Welcome to Class Two (Year Two, Year Three and Year Four)
Our Staff
Class Teacher:
- Mrs Culshaw
Class Teaching Assistants:
- Mrs Gardner
- Mrs Eastwood (Every Morning)
- Miss Partington (Every Afternoon)
PE
Your child will be taking part in PE lessons every Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Children can come to school in their PE kit on these days. Class 2 go swimming every Wednesday, from February to June.
PE Kits:
- Yellow school T-shirt
- Blue hoodie
- Blue or black PLAIN tracksuit bottoms or shorts (of appropriate length)
- Trainers
Toast Money
If your child would like toast, please pay for each half term via the Parent Pay. Speak to Mrs Smith for more information about this.
Reading
Your child has been given a Reading Jotter to use to record the reading that they do at home. They will receive house points for reading at home three times a week or more. Reading Jotters will be checked on a Thursday for Year 4 and a Friday for Year 3 and 2.
Please play an active role in your child’s home reading. Your child is required to read at least three times a week for 20 minutes. If they are reading independently, please ask them questions about what they have read such as: What was the main idea in the chapter / story? Who are the characters? What are they like? What words told you this? Please then initial their reading jotter to say they have read. Your child’s school reading book will sit in line with their independent comprehension ability, which is formally assessed each term.
Reading Tasks
In the middle of the Reading Jotters for Year 3 and 4 children, there will be a reading activity sheet. It has been designed to enable the more fluent reader to practice their comprehension skills, and for all children to engage further with the text they are reading. The activities will vary in duration. Some can be carried out over several books; others will be based on one particular text type.
Children are to complete one activity each week, and should spend approximately 20 minutes completing this. This activity will be looked at each week. The children may choose which order they complete the tasks in, dependent upon the genre they are reading. Your child has been asked to complete their reading task on the pages in the second half of their journal, but feel free to encourage them to use the computer or drawings which can be stuck into this part of the book. Children will receive additional house points for each activity they carry out.
Times Tables
We encourage children to take part in TTRS (Times Tables Rock Stars) at least three times a week.
Spellings
Every other week, the Year 3 and 4 children will add a new Supersonic Spellings Parent Newsletter into their Spelling Books for Home. This includes information regarding the rule and spelling that the children have been learning. The newsletter provides a variety of activities which can be completed at home.
Phonics
Every Friday, the Year 2 children will add a new Supersonic Phonics Parent Newsletter into their Phonics Books for Home. This includes information regarding the sounds that the children have been learning. Children must select at least 3 words from the list and write 3 SUPER sentences.
Year 3/4 Athletics Team - GOLD MEDALS
Eco Dash
Clog Dancing with Eccleston Heritage Clog 2025
Global Community Action - Spring Term 2025
The Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) is a Key Stage 2 assessment to be taken by pupils at the end of Year 4, from the 2019 / 2020 academic year onwards. The purpose of the MTC is to make sure the times tables knowledge is at the expected level.
The MTC is an online test were the pupils are asked 25 questions on times tables 2 to 12. For every question you have 6 seconds to answer and in between the questions there is a 3 second rest. Questions about the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 times table come up more often. The questions are generated randomly based on the rules of the MTC.
At school, we will continue to practise and apply multiplication tables in class (see information below). In addition to this, the children will have the opportunity to practise their test technique in preparation for the assessment at the end of Year 4.
Please click here for a game that will support your child at home. The style of this game is very similar to the online test children will sit in June. Children can also practise at the following website: timestables.me.uk and can print off practice tests here.
The use of MTC on Emile, Times Tables Rock Star (TTRS) and other times tables games are encouraged.