Times Tables Rock Stars: tournament time
Calling all Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS),
It’s great to see that so many of you have been rocking those times tables as part of your home learning.
ALL classes are putting on great performances so now we’re raising the stakes.
Each week, you will be competing in a tournament with the other KS2 classes. The scores of you and your classmates will be added together to decide who will achieve the honour of being… ROCKSTARS OF THE WEEK!
In fact, we set up a warm-up tournament last week and the results are in…
Congratulations to Year 3 who achieved a WHOPPING 734 correct answers.
Who will reach top spot in the charts next week?
Rules for the gig are simple:
- Log on to TTRS.
- Play on any game mode. We recommend Garage and Soundcheck.
- Check the class news page on Mondays to see if your class is the weekly winner. If you practise at the weekend, your scores will still be counted.
All the best, TTRS!
World Book Day
It’s World Book Day on Thursday 04 March and we thought that children might like to join in with the celebrations on our Zoom calls by getting dressed up as one of their favourite story characters, or you might want to bring your favourite book instead. You might have a costume already at home, or a t-shirt with a picture of your favourite character on the front.
Please DO NOT purchase anything special for the Zoom call, we’re sure that everyone has something at home that you could use. If you’re struggling to find something or your child doesn’t want to dress up, that’s fine as well. Again, please don’t worry or feel you need to buy something.
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! It’s the end of our first half term of 2021. I can’t believe how quickly it’s flown by!
Scroll down to see these excellent pieces of Y3 home learning from this week.
Come back on the first Friday after half term to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
Some beautifully presented spelling and vocabulary learning by Hafsa
A piece of work accurately using conjunctions as openers by Saif
Some wonderful work using possessive apostrophes by Penelope
Some very useful corrections of must dos by Kian – well spotted!
A marvellous mould fossil has been made here!
A wonderful superhero drawing and accompanying mask by Amelia
Another marvellous mould fossil!
Some beautiful handwriting on show here whilst practising her spellings by Evie
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
Please keep sending your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
It’s the fourth week of our new style of home learning – check out the work from our Home Learning Heroes this week!
Scroll down to see these different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
A very scary looking monster and some great descriptive vocab to go with it by Javier!
Some amazing statement sorting in our Geography learning by Theo!
A typed up character description and very scary accompanying drawing by Kian!
A great character description using some lovely vocabulary by Inaaya!
Some awesome reading skills shown by Amelia!
Two marvellous quotes in Saif’s newspaper report – fantasically punctuated!
An amazing model volcano by Edith!
A beautifully presented piece of science and writing work by Kian!
A wonderful newspaper report by Evie!
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Newsworthy writing
From Mr Catherall, who is leading the Y3,4 home learning writing sessions…
Hi everyone
I hope you’re all happy, healthy and safe. I wanted to share with you – and celebrate – some of the awesome writing that’s been sent in by children across our federation. Home learning is tough. There are many challenges, for children and adults, but these superstars have been ready, resourceful and resilient learners. (Can you remember the other 8Rs for learning?)
In the Y3,4 phase, we spent last week building up to writing our own news report about a (made-up) volcanic eruption. This links to our geography and science learning.
Here are a small selection of the wonderful examples we’ve been sent in from all three schools. If you’d like to send yours in, I’d love to see it (send me an email – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org).
From my class at Scholes (Elmet)… I love the varied sentence starts in this one (Late on Friday night, On Saturday, In the escape).
We’ve got a budding journalist at St James’ CE… I really like the news report structure here.
Back to Scholes (Elmet) for some another great piece… This time, I really like the main news section (the first paragraph in bold) because it’s exactly like you’d read in a newspaper or online.
Some amazing writing from Moortown… I love the expanded noun phrase (the orange, glowing liquid) and the vocabulary (predicted, nightfall, terrified) in this one.
Another super piece of writing from my class at Scholes (can you tell I’m proud?!)… There’s a lot to celebrate here – particularly the vocabulary (menacing, catastrophic, awoke, ear-splitting, historic)…
Back at Moortown for another great example of journalistic writing… I particularly enjoyed the use of questions to engage the reader and the way this writer has presented their news report in the style of a newspaper.
Another impressive report from Scholes… In this one, I love the vocabulary (citizens, fled on foot, vast amount).
Whatever writing you’ve managed to do at home, well done! After the last lockdown, writing was one of the few areas that we noticed children hadn’t progressed in. Try to help by completing at least one of the writing lessons each day (and always keep a focus on handwriting).
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
It’s the second week of our new style of home learning – check out the work from our Home Learning Heroes this week!
Scroll down to see these different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
Some great learning this week and it’s lovely seeing so many of you on the daily Zoom sessions with such enthusiasm about our learning. Keep it up!
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Home Learning Heroes!
Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
Welcome to our first Home Learning Heroes post in Y3!
Scroll down to see different pieces of our home learning from this week. Can you find your home learning? Can you find a friend’s home learning?
Come back every Friday to check out some of the work Y3 have been doing that week at home.
Well done to everybody for their amazing attitude towards their learning and wellbeing! Keep it up.
If your work hasn’t been featured on this week’s Home Learning Heroes, please send your home learning to me: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Mr Wain
Home Learning
Happy New Year, Y3!
I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas holiday and that you are all happy and healthy!
Click on this video to see what your home learning will look like over the coming weeks.
Email me at oliwain@spherefederation.org if you have any questions.
Thank you from Mr. Wain & Mrs. Maqbool!
Dear parents/carers,
As we can’t send Christmas cards this year, Mrs. Maqbool and I have decided to write a class news post instead!
We want to thank you for all the support you have shown both your children and us over the last term – it is massively appreciated and the children have done extremely well! We are so proud of them.
Thank you as well for all the lovely gifts that you have bought us! It’s so kind and thoughtful and we are extremely grateful! We have both decided to open our gifts on Christmas Day – we can’t wait! Thank you again!
We hope you all have a lovely, well earned, Christmas break and enjoy seeing off what has been a trickier year!
Thanks again for all the support you give all the time – see you in 2021!
Mr. Wain and Mrs. Maqbool
A Christmas Visit from Y3!
Last week, in Y3, we prepared a couple of christmassy things for parents and carers to enjoy!
Our first christmassy video shows Y3 reading a famous poem: A visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore.
After we had performed this, we enjoyed singing along to our favourite carol as voted for by the class – Jingle Bells.
Click on the links above and enjoy!