16 October 2020
This week’s homework is practice makes perfect. Complete the sheet and send a picture of it to stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org
Year 3 – we have been looking at adding and subtracting a 1 digit number to/ from a 3 digit number. Remember, if you know 3+4=7 then you also know that 353+4=357.
Year 4 – we have been adding two 3 digit numbers. Be careful when you’re adding, and the total is more than 10, that you carry over the 10s or 100s to the correct place.
Times tables
If you want some quick-fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
09 October 2020
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
09 October 2020
I can share my views about health
Your views can help us to become happier and healthier.
Parents/carers: please complete the online survey with your child and comment at the end. Please submit before Thursday 15 October.
02 October 2020
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 08 October
This half term, our Christian value is friendship. Sometimes we find ourselves in difficult situations, which leave us in a moral dilemma. Talk to somebody about the examples below.
What you would do in the same situation? Why are these moral dilemmas?
- You see your friend cheating in a maths test.
- Your friends are in a club with you at school. A new child joins the class but they won’t let them join the club.
- Someone is saying unkind things about your friend behind their back.
- Your parents have asked you to come straight home after school. Your friends want you to go to the park with them. They say that you should go to the park.
Talk to somebody and make notes so you are ready to feedback in our homework review on Thursday 08 October.
There’s an old saying that goes, “In order to have good friends, you have to be a good friend.” What does that mean? Do you think it’s true? Why? What are the benefits of having friends who are different from us?
Email your thoughts and ideas to Mrs Rowley ( stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org )
Times tables
Times tables
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
25 September 2020
This week, our homework is Talk Time: I can use the 8Rs to help me learn.
In school, we use the 8Rs for learning: ready, responsive, risk-taking, responsibility, resourceful, resilient, reflect and remember.
We’d like the children to discuss what these words mean to them. Below is a list of questions that might help with your discussion.
- How do the 8 Rs help you in school?
- When have you used the 8 Rs outside of school?
- How could you explain the meaning of each word in the 8 Rs?
- Which 8 R do you think you use the most?
- Which 8 R could you use more often?
- How could you use the 8 Rs at home?
Homework should be completed by Thursday 01 October 2020 and will be reviewed / celebrated in class. Please send any completed homework to Mrs Rowley ( stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org )
Times tables
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
18 September 2020
This week’s homework is Practice makes perfect and is due on Thursday 24 September.
Please send a picture of the completed homework to Mrs Rowley (beckyrowley@spherefederation.org)
Times tables:
If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button . Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
11 September 2020
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Thursday 17 September.
What qualities do you look for in a friend?
This half term, our Christian value is friendship. In school and in collective worship, we will be looking at what makes a good friend and examples of being a good friend from the Bible. With your family, discuss the main question (What qualities do you look for in a friend?) along with the other suggestions underneath. Be prepared to talk about your answers in our homework review.
There’s an old saying that goes, “In order to have good friends, you have to be a good friend.” What does that mean? Do you think it’s true? Why? What are the benefits of having friends who are different from us?
Times tables:
Each week, you will be sent times tables to practise. The idea being, by the end of year 4 you will know all of your times tables. You need to be able to know them off by heart with rapid recall (within 5 seconds). If you want some quick fire practise, head to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Use the sheet to practise the times table you’ve been given.
15 July 2020: Home learning
Happy Wednesday – you’ve two more get-ups until the summer holidays. Are you ready to be year 4s and year 5s?
School trip
Today, we’re leaving London and heading up to Scotland’s capital city: Edinburgh. We’re going to visit Edinburgh Zoo and have a look at their animal webcams to see what the animals are up to.
Our focus for today is reading. There are three reading comprehensions for you to choose from with varying abilities. 1 star being the easiest and 3 star being the hardest.
1 star – learn all about tigers.
2 star – learn all about koalas.
3 star – learn all about elephants.
Living and Learning
Normally in school, we would be talking a lot about transition and moving up into a new year group. Half of you stay with your current teacher whilst the other half experience a new teacher.
Today, I would like you to develop a character profile of your superhero self, listing five superhero qualities and writing a unique fact about yourselves. As an extension, you can create a basic comic strip of your superhero self, describing your superhero qualities in basic story format.
If you would like a template to follow, there is one here.
This will be useful to show either Mrs Welsby and I, if you’re in year 3 currently, or Miss Beatson, if you’re in year 4 currently. Either save them for September or ask your grownup to email a copy to beckyrowley@spherefederation.org.
14 July 2020: Home learning
How was the National History Museum yesterday? Did you enjoy it? I loved the dinosaur that is suspended in the centre of the museum. It looks huge!
School trip
Today, we’re staying in London but heading to The National Gallery’s Rooms and Galleries. Follow this link to their virtual tours to have a look around one of (or all three if you wish) their galleries. Your task for today is an art based task – choose your favourite picture and have a go at recreating it. You can choose to use pencils, felt tips or paint- whatever you have to hand at home. Send some pictures in of your fantastic artwork to beckyrowley@spherefederation.org .
Maths
Did you work out who the murderer at the movies was? Here are the answers for you to check.
Crime seems to be following you around, Year 3 and 4! Pinebridge Village prides itself on how beautifully kept the lawns and gardens are; especially
the lovely hanging baskets which adorn the many lamp posts throughout the village. Each spring, the mayor of the local town visits Pinebridge and praises the residents for the beauty of the many flowers and blossom trees.
However, a crime has been committed!
The day before the mayor’s visit, it has been discovered that all the hanging baskets along the High Street have been knocked down and the lovely flowers kicked along the pavements! As Chief Inspector, it is your job to make sure your team finds out who has vandalised the hanging baskets and bring them to justice.
The descriptions of people in the area were taken. Use their descriptions, solve the clues, and identify the scoundrel vandal!
13 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year 3 and 4! It is the final week of the summer term. Its feels like it’s been a long long time since we’ve seen you all and enjoyed learning together in the classroom but, at the same time, it has flown by. For your final week of learning, we’re going to have a little bit of a different approach – we hope you enjoy the change and all the new things you’ll do!
School trip!
Who knew you could go on a school trip from the comfort of your own home. I know for Mrs Welsby and I, it is one of the highlights of the year so for today’s (hint hint for exciting things planned for the rest of the week) trip, we are off to the National History Museum in London! Don’t fall asleep on the coach ride there!
Have a look around the National History Museum’s virtual tour. You can choose to visit all of the places or just one or two that interest you the most. When you’ve been to that place, write a fact file to show the information you have learnt from one of the sections. Try to include at least 5 facts.
If you want some more traditional learning, head to their learning and resources page and complete an activity from there.
Maths
Have you ever fancied being a detective? Well, today your challenge is to solve this murder at the movies! Officers have compiled a list of suspects in attendance at the cinema. You must use the list of cinema-goers and the clues (worked out by answering maths questions) to determined who has committed the terrible crime! The answers will be posted tomorrow.