Welcome back to all the new members of Room 2, we’ve had a fantastic start to the new year already.

A little note for parents in regards to the game ‘Times Table Rock Stars’ as I’ve had parents asking about it already after some eager children have wanted to start playing already. It is brilliant programme the children can play both at home and at school to help improve their recall of their times tables, which I’m sure you’ll agree are important to learn as they have so many links to other parts of the maths curriculum.  All children have got a log in which is stuck onto the inside of their reading record books.

Your can either download the app onto phones or ipads or simply type it into google on your laptop. You many need to search for our school and make sure the tab student is selected too!

Today, the children have completed a baseline test to allow us to see where they are at the beginning of the year. Based on these, I have assigned them different times table to practise. Sometimes, it might only be one particular times table or it could be a collection of them over a couple of weeks. The difficulty should increase incrementally over the course of the term.

For Year 3, the children should be comfortable in not only revising the 2, 5 and 10’s but also the 3’s, 4’s and the 8’s. After that, they can learn all the rest!

We have shown the children how to play either as a single player or challenge others with a Rock Slam! The more coins you earn, the funkier your avatar can be!

Now, get rockin’ Room 2!