Year 4 Spellings 8.12.25

 Please find below Year 4's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday.

	A	B	C
1	calendar	probably	would
2	early	promise	should
3	earth	purpose	could
4	difficult	straight	path
5	library	strange	bath
6	length	strength
7	learn	suppose
8	recent	surprise
9	regular	though
10	island	although

Year 3 Spellings - Monday 8.12.25

Look…Say…Cover…Write…Check 

WB:08.12.25

	Group C	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu
1	running
2	stopping
3	learn
4	length
5	library

 

Look…Say…Cover…Write…Check 

WB:08.12.25

	Groups A/B	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur
1	swim
2	swimming
3	running
4	stopping
5	swapping
6	island
7	knowledge
8	learn
9	length
10	library

Year 3 Christmas Play

 Dear Parents,

If your child has a speaking part, kindly send them in on Monday 8th December, 2025 with their costumes, as we are filming.

The children without speaking parts will need to bring their Christmas jumpers in their bags for them to change into before filming.

Please note that the actual dates for the Christmas Play remain as published on the tickets sent home.

Thank you.

Kind regards

Year 3 Team

 

Year 3 Certificates

 

It's been an excellent week in Year 3 and the children have been working hard to make progress in their learning.

         Let's look at the story of this week...

In Literacy, the children have been retelling the story of 'Stone Age Boy' through their independent writing tasks. This piece of writing allowed them to demonstrate their knowledge of the story, whilst also changing some elements of it. The children were able to effectively use expanded noun phrases to add additional detail to their writing, whilst also remembering to write in paragraphs. Well done everybody! 

In Maths,  the children used their knowledge of adding and subtracting using the column method to subtract a 2 digit number from a 3 digit number, before moving on to work on complements to 100 and using inverse operations. It's certainly been a busy week in Maths

Finally, the children have been preparing for their Christmas Concert performances next week. The Year 3 team wish the children the very best of luck! 

This weeks certificate winners are...

E for Excellence - Rory, Lenny and Sreeja 
Star Writer - Adon, Elliot and Anu

4R's - Serghei, Evangeline, Isaac and Vanessa

Teacher Happy - Ava,

Year 4 Certificates

Well Done to all of our certificate winners this week, you have all worked so hard and the staff are very proud of you all.

Elm Class 

E for Excellence: Emma

Star Writer: Lola

4 R's

Resilience: Moyo

Reflectiveness: Lochlan
Reciprocity: Joshua

Resourcfulness: Hayden

Maple Class 

E for Excellence: Edie

Star Writer: Anaelle

Teacher Happy: Alesha

4 R's 

Resourcefulness Noah 

Willow Class 

E for Excellence: Isabelle

Star Writer: Jessica

Teacher Happy: Lawrence

4 R's

Reciprocity: Lawrence

Have a restful, relaxing weekend. We look forward to seeing the children on Monday.

 

Christmas Carolling in the Community

 

This week, our wonderful Year 4 children had the special opportunity to visit the local care home and share some festive joy with the residents. After practising their songs at every opportunity, the children were excited and ready to spread some Christmas cheer!

Once at the care home, the children began singing their carefully rehearsed carols, and smiles quickly spread across the room. The residents and staff couldn’t help but join in, singing, clapping, and even dancing along with the children. The atmosphere was full of warmth, happiness and that magical Christmas sparkle that happens when people come together.

The children represented our school beautifully, demonstrating confidence, kindness, and a real sense of community. Well done, Year 4! You were all absolutely amazing and should feel incredibly proud of yourselves for making such a positive difference.

What a wonderful way to celebrate the season—through music, togetherness, and the true spirit of giving.

"I love that I recognised people from when i've read to them." - Moyo, Elm 

"Did you see man singing and dancing along? He was so happy" - Vikyhat, Elm 

"I enjoyed how excited and happy the residents were to see us!" - Munsha

"I liked that the people all enjoyed it so much. We had fun too!" - Ronnie

Maple swimming permissions 2026

 

Year 4 2025-26 Swimming Lessons

In Year 4 the children will be having swimming lessons at the Central Park Leisure Centre. 

All parents/carers, please complete Google Form.

Each class will have one half an hour session each week in a block. 

Maple: Commencing in Spring. Date TBC

Maple class should get roughly 10 sessions each (STC) which will ensure they achieve the swimming requirements of the national curriculum in KS2 which are to:

- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 meters
- use a range of strokes effectively
- perform a safe self-rescue in different water based situations

The children will leave school in the afternoon, accompanied by Year 4 staff, and we will make our way to Central Park Leisure Centre on foot. We will return to school before the end of the school day.

Your child will need:

• Swimming costume or swimming trunks (no bikinis please!)

• A towel

• A named bag to carry and store their items in

• A swimming hat 

• Goggles (not essential, but can be worn if preferred)

Children should come to school in their uniform and will get changed when we arrive at Central Park Leisure Centre. Please note, no aerosols or powders should be given to children, as these can cause problems for children with asthma.

All children, regardless of ability, will be taking part in swimming lessons as they are a National Curriculum requirement. Children will only be exempt from lessons with a signed and dated doctor’s note or certificate. 

If you have any questions or queries about this or any other swimming related issue, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 4 team via year4@broadford.havering.sch.uk.