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WELCOME TO SYCAMORE CLASS

We have year 3 and year 4 students in our class. We love learning and having fun!

ADULTS IN SYCAMORE CLASS

Class Teacher: Miss Priestley

Class Teaching Assistant: Miss Peers

Other Teaching Assistants: Miss Pickles,Miss Belshaw, Miss Nisa

HOME LEARNING

Maths homework: set on Wednesdays on Sumdog.com
Spelling homework: set on Wednesdays on SpellingShed
Home reading: 3 reads a week or more (please sign your child's reading diary so they can earn raffle tickets and an extra playtime)
We also encourage children to play on TT Rockstars as often as possible.

PE DAYS

Autumn 1 - Monday (outside with sports coach) and Friday (outside).

Autumn 2 - Tuesday (indoors) and Friday (outside).

Spring 1 - Monday (indoor with sports coach) and Friday (outdoors).

Spring 2 - Tuesday (indoors) and Friday (outside).

Summer 1 - Monday (indoor with sports coach) and Friday (outdoors).

Summer 2 - Tuesday (indoors) and Friday (outside).

ROUTINES

Take your reading folder home each evening and return it to school the following day. Reading books are stored in the blue box, you must put it here to earn a raffle ticket. If you need to do a reading quiz, pop your name on the list and inform an adult.

We come into school quietly and calmly and get on with our morning task which is often handwriting or times tables.

Spellings are on a Monday.

Times table quiz on Tuesday

Always be prepared for the weather!

REWARDS

We have lots of rewards.

Reading - a certificate is awarded each week for our reader of the week. Raffle tickets are awarded each time your book is signed and 3 reads equals extra playtime. We have a raffle prize draw on Friday.

Book Winner: Each week one child is chosen as our book winner. This child gets to choose a new book. This award is for effort with reading at home or at school.

TTRockstars: Each week we have a TT Rockstar champion. for fantastic effort learning times tables.

Certificates: Certificates are also awarded in a Friday assembly for English or maths and our class superstar!

On Tuesday 12th November we wore odd socks to school to celebrate anti-bullying week. We wore odd socks as it gave us the opportunity to encourage people to express ourselves and celebrate our individuality and what makes us all unique. We then participated in a range of activities linking to this year’s theme of ‘respect’.

On Monday 4th November, we kicked off our new History unit, the Plague. We had a full day of learning plague themed activities. We made Plague doctor masks, posies to protect us from the ‘bad air’ and learnt the rhymes and songs. We had a fantastic day!

On Friday 1st November, we celebrated the festival Diwali. We learnt all about the festival of light, made wonderful firework crafts, listened to Diwali music, and did some henna art on our hands. It was lots of fun!

Our school value for this half term is kindness. We wrote secret kindness cards to give to someone else in the class. It was lovely to see how we had all recognised how kind we are in different ways.

We have spent some of our guided reading time in our school library. We loved looking at the new books and sharing stories with our friends.

During October we have been celebrating Black History Month to recognise the contributions and achievements of Black people, and to challenge racism and discrimination.

We had a lovely day celebrating ‘National Poetry Day’. We did some collaborative learning and created some verses as a class, before heading off into small groups to create our own verses. We then put them together to create a wonderful poem. Take a look at our work below.

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