Welcome to Ash Class Year 3/4
TO ASH CLASS
Accomplished Ash
Our Teaching Team is:
Miss Lavery, Mrs White, Mrs Barlow & Miss Beardsley
We are really excited about the year ahead. Our whole team are looking forward to working with you all; working hard but also having some fun. We will be creating lots of super memories with each and every one of you.
If you need any help or assistance please get in touch with your class teacher or school office.
A few things to remember:
If your child requires an inhaler please ensure that they have it in
school every day.
- Please bring a named water bottle to school each day
- We enter, from 8.40am, through the main entrance and exit, at 3.30pm, through the outdoor classroom from the blue pod
- If you have a sports afterschool club, wear your school uniform and bring your PE kit in a bag so that you can get changed after school
- Please check all your clothes are labelled, especially coats and jumpers!
- Please remember our school uniform policy
Please note the following days for your child to come to school ready in their PE kit. Hair should be tied back and earrings removed before school. If it is their swimming day, could children please come in their PE kit and bring their Swimming Kit to change into (no costumes under clothes):
Our Home Learning:
Check out the 'Home Learning Activities' for this term in your Home Learning Book & remember all your logins, usernames and passwords are stuck in the back! There are weekly tasks (see below) and a range of Maths, English and Topic based activities to choose from each term.
Weekly Tasks:
Spellings:
Your current 'set' of 5 spelling words from your 'Super Spelling' booklet, which will be tested through the week.
Reading:
Each time an adult listens to you read, please record this on your Booklog Bookmark and tick your home learning sheet. All reading can be recorded not just your school reading book.
Check out all the eBooks on the Activelearn website (and visit your Home page = games = rewards = Your Tree House plus Maths games!):
ActiveLearn: Login (activelearnprimary.co.uk)
Times Tables:
Times tables will be taught in school and should also be practiced at home. Remember you can use the Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) website to practice.
Website: Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Click the link below to open the Mundy Junior Home Learning Webpage.
This has more information about home learning at our school. It also has a 'Spelling' link which gives you access to all our spelling booklets (at home), a 'Reading' link - with information about reading and how to use Activelearn, and a 'Timestables' link - with information how to log in to TTRS.
If you scroll to the bottom of the home learning webpage there is a Year 3 & 4 Home Learning Zone with details of your current home learning activities and a PARENTS ONLY page!
Parents - If you would like to know more about how to help your child at home, please use the links below to take you to helpful pages on our website:)
Our Curriculum:
We hope that you are going to have a FUN TIME learning this year!
Have a look at our 2023-24 topics:
Our Topic this term is:
Extreme Earth
We have a busy term ahead of us, filled with fun! We will be finding out about the extremes of our Earths geography, including volcanoes and earthquakes. We will also be learning about how our Earth is composed and exploring rock formation and fossils in our science lessons. There are also some exciting Humanities days planned during the Summer Term to look forward to.
In creative arts lessons, we'll be making pictures of an explosive volcano, decorating a rock paperweight, working in groups to assemble a dinosaur skeleton from cotton buds, using IPADs to create a dinosaur collage and finally writing our own musical polyrhythm describing how rocks are formed.
We would appreciate it if you could send with your child a few cotton buds and a smooth rock or stone (as large as their hand) to help these exciting activities to take place.
Other highlights this term will be creating information power-points about rocks, fossils or dinosaurs to share with the class in computing, as well as designing fact-files about an ocean creature and newspaper reports about endangered animals in English.
In Maths, we’ll be re-visiting Place Value for Positive and Negative numbers, ordering numbers to 2 or 3 decimal places and revisiting multiplication facts ready for the Government’s Year 4 Multiplication Check (MTC) in mid-June.
It would be really helpful if you could support your child to master their times tables in and out of order.
The expectation is for Year 3s to know their x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and x8 times tables and the Year 4s to know all of their times tables by June/July this year.
Little and often is the best way forward, such as chanting tables when walking to and from school or when travelling in the car, or you could make flashcards. There are also websites children can go on for extra multiplication/timestable practise such as Hit The Button, and the popular football challenge game – Penalty Kicks. Another useful website dedicated to timestable gives you the opportunity to practise individual tables, and has a Multiplication Tables Check area with a ‘mock’ MTC. TTRS also has a ‘mock’ MTC called Soundcheck.
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Remember to regularly visit our school library, and enjoy the wide variety of books it has on offer.
Pick a reading book to read in school and at home.
Have you tried the Mundy Reading Challenge yet? Ask in the school Library for more information.
We will be choosing a wide range of class reading books this year.
We are currently reading Dragon Mountain by Katie & Kevin Tsang.
Please give any book recommendations to Miss Lavery or Mrs White.
We are looking forward to an amazing term ahead. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have in the meantime.
Below are some link to websites that you may find useful, please let us know what you think of them: