Scots Pine Class | Cold Aston Primary School

Welcome to Scots Pine Class

Here you will be able to find information about the upcoming year, including our curriculum map, reading journey and spellings for this term. You will also find our weekly timetable, dates for your diary and useful information and resources to support your child throughout the year. Look out for picture updates giving you an insight into our exciting topics through out the year.

Please do not hesitate to contact the main office if you wish to speak to me or message me directly through Class Dojo.

Miss Gibbons

Scots Pine Routines

Homework

Reading

Please ensure your child is reading on a daily basis or at least four times a week. Please ensure a comment and the page number is recorded in the reading record. If your child is reading independently this can be completed themselves. To support your child’s Oracy skills, please listen to them read at least twice a week and record this.

Spellings

Spellings will be given out on a Friday in preparation for a test the following Friday. Children should practise their spellings daily.

Maths - Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS)

Each week the children will be set 20 minutes of a Garage on TTRS.

Reading - Rockerbox News

Each week the children will be set at least one article to read and answer questions on. They can definitely read other articles too!

Other

Other pieces of homework will be set when relevant to our lessons, the children will always have at least a week to complete these pieces of home work. Additional information for these pieces will be added to our class story on ClassDojo.

PE

PE is currently on Thursday mornings and children are allowed to come into school wearing their PE kit. Please ensure that your child’s kit is named clearly. Earrings must be removed for all P.E. lessons and long hair tied back.

Helping your child at home

Recapping and revising key facts (such as multiplication facts or spelling rules) at home is incredibly useful and makes a huge impact on their learning in the classroom.

Below are some online iPad-friendly resources. However, if you would like other paper based recommendations feel free to ask Miss Gibbons.

Useful resources:

Hit the Button – practicing times table facts and questions, division facts and questions, square numbers and number bonds (make 100) fluently is essential.
Alongside Garage on TTRS, Multiplication Tables Check is a great tool to practice the Year 4 MTC in a very similar style to the final assessments.
Bitesize for Year 5 and Year 6 Maths are great resources for recapping topics at home.
Practice Year 6 Maths arithmetic papers (randomly generated and self marking) using Maths Bot.
Bitesize spelling rules to support spelling practice and understanding rules.
Spelling frame for spelling rules games given in our weekly spelling tests.