‘Getting To Know Year 4’ Welcome to the Evening! Thank you! Please make sure you take a copy of the ‘supporting materials’ handbooks. Could we also ask you to tick your child’s name on the class list so we can send on copies to those who were unable to make the meeting tonight. Thank you! Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Expectations and Daily Organisation Miss E Marriott and Miss A Norton Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

The Year Ahead… Term 1 and 2 Trip to Buckland Abbey - £10. £5 for clarinet. Term 3 and 4 Japanese day – no costume needed. Taiko drumming workshop – partly funded (£5). Term 5 and 6 Mountbatten Activity Days - £75. Residential Deposit and first instalment - £50 each. Egyptian Day – a costume will be needed!

Personalised learning through target setting. It is important to arrive on time each day as the children have Quick Work activities. Different groupings for different subjects – these groupings are based on both Teacher Assessment, as well as QCA assessments throughout the year. These groupings are reviewed regularly, in order to ensure children are making progress. Talking partners – changed every two weeks to ensure children experience a wide range of partners throughout the year. Personalised learning through target setting. Additional support for children – opportunities provided for children to work with TA’s, SENCO and the intervention team to ensure ALL children are making progress. Increased independence and responsibility - Personal organisation, books, bags, playground, homework, letters, behaviour (developing strategies to deal with different situations etc) and classroom roles and responsibilities. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Importance of water bottles (named and refilled regularly) Healthy snacks at break times (fruit or vegetables – NOT cereal bars etc…) PE Kits – should be in school everyday, with all items clearly named. Girls need to have their hair tied back. All children need to wear shorts for indoor sessions. In the summer it is useful if swimming kits are in school everyday, just in case! Painting apron – to be kept in school for art activities. Handwriting – ‘pen licences’ will be awarded throughout the year to encourage children to present this work nearly and using joined writing. These can be take away if standards are not maintained. Special Marking Pens – fineliners are very useful for Big Marking and presenting work.

Homework Homework will be given out on a Friday – it will usually be stuck into the ‘Learning Journal’. ALL homework must be handed in on a Thursday. If homework isn’t completed children will be given time to complete the tasks at playtime on the Friday. Literacy homework – 40 minutes reading throughout the week, 20-30 minutes to complete the SPaG tasks or reading activities. This may be replaced by other work. Maths homework should take between 20 and 30 minutes. Children would benefit from additional practice of their ‘Learn It’s’ and times tables.

E- Safety. This is an important issue for children and adults. These are some documents to support E- Safety. They will be available along with the power point of this evening on the school website in the Y4 Class section. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

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Assessment From this term children will be working from the New National Curriculum. This does not have levels in the same way that the old curriculum did. There are now Age Related Expectations. The expectations of what the children will know at the end of each year have been increased. Children will then be assessed as to how many of these expectations have been achieved or exceeded. We are able to relate this to the old levels and will do so to help us track pupils progress during this transitional year. We will offer further explanation

Assessment

Our Assessment Procedures November & February – Formal Assessments May – QCA optional SATS in Literacy and Numeracy Teacher Assessment - End of Every Term APP Writing Tracking and Targeting Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Mathematics Miss Abi Norton Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Introduction Ability groups based on previous year’s assessments Differentiated objectives (L.I.s) Homework – 30 minutes per week – activity sheet which is aimed at enabling the children to become independent. Alternating weeks BIG Maths beat that test or mental maths CD. Parental support at home – methods & strategies Most importantly – MATHS IS FUN! Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

We will also use it during ICT sessions. We have a termly ‘head to head’ competition as a year group – please encourage your child to take part. We will also use it during ICT sessions. It is extremely beneficial to the children and is FUN!!

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Mathletics Tasks

The children complete their ‘I can do maths’ activities for Quick Work in the morning. It is IMPORTANT that the children arrive on time each morning! Every Friday the children will go to a different teacher for 1 hour to mark work and learn new strategies and techniques. The children’s grouping are reviewed each term and children may be moved accordingly.

Learn Its are facts that we want the children to learn. It provides an instructional message to the children that they need to Learn it!

Multiplication ‘Learn Its’ – by Year Group Foundation Counting in 10s, 5s, 2s Year 1 Year 2 X10, X5, X2 Year 3 X3, X4, X9 Year 4 X6, X7, X8 Year 5 and 6 ‘must hit’ all of them x 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 16 10 15 20 25 18 24 30 36 14 21 28 35 42 49 32 40 48 56 64 27 45 54 63 72 81 Foundation Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

The importance of Times Tables At the beginning of the year the ‘Learn its’ and times tables will be taught through mental oral activities at the start of each lesson. As the year progresses the children will be given times tables to learn each week. They will be tested on these. In the new National Curriculum the children need to know their tables up to 12 x 12.

NUMICON We will also be developing a new system of Mathematics Learning in school this year. This system is known as Numicon. It will be developed to support children with specific learning needs in small intervention groups as well as extending and challenging children who are more gifted in Mathematics.

Literacy Miss Emma Marriott Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Reading Home reading books – please record all books that the children have read in their ‘Reading Log’s’. Shared reading Independent reading Developing reading comprehension skills- skimming, scanning, inference and deduction. Guided Reading – Project X Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Oxford Owl – Developing a ‘Love of Reading’.

Using books to promote ‘book talk’ and a ‘love of books’. Discussing pictures within stories and picture books to generate discussions about feelings, finding clues about the text and making predictions. Getting to the bottom of new words and phrases – do the children understand all the words in their book? Linking reading to real life situations to help children make links to their own lives. Use of kindles and the internet to find alternative stories and forms of books. Sharing a good book – why do we like the book? Sharing sections of books together?

QUESTIONS AS TOOLS

Writing Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world Handwriting – expectation that all writing is joined in Year 4. Sentence structure is developed throughout the year to include the use of simple, compound and complex sentences. We are focusing on simple sentences that make sense! The ‘Write’ Time and the importance of what was V – vocabulary C – connectives O – openers P – punctuation The Big Write has now been in practise throughout the school for a few years. Over the time, it has been invaluable to raising the Writing standards of each child and improving the content and quality of their writing. ‘We are now having much more focus on word classes (see handout) and teaching this as the ‘write’ time with emphasis on writing in all subjects. GHaSP expectations – teaching of basic skills. Children will be involved in both self and peer assessment to help the improve their writing and up-level work that they have produced. Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world

Types of sentences... Simple sentence e.g. The cat sat on the mat. Compound sentence e.g. The cat sat on the mat because it felt very tired. Complex sentence e.g. The cat, who was fat, sat on the mat. V-COP punctuation – could be used when reading.

Spelling Children will be tested at the beginning of the Term and set accordingly to the phonic phase which best suits them. Differentiated Phonic and spelling work will be undertaken in class which matched to the appropriate level. Children will be given spellings for the week on a Monday to learn and they will be tested on these the following Monday. Good learning takes place when the children practise writing them in a sentence. The children will have a short dictation activity to rehearse their spellings on a Monday. Please support your child to LEARN these and practise them at home.

Thank you for attending tonight; we hope it has been useful! If there are any general questions, please feel free to ask us after the session. However, if it relates specifically to your child, please feel free to organise a set time with your Class Teacher at another time. We look forward to seeing you at the forthcoming Parent’s Evenings throughout the year! Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world