Online Safety
The National Online Safety website provides, among others, guides with tips for parents to help keep children safe online. We have posted a few of those guides below for your information. Please visit https://nationalonlinesafety.com/hub/guide for more.
Online Safety
Safe Online Remote Education
Social Media
TikTok
Among Us
Playstation
X-Box
Welcome to the Barracudas Class page!
We are a Year 3 & 4 class.
Dear parents,
Thank you very much for all your support with home learning this past week and for all your feedback. We have made some changes to make it easier for children to be independent in their learning and for you to help your child(ren).
Government guidelines state that a minimum of three hours of home learning is required to be completed daily by your child(ren). As a school, we would like to encourage you to do at least the following:
Timetable expectations in KS2:
Daily Times Table Rock Stars (20 minutes)
Daily Reading Eggs (30 minutes)
Daily maths (45-60 minutes)
Daily English (45-60 minutes)
Weekly: Science, Geography/History, PSHE, Computing, French, Music, Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation (GPS)
Please upload the work your child has completed in their ClassDojo portfolio, so I can give feedback. Please take a photograph of each piece of work separately or you can scan it if you have an iPhone or iPad using the Notes App (open a new note, press the camera button, the option to scan document will pop up. Once the document is scanned you can email it easier than a photo, plus you can add notes to the scanned document).
Please note, as mentioned in the newsletter, there is no need to print off any sheets or lesson slides. We expect children to copy and complete the work neatly on a piece of (lined) paper as they would in class. If you need login details for ClassDojo or need help accessing it, please contact the school office.
Best wishes,
Mrs. Mamoany
Dear Parents and carers,
Starting on Monday 11th January, Jane Considine will be delivering daily English lessons at 9:45am (GMT) on her YouTube channel and Facebook groups. Please spread the word to let as many parents and children know.
At Rye Community Primary School, we deliver the same 'Sentence Stacking' approach that Jane Considine will be teaching so this is a good opportunity to see how we teach writing in school.
We will trial these sessions for the next two weeks and will continue if staff and parents feel they have been successful.
These sessions are for children in Year 2,3,4,5 and 6 so you can have the whole family sitting together working on the same English all at once. You will only need a pencil and some paper.
Please follow the links below to join the sessions each day.
#SuperSentenceStackers #MrsC #EnglishWithMrsC
www.youtube.com/c/thetrainingspace
Jane Considine has built an info page for the #LiveLessons that will answer any of your queries here https://www.janeconsidine.com/live-lessons
We are looking forward to seeing the results of the children's writing each day
note: These are extra to our English lessons not instead of them
Learning activities @School Term 3
Our topic this term is 'I am Warrior', a history topic focusing on the Romans and the impact they have had on Britain. For more information, please see our termly newsletter (published shortly).
We will be developing our reading skills this term using The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence. We are also using this book for our writing inspiration: writing a narrative.
Suggested timetable w/c 11.01.21
English
Monday: Thieves of Ostia and live lesson Jane Considine Sentence Stacking (Secret of Black Rock) starts at 9.45
Tuesday: Thieves of Ostia and live lesson Secret of Black Rock (follow the link from yesterday).
Wednesday: Thieves of Ostia and live lesson Secret of Black Rock
Thursday: Thieves of Ostia (plotpoint 1) and live lesson Secret of Black Rock
Friday: Thieves of Ostia (plotpoint 2) and live lessons Secret of Black Rock
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling:
Conjunctions a guide for parents
Conjunctions year 3 and 4 and SEND Children
Apostrophes and Capital letters
Reading
Tuesday: Book talk
Wednesday and Thursday: Book talk
Friday: Reading Comprehension Year 3 text and questions / Year 4 text and questions / SEND
Maths
Monday: Year 3 / Year 4 / SEND and SEND answers
Tuesday: Year 3 / Year 4 / SEND and SEND answers
Wednesday: Year 3 / Year 4 / SEND and SEND answers
Thursday: Year 3 / Year 4 / SEND
Friday: Year 3 / Year 4 / SEND
We appreciate teaching maths can be difficult. Please use these teaching videos to help your child in year 3 and in year 4. Please find the ones linked to the objectives written on the timetable and teaching slides.
Other subjects
Computing - Dance Mat Typing (10-15 minutes) also DTP lesson 1 and task
History
Science and task
Art - Task
PSHE
French / Vocabulary Audio (The Basics 3, Lesson 1) / Song lyrics
Music
Alternative tasks for SEND children if they have trouble accessing the work above.
SEND learning
Pencil Control Work Pack
Pencil Control Feelings Monsters
SATPIN Letter Formation
Letter Formation Pre-cursive
Number Formation Work Pack
First 100 High Frequency Words Handwriting
Number Bonds Challenge
Year 3 and Year 4 Objectives
Year 3 Poster - English - Reading, Spoken Language
Year 3 Poster - English - Writing
Year 4 Poster - English - Reading, Spoken Language
Year 4 Poster - English - Writing
When looking at the Year 3 & 4 objective posters, if you focus on the 'I can...' statements, this is what your child should be able to do by the end of the year in Year 3 & 4 when following the National Curriculum.
Help with Learning @Home
Maths
- Maths reasoning lessons Home learning challenges for year 3 & 4 by Gareth Metcalfe.
- White Rose Maths Home learning videos and maths resources. We use this approach in school.
WRM have now published free to download parent and pupil workbooks - Third Space Learning offers a range of home learning resources with a maths focus.
- Classroom Secrets offers a range of English and maths activities, including games. Great for revision. Sign up for free.
Maths Parent Work Books.
Please choose the appropriate year group for your child.
Useful websites
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The government now have a list of online education resources to help children learn at home. The list includes subject-specific resources for: |
PurpleMash - Please use PurpleMash to keep us updated, and there are lots of fun games and activities on there too! TimesTable Rockstars - To practice times tables. Top Marks - Educational games for lots of subjects, a particular favourite is 'Telling the Time'. Oxford Owl - Lots of reading books online, as well as other resources Class: cuttlefish Password: Cuttlefish2020 Read Theory - Lots of books. Open Library - A website for you to borrow books. CBBC Newsround - Keep updated with child friendly news. Teach handwriting - Help you practice your handwriting for a pen licence. Pobble365 - English and writing activities. GoNoodle - Lots of videos to help keep you active. These include dancing, yoga and stretching. Cosmic Yoga - Lots of great yoga videos. Unicef Learn with me - Dancing, Baking and Crafting videos for children by children |
Useful word mats to help your writing and vocabulary
To describe settings, feelings and characters
Handwriting:
- Letter formation
- Mnemonics
- Letter families
- Red family practise sheet
- Orange family practise sheet
- Yellow family practise sheet
- Green and Blue families practise sheet
Reading
Buster Book Club will be returning. The children can send in their reading minutes on Thursdays via ClassDojo. Please only send your reading record in on a Thursday so that we can check them, then they will come straight home that day.
- Take turns to make plans and predictions before reading: ‘I wonder if… what do you think?’ ‘You think… Oh, I thought…’
- Recap to check ideas and understanding as your child is reading: ‘So, you think that…’ ‘Did you expect…to happen?’ ‘Why do you think that happened?’
- Use encouragement and praise to keep children engaged in reading: ‘What brilliant ideas…let’s see what happens.’ ‘You thought so carefully about... What might happen now?’
- Share prior knowledge and past experiences that link to what is being read: ‘Have you learnt about…at school?’ ‘Do you remember when we watched…and found out about…’
- Tune-in and listen to your child – be curious about their interests: ‘I didn’t know you knew so much about…’ ‘I love reading stories about...with you.’
At school we use the Reading Rainbow to give children a reading focus (a lens to read with) and sentence starters to answer questions.
Spellings
Please continue to read and spell as many of these words as you can. Try setting yourself a challenge for 10 words per week! These are the Year 3/4 statutory spellings.
Online Safety
The National Online Safety website provides, among others, guides with tips for parents to help keep children safe online. We have posted a few of those guides below for your information. Please visit https://nationalonlinesafety.com/hub/guide for more.
Online Safety
Safe Online Remote Education
Social Media
TikTok
Among Us
Playstation
X-Box
Archive
Archive Term 3
Timetable w/c 05.01.21
Wednesday: Sentence Stacking Lesson 1 / Vocabulary Word mat
Thursday: Sentence Stacking Lesson 2 / Adverb Word mat
Friday: Sentence Stacking Lesson 3
Grammar and Punctuation: Prefixes Super-, Auto-, Anti- / Use apostrophes for contractions (SEND children apostrophes work)
History
Science
Art - Lesson / Task
Alternative tasks for SEND children if they have trouble accessing the work above
SEND learning
Pencil Control Work Pack
Pencil Control Feelings Monsters
SATPIN Letter Formation
Letter Formation Pre-cursive
Number Formation Work Pack
First 100 High Frequency Words Handwriting
Number Bonds Challenge
Archive Term 2
Timetable w/c 14.12.2020
English
Tuesday: editing and improving explanation text
Wednesday: publish explanation as a double spread
Grammar
Maths
Tuesday: End of term assessment (arithmetic)
Wednesday: mystery maths / multiplication mosaics A / multiplication mosaics B
CLIC
We appreciate teaching maths can be difficult. Please use these teaching videos to help your child in year 3 and in year 4. Please find the ones linked to the objectives written on the timetable and teaching slides.
Other subjects
RE Day (Monday)
Morning activities: Hannukah lesson / temple diagram / word mat / writing task / pictures
Afternoon activities: Christmas story lesson / storyboard template simple and challenging
French Write own version of 'La Chenille qui fait des Trous' simple version / challenging version
Homework
Monday
Tuesday / Diagram Robot / Diagram digestive system
Wednesday / Planning sheet
Thursday: independently writing of the explanation text, use scaffold if needed.
Friday: independently writing of the explanation text
Booktalk / poem
Maths
Monday / Venn diagram / Task Year 3 / Task year 4 A and task B
Tuesday / Task
Wednesday / Task
Thursday / Task
Friday
Maths meetings and CLIC
We appreciate teaching maths can be difficult. Please use these teaching videos to help your child in year 3 and in year 4. Please find the ones linked to the objectives written on the timetable and teaching slides.
Other subjects
Science and task
Geography
French (Year 3 / Unit Food / Cutlery)
Timetable w/c 30.11.2020
English
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Grammar
Booktalk
Maths
Tuesday / Task
Wednesday / Task
Thursday
Friday / Task B
Maths meetings
We appreciate teaching maths can be difficult. Please use these teaching videos to help your child in year 3 and in year 4. Please find the ones linked to the objectives written on the timetable and teaching slides.
Other subjects
Science
Geography
French (Year 3 / Unit Food / Cutlery)
Computing if you do not have iMovies, please download (free) and use Pivot Animator or 2Animate on PurpleMash
Homework
PSHE
DT Day Teaching slides / Task sheets / Instructions / Template (optional)
Timetable w/c 23.11.2020
English
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Grammar
Booktalk If you don't have the book at home, use similar questions for a book you are reading.
Maths
Monday / Year 3 Task 1, Task 2 / Year 4 Task 1, Task 2
Tuesday / Year 3 Task 1, Task 2 / Year 4 Task 1, Task 2
Wednesday / Year 3 / Year 4
Thursday / Year 3 / Year 4
Friday / Reasoning & Problem-Solving
Maths meetings
Other subjects
Science
Geography quiz cards and word search
French (Year 3 / Unit Food / Cutlery)
Computing if you do not have iMovies, please download (free) and use Pivot Animator
Homework
PSHE
Music - Glockenspiel
Timetable w/c 16.11.2020
English
Monday / year 3 task 1 and task 2 / year 4 task 1 and task 2
Tuesday
Wednesday: Write own animal kenning. Use an (online) thesaurus to find ambitious adjectives or adverbs.
Thursday and poems to choose
Friday
Grammar
Booktalk If you don't have the book at home, use similar questions for a book you are reading.
Maths
Monday / Year 3, Year 3 RPS / Year 4, Year 4 RPS
Tuesday / Year 3 Fluency, RPS / Year 4 Fluency, RPS
Wednesday / Year 3 Task A / Year 4 Task A / Year 3 & Year 4 Input / Year 3 Task B & C / Year 4 Task B & C
Thursday / Year 3 Task A, Task B / Year 4 Task A, Task B
Friday / Year 3 Task A, Task B / Year 4 Task A, Task B
Maths meetings
Other subjects
Science and investigation planner
Geography
French (Year 3 / Unit Food / What are you eating?)
Computing if you do not have iMovies, please download (free) and use Pivot Animator
Homework
PSHE
Music - Glockenspiel
Timetable w/c 09.11.2020
English
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday - see Remembrance Day activities below.
Thursday and planning frame
Friday: Use your plan and steps to success from Thursday to write a diary entry.
Grammar
Booktalk
Maths
Maths lesson Monday / Year 3 / Year 4
Maths lesson Tuesday input and task
Maths lesson Wednesday / Year 3 / Year 4
Maths lesson Thursday
Maths lesson Friday
Maths meetings
Other subjects
Science and task resources
Geography
Computing (see Remembrance Day activities)
Remembrance Day (English and Computing) and Assembly
Timetable w/c 02.11.2020
English
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Match the shapes to the sections of the text
Thursday Cut up the paragraphs and rebuild the text, matching them to the correct shapes.
Maths
Maths lesson Monday and task
Maths lesson Tuesday and task year 3, task year 4
Maths lesson Wednesday year 3 task A task B year 4 task A task B
Maths lesson Thursday year 3 fluency year 3 reasoning year 4 fluency year 4 reasoning
Maths lesson Friday
Other subjects
Science and task
Geography Research where your favourite foods come from.
Computing
French Join in reading the story, make up actions for the words or phrases. Learn five items of food.
Archive Term 1 
Timetable w/c 19.10.2020
English
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday and planning grid
Thursday (this will take two days)
Grammar
Booktalk
Maths
Maths lesson Monday and fluency and activities year 3 and activities year 4
Maths lesson Tuesday
Maths lesson Wednesday and activities year 3 activities year 4
Maths lesson Thursday
Maths lesson Friday
Maths meeting
Other subjects
Science
History
Timetable w/c 12.10.2020
CHANGE TO TIMETABLE: RE Day (Thursday)
English
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Grammar
Maths
Maths lesson Monday and flashcards and recording sheet
Maths lesson Tuesday and activities year 3 activities year 4
Maths lesson Wednesday
Maths lesson Thursday
Maths lesson Friday: End of Block assessment and mental maths activities (times tables, subtraction)
Other subjects
Science: if possible, conduct your investigation. You need lego and a simple circuit with a motor year 3 and 4 planning and observation sheet
History: lesson slides, map and table
CircleTime: Dream, believe, achieve
Timetable w/c 05.10.2020
English
Monday - Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Grammar
Maths
Maths lesson Monday and activities year 3 activities year 4
Maths lesson Tuesday and activities year 3 activities year 4
Maths lesson Wednesday and activities year 3 activities year 4
Maths lesson Thursday and hundred square thousand square v1 thousand square v2
Maths lesson Friday and activities year 3 and activities year 4
Maths meetings
Other subjects
Science: lesson slides, planning an investigation, once complete start filling out this year 3 and 4 planning and observation sheet
History: lesson slides, map and table
Computing: staying safe online
Timetable w/c 28.09.20
English
Monday with activity sheet and alternative for SEND, commas activity
Tuesday
Wednesday: if your child's work is at school please ask them to join in with a sentence stacking lesson instead
Thursday
Maths
Maths activities Monday number square year 3 and 4 independent activity
Maths activities Tuesday and independent activity
Maths activities Wednesday and independent activity
Maths activities Thursday and independent work
Other subjects
Science switches
History analyse a detail of the Bayeux tapestry detail 1 or detail 2
PSHE: What does it mean to be a school citizen? What are our rules, rights and responsibilities?
Timetable w/c 21.09.20
English
English plans Plan and write your own adventure in Flamant Castle starring Tommy. Use this plot point plan.
Maths
Maths activities Monday
Maths activities Tuesday Year 3 independent task Year 3s who need to practice more of the work we did on Monday can complete these activities.
Maths activities Wednesday
Maths activities Thursday Year 3 and Year 4 independent task
Maths activities Friday Year 3 independent task Year 4 independent task
Maths meetings
Other subjects
Science
History
RE: draw a simple family tree
Computing
Timetable w/c 14.09.20
English
English plans Continue writing our story about Tommy and the Secret of the Swords. Each plot point is one writing lesson.
Grammar
Planning the independent write (Friday)
Maths
Maths activities Monday lesson powerpoint tasks
Maths activities Tuesday
Maths activities Wednesday
Maths activities Thursday Year 4. Year 3 will go over the same activities as Wednesday.
Maths activities Friday
Maths meetings
Other subjects
Science Use the circuit builder on the web page to build and test a simple circuit.
History Watch the video first (link on the first slide of the PowerPoint). Create your own timeline using this sheet.
French Fold and use the chatterbox to review greetings
