Year 4

Year 4's Class Page!

Year 4 Information

Thank you for visiting our class page. Here you will find lots of information about our class and some of the amazing things we have been doing this year!

Teachers

Miss Shields is our Year 4 teacher.

Mrs Fitzpatrick will teach on a Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs Corkish is with us every morning to do intervention groups.

Mrs Rannard is our welfare assistant.

Class- Dojo

News and updates are posted for parents/carers on our Year 4 Dojo page. Please ask for a login if you are not currently connected.

Our PE day is Wednesday.

Please ensure children come to school in the school PE kit. They will spend the whole day in their PE kit.

St John's Kit should be a plain white top, plain dark shorts/pants and dark trainers or pumps. School jumpers or cardigans can be worn over the top.

Y4 will start swimming after Christmas.

Reading Books

We encourage children to read every day. Children have a home reading book carefully matched to their level of fluency and understanding. It is important that children bring this book to school each day.

Once they have finished reading the book, please discuss the text with your child and explore any questions which are suggested in the book to help develop their comprehension skills.

Children are also encouraged to return their reading records and books on a Friday, this allows them to have their reading books swapped and they can gain stars for reading on their Oscar reading reward chart.

Children also have access to our class library and school library. We spend 15 minutes every afternoon quiet reading for pleasure in class.

Here are some resources which may be of use at home as part of reading practice:

Literacy Shed Videos with an attached activity pack

Oxford Owl Free e-books for children

Monkey Pen Free e-books for children

Growing Young Minds Questions to ask your child whilst reading

Homework

Homework will be given out each Friday in the form of a Maths or English activity on 1 side of A4. Children will be expected to learn spellings and read also. This will result in Dojo points.

Our homework policy can be viewed on our website by clicking on the link below:

Policies

Spellings

These are sent home every Friday and the test will be the following Friday, so the children will have a week to practise.

Please practise the spellings regularly at home.

Time Tables

In Year 4, we have weekly times table practice in school. We also use Time Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) for children to practise their tables at home.

Please access TTRS across the week. Miss Shields will check how often the children have logged on and will monitor how the children are getting on with their times tables.

We have a (TTRS) test every Monday in school, where the children can try to beat their record and improve their 'Rock Star Status!'

A good knowledge of our times tables can help to deepen our understanding of number, which in turn helps the children to problem solve with increased fluency.

Some useful resources for Times Tables practice :

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/

Reading

Reading for 20 minutes a day with an adult.

In Year 4, the children will be sitting their statutory multiplication tables check (MTC) in June.

For more information please click on the link below: