1. Information Afternoon Year 4 2019-20
Thursday 27th June – 2.45pm

2. Meet the staff Mrs Heather Pundsack Year 4 Class Teacher (Beech)
Mr Luke Tickner
Year 4 Learning & Progress Leader
(Pine)
Miss Hollie Callaway
Year 4 Class Teacher (Maple)
Mrs Anne Langford
Learning Support
Assistant
Mrs Karen Matkowski
Learning Support
Assistant
Mrs Debbie Smith
1:1 Learning Support
Assistant
Mrs Melanie Smith
1:1 Learning Support
Assistant
Miss Jenny Carpenter
1:1 Learning Support
Assistant

3. Curriculum Overview Round and Round, Up and Down (Aut 1)
Survival of the fittest (Aut 2)
Invade! (Spring 1 & 2)
Transformers (Summer 1)
Solent City (Summer 2)

4. Autumn 1: Topic overview Round and Round, Up and Down
As scientist we will be studying the forces of friction, magnets and gravity. We will investigate how forces make things move and stop and how forces are used in everyday life in context of our local playgrounds.
As designers we will look at current playground equipment and use our findings to design our own pieces of playground equipment. Finally we will evaluate our designs.
Through desktop publishing we will learn the skills such as text boxes, creating tables and creating shape. We will then use these to present our playground ideas.

5. Trips and visits… Visit a local play park - Autumn A
Marwell Zoo workshop - Autumn B
RHS Wisley - Spring
Portsmouth - Summer

6. Homework Supports classwork as well preparing children for the future
In school weekly challenges:
Spellings- Secret 5
Times tables – Rockstars (online and paper)
A typical week’s homework will consist of:
1 piece of English or
1 piece of maths

7. Times Tables Rockstars
Designed to help children learn and practice their times tables, with a focus on speed of recall.
3 weekly practices in school on paper
Login online and play at home
Create your own avatar and buy accessories with coins earnt
Weekly certificates in collective worship
Inter school competitions

8. Reading at home
Children earn a house point for every time they record 20 reads
Continue to work on reading sight words, segmenting and blending
Beginning to read with increased fluency and adding appropriate intonation and expression
At school focus is on comprehension skills such as inference and understanding of vocabulary

9. Our 6 learning behaviours
Resilience
Independence
Creativity
Team work
Critical thinking
Reflection

10. Reminder. Bags – cubby holes P.E. bags (named)
School equipment provided
Drinks bottles (named)
Home School Diaries – communication, support
Name
Name

11. During the Summer… Continue reading a range of genres
Practise times tables
Ensure your child can tell the time using analogue and digital clocks
Practise Y3/4 statutory spellings