Teachers - Mr Hannan

Learning Support Assistant: Mrs Green, Mrs Holland

Welcome Back!

Dear children, parents, carers and guardians, we hope that everyone has used the holidays to have a recharge and spend some quality time together.

The summer term is always great fun and we've got lots to look forward to in this busy term!  We look forward to working to be the best we can be, working at everything with all our hearts.

Key Messages:

- Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct school uniform (details can be found on the main page).  Key things to remember include plain white t-shirts and green shorts for PE (no football shirts), school shoes and not trainers and skirts which must be knee-length.

- As a minimum, the children expected to practice their spellings and times tables daily, and read for around twenty minutes. Please use the homework diary to write down when you have listened to your child read.  Your child will be recieving a bookmark which has their passwords and other details for Myon.co.uk, Accelerated Reader and Times Table Rockstars on it.

- Healthy snacks only- fruit and vegetables.

- Spellings and other messages will be shared on your child's Teams page.  On Teams there is the availability to direct message teachers however if there is anything urgent, please contact the office as a first port-of-call.

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 your information this is the National Curriculum expectation for times tables.

Y2 - recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers

Y3 - recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables

Y4 - recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12 (6x, 7x, 9x, 11x then 12x)

All Y4 children will participate in the national Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) - an on-line test which tests their recall of multiplication and division facts for all tables up to and including 12x.  They have 6 seconds to answer each question, and this is how we conduct our weekly checks.  The tests will be completed between 5th and 16th June.

Children can practise the test using

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/

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