Welcome to Fir!

Y3/4

Welcome to Fir Class page!  I hope that you find the following information useful.  Please check this page for any updates. Homework for our class is as follows: reading daily, practising spellings and logging onto TTRS. Occasionally there will be creating projects that children can complete at home and bring in to share with their peers.  Please do contact the office if you have any queries, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Best wishes,

Miss Bennett and Mrs de Ville

Supporting Learning at Home:

Maths

Times tables practice is extremely important for children throughout primary school. In Year 4, the children will sit a times tables test towards the end of the year. Your child has been given log in details for Times Tables Rockstars. Please encourage your children to log in at least once a week to develop their speed and practise their tables. Another great online game to practise times tables is ‘Hit the Button’.

Reading 

Please encourage your child to read for 10-15 minutes every day. Even though a lot of this reading may be done independently, it is important that your child has opportunities to share their book with an adult. This supports your child to improve their reading speed, accuracy, vocabulary and understanding of the text by discussing what they have read.  See the Learning Links for useful questions you can ask your child during reading. 

After reading, this needs to be recorded in your child’s home school book, which will be checked weekly by a member of staff. When your child has finished reading their book, they will then complete a quiz about their book on Accelerated Reader. This will check how well your child has understood the text, and helps us to ensure that children are always reading at their correct book level.  

Spellings

Your child will bring home a weekly list of spellings to learn and practise based upon the spelling rules being focused on during the week. They need to practice these each night in the book they have been given and bring it into school each day. Spelling tests will usually take place on a Friday.  We would be grateful if you could help your child to practise their spellings. As well as writing them daily in their book, this can be done in a variety of ways, from repeatedly writing to spelling aloud or even getting creative by using felt tips, paints or chalks to make the practise fun! 

PE

Our PE sessions take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. Your child will need to wear black shorts or jogging bottoms, a plain white or their House t-shirt, as well as trainers for outdoors and plimsolls for indoors. Please note that your child will only be allowed to wear shorts (not jogging bottoms or leggings) when the PE focus is gymnastics for safety reasons. Earings must be removed for PE so please make sure you child can remove their own earings or take them out before coming to school on PE days.

Should you have any questions, please get in touch.

Miss Bennett and Mrs de Ville