1. Victory Heights Primary School 2015-2016
Nurture-Challenge -Excel

3. Welcome to Year 4

4. Specialists PE & Swimming EAL Arabic ISB ISA Learning Enhancement Art
PE & Swimming
EAL
Arabic
ISB
ISA
Learning Enhancement
Art
Computing
Music

5. Timetables

6. Timetable

7. The rocket and how it works…
The children begin each day on the middle of the chart starting on green.
The children move up the rocket for good behaviour/work/manners.
The children move down the rocket when they do not follow our Golden Rules.

8. Topics Term 1 – Stranded Term 2 – Castles Term 3 – Dragons Den
Term 4 – Life in the Freezer
Term 5 – Groovy Greeks
Term 6 – Olympic Heroics
Chris Quigley and the New Curriculum: child-led learning.

9. Attainment
By the end of Year 4, expected age appropriate levels are 3C to 3B.

10. Writing Coverage includes: Stories with Historical Settings
Poetry (Performance)
New Reports
Stories with Dilemmas
Poetry (Creating Images)
Recounts
Stories set in Imaginary Worlds
Explanation Texts
Persuasive Writing
Stories from Other Cultures
Informal Letters

11. A ‘3b’…

13. Maths Setting Coverage: To know and use numbers To add and subtract
To multiply and divide
To use fractions
To understand the properties of shapes
To describe position, direction and movement
To use measures
To use statistics
To use algebra

14. Arabic & Islamic Abir Tayfour-Red/ Amal Al mekawy AA
Who will be teaching me Arabic and Islamic this year?
Abir Tayfour-Red/ Amal Al mekawy AA
Muhamed Hussan/Arooj Nisar
AA,AB,ISA&ISB information has been sent to parents via the Welcome Letter.
We expect each student to spend 20 minutes weekly working on Arabic & Islamic homework.
The AA,AB,ISA&ISB outcome will be sent as soon as possible.

15. Supporting learning and how we work…
Collaborative Learning!
Questioning
Differentiating, challenging and extending…
Learning Enhancement…
English as an Additional Language…

16. Engaging students through effective questioning
Our focus this year at VHPS with regard to improving student learning is questioning techniques.
‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ of questions is a widely-accepted framework that many teachers use to guide their students through the learning process. Though not necessarily sequential, the hierarchy of Bloom’s Taxonomy is often depicted as a pyramid, with simple knowledge-based recall questions at the base. Questions higher on the pyramid are more complex and demand higher cognitive skills from the children.
For the teachers to interpret however you want to so that you are conveying the same message)
Many questions at the lower levels of bloom’s taxonomy – particularly knowledge and comprehension – are closed-ended questions. Higher order reasoning, such as synthesis and evaluation, is developed through the use of open-ended questions. Asking an open-ended question is a way to elicit discussion, brainstorm solutions to a problem, or create opportunities for thinking outside the box. The highest-order open-ended questions engage students in dynamic thinking and learning, where they must synthesize information, analyze ideas, and draw their own conclusions, preparing them for their future, where few issues are black-and-white. Our students today need to become critical thinkers, find their own voice, and be recognized for having opinions that matter.

17. Types of questions…

18. Collaborative Learning Activity
Stranded at sea!

20. Communication
The School Communicator is being phased out- info on Mobile App and website
Reports and assessments (number per year - x2 reports and x4 assessments)
Homework - what, when, online activities, expectations Reading minutes daily. Other Homework 1 to and a half hours /week.
helpers - readers
Parent skills - topics
Class rep

21. Nurture – Challenge - Excel
‘Parents as partners’