.

Spellings weekly

Spelling will be sent home on Fridays and should be handed in the following Thursday. They are taken from NC Statutory spelling lists for Year 3 & 4.

If spelling homework is not handed in children will stay in to complete it during their lunchtime play.

There will be a spelling test every Thursday morning.

Tables weekly

Please practise times tables! There will be a test each Tuesday. Login to Times Tables Rockstars to practise!

Times Tables

All of the children work towards our Bronze Badge to begin with and move up as they complete every question correctly:

Test 1 is 2, 5, 10 x tables (50 questions)

Test 2 is 3, 4, 6 x tables

Test 3 is 7, 8, 9 x tables

Silver 1:  2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and divide

Silver 2: 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 11x, 12x and divide

Silver 3: all x tables (100 questions)

Gold 1: Multiplication of larger numbers

Gold 2: Multiplication and division of even larger numbers

Gold 3: Multipilcation of even larger numbers!

We recommend that the children practise every day - there are lots of resources online eg:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/keystage2-ks2/ks2-maths/ks2-calculations-times-tables

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-multiplication-division/multiplication-division-year-3-age-7-8/

and they really love these songs: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvxmjgkjU0

of course, pen and paper and chanting can all help too!