Welcome to the YearYear 4 4 Curriculum Meeting

Worple Primary School

School Staff

• Head Teacher – Mrs D O’Connor• Assistant Head and Key Stage Two Leader – Mr L

Redman• Assistant Head and Early Years Leader – Mrs R Millward • Senco – Mrs R Millward Assistant Senco – Mrs Patton• Key Stage One Leader- Miss H Joy

Basic Rules & Expectations

• In Class• Around the school• In the playground• Of school Equipment

RewardsRewards – purple tokens praise, stickers, merits, – purple tokens praise, stickers, merits, golden time, certificates, Team points , Dojo golden time, certificates, Team points , Dojo pointspoints

SanctionsSanctions – being moved, missing minutes of – being moved, missing minutes of playtime/golden time, being sent to another playtime/golden time, being sent to another class/member of senior staff.class/member of senior staff.

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Expectations of Uniform

• School Sweatshirt• Grey/black skirt/shorts/trousers/pinafore dress• White polo shirt/ cotton shirt• Black shoes (no heels, no trainers)• In summer – purple dresses /shorts ( black or

grey)• No Jewellery except small studs or sleepers

All Uniform MUST be labelled!

PE Kit

• PE Kit – These should be brought in on a Monday and kept in school until Friday. It is essential for your child's wellbeing that they are fully equipped to take part in PE. The kit must be black shorts, white t-shirt, white socks, black plimsolls. For outdoor PE, children can wear tracksuit bottoms and trainers.

Timetable Year 5 Autumn 2014

Attendance

• Importance of regular attendance ( & rewards – class trophy/certificates)

• When attendance drops below 95% Mrs O’Connor becomes involved and you will be contacted by letter.

• A home school agreement with targets will be put in place if attendance continues to be poor which can result in the EWO becoming involved.

PunctualityImportance of punctuality – Non-uniform day

‘Every Second Count s!’ Did you know..? If your child is late 10 minutes every day, then over the course of a year, they will miss out on 32.5 hours of learning time – which is the same as being absent for more than a full week of school! We want to work together with parents to provide children with the best possible start in life. Part of our role as adults is helping the children we take care of to develop important life skills. Attendance and punctuality are two very important life skills.

Cross curricular learning

• IPC has been updated in line with the new curriculum.

• Exit and Entry points.• IPC involves Science, History, Geography, Computing,

Music, Citizenship, Art and Design Technology.• This year, we will be linking all of our writing and some of

our maths to the topic we are studying. • Other subjects will also be timetabled into the school

week, such as PE and RE.

• Any skills not covered will be taught at other times.

Physical Education

Wednesday - Swimming

Thursday-games and gymnastics

Date

Targets for Year 4

Target

1st Achieved 2nd Achieved 3rd Achieved

I can use powerful verbsEg: sprinted instead of ran

Example of

Year 4 targets

I can use subordinate clauses with:

when, if, that or because

I can use coordinating conjunctions

or, and, but

I can write interesting sentences with fronted adverbials:Place a comma after the fronted adverbials Use effective conjunctions to join my clauses

I can devise useful questions•Make effective use of who, how, why, what, when to

obtain the information that I need • End in a question mark ?

I can write dialogue with inverted commas “ ”

I can make accurate use of pronouns

eg: he, she, it, his, her, my, I

I can make accurate use of determiners a, an, the, this, that, my, their,

many, few, several always followed by a noun

I can write an explanatory statement

I can write persuasive statements

PoetryI can write phrases containing similes

Like, As, Similar to, Akin to, Approximately, In the vein of, Reminiscent of, Resembling, Related to, Comparable to

Poetry

I can write noun phrases

Poetry

I can write rhyming couplets:Using rhythm effectively and interesting adjectives

I can write: If, if, if then sentences (Alan Peat)

Writing Targets

Reading & Homework

• New Reading Journal – MUST be brought to school everyday.

• Weekly – Reading (daily), Spelling, Times tables, Maths, English.

• Homework will be given out ………….Spellings: Given out on a Monday– Test Friday

Maths: Given out on a Tuesday – due in on FridayEnglish/IPC: Given out on a Friday – due in on Monday

Enrichment Activities

• Clarinet- Thursday afternoon• Trips - tba

What needs to come to school

• Reading bag – each day – with books and reading records in it!

• PE kit – must be in every day – leave in school

• Water Bottle – can be left in school and refilled each day home on a Friday or come in each day

New Assessment Procedures• There is a new curriculum and therefore a new way of

assessing the children. • The new curriculum focuses on deepening understanding,

and not moving on before children have embedded a skill or concept.

• Teachers will no longer be using levels. Therefore, your child will no longer be given the label of 3a, 4c etc………..

• Teachers will now be able to tell you if your child is on track to meet year group expectations.

• They will also be able to communicate to you which areas of the curriculum your child needs to develop further in.

• There will still be formal assessments in years 2 and 6, however the government are still finalising their eventual layout.

• Mr Redman will be doing a ‘new assessment’ workshop for parents on Tuesday 6th October at 2.30pm.

Website and the Internet• Our website has an on line calendar to Our website has an on line calendar to

keep you up to date keep you up to date

• www.worple.orgwww.worple.org

• Parent mail – please make sure you are Parent mail – please make sure you are registered for parent mail. registered for parent mail.

• Safe use of the internetSafe use of the internethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOOn2wR8bU • Class Dojo- sign up to see how your child is

doing in class

Parent Help & Support

We would really appreciate you We would really appreciate you coming in to help with:coming in to help with:

• Reading with individual children• Swimming• Help with the PTA events• Help on school trips• Help making resources

Questions?