1. Loseley Fields Primary School
Welcome to Year Four
Loseley Fields
Primary School

2. Our classes
Year Four: Hydra
Year Four: Delphinus

3. The Year 4 team
Hydra – Mrs Rodger – teacher Mrs Clay – teacher Mrs LeMasurier – TA Delphinus – Mrs Sinclair – teacher Mrs Clay– teacher Mrs Godfrey – TA Mrs Caniglia - TA

4. Topics We study a range of topics in year 4 which include -
Stone Age to Iron Age
Saxons, Scots and Vikings
European Studies

5. Our Timetable Early work – morning starter, phonics / spelling
Numeracy
Assembly
Guided Reading
Literacy PM
Topic work (including Foundation subjects - Science, PE, Music, Geography, History, Art, RE, PHSE, DT and French

6. Literacy Regular SPaG (sometimes called EPGS or other acronyms!)
Talk for writing.
Literacy sessions differentiated with guided and independent activities.
Use of ICT to support learning.
Opportunities for speaking and listening.
Cross-curricular links to Topic.

7. Reading
Children take part in a reading activity every day- either independently in pairs or as a group/whole class.
Parent helpers valued and welcomed to listen to readers. DBS clearance will be required.
Please remind your child to change their books regularly and please listen to them read at home.
Please remember to question your children about their reading.

8. Numeracy
Daily numeracy lesson which involves working in pairs, groups or individually.
At home please talk to your child about their maths.
Multiplication tables are very important to learn by mental recall, please help your child to practise these at home.

9. PE
PE Session might happen on any day and so kit should be in school every day.
Kit to be clearly named or labelled
No jewellery – especially earrings, hair tied back.
Encourage children to look after kit
Kit should stay in school and be taken home at the end of each half term.

10. Homework
Times tables homework goes out every Friday to be returned on the Wednesday. They will be tested on a Thursday.
Spellings go out on Friday to be returned by Wednesday ready for spelling test on Thursday
There will be a Topic project to complete, we are still planning this at the moment.
Please make comments in reading diary, they are checked regularly.

11. Special Educational Needs
Information passed from last teacher
Interventions happen regularly
Any concerns, please see class teacher
Inclusion leader/SENCO – Miss Cross
Appointments can be made via the Office

12. Trips and Experiences
We try to link trips to topics and have at least one trip or experience per term.
We try to keep cost to a minimum however if you are experiencing difficulties please come and speak to us. We would rather find a solution than any child miss out.

13. Trips and Experiences
Stone Age Themed Day – Linked to Literacy learning using ‘The Croods’
Wednesday 9th November
Fancy Dress Costume: Stone Age

14. If you ever want to speak to us please come in – after school offers more time for discussions.
Please sign up for ParentMail. You can find further information about this on the website.

15. School website will be kept up to date with details and information about school life.

16. We look forward to working with you to provide your child with a happy and successful Year 4.