1. Welcome to Swifts
Miss Sykes

2. A Typical day Time Lesson 8.45-9.00 Registration and morning activity
Assembly
English including spelling practise
Playtime
Maths
Lunch time
Guided Reading
Topic/Science/ICT/PE
3.00
Story time
3.20
Home time

3. Our curriculum English Maths Science –Topic- Geography History Art DT
ICT
PSHE
PE – Premier sports
Music
French
RE-

4. Maths
In Year 3 and Year 4, children develop their understanding of numbers through solving a range of problems involving money, measurements and time. Children also learn more about fractions and make links to decimal numbers. By the end of Year 4 children are expected to know their times tables facts, up to and including 12 x 12

5. Reading
To develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read
understand what they read, in books they can read independently
retrieve and record information from non-fiction
participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say

6. Writing Draft and write: -Rehearsing sentences orally
-Organising paragraphs around a theme
-In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
-In non-narrative material, using simple organisational devices
Plan
-Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
-Discussing and recording ideas
Writing
Evaluate and edit by:
-Assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
-Proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences

7. English
Spellings
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable
More prefixes and suffixes
Possessive apostrophe with plural words
Homophones and near-homophones
Handwriting
Cursive letter join, finger spaces,

8. P.E

9. Science Topic Chocolate. Autumn Human Nutrition Electricity Spring
Growing living things and dangers to living things
Dragons and where to find them.
Ancient Egyptians
Changes of state
Sound
Discussion points at home

10. Home learning
Reading
Children are given a reading record and you are encouraged to read as often as you can with your child and date and sign the reading diary.
We will be checking and celebrating completed reading records in class.
Guided reading will happen daily, children must bring in their books and reading diary every day.
Children will take a selection of books home:
Star reading/Colour band
Library book
Children are encouraged to read their own books and visit the library!

11. Teeth and the digestive system
Home learning
Spellings and Homework
Spelling test is on a Friday. Spelling lists will be sent home every Friday for the following weeks test.
A homework task will also be given on a Friday to be returned following Wednesday. If children do not brig their homework back by Wednesday they will go to homework club during their lunch time. Homework will be a English task and a maths task.
Mathletics (optional)
Swifts termly project
Chocolate
Roald Dahl
Teeth and the digestive system
Aztecs

12. House keeping Any questions? PE days- Tuesday and Thursday
Water bottles in school everyday
Books and blue diary in school everyday
Homework to be taken home on Friday and returned the following Wednesday
Snack at playtime
Label everything! (Packed lunch boxes, Book bags etc.)
School uniform including PE Kit – Please check website
We are always here to help before or after school.
Any questions?