Welcome to Year 4

The year 4 team… Teacher: Mrs Griffiths Teaching Assistant (Monday – Friday mornings and Tuesday afternoon): Mrs Rhodes Wednesday afternoon- Mrs Phillips Thursday afternoon- Mrs Glanfield.

Age Related Expectations How is your child assessed? In September 2014, the Government introduced a new National Curriculum, known as National Curriculum 2014.     This meant that children were no longer assessed against 'levels'.  Levels were replaced by bands: with a different band for each year group.   Teacher assessment takes place through daily working, listening to children, talking about what they can do and observing them in their day to day learning.  Teachers use this to make a judgement about where the children are working against their particular age band.  Children may be working towards, working at, or working beyond the expectation for their age. Levels Bands Below/ At / Above Age Related Expectations Aims: Secondary ready Mastery within age related expectations. http://www.holycross.plymouth.sch.uk/website/how_is_your_child_assessed/155791

Balancing Support and Challenge Meeting the needs of all learners through high quality teaching. On the spot intervention. Short term small group intervention. One to one support with the Mrs Rhodes.

READING AT HOME Sit comfortably and limit distractions. Before reading, discuss the cover or illustrations – what might the story be about? When listening, don’t rush to correct mistakes unless it significantly alters meaning. Characterisation – put on voices to make them come to life. After reading discuss what has been read. Ask questions about events, characters and predict what might happen next. Ask your child to make comparisons within the book and with other books Always praise and comment on progress. Read to them yourself and communicate your own enjoyment. Read with a dictionary to support reading as writers. Model being a reader yourself.

Writing It is school policy that children write cursively We believe that writing is important not only in English lessons, but across the breadth of the curriculum Talk for Writing The ‘Big Write’ and talk homework Reading regularly boosts writing! Encourage children to write at home: Film reviews Stories Instructions Biographies Diaries Newspaper articles Poetry

What is VCOP? Vocabulary Wow words – new or particularly descriptive / effective. Connectives Words or phrases linking sections of sentences together. Openers Alternative ways to start a sentence. Punctuation Correctly applied and writing makes sense. Conversations relating to VCOP when reading at home will help your child’s reading and writing.

Alan Peat Sentences Cover a wide variety of sentence styles. Easy for the to peer assess as they can name the sentences as they find them. file://filestore/home/KMGriffiths/Downloads /alan-peat-sentence-type-posters%20(1).pdf

Maths Times tables! New curriculum expectation at Year 4 children need to know up to 12 x 12 Not 6,12,18…but 1 x 6 =6, 2 x 6=12 etc. New curriculum emphasis on investigation and reasoning. Units covered so far Place Value Rounding Adding using column method Subtraction using counting on Roman numerals Patterns in the times tables

Big Maths Learn Its It’s Nothing New Counting Calculation

Behaviour Policy Our 3 school rules that we expect all children to follow: We follow instructions with thought and care We show good manners at all times We care for everyone and everything

You are welcome to spend time looking at our learning spaces and your child’s work. Please see me if you have questions or an appointment.