Year 4 Information Meeting Mr Mashford. Tuesday 5th December

Information Meeting Things we will cover in this meeting: Spelling tests. Reading at home. Homework. Times Tables Swimming/PE kits. School website, Blogs and Challenges. Purple Mash https://www.purplemash.com/sch/broad-cv6

Spellings Test – Year 4 Children are given their spellings at the start of each half term. Children are expected to practise their spellings at home- little and often works best. Children have been given strategies to help. Children are tested each week in class.

Spelling Cards

How can the children practise?

How can the children practise?

Home Reading Your child will read to their class teacher/learning support assistant at least once a week. Other members of staff e.g. DRAs and parent helpers will also listen to your children read. Your child should read at home as often as possible for no longer than 10 minutes. If challenges are set, they should be completed to help develop understanding and reading skills.

Reading diary There is a list of questions that you can ask your child when they have finished reading. When you have heard your child read please record this in the reading diary. It would be great if you made a note of the pages read and how they did.

P.E kit EVERY MONDAY What should a P.E kit include? Trainers or pumps – they CANNOT wear their school shoes. A t-shirt – they CANNOT wear their school t-shirt. This is unhygienic. Jogging bottoms OR shorts depending on preference/the weather.

Swimming Kits EVERY MONDAY Swimming trunks/costume A towel Swimming cap- for long hair All in a bag

Blog and Education City Your children’s username and passwords are in their reading diaries. These are powerful tools that the children like to use. You should be encouraging your child to respond to blog posts daily. Sit down yourself with them once in a while because it will help you to understand what they have been learning.

NOT JUST FOR HOMEWORK Your children’s username and passwords are in the front of their reading diaries. Just because your child has done their homework it doesn’t mean they have nothing to do!!! There are hundreds of activities listed in year groups and subjects. This is a new area of the website where teachers will add links to teaching and learning web links that have been used in school. Keep checking for updates.

Homework Education City Homework books- Handwriting practice, Challenges on the website, Education City tasks that need completing on paper. Reading Spellings Blogs

Education City

Purple Mash

Questions…. Thank you all for attending. If you need anything please do not hesitate to come and see. Does anyone have any questions?

Useful Links https://www.purplemash.com/sch/broad-cv6 http://www.broadheath.coventry.sch.uk/ https://www.educationcity.com/ http://www.transum.org/Software/Tablesmaster/ http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/math-trainer-multiply.html