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24 April 2015

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.  Please make sure homework is handed in by Wednesday 29 April.

In maths this week, we have been learning about fractions.  The homework is all about halving – remember that using objects can always help if your child is struggling.  It is also useful to make sure that they know that they are dividing by two or sharing into two groups.

24 April 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 01 May 2015.

24th April 2015

This week’s spellings focus on prefixes and suffixes.

• untied
• unhappy
• dislike
• disagree
• dangerous
• comfortable
• impossible
• kindness
• decrease
• accidentally

Can your child identify the prefix or suffix in each word?

24th April 2015

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due on Wednesday 29 April.

I can use column addition.

Year 3 have been learning how to use column addition. They have a worksheet to complete to practise this skill.

Summer Term

What a great start to a new term! Year 3 returned to school after the holidays and every day this week have shown they are ready and eager to learn. Well done, Year 3!

On Monday, we began our new science topic Magnets and Forces. Check out some of the Year 3 scientists below.

24 April 2015

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 29 April 2015.

• What do you know about night time?
• What questions would you like answered about night time?

With the launch of a new topic for Summer term, I’d like the children to think about what they already know about night time (the night sky, people, animals, changes) and what they don’t know but they’d really like to find out. Thinking about questions they’d like answering means we can keep the topic closely linked to the children’s interests with them excited about their learning.

As always for Creative homework, the choice is yours, but here are a few ideas of what you could do.

• An oral presentation.
• An interview with your child.
• Question and answers (but some answers may be missing).
• A night time poem.

Keeping safe and fit

John, from White Rose Martial Arts, demonstrated in the assembly today some of the skills that can be learnt at the karate after-school club, running again this term.

Pupils who have already attended the club confidently showed their karate techniques alongside some key messages about self-defence from John.

There was a lot of interest from the children so please contact John directly to secure a place for your child. Information can be obtained from the office or your child’s teacher. There is a free taster session on Tuesday 05 May but places are limited.

Welcome back!

I hope everybody’s had a great Easter holiday and are ready to return to school fresh-faced! This half term darkness will descend on Year 2 as we take a look at night time. We’ll delve into the depths of space to look at the planets, moon and stars before plummeting back to Earth to think about the jobs people do at night and animals that have become adapted to night time.

This week (20.04.15)…

Maths

This week, we’re exploring number by looking at rounding to the nearest ten, doubling and halving, place value (hundreds, tens, units) and knowing inverse operations (add-subtract, multiply-divide). Our tables focus will be 2s so lots of counting in 2s at home, walking to school, going up stairs will be very helpful. We’ll then think about how knowing our 2 times tables means we know our 20 and 200 times table, too.

I got 7 Easter eggs but my friend got double that amount. How many eggs did my friend get?

English

English will be very closely linked to our night time topic as we learn how to write information texts. Organising our writing using a title, introduction, subtitles and matching information will be important this week so, when reading at home, choose a non-fiction book and discuss how it is organised and why this is useful.

Topic

Night time will kick off with a trip into space to explore what it is we see in the night sky. We’ll learn about our solar system and its planets as well as what stars are and the Greek legends that tell the story behind the constellations of stars we see at night. At home, stay up late and do some star gazing. See what questions the children have and ask them to write them down (using the correct punctuation) and bring them in for us to discuss.

Writing

As you know, at the end of the year we’ll be assessing the children in 13 areas of the curriculum. One of these areas is writing. The early learning goal is:

Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelled correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

The children are all confident in recognising their letter sounds and now need to develop confidence in ‘having a go’ at writing. Remember, it doesn’t matter if words aren’t always spelt correctly as long as the children are recording the sounds they hear.

‘Tricky’ words like I, the, said, he, me need to be learnt and practised.

Please could you practise a simple sentence every day at home with your child. Bring their writing to school for us to celebrate.

If you have any questions, please ask.

Our new SEAL theme for this half term is…

…relationships.

This theme explores feelings within the context of our important relationships including family and friends.

It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy.

There is a focus throughout the theme on helping children understand the feelings associated with an experience that we all need to cope with at some time: that of loss – whether of a favourite possession, a friend, a family home, or a loved one. Although relatively few children are bereaved, most will experience losses of other kinds during their childhood; losing a home, losing friends because of moving house or changing schools, or losing a pet are examples.

We would therefore ask for parents / carers to alert us to any experiences your child has had that might make this area particularly difficult for them – for example, a bereavement.