1. Welcome
Year 4 | Thames
CURRICULUM evening

2. Developing Compassionate Citizens

6. Curriculum overview: information for the year

8. Weekly Blog

10. Handwriting: Penpals scheme, daily practise
Year 4 Curriculum
Handwriting: Penpals scheme, daily practise
Maths: Teaching for mastery
Fluency – arithmetic and reasoning
Problem solving
Justification
Recall multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12
(times tables will be screened at end Year 4 from 2020; the short online test is being trialled this year in some selected schools – not us – with voluntary testing from 2019).

11. Year 4 Curriculum
Writing targets include:
To proofread and improve own work and that of others
To write and punctuate direct speech
Apostrophes
Pronouns to avoid repetition

13. Year 4 Curriculum
Reading
To gather information from more than one place in the text and use inference based on what is shown rather than being told.
To begin to interpret sophisticated word-play and puns.
To explain a character’s motivations and discuss the points of view of the character and the narrator.

14. Communication
Beginning and end of the day.
Working together.
Steps of communication:
Class teacher
Phase Leader (Mr Rolls)
Dr Biddulph

15. Guided Reading (Book Club)
Reading at home – reading record for your use with your child – this will not be completed in school
Bug Club
Reading for Pleasure
Snuggle with a Story

17. Great Sites for Books
•       (online magazine for children)
•       (for parents to support children’s reading habits)
•       (ditto)
•       (Book lists by age and genre)
•       (as above)
•       (as above) • 

18. LAMDA
Whole class sessions every Monday will continue, to develop oracy and confidence.

19. P.E. Topics this term are ball skills and gymnastics.
PE is on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Premier Sports and Mr Drane will be teaching Year 4 this term.
Children can leave or take kits home whenever needed.
Year 4 children will be having swimming lessons during the school year.

20. Supporting your Child at Home
Read with your child every day – 20 minutes
Help your child learn their multiplication tables
Support them to become more responsible for their own belongings
Support routines, plenty of sleep

21. Assessment
Teacher assessment to inform next steps in responsive journals.
Baseline tests in maths, reading, oracy and dialogue
Regular progress checks (teacher assessment) across the curriculum.

22. Morning SNAck The children are often hungry by first break, please do supply them with a healthy snack of fruit or vegetables (no nuts).

23. Year 4 Residential TRIP
This will take place at the start of the summer term, at a PGL adventure centre in Suffolk (Bawdsey Manor), and will involve 2 nights and 3 days away from home.
A briefing meeting will follow early in the Spring Term but permission can be given now and payments started to spread the cost.

24. Any questions?