Welcome to the blog for Class 3.
Highlights – The highlight of our week this week has to be today when we all got to sit in a fire engine and use a hose as part of a whole school focus on Fire Safety.
Everyone loved it!!
Spellings – Year 3 – appear material library perhaps sentence various regular bicycle possess caught
Spellings – Year 4 – scheme chorus chemist echo character ache monarch stomach orchid orchestra
Next week – Championing Maths – 9am – Wednesday 29th.
Diary Dates
Highlights – Another great week in Class 3 – This week we have continued to use the text Egyptian Cinderella – the children have learnt how to use speech punctuation and we have enjoyed exploring different conversations that the characters could have. Next week we will begin to write our own endings to the story as we have received a very special email.
We can’t wait to read the endings.
Next week – On Monday we will be exploring the religion of Islam as part of our work on World Religion Day.
Spellings
Year 3 – immature impossible impatient imperfect immortal impolite immovable improbable imbalance impeccable
Year 4 – although through potatoes enough possess natural believe different possible probably
Diary Dates
Highlights
Firstly, a massive welcome back to 2025.
Class 3 have made a great start to the year. Our highlights have to be our English and History work. This week we have started a new writing journey throughout school. I have been so impressed with Class 3’s attitude to their work – remember to ask them about what we have been doing. On Friday, we had lots of clues and items to explore, linked to our new text. As you can see below, the children made some great inferences and we can’t wait to get started with our work linked to the story.
We were also impressed with the children’s work in History this week. To start our new unit, we began by recapping our learning from last term. We were so impressed with how much the children had remembered.
Class Targets
This week, our class challenge is to increase our reading percentage. As discussed in the school newsletter this week, reading is so, so, so important. We always see who has read 3 times on a Friday – please support your child in making sure they do not let their year group down. I wonder if the year 3s will beat year 4 this week?
Spellings
Dates for your diary
Thank you to everyone who donated items for the Christmas Fair or attended the fair itself. We were very proud of our stalls and the children loved seeing their ideas come to life. Just from our stalls we raised almost £200 and as a whole school we raised over £900. This is an amazing amount and will help with many much needed resources.
If we don’t see you before Friday, we hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year. We will see everyone back to school in 2025!!
As you will be aware we are planning a Christmas Fair on Tuesday 17th December and each class is planning the stalls and events in their own classrooms.
We thought it would be useful to let you know some of the stalls we have planned for our classroom and also ask for some help with resources.
Our plans….
How you can help…
If you are able to donate any of the following it would be amazing…
Anything will help and consequently help to raise much needed funds for our class.
Please send any items into school as soon as possible so that we can start putting our plans into action!!
Thanks for your continued support.
Mrs Altoft and Team Class 3
Highlights
This week has flown by because we have been so busy! From pedestrian skills to diary writing, from learning about grid references to focussing on multiplication in maths – everyone has worked so hard!
In English we have been using a short film to complete diary entries in the role of the character. The children have worked so well on writing about the awful day that the character has. We only used half of the video so if you are wanting a sneak preview of what happens at the end…here is the link to the video!
In Maths, both year groups have been working on multiplication. In year 3 the expectation is to know by heart the 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10 times tables and in year 4 the expectation is all times tables to 12×12. Learning times tables is a life skill and can be used in so many other areas of Maths.
Please spend some time each week focussing on learning times tables. Please choose a times table to focus on and use times table rockstars/purple mash or the websites below to practise.
https://www.ictgames.com/tablesTennis/mobile/index.html
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/bunny/index.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division
Or, if you want to be a little more creative, you could make your own multiplication game. You will find some ideas below. Have a look around the house to see what you can find to use, choose a times table to focus on and create a game. When your game is finished grab someone to play your game with.
Spellings
What’s happening?
27th November – Come dine with me events. Join your child for one of Mrs Gell’s delicious roast dinners
4th December -Charlotte Eldred the artist will once again be in school working with the children. She will be helping them to design Doodle Art Christmas cards.
6th December – Dress Down Day – with donations for School Christmas Fair
12th December – KS2 Christmas Performance
17th December – Christmas Fair 2pm
19th December -Christmas Disco
Lets have another fab week!
Highlights
Another great week in Class 3. This week we have explored anti bullying, celebrated world kindness day and also Children in Need. As part of this work, we created a beautiful set of bunting with important characteristics of a good friend. The bunting is now up in Miss Northen’s office – she LOVES it! Pop in to see it if you get chance!
Class Targets
To continue our work from Wednesday on World Kindness Day we are going to have a focus on KINDNESS! How are you kind at home? What act of kindness have you carried out in school, Try to do even more every day!
Next Week’s Dates
Championing Maths – Monday Morning (18th)
Pedestrian Training – Thursday 21st Nov – Just for the Year 4s.
Wear what you want – Friday 22nd Nov – Bring in an item for the colour raffle – Class 3 is red
Highlights
Class 3 had a great first week back. We began our new English unit focussing on diary entries and also completed our History Unit. I was really impressed to hear the children discussing the main achievements of the Ancient Egyptians – we have clearly learnt lots. I was also very impressed to see lots of learning at home completed – we love to celebrate this work on a Friday. Please continue to send it in.
Home Challenge – Perhaps you could keep a diary at home. It would be a great way to practice your writing but also lovely to look back on and see what you have been doing!
Spellings
These spellings will be given out on Tuesday
What’s happening next week?
Remembrance Service – On Monday we will show our respect by holding our annual Remembrance Service on the front grass. All welcome.
Anti-bullying Week / World Kindness Day – This week the children will take part in a number of activities linked to Anti-Bullying including special online assemblies – On Tuesday the children are welcome to come to school wearing Odd Socks.
Children in Need – On Friday the children can come to school in Non-Uniform for a small donation. As part of our Children in Need celebrations we hope to take part in an online dance session hosted by Dame Darcey Bussell. Please consider this when choosing your non uniform outfits.
Advance Dates
21st November – The Year 4s will take place in their pedestrian skills session
18th November – Championing Maths morning
13th, 20th, 27th November: Come dine with me events. Join your child for one of Mrs Gell’s delicious roast dinners
21st November – Well-being coffee morning
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FOR OUR SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAIR WHICH WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON THE AFTERNOON OF TUESDAY 17TH DECEMBER. WE ARE VERY EXCITED FOR THIS, MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY!
Highlights
Art Week – Wow!!
Class 3 have had an amazing week of Art. We have learnt how to overlap, layer, billow, coil and twist. We then used our skills to make some amazing collages of the River Nile. Thank you for all the materials for our work.
We have also had great fun today in our Be Bright Be Seen clothing to remind us to stay safe now that the nights are getting darker.
Reading
Well done to our Top Readers of the Half Term! I have been so impressed with all their reading so far – keep it up!
We hope everyone has a super half term – stay safe
See you on Monday 4th November.
Mrs A
Highlights
Another fab week in Class 3. We have all worked so hard on our setting descriptions in English. The children were set the challenge of drawing and then describing their own ‘Chocolate Room’ based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We explored both the book and the films before drawing our own. We had some fab ideas, including marshmallow stepping stones, toffee apple trees, chocolate waterfalls and much more. What would you include in your ‘Chocolate Room’? Watch the video for some inspiration…
Parents Evening
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Tuesday for a very ‘long’ parents evening! I thought it would be useful to share some of the websites and resources that I discussed with some parents.
Below are the Year 1-4 common exception words. These are words that cannot be sounded out and just need to be learnt. Within the purple mash spelling programme we will focus on 10 words from the Year 3/4 list each half term but if you wanted to check your child can spell all the Year 1/2 words and then work on the Year 3/4 that would be fab.
Maths, below are a list of useful websites with a range of maths resources. A skill that really needs to be worked on at home is learning times tables. This can be done through games on Purple Mash or TTRockstars (logins are all in your child’s reading log) or through rote learning, flashcards etc. It really is a valuable skill that just needs to be learnt.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html
Please feel free to catch me on the playground if you have any further questions
What’s happening next week?
Art Week – THIS WEEK! – Please ensure your child brings a small bag of collage materials. This can be pages of magazines, coloured wrappers, shiny paper, tissue paper, strips of paper, wallpaper left overs. We will be using them to complete individual collages linked to our Egypt work – greens, browns, yellow and blues would be brilliant.
Be Bright Be Seen – On Friday 25th October, the children are welcome to come to school in bright colours. This is to show the importance of making sure we consider the clothes we are wearing as the dark nights start to close in.
Have a go at this game to see if you would be seen on a dark night!
https://www.think.gov.uk/resource/be-bright-be-seen-game
Spellings
No new spellings will be issued this week due to Art Week – please continue to consolidate all spelling patterns from this half term using the spellings given out last week.
Diary Dates
Have a lovely half term when Friday comes.
Mrs A