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Year 4 Curriculum

Handwriting: Penpals scheme, daily practise

Maths: Teaching for mastery

- Fluency – arithmetic and reasoning

- Problem solving

- Justification - Recall multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12

- (times tables will be screened at end Year 4 from

2020; the short online test is being trialled this year

in some selected schools – not us – with voluntary

testing from 2019).

Year 4 Curriculum

Writing targets include:

- To proofread and improve own work and that

of others

- To write and punctuate direct speech

- Apostrophes

- Pronouns to avoid repetition

Year 4 Curriculum

Reading

• To gather information from more than one

place in the text and use inference based on

what is shown rather than being told.

• To begin to interpret sophisticated word-play

and puns.

• To explain a character’s motivations and

discuss the points of view of the character and

the narrator.

Communication

- Beginning and end of the day.

- Working together.

Steps of communication:

1. Class teacher

2. Phase Leader (Mr Rolls)

3. Dr Biddulph

Guided Reading (Book Club)

Reading at home – reading record for your use with your child – this will not be completed in school

Bug Club

Reading for Pleasure

Snuggle with a Story

GREAT SITES FOR

BOOKS

• http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/ (online magazine for children)

• http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk (for parents to support children’s

reading habits)

• http://www.welovetoread.co.uk/ (ditto)

• http://www.booktrust.org.uk/ (Book lists by age and genre)

• http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/ (as above)

• http://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/ (as above)

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LAMDA

Whole class sessions every Monday will

continue, to develop oracy and confidence.

P.E.Topics this term are ball skills and gymnastics.

PE is on Mondays and Wednesdays.Premier Sports and Mr Drane will be teaching Year 4 this term.

Children can leave or take kits home whenever needed.

Year 4 children will be having swimming lessons during the school year.

SUPPORTING YOUR

CHILD AT HOME

• Read with your child every day – 20 minutes

• Help your child learn their multiplication tables

• Support them to become more responsible for

their own belongings

• Support routines, plenty of sleep

Assessment

- Teacher assessment to inform next steps in

responsive journals.

- Baseline tests in maths, reading, oracy and

dialogue

- Regular progress checks (teacher

assessment) across the curriculum.

MORNING SNACK

YEAR 4 RESIDENTIAL TRIPThis will take place at the start of the summer term, at a PGL adventure centre in Suffolk (Bawdsey Manor), and

will involve 2 nights and 3 days away from home.

A briefing meeting will follow early in the Spring Term but permission can be given now and payments started to

spread the cost.

Any questions?