Welcome to Falcons’ class page!
On our new-look page, you will find all of our news and homework organised by type on a handy one-stop page!
| Routines in Falcons | Adults in Falcons |
|---|---|
| Swimming – Friday | Miss Gomersall |
| PE Indoor — Wednesday | Mr Winters |
| Spellings — Monday | Miss Smith |
| Mrs Dolan |
Class Governor: Helen Perry
Bookbags and Reading Diary
As your child enters Year Three or Four, they will be encouraged to work with growing independence. To support this, your child will take responsibility for their own book bag.
They will be expected to bring their book bag into school every day, removing any books, homework, letters, slips, notes and monies accordingly. You may use your child’s orange reading diary (that they should keep in their book bag) as a form of communication, using it to record messages for us to read. We may also use these as a form of communication back to you as parents/carers. In order for this system to run smoothly, we ask you to encourage and remind your child to make us aware as soon as possible if there is a message in their diaries that we need to read.
Reading Books
Every Monday, your child will bring home a reading scheme book. They are to read this book with an adult at least twice at home and should return it to school the following Monday. They will then be given another scheme book and the process will repeat. Before your child brings home their book, they will have been asked at school to write this into their orange reading diary. To clarify that they have read at home, we would appreciate it if you could sign your child’s reading diary each time you read with them. If on a Monday, we find your child’s reading diary has not been signed, we will send them to reading club which takes place at break time. Reading is an integral part of our school, as we strongly believe that all children should be given the opportunity to regularly read a wide range of texts within varying environments. Therefore, by allowing your child to access reading club if they have not read, it enables us to ensure these opportunities to read are being provided.
Free Choice books: In LKS2, your child will be encouraged to take home a free choice book (a book they have selected from our library). When they take a free choice book home, they will also record this in their orange reading diary. This book can be read at their leisure at home (either on their own or with an adult) and must be returned to school whenever they finish it. We understand some of these books are lengthy, and therefore will require a bit more time to read, so do not expect these to be returned weekly. Once they bring this back, it will be ticked off by a member of staff and they will then be free to select another free choice book.
Homework and Spellings
Every Monday, your child will be given two homework sheets. These will consist of English and Maths tasks. They will also be given a list of 10 spellings. We expect these to be returned by the following Monday for us to check over your child’s homework sheets and test them on their spellings. We kindly ask that you mark the homework with your child, so any misconceptions can be addressed at home and also, quickly spotted and supported when the homework is brought back in to school. Some of the Maths Skills and Grammar Hammer questions, answers and concepts can be more specific and therefore, every week, we share the answers to these sheets to help you mark them as a family. You can find these on our class page of the school’s website (below).
We only expect children to spend 20 minutes on each piece of homework, if they are struggling please just write a note to the teacher explaining this – don’t struggle on! Any Grammar Hammer and Maths Skills sheets that your child brings home for the first half-term will be from the previous year. We do this in order to consolidate the children’s learning. After this, we will move on to their respective year group’s sheets.
A topic homework grid will also be available on your child’s class page (below) by the end of the first week of a new topic. It is expected that your child will complete at least three of the activities from the grid. The dates for the deadline of submitting this homework will appear on the top of their Topic Homework Grid. There are a range of fun and exciting options to choose from so please feel free to be creative!
This Week’s Homework- Click the title for more.
LKS2 Homework – w/c 25/11
Year 3 Maths Homework and Answers Stage 3 Check 4 Answers Year 4 Maths Homework and Answers Stage 4 Check 4 Answers As your other homework this week, please continue to learn the lyrics to the songs for our Christmas performance.
This Half-Term’s Topic Homework and Knowledge Organiser – Click the title for more.
LKS2 Homework Grid and Knowledge Organisers – Autumn
Homework Grid Rainforests and Chocolate – 2024 Knowledge Organiser Rainforests and Chocolate – 2024 Copy of Knowledge Organiser Living Things and their Habitats The Iron Man – Knowledge Organiser Maths-Knowledge-Organiser-Autumn-1
This week’s Online Safety Update – Click the title for more.
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Latest class news – Click the title for more.
Bread Making – LKS2
On Monday, Tranmere was transformed into the Great British Bake Off tent at bread week! We created our own rainforest inspired bread, which included chocolate. Some of us chose chocolate chips and others chose grated chocolate. One group even chose cocoa powder. We also added other ingredients such as orange, cinnamon and lemon. The recipe …
Falcons – Nature Treasure Hunt
As part of our ‘Living Things and their Habitats’ Science topic, we took part in a Nature Treasure Hunt. In groups, we had a checklist of things to find. Once we found them, we had to take a picture of it to show it was real! We really enjoyed being outside, getting muddy and seeing …
Falcons – European Day of Languages
To celebrate European Day of Languages, we learnt about why it is celebrated and then played a Guess the Languages quiz. We then took part in some Languages challenges, including learning how to say something new in a different language and learning a song in a different language.
Falcons – Practical Maths
To make sure we felt really confident with our use of Place Value, we played a VERY competitive game where we needed to try and make the largest or the smallest number. It really made us think about the values within our Place Value columns. Have a look!
Tranmere’s Unsung Hero Awards Ceremony
Today, Vision Education re-visited Tranmere to hold their Unsung Hero Awards Ceremony. Over the past few weeks, lots of children (and adults) have been spotted showing ‘hero behaviours’ both in school and within their wider community, and today, they received some certificates and awards in recognition of this. Dylan in Kingfishers also recieved …
School Council – Alternative Playground Provision
Today, School Council have been busy setting up some alternative provisions on both the KS1 and KS2 playgrounds. Between now and summer, when the weather is nice, the team will be providing a small chess and colouring area for the children to enjoy.
Chess Club Begins for UKS2
After running for years 1, 2, 3 and 4, it’s now UKS2’s chance to start chess club. If you are currently in Puffins, Kingfishers or Doves and would like to come to chess club, it will run on a Monday playtime with Miss Ingram in the KS2 shared area.
School Council / Vision Education Easter Competition
Over the past few weeks, School Council have been encouraging all pupils to take part in Vision Education’s design an Easter Egg competition. All entires were collected by the council team and sent to Vision Education and today, the winners were announced… 1st – Lucy B, 2nd – Zaiba K, 3rd – Neveyah P. A …
Falcons – Planet Earth Topic Presentations
This term, our topic has been called Planet Earth. In this topic, we have been learning about Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Rivers. To finish with, we were able to show off all our knowledge and present what we have learnt to the rest of the class. It was a great chance to let people know all …
British Science Week
Last week was British Science Week, and this year’s theme was ‘time’. To celebrate this, all pupils from EYFS to Year 6 engaged in a range of different activities, experiments and investigations revolving around this topic. There were live lessons from the farm with NFU Education, engineering and fossil story times from the STEM Hub, …