Please encourage your child to practise their times tables for at least 10 minutes each day. This is a crucial skill that supports confidence and success across many areas of maths. Strong times-table knowledge helps children with:

- Multiplication and division

- Fractions (finding equivalents, simplifying, comparing and operations)

- Decimals and percentages

- Long multiplication and long division

- Factors, multiples and prime numbers

- Area, perimeter and volume

- Ratio and proportion

- Problem-solving and reasoning tasks

Regular, short practice makes a big difference and helps build a strong foundation for more advanced maths concepts.

Homework

Homework will now be set through our online system, Atom learning. Every fortnight, the children will be given tasks in Maths, English and Guided Reading. These are marked automatically online, and I will closely monitor their progress.

Children who complete all three pieces of homework will earn Dojo points as a reward for their effort. It’s very important that homework is completed regularly as it helps to reinforce and recap the learning we do in class.

In addition, please continue to support your child at home by:

- Practising spellings and learning the spelling rules

- Reading regularly together or independently

Thank you to all the children who completed all three sets of homework! You’ve earned 3 Dojos for each piece of homework. Well done!

The Maths, English and Guided Reading homework is set on Monday, 13/4/26 and is due on 04/05/26.

These spellings will be tested on Friday, 1st May 2026.

HOMOPHONES

who’s = who is

whose = shows possession (whose bag is this?)

cereal = breakfast food made from grains

serial = series, repeated in parts or relating to a sequence

weary = tired

wary = being cautious and careful

steel = a metal made from iron

steal = to take something without permission

lead = a heavy metal

led = past tense of lead (to guide)