Y3/4 - Mrs O'Connor 2021 - 2022

Welcome 

My name is Mrs O'Connor and I teach Year 3/4 with support from Mrs Handley. I have been teaching since 2007 and have taught at schools in Sefton and Liverpool before I joined the fantastic Northway team in 2016. I have an undergraduate degree in French and a PGCE in Primary Education. When I'm not in school, I enjoy taking my dog, Charlie, for long walks on the beach. Alongside Mrs Reardon, I am responsible for leading Maths across our school.

Contacting the class teacher

Due to social distancing restrictions and school closure, teachers are unable to meet face to face unless meetings have been scheduled. Please use the class emails if you wish to contact the class teacher. If your concern is imminent, please contact the school office and they will pass the message on to the class teacher.

Year 3 Email: year3@northwayprimary.co.uk    

Year 4 Email: year4@northwayprimary.co.uk

Year 3/4 PE

PE lessons will usually take place on a Tuesday but please make sure your PE kit is in school at the beginning of every half term and stays in school. ALL pieces of clothing, including school uniform and shoes MUST be named. 

Spellings

Each Tuesday you will be given a list of spellings to learn ready for a test on the following Tuesday. We will give you lots of tips on how to practise these at home. 

Spellings tested on Tues 17th May

Year 3 Unit 14

The words in bold are common exception words that do not follow a spelling

pattern but must be learnt.

subheading

submerge

submarine

subclass

subtext

consider

separate

thought

Y4

Unit 14 (1)

This week we are looking at the adding the suffix –ion (2). The orange words are our Y4 words that we have to know by the end of this year.

Please read with your child, regardless of their ability, at least twice per week and sign their home-reading record. Your child will need their reading book each day as we have Accelerated Reading sessions everyday.Reading

Children can also check if a book they have read from home has a quiz attached to it using the following website: 

https://www.arbookfind.co.uk/default.aspx 

Water bottles

Please bring a clear, named reusable water bottle to school everyday, it should have a sports cap type lid and contain only water. 

Homework

Your homework is to use your Doodle account at least three times per week. This means three sessions of Doodle Maths and/or Tables, English and/or Spell  DoodleLearning

Links for Learning 

Times Tables Rockstars https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student 

Top Marks Maths Games https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing 

Numbots https://play.numbots.com/#/intro 

Doodle https://doodlelearning.com/for-schools/  

Some children (though not all) may also have log ins for a Nessy account: Nessy https://learn.nessy.com/account/login#/accountLogin