Witnesham Class 3

Mrs Alsop-Lee

Years 3 and 4

Witnesham Class 3 Autumn newsletter 2025-2026.pdf

Our Learning:
In Class 3 we have daily lessons in Reading, Writing and Maths. In our Reading lessons we will be learning to read and understand texts by learning
to use the VIPERS approach and questioning methods. The VIPERS method includes developing skills in predicting, inference, vocabulary, explaining,
retrieving and sequencing. We love reading in Class 3 and we will be using our books to help inspire our learning. Each half term our learning will be
inspired by a book, our first book this year is called, ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’. In our Reading and Writing lessons we will also be learning a wide
range of spelling, punctuation and grammar skills. In maths we will be learning using a mastery approach and we will be practicing our times tables daily too! 

It would be brilliant if you could help to support your child at home to learn their Times Tables, every child is expected to learn their times-tables up to 12
x 12 by the end of Year 4. We find Times Tables especially important in KS2 as the times-table skills help support all other learning in maths lessons. We
will also be learning about a wide range of foundation subjects such as Science, History, Geography, Computing, RE, PSHE, PE, Art, DT and Music.

Homework:

Our homework this year will be sent home in your child’s homework folder every Friday. Each Friday your child will be given 2 pieces of homework, 1 for
English and 1 for Maths. These pieces of homework need to be completed and returned to school by the following Thursday so that it can be marked and
new pieces sent home for the following week.

Spellings

In Class we will have a daily Spellings lesson using the Sounds and Syllables approach. Statutory spellings will be practiced on Fridays.

Reading
Reading is really important to us in Class 3! We LOVE reading and are excited to start a new class story book. Your child will be bringing home a reading book every day, whenever they need to change their book they just need to ask us at school and they can go to change it. Support choosing books will be offered as needed but the children will be given the independence to choose their own books that they find interesting. Please practice reading at home as often as you can (ideally at least 3x a week) to gain fluency and comprehension of what is being read. Just ten minutes every day can really help your child to progress in their reading. (Even fluent readers may need help with difficult words.) When you have listened to your child, please sign and date the pages read.

Additional Information
Our PE days are Mondays and Thursdays, please can the children come to school in their PE kits on these days. On PE days, earrings need to be
removed and long hair needs to be tied back. Please make sure that all items of clothing are labelled with your child’s name so that we can easily find anything if it gets lost.