Team Rigby
This is our Year 3 and Year 4 class. Our teachers are Mrs Standrell and our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Kenyon. We have P.E. on Thursdays and Fridays and Violin on Monday afternoon. Children will take their violins home to practice and must bring them in each Monday morning.
Please see our PowerPoint presentation about joining Years 3 and 4.
Life in Team Rigby
Spellings an activities to help learn these new words are sent home every Monday via our online learning platform Purple Mash. These will be tested the following Monday. Please ensure that your child thinks about the spelling rules and also thinks about the meaning of these new words to help to increase their understanding and knowledge of vocabulary. It is helpful to write these new words in full sentences at home to assist in learning how to use the word, however we will only test the individual words when we complete our test.
Reading is a key part of our curriculum and the children will have a banded reading book and also a free-choice book from our class library. We encourage the children to take ownership of their reading and learning and we would like them to record in their Home/School reading diaries and think about the texts they have enjoyed. The children are responsible for informing staff when they have finished a book and they change them independently. This is a skill we will support when the Year 3 children are first introduced to it but we expect them to be completing this independently after the Autumn half term.
Team Rigby is a class in which learning is full of fun, laugher an enjoyment. We work hard as a team putting in 100% effort and dedication into all that we do. We always choose to follow our six gospel values, in doing so creating an excellent environment for our learning.
There are opportunities to become part of our School and Eco Council. Children will be able to put themselves up for election, create a presentation and be voted in for their role by their peers. We also have some other very exciting roles within Team Rigby, these include P.S.H.E Ambassadors, Spiritual Leaders and everyone will have the opportunity to be classroom monitors throughout the year. Our twitter demonstrates some of the opportunities and activities for children whilst in Team Rigby and we hope that you enjoy seeing the exciting learning experiences we have during the course of the year.
Throughout the children's time in Team Rigby, they continue to develop a love of learning, in which knowledge sticks and we enhance their commitment to becoming life long learners.
Team Rigby Quotes To Remember:-
"In a world where you can choose to be anything, choose to be kind"
The smallest thing can make the biggest difference"
"100% effort = 100% success"
"We never fail, we only ever learn"
"Be brave, be creative, be kind, be thankful, be happy, be you"
"Let Your Light Shine"
- Mrs Standrell
- Mrs Kenyon
Curriculum
Knowledge Organisers
A Knowledge Organiser is a set of key vocabulary, facts and information on a topic that your child needs to be able to know and recall by the end of the topic. Please use these at home as conversation starters to discuss learning and as a way of helping your child commit their learning to long-term memory (for example, you may want to cut up the vocabulary and meanings and play matching pairs or encourage your child to learn how to spell the words).
Autumn Term Knowledge Organisers
Animals & Humans Knowledge Organiser
Leeds Liverpool Canal Knowledge Organiser
Year 3 French Knowledge Organiser
Year 4 French Knowledge Organiser
Spring Term Knowledge Organisers
Reading With Your Child
Please visit our Reading at Home page for advice and ideas to support developing reading skills.
Wider Opportunities in Team Rigby
Spiritual Leaders
As Spiritual Leaders in each year group, all children are given the opportunity to prepare the weekly class worship and lead on the planning and delivery of a whole school worship once every half term. At the end of the child-led worship, the Spiritual Leaders are then presented with a certificate to recognise what they have done within their year group.
The Spiritual Leaders are responsible for ensuring that their class reflective worship area is clean, tidy and up to date with their learning in R.E. as well as the termly Gospel Value.
Spiritual Leaders are also able to participate in a weekly lunchtime club to develop their knowledge of our school vision, values and understanding of worship.
See our Christianity at Newburgh page for more information on this.
Key Stage 2 Jobs
Pupils in Teams Rigby and Venables are invited to apply for jobs. Please see the following documents for more information.
Library Monitor Job Description
Nursery Assistant Job Description
Office Assistant Job Description
Playground Leader Job Description
School Council & Eco Council
See our Enrichment Opportunities page for more information on this.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
In the Summer Term of Year 4 children will sit the Multiplication check. Please see our PowerPoint for more information about this and visit the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multiplication-tables-check-information-for-parents
Year 4 Useful Links
Purple Mash - an award winning website for nursery and primary school children. It enables children to explore and enhance their learning in a fun and creative way. Children have logins for this in their reading diary.
Times Table Rock Stars - a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice. Each week concentrates on a different times table, with a recommended consolidation week for rehearsing the tables that have recently been practised every third week or so. Children have personal logins for this in their reading diary.
Mathletics - the award wining companion tool to help students learn maths. Engaging, fun and aligned to the curricula across the UK. Children have personal logins for this in their reading diary.
Prodigy Education - Hit the ground learning with Prodigy. It's time for back to school! This year, we can help kids take math to the next level without missing a beat. Support their learning like never before and start building habits that stick. Children have personal logins for this in their reading diary.
Hit the Button - an online platform to support the four operations that can be accessed for free.
BBC Bitesize Primary - this has some fantastic resources that cover all the areas across the curriculum.
