Support with the Curriculum

Reading

Year 3 and Year 4 are important years for children to become fluent readers, widening the range of books they choose.  They need a healthy balance of support from parents and teachers combined with independent reading.  Please encourage your child to read to you and independently at least four times a week and ask them questions about what they have read,

Spelling

Your child will bring a list of weekly spellings home to practise.  They can practise them with the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check method and in any other suitable way.  We will be revising the many rules of spelling including the use of suffixes, prefixes and homophones.  The children will also be learning words from the Year 3/4 Word List.  It is important that the children are able to apply the rules to different root words and use them consistently in their writing.

Maths

Times Tables Practise:  By the end of Y3, children should know their 2, 3, 4 ,5, 8 and 10 times tables; by the end of Y4 they should know all the tables up to 12. Children need to know both the multiplication and division facts in their tables by heart.  

Real life problem solving:  Using money and calculating change at the shops, measuring ingredients when cooking, working out distances on maps and reading timetables.

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