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Lower Key Stage 2 2024 - 2025

Mr Lewis

Welcome to our Lower Key Stage 2 webpage for 2024-2025

This year our classes are as follows:

CLASS	Year Group	Teacher(s)	Support Staff
KINGSTON	3	Mr Lewis (Key Stage Lead), Mr Ashdown (Thurs AM)	Mrs Brittain (HLTA), Mrs Robson, Mrs Waclawik (1:2), Miss Curtis-Ban (1:1), Mrs Winter (1:1).
COKER	3	Miss Taylor	Miss Broom, Mrs Robson
COOPERS	4	Miss Swinson	Mrs Patmore, Mrs Robson, Mrs Hallet (1:1)
GATCOMBE	4	Miss Pablo Mr Ashdown (Thurs PM)	Mrs Samways (HLTA)

We hope that you will find this area of the website useful as we build in documents and photos that will help you understand our curriculum and also see what the children have been up to. Our main source of communication with parents is via ClassDojo so please keep an eye out for general class announcements and private messages directly for you. Please also check out the youtube links to some of the times table videos we learn in class.

Lower Key Stage 2 News

Autumn Term 2024

Class Newletters: Please see the files section at the bottom of the page for the latest newsletters.

Photos: Please check out our gallery section to see images of what we have been up to including school wide events and class events.

Welcome to the Autumn Term. We have already had a busy opening to the year and we are launching our fresh new website this Autumn! We hope this can be somewhere we can share our learning and exciting events. Please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher via ClassDojo if you need to ask a question.

Please also check out the curriculum areas as these have links to fun learning! For instance, in the Maths area there is information about the Y4 Multilication Checker Test that all Year 4s take part in each June. There are also liks to youtube Times Table Videos and practice test sheets for all times tables. Please remember, as part of their weekly homework, all children are expected to practice their times tables through the TT Rockstars website or APP for a minimum of 20 minutes (four lots of five minutes ideally rather than one long chunk!) and teachers monitor this most weeks. There are also certificates given out during our weekly celebration assembly for the best class and children. There is a parent guide and video What is Times Tables Rock Stars? Parents and Carers Guide (youtube.com) below which helps explains the different game versions within TT Rockstars as some allow children to pick the times tables they get given (they often pick the ones they know) whilst others use their previous answers to determine which they need to practice more. You can also use their TT Rockstars login to access NUMBOTS which helps to refine addition and subtraction facts too!

Please have a look at the latest information regarding our Reading Expectations that is found below as updated by Mr Whitfield in a message to parents in October 2024. We also share with you the PowerPoint that children were shown. We now expect all children to read for a minimum of five times a week for 10 minutes each time, this can be through listening to and reading texts. Please ensure you sign their reading records weekly for all of these occasions and these are checked at the start of each week. Certificates and even free books (when available) are given out to children who fullfill this requirement each week of the half term!