We are taught by Mrs J. Warren.

Our teaching assistants are Miss F. Jones and Mrs W. O'Farrell.

This is a Key Stage Two mixed class of Year 3 and Year 4 children. 

Our timetable may change occasionally according to needs. We begin our day on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with Basic Skills in spelling, punctuation and grammar, where we concentrate upon learning spelling patterns, basic punctuation, grammar and various literacy word or sentence level requirements. 

Also on Wednesdays, we learn and improve our fluency with our times tables, identifying the gaps we need to work on.

Shortly before our English lesson, we have 20 minute daily Whole Class Guided Reading session where we read a text together as a class and answer questions to develop our retrieval and inference skills.

Please select the link below.

Devon Class Mission Homework Summer A

How many can you read by the end of Year 4?

Please select the document below.

St Margaret's C of E Primary School YEAR 3 AND 4 Recommended Reading List

[pdf 212KB]

Maths is taught daily in Devon class and a mastery approach is used:

The Essence of Maths Teaching for Mastery

• Maths teaching for mastery rejects the idea that a large proportion of people ‘just can’t do maths’. ? All pupils are encouraged by the belief that by working hard at maths they can succeed.  Pupils are taught through whole-class interactive teaching, where the focus is on all pupils working together on the same lesson content at the same time, as happens in Shanghai and several other regions that teach maths successfully. This ensures that all can master concepts before moving to the next part of the curriculum sequence, allowing no pupil to be left behind.
• If a pupil fails to grasp a concept or procedure, this is identified quickly and early intervention ensures the pupil is ready to move forward with the whole class in the next lesson.
• Lesson design identifies the new mathematics that is to be taught, the key points, the difficult points and a carefully sequenced journey through the learning. In a typical lesson pupils sit facing the teacher and the teacher leads back and forth interaction, including questioning, short tasks, explanation, demonstration, and discussion.
• Procedural fluency and conceptual understanding are developed in tandem because each supports the development of the other.
• It is recognised that practice is a vital part of learning, but the practice used is intelligent practice that both reinforces pupils’ procedural fluency and develops their conceptual understanding.
• Significant time is spent developing deep knowledge of the key ideas that are needed to underpin future learning. The structure and connections within the mathematics are emphasised, so that pupils develop deep learning that can be sustained.
• Key facts such as multiplication tables and addition facts within 10 are learnt to automaticity to avoid cognitive overload in the working memory and enable pupils to focus on new concepts.

	Year 3 Maths Curriculum	[pdf 255KB]
	Year 4 Maths Curriculum	[pdf 261KB]

PE: Swim on Mondays. PE will be held on Thursdays.

Please ensure your child wears their kit to school this day.

Spellings will be given out on Monday for a spelling test the following Monday. Please help your child to practise their spellings at home as this will really help them to become more accurate spellers and enhance their writing.