1. WELCOME WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Year 4
Curriculum Information Session

2. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Meet the Team! Mrs Hall
Miss Thompson
Mrs Burr
Miss Rust
Mrs Mathieson
Mrs Powell
Mrs Woods
Mrs Wilson
Mrs Shinya
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3. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Year 4 Curriculum
Topics to be studied this year:
Europe overview - What is Europe like & what do people do?
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age - Workshop
The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain - Visit
Europe overview - Why do people go on holiday to Italy?
Local Study – Water Cycle and Rivers - Field trip
A local historical study that investigates Haslemere and its contribution to World War II
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4. Termly Curriculum Information
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5. English Key Objectives for Year 4
By the end of Year 4, we would like your child to be an independent, creative writer.
• Vary sentence structure, using different openers.
• Use adjectival phrases (e.g. biting cold wind).
• Use appropriate choice of noun or pronoun.
• Use fronted adverbials.
• Use apostrophe for plural possession.
• Use a comma after fronted adverbial (e.g. Later that day, I heard bad news.).
• Use commas to mark clauses.
• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to punctuate direct speech.
• Use paragraphs to organize ideas around a theme.
• Use connecting adverbs to link paragraphs.
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.
We teach English in Year 4 by using a variety of stimulus, such as quality texts and picture books, video clips, songs, poems, animation.
During the year some of the exciting opportunities will be to create stories, make an animation clip, produce leaflets and letters. We try to make writing meaningful and purposeful.
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6. Maths Key Objectives for Year 4
By the end of Year 4 we would like your child to be able to reason mathematically, problem solve and use known methods of calculation confidently.
They should be able to:
Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
Compare & order numbers beyond 1,000 and numbers with up to 2 decimal places.
Read Roman numerals to 100.
Find 1,000 more/less than a given number.
Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 & 1000.
Recall & use multiplication & division facts all tables to 12x12.
Recognise place value of any 4-digit number.
Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000 and decimals with 1dp to nearest whole number.
Recognise & write equivalent fractions and count up/down in hundredths.
+/- fractions with same denominator.
Read, write & convert time between analogue & digital 12 & 24 hour clocks.
Add & subtract - numbers with up to 4-digits using written columnar method.
Multiply - 2-digit by 1-digit and 3-digit by 1-digit
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7. Homework Expectations
Mathletics is our online Maths homework tool. This will be set every other week. We will also be using the TT Rockstars for times tables. The Maths Practice Book will be optional
Daily reading is still important and children are given a list of spellings or spelling rule each week to learn – they can be as creative as they like!
Class homework should be completed weekly. The children can choose a task from the homework grid.
When appropriate, pre-learning vocabulary will be provided during the year. These are words that your child will hear at school and could be discussed at home.
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8. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Homework Examples Blog

9. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning The Homework Diary
The Homework Diary is uploaded to the Year 4 area of the website each week.
This is given to the children to stick into their Spelling homework book on Monday.
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10. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning PE Expectations
PE takes place twice a week.
Tuesday (4T and 4H) and Wednesday (4RB) – team games and tactics
(Mrs Butchart)
Monday for (4RB) and Friday for (4T and 4H) – Athletics, gymnastics, dance, swimming (Summer term)
PE kits should be in a small drawstring bag and should be in school every day. If the girls are wearing tights they will need socks to change into.
Children need shoes that are suitable for outdoor sports (a plastic bag is useful for muddy shoes) and are welcome to bring plimsolls for indoor use only. All jewellery must be removed and hair tied back.
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11. Extra Curricular Activities
School Clubs
A range of after school clubs are available e.g. Netball, Homework, Girl’s Football, Gardening………
Children can join as many clubs as they want (2 is recommended)
During School
ECAs – Friday afternoons, includes: Drama, Forest School/Survival in the Wild, Board Games, Computer Skills, Eco Craft, Pebble Painting and others.
School Council and Eco Council
Library
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12. PLEASE NAME ALL BELONGINGS!
Equipment for School
We would like children to try to fit all their belongings into one small bag or rucksack – our coat peg space is limited.
Children can bring one small pencil case containing the following items: pencil, black pen, rubber, ruler, coloured pencils, pencil sharpener, whiteboard pen and glue stick.
All children should have a named water bottle, which they can take home at the end of the day to be washed.
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13. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Support in School
Reading Helpers – any support with daily reading in school
X tables practise support
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14. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Key Dates
Bikability – 25th (4H), 26th (4RB) 27th (4T)
Stone Age Workshop –
Year 4 Class Assembly - Further details to follow
Fishbourne Roman Palace – Further details to follow
Sayers Croft – 6th - 8th July 2020
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15. WELCOME Shottermill Junior School Open Morning Sayers Croft
Shottermill Programme of Activities – 8thJuly –10th July Rudgwick Dormitory
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9:30am
Arrive 10:30am Make Beds Fire Drill Settle In Lunch
Shelter building and Stone Age
Earth walk
11am
Hazel Frames
Roundhouse visit
1:30pm
Maze and Blindfold Trail W
Bouldering
Challenge Course
Lunch Depart 1:30pm
3:00pm
Orienteering 1 &2 W
Evening
Evening walk and Tuckshop
Campfire
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16. Questions
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