Welcome to Year 4

Staff in Year 4 Mr Pratten - Classteacher Ms King – PPA Cover Teacher

Staff in Year 4 Mrs Maan – Teaching Assistant Mrs Gray – Teaching Assistant Mrs Walsh– Teaching Assistant

Typical Day Monday - Wednesday 8.50am Arrive at school 8.55am Registration 9.00am Spelling & Handwriting 9.20am Maths 10.00am Worship 10.15am –10.30am Playtime 10.30am Maths 10.50am English 11.45am Reading 12.10pm Lunch 1.10pm – 3.10pm Afternoon sessions

Typical Day Thursday 8.50am Arrive at school 8.55am Registration 9.00am Spelling & Handwriting 9.20am Maths 10.00am Worship 10.10am –11.30am Swimming 11.30am Reading 12.10pm Lunch 1.10pm – 3.10pm Afternoon sessions (taught by Ms King)

Typical Day Friday 8.50am Arrive at school 8.55am Registration 9.00am Worship 9.25am Maths 10.15am Playtime 10.30am Spelling & Handwriting 10.50am English 11.30am Reading 12.10pm Lunch 1.10pm – 3.10pm Afternoon sessions

Class Routines PE lesson – Tuesday Swimming – Thursday Pupils to have reading books and jotters in school (and on their desk) everyday

School Uniform For Girls:Grey skirt/pinafore dress/smart grey school trousers Gold or bottle green polo shirt or white blouse with tie (no white polo shirts) Bottle green jumper or cardigan Summer - Green or yellow check/stripe dress For Boys:Grey (not black) smart school trousers (or tailored shorts in summer) Gold or bottle green polo shirt or white shirt and tie Bottle green jumper or cardigan Boys & Girls: Black sensible school shoes (can wear black trainers)

School Uniform P.E. and GAMES KIT Black PE Shorts Plain round necked t-Shirt (in team colour) Change of socks Trainers for outdoor activity (on days required) and black pumps for indoor activity Jogging bottoms, sweatshirt/waterproof coat (for outdoor PE) Teams and colours: LION - Red TIGER - Blue PANTHER - Yellow JAGUAR – Green Pupils must remove jewellery for PE lessons. Any children who cannot remove their earrings should cover them with medical tape (on sale in school 50p per roll of Micropore)

School Uniform IMPORTANT: IDENTIFICATION OF CLOTHING AND PROPERTY Please mark all items of clothing, footwear and other property brought to school with the child's name. Lost property boxes are located in KS1 and KS2 cloakrooms.

Curriculum PSHE Core Subjects: English (reading, writing, speaking and listening) Maths Science Computing RE Foundation Subjects: History / Geography Music PE Art / Design Technology Modern Foreign Language - French PSHE

Feedback and Marking Oral Feedback Research shows that oral feedback is the most powerful form of feedback and has maximum impact when pointing out successes and improvements against learning intentions. It is interactive and developmental. It may give reassurance or a check on progress during a lesson or may be in the form of a learning review in a plenary session.

How I feel about my learning today: Feedback and Marking Learning objectives will be recorded on every piece of work. When marking the learning objective will be highlighted in yellow to indicate it has been achieved. Success Criteria checklists will be used in English and maths and may include columns for self/peer assessment and teacher assessment. When marking the teacher will tick those elements of the success criteria that have been achieved. For example: How I feel about my learning today: Date: 13.9.2016   LO: To find 10, 100 or 1000 more or less than a given number. Success Criteria Teacher I can find 10 more or less than a number I can find 100 more or less than a number I can find 1000 more or less than a number I can explain my reasoning I can solve problems

Feedback and Marking Feedback comments will be concise and precise to enable pupils to identify how to improve and how to extend their learning. We encourage pupils to engage in dialogue with the teacher (using green pen) as part of our feedback process. Pupils will be given opportunities to respond to feedback comments and to correct / edit their work and they will do so in green pen. We encourage peer evaluations to enable pupils to support and encourage one another. Peer feedback and marking will be in purple pen. Where a child has shown outstanding effort or achievement e.g. use of a particular good piece of vocabulary, we will highlight this in ‘golden’ pen.

Homework Reading and discussing a book with an adult Weekly spellings Weekly maths Half termly topic homework (pupils to choose one from a selection of tasks) Homework to go out on a Thursday, due in following Tuesday.

Educational Visits and Visitors British History Topic – Greg Mulholland MP will visit the class to look at parliamentary debates (Autumn term) Romans topic – Visit to York Museum (Early in Spring term) Local history and geography – Residential to Nell Bank (Late Spring term)

Rewards We praise and reward children for good behaviour in a variety of ways: teachers congratulate children; pupils receive stickers or stamps to acknowledge good behaviour; we distribute merits to children in key stage two either for consistent good work or behaviour, or to acknowledge outstanding effort or acts of kindness in school. These merits are accumulated and pupils are awarded certificates for every 10 merits they receive; each week we nominate 1 child from each class to receive an achievement award and 1 child to receive an ethos award each week we nominate 1 child from each class to receive a lunchtime award all classes have an opportunity to lead a class assembly where they are able to show examples of their best work.

Discipline Traffic light system: Green – good behaviour Amber – verbal warning Red – spend 5 minutes in another classroom, reflecting on their behaviour. Continued misbehaviour: Work in another classroom for a longer period of time and miss the next playtime. During this playtime they will be expected to discuss with an adult what they did and how this behaviour has impacted on themselves and others. Meeting will be called between the classteacher and the parents. Following on from this meeting, a meeting with the headteacher would be requested if an improvement to behaviour had not occurred. If a child threatens, hurts or bullies another pupil, the class teacher records the incident and the child is punished. If a child repeatedly acts in a way that disrupts or upsets others, the school contacts the child’s parents and seeks an appointment in order to discuss the situation, with a view to improving the behaviour of the child.

General Information Friday Worship 9am – please join us Church services – You are welcome to join us for ANY Church services (including Y6 leavers’ service). PTA – You are all automatically members of the PTA, please join us for meetings or to help at any fundraising events. The first function of this year is on Friday 18th November from 7pm, this will be a fish and chip quiz night.

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