1. Year 4/5 Meeting for Parents
Tuesday 6th September 2016
Eagles Puffins Kites
Mrs Nicholls Mrs Morrish Miss Edwards
Miss Jones Ms Bent Mrs Ahmed

2. What we promote - Mature and ACTIVE attitude.
- Responsibility for themselves, their belongings and their actions.
- Being role models.
- Increased independence.
- Contributing to the life of the school.
- Working with the community.

3. Routines…
Diaries to be handed in every day with evidence of home reading (please initial and write comments) 5 reads per week for a reading star- bookmarks.
Homework to be handed in every Tuesday- completed on Tuesday/Wednesday lunchtimes if not handed in.
Homework will be given out every Thursday (one Maths, one English/Theme based, one set of spellings (which they will record in diaries) Please support as much as you are able (grammar , spellings and presentation). Details of the homework will be on the blog.
If your child is unsure about the homework – please remind them to ask their teacher or teaching partner!
PE kit in school all the time - spare socks too!
Forest school kit on those days after half term (Puffins=Wed, Kites= Thurs, Eagles=Fri).
Any old shirts needed for Art…
Year 5s walking home – permission letters are on the way.

4. Important Dates for your Diaries
Visit to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (Ancient Egyptians) – Friday 14th October (information and letters to follow)
Visit café Friday 9th October – children can bring £1 (letters have gone out tonight)
Clarinet lessons start 12th September - weekly
Open mornings start soon: please join us – dates and information to be confirmed!
Blackwell residential 14th-16th September
Isle of Wight residential – w/c 19th September
Forest School starts after half term
Swimming starts after half term (more information to follow)
Parents’ Meetings – 8th and 10th November
Class assemblies in Spring term
Local visits: ad hoc

5. Assessment New curriculum...the bar has been raised.
Assessed – beginning, beginning+, working towards, working towards +, secure, secure+ against their year group objectives.
All children will be assessed in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and maths over next few weeks.
Focus on breadth and depth of understanding, rather than ‘next step’ or ‘harder work’.
Information on progress and specific areas for development will be shared in Parents’ Meetings.

6. What you can do to help English
Reading – 20 minutes every day is the ideal. Please sign or initial their diary every day.
Discuss television programmes / films – why did that character respond that way? What might happen next?
Watch the news, read the newspapers. Consider the reporting style. Discuss the content.
Rehearse spellings each day.
Work on improving/extending sentences in their writing including Vocabulary, Conjunctions, Openers and Punctuation (VCOP).
Use Spellodrome account (same password as Mathletics).
Be a role model for reading!

7. What you can do to help Maths
Times tables must be known up to at least 12x12.
Estimating, weighing, measuring are all good to discuss and do practically. Must use metric measures.
Money – using it in the shops, working out change, adding up bills, questions e.g. if 1 bag of sugar costs 56p, how many will 7 cost?
Mental addition, subtraction, multiplication & division.
Reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000.
Doubling and halving, including decimals.
Solving number puzzles e.g. Sudoko.
Using their Mathletics account regularly.
Any activities linked to cooking.

8. Meeting for Parents Any questions…..?
Please visit the Y4/5 blog!
Please come in to see us any time…