1. Mrs Norton and Mr Chulan will be the other adults
Meet the Teachers!
Mrs Fletcher &
Mrs Webber-Jones
Mrs Norton and Mr Chulan will be the other adults
working in year 4

2. Year 4 is all about starting to take responsibility
Brass instruments & PE kits
Completing homework
Sensible seating choices
Avoiding distractions
Responsibility for their learning

3. Lunches, Snacks and Water
School dinners need to
be booked online. There is a hot and cold option.
Healthy packed lunches are also an option
You may like to provide your child with a piece of fruit or a healthy snack at break times. The kitchen also sell fruit loaf for 15p.
Bring in fresh water or a soft drink daily, these will be stored in a drinks box and will go out on the playground at break and lunch times

4. Mymaths will only be sit when relevant (Monday).
Homework
Children are expected to read 4 times per week and are rewarded for this. Reading records are collected in on a Friday.
Your child will have weekly spellings to learn. Given out and tested on a Friday.
Your child will have a list of times table facts to learn. Given out and tested on a Friday.
Mymaths will only be sit when relevant (Monday).

5. A little more about Spellings…
Spellings make up nearly one third of the writing objectives in Year 4.
Children will need to make sure they learn their spellings at home.
We will be assessing their ability to apply spellings in written work and unseen dictations in the weeks following their spelling test.

6. A little more about Times tables
Children are expected to know all of their times tables, including division facts, by the end of the year.
Children should already have learned their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables from Year 2 and 3.
Times tables fact families will be the main way we will teach times tables in Year 4.

7. Times tables fact families
Teaching this way has 2 advantages: firstly it reduces the number of facts that children need to learn and secondly it means children will be better able to see the relationship between division and multiplication.
For example,
Knowing this fact family means you know:
3 x 6 = 18
6 x 3 = 18
18 ÷ 3 = 6
18 ÷ 6 = 3

8. A little more about Reading
Your child will learn key reading skills during Guided Reading sessions in class.
In Year 4, our main focus is on developing inference skills and reading a wider range of text types – reading bingo.
When reading at home, the focus should be more on understanding a book as opposed to just decoding words – question types handout.

9. Brass Tuition
All Year 4 children will learn to play a brass instrument: cornet, trumpet, trombone or baritone.
Our weekly lesson will be on a Monday. Children will need to remember their instruments every week.
They will need to practise at home.
There will be opportunity to perform.

10. Beaumanor Residential
Children will have the opportunity to go on an overnight residential trip to Beaumanor Hall in February.
Both days and the evening are jam-packed with exciting activities.
The school office will send out more details regarding cost, deposits and payment plans.

11. Rewards and Sanctions
Everybody at New Swannington believes in praising positive behaviour and hard work!
Dojo points
Golden Cards
House Points
Reading lottery
Worker of the Week

12. Rewards and Sanctions Verbal warning
Yellow tick – miss 5 minutes of playtime
3 x yellow ticks = red card
Red card – for severe incident/breaking golden rules
Red card – child stays in at playtime and lunchtime
Phone calls and chats with parents (Red card)

13. General Reminders Uniform/PE Kit Lateness Home time
Photography & food tasting permission slips
Appointments with the teacher
Names in clothes

14. Over the summer… Most importantly have fun and have a rest!
If you do fancy doing anything school related may we suggest . . .
Send school a postcard from somewhere you visit over the holiday.
Take part in the summer reading challenge at the Library.
Practise times table facts (2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 8)
Learn some words from the year 3/4 words list.

15. Any questions?