Friday 9th November

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

What a fantastic first week back we have had in year 3/4! We have been truly blown away by the fantastic home learning the children brought in on Monday! We had some INCREDIBLE models of Victorian inventions, such as penny farthings, cameras, green post boxes and telephones! Clearly, a lot of time and effort had been spent on them so well done to all!

Home Learning

It was great to see all the reading the children had also been doing over the half term holiday. Please continue to support your child with this, as it really does have a positive impact on their learning in class. For their home learning this week, the children have an extra task set from Mrs Mistry in preparation for our Christmas Fair. They have been asked to write a Christmas poem or joke on a piece of paper and bring it in. We will then be putting forward the most creative to be published in the programme at the Christmas fair. How exciting! Over the next few weeks, we will be beginning our rehearsals for our Christmas production ‘A Dancing Christmas Party’. As usual, priority for speaking parts goes to year 4s in the first instance. If there are any parts not filled, we will re-audtion with the year 3s. If your child has expressed an interest in auditioning for a part, they have taken home one page of the script today (Friday). They need to decide which character’s lines they want to read and learn them off by heart, making sure they say them with expression (perhaps throw a few actions in!). We will be holding the auditions on Tuesday afternoon. We can’t wait!

Spellings

Thank you for your support with helping the children to learn their spellings every week. The children are tested on a Monday and get their new spellings on a Monday too so they have a full week to learn them. We are really pleased with those who practice hard to get 10/10. If your child is a year 4 who has consistently achieved 10/10 in their spellings test every week, we now have some year 5 spellings up on our blog for them to learn as well, if they so wish. The will continue to be tested on their year 4 spellings on a Monday, but will be tested on the year 5 spellings as well during the week.

Our Great Exhibition

This half term we will be holding our very own Great Exhibition! This will offer you the chance to come into the hall and witness all the wonderful outcomes the children have created. This will take place on Wednesday 28^th November at 2:30-3:00pm. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Literacy

This week the children have been imagining they are a great Victorian inventor and were asked to write an advert to persuade people to buy their new invention. Their writing was fantastic! Next week, we will be learning how to write a formal letter of persuasion.

Numeracy

In numeracy, the children have been learning how to add numbers by partitioning and recombining. They have also been learning how to use column addition to add large numbers and amounts of money. Next week, we will be looking at column subtraction.