Welcome Back to our 2022-23 Academic Year!

Our first Autumn topics are:

Brainwaves & How Humans Work

This overview shows you everything we will be learning across the first half term. See below for information on maths, home learning and spellings. 

Maths

As in previous years, we will be using the White Rose Maths Mastery approach to teaching maths. In the first half of autumn term, we will help children to recall their prior maths learning with a focus on addition and then subtraction. Children will learn different methods for adding and subtracting with 2 and 3 digit numbers and apply these to problem solving and reasoning questions. Content for this unit is very similar for year 3 and year 4 and children will be encouraged to secure their skills before they move on to using larger numbers and solving more complex problems. 

At St Edmundsbury, we use TT Rock Stars to practice times tables and this can be accessed at home with your username and password. Tables will be tested each week to see how you are all getting on and to help you to keep making progress with these. Children have been provided with their log-in details to bring home. Please let us know if you are having any problems accessing the site. 

For more information on how maths in taught in primary schools, parents can access a number of guidance videos using the following link:

White Rose Parent Videos

Home Learning

- Try to read as much as you can (a little each day is best). You can read anything you like! Just remember to record it in your Homework Diary. You have been given log-in details for 'My-On' which is an online reading site where you can access hundreds of different books and quizzes to go with them.

- If children finish their reading book, they can log in to Accelerated Reader and search for the book they have read. There will be a short quiz for them to complete to show they have understood the text, before they are given a new book in school. As the children get used to the tests, we will be doing the tests in school - over time we will move to home-testing where convenient.

- Work on TT Rock Stars online or on the App to practise your tables.

- Practise your spellings as much as possible. These will be put on your class website page each week. Please let your teacher know if you need a paper copy to take home.

Other information

See the class timetable above for PE days. The timetable will be updated to show any changes so keep checking back regularly.

REMEMBER: You can come to school in your PE kit on your PE days. ​​​​​​

OUR LEARNING GALLERY

We have been doing some shape poetry and before choosing our own sea animal to write about, we did a joint class poem which we wanted to share with our families.

Our second topic this year was...

Bright Sparks!

All about how electricity works  - we learned to build simple circuits to light bulbs and make buzzers buzz!

We learned about the potential dangers of electricity and created our own energy safety posters - here are a few examples!