Welcome to Year 4
Welcome to our Year 4 Classes
Our classes and teachers in Year 4 are:
| VICIOUS VIKINGS | GROOVY GREEKS | SMASHING SAXONS |
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| Teacher: | Teacher: | Teacher: |
| Mrs Davies | Miss Griffiths | Mr Donnelly |
| Vikings Timetable | Greeks Timetable | Saxons Timetable |
For 2020 / 2021
Our Teaching Assistants are
Miss Proctor | Miss Mills | Miss Middlemass
Learning outcomes for Year 4
In Year 4 we love to learn through investigations, research and problem solving as part of our Learning Challenge Curriculum.
Through varied, fun and interesting topics, we aim to nurture our children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, developing their capacity to think independently and work collaboratively alongside their peers.
As a team with our parents, families and children, we hope to build on our children’s knowledge, skills and confidence and encourage them to be life-long learners.
Aiming High in our Core Subjects:
Here are the targets we will focus on this year for Reading, Writing and Mathematics.
Year 4 Targets for Reading Writing and Maths
Books
Children should access bug club on a weekly basis using their log in details which will be the same as last year or children can take home a reading book where required.
One is a Guided Reading book that is suited to their reading level and chosen by the teacher, the other is a book for the class library, chosen by your child. Please ensure that your child has their book, reading diary and bag at school every day.
Children should be reading for at least 10 minutes every night and listened to by an adult at least once a week.
Diaries
Every half term, the children receive a new reading diary.
They need to write in it every night to say what reading they have done at home. Their teacher will write in it when they have read with them, noting down their target for that week. Please sign your child’s diary every week to let us know that you’ve seen the teacher’s comments.
Helping your child to read at home
Please take time each night to listen to your child read their guided reading book from school (and any other books they may like to read!), this will really boost their confidence and reading skills and is a lovely way of spending calm, quality time together after a busy day.
Here are some useful websites to help you support your child’s reading at home:
Oxford Owl website with games, activities and tips to help your child at home https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home
Tips for reading for children of all ages: This site has lots of fun, downloadable activities for your children to help them with reading www.wordsforlife.literacytrust.org.uk
This is a great website, with tips for helping reluctant readers of all ages: http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/children
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Spelling lists for each week will be given in the form of a termly booklet and they will be tested each Thursday.
Please encourage your child to not only learn how to spell the word but to learn what it means and how they would use it in a sentence. The children will complete a test on those words the following week.
Here are some useful websites to support your child’s learning of spelling and grammar at home:
Games to play
www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
BBC Bitesize games and activities
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar
Games and activities
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/interactive/literacy
Mathematics
In Year 4, we practise speedy recall of mathematical facts e.g. times tables up to 12, addition and subtraction pairs and use these to solve problems. In addition to this, all Year 4 pupils will be sitting a multiplication test during June 2022. Further information will follow.
Here are some useful websites to help your child’s maths learning at home:
Problem solving games:
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/problem-solving
Mental Maths games:
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/mental-maths
BBC Bitesize activities:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2
Homework
Your child’s homework will be marked in class and so they need to make sure that their homework is handed in on time by the expected date.
They should also be completing games on Times Tables Rock Stars online and reading daily on Bug Club.
Books will be sent home on a Friday and collected in every Monday. Please ensure that your child’s book is returned on this day.
Thank you so much for your support, we look forward to working together with you all to provide the best education for our children.
Year 4 Parent Welcome Booklet Autumn 2020