1. Welcome to the Year 4 Information Evening

2. Mrs Stimpson, Mrs Guy, Mr Tindale, Mrs Beeden,
Our Year - Our Team
Mrs Stimpson, Mrs Guy, Mr Tindale, Mrs Beeden,
Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs Gray &
Mrs Oakley.

3. Weekly Timetable
What are the themes in Year 4?
Term 1 - USA
Term 2 – Famous People
Term 3 – Egypt
Term 4 – Egypt & Africa
Term 5 – The Roman Empire
Term 6 – Roman Britain

4. How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
The children will be working on the Year 4 standards in the new National Curriculum.
How do we judge how well your children are progressing?
Sharing learning objectives and success criteria together.
Questioning
Partners/Small group work
Self evaluation
TASC/ Using and Applying
Guided groups
Recorded work
Summative assessment

5. Maths expectations for Year 4
Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers, compare and order numbers beyond 1000 and with 2 decimal places.
Read Roman numerals to 100.
Find 1000 more/less than a given number.
Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
Recall and use multiplication and division facts all
tables to 12 x 12.
Recognise place value of any 4 digit number.
Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000 and round decimals to the nearest whole number.
Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using efficient written method .
Multiply and divide up to 3 digit numbers.
Count up / down in hundredths.
Write equivalent fractions, add and subtract fractions.
Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks.
School website –> Our Learning -> Maths support

6. English: Term 1 Block 1 Fiction Block 2 Recounts
Active English
Block 1 Fiction
Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Block 2 Recounts
Henry’s Freedom Box
Block 3 Performance Poetry
Harriet Tubman poem

7. Writing expectations for Year 4
Vary sentence structure, using different openers.
Use adjectival phrases (e.g. biting cold wind).
Appropriate choice of noun and pronoun.
Apostrophe for singular and plural possession.
Comma after fronted adverbial (e.g. Later that day, I hear bad news.).
Use commas to mark clauses.
Use connectives to link paragraphs.
Legible, joined handwriting of consistent quality.

8. Reading expectations for Year 4
Give a personal point of view on text.
Can re-explain a text with confidence.
Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied.
Use appropriate voices for characters within a story.
Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation.
Skims and scans to locate information and/or answer a question.

9. Science States of matter Electricity Living things and their habitats
Animals, including humans
Sound

10. Homework
Mrs Stimpson will give homework out on a Thursday which will consist of Spellings (10-12 in Year 4), Maths and English. This will be returned on the following Tuesday.
Occasionally pupils will be asked to complete a research project linked to our topic.
The amount of time that we ask pupils to spend on their homework in Year 4 equates to approximately 11/2 hours per week.

11. What’s happening? 4/10/16 – Harvest Festival
12/10/16 & 19/10/16 Parents’ Evenings
13/10/16 Individual Photos
21/10/16 Disco
2/12/16 Christmas Fair
3/12/16 Grimethorpe Concert
6/12/16 Carol Service
16/12/16 Whole School Christmas Service
20/12/16 Carols on the Playground

12. What can you do to help your child?
Listen to your child read and question them about what they have read.
Times tables need to be learned – part of the SATs next year.
Use numbers (large ones) where possible.
Use Maths in everyday situations, ask your child to tell you the time, what will it be in …?
Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, using the right amount of coins etc.

13. Useful Information
PE – This is on Wednesday with Mrs Oakley. Children will need trainers and track suit bottoms on this day. Swimming is also on Wednesdays in Terms 1, 3 and 5.
Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on Wednesdays.
Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Further information will be sent out in due course.
Children need to bring their water bottles containing water every day.
Please keep big bags to a minimum as we do not have room to store things that do not fit in their lockers.

14. Remember the school website for additional information.

15. We look forward to an exciting term ahead! Thank you for your time.