Year 4 Welcome Curriculum Evening: Informing Parents of Expectations

1. Curriculum Evening Welcome! Thursday 19th September Year 4

2. Aims To inform parents of expectations for Our Mission Statement and House System Knowledge/topics covered Educational visits Timetable Uniform Homework Websites FSM

4. St Joseph the Worker St Cecelia St Francis of Assisi St. Teresa of Calcutta

5. How does the House System work? • Rewarded for Good Behaviour • Good Manners • Being a kind friend • Showing respect to others • Lunchtime behaviour • Displaying Virtues and Values • Being resilient • Child receives a token for good behaviour • Token placed in a special box under the Saint • Number of points celebrated each week • End of Term prize for the winning house • Inter School Competitions

6. The Merit System – Progress and Attainment • Years 1 to 6 • 10 merits – bronze certificate • 20 merits – silver certificate • 30 merits – gold certificate • 50 merits – platinum certificate • 70 merits + Principal’s certificates • Teachers and Teaching Assistants to award for Good Learning Behaviours: • Homework • Preparation for lessons • Attitude to Work • Contributions in Class • Resilience • Effort

7. English Knowledge English: Greek Myths, Write in fluent consistent handwriting with letters formed correctly • Use fronted adverbial phrases, possessive apostrophe for singular and plural. • Use a wide range of conjunctions including at the start of a sentence. • Use and punctuate direct speech. • Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause. • Spell homophones and near homophones correctly.

8. Maths Knowledge • Understand place value up to 4 digits. • Use a written method of multiplication and division for calculations. • Have rapid recall of all x table facts and relative facts. • Know when to use a mental or written calculation. • Use addition, subtraction to solve up to 2 step problems. • Order and compare positive and negative numbers. • Apply all their mathematical skills to solve reasoning problems

9. Multiplication Tables Check

10. Knowledge Through these topics we cover; Geography, History, Art, D & T and Music The topics covered in thematic curriculum are: During R.E. the children will learn about the following topics: liturgical Seasons such as Lent and Advent, stories from The Old Testament, Sharing in the Life of Christ, Special Roles and Hinduism.

11. Science in Year 4 Science is delivered by Mrs Grainger, with children learning the science curriculum for a whole afternoon every other week. We aim to make science exciting, relevant and practical at St John Fisher.

12. Science Curriculum in Year 4 During Year 4 the following topics are covered: Electricity Sound Habitats Food and The Digestive System States of Matter

13. Educational Visits Already planned we have; Coventry City Centre History Trail All the school will be invited to attend the pantomime. There will be planned visitors and other school trips linked to the Thematic Curriculum and Science topics throughout the year. Letters will be sent out through ParentMail to inform you of this and all payments will be managed through this portal as well.

14. Timetable – Year 4

15. Uniform Winter – to be worn from October half term until Easter • Grey skirt/trousers • White shirt and tie • School jumper with logo • Black school shoes (not trainers) • No jewellery apart from plain studs as ear-rings and a watch • No excessive hair accessories Summer – can be worn after Easter until October half term • Polo shirt with logo • Red and white gingham dress • Black school shoes (not trainers) • No jewellery apart from plain studs as ear-rings and a watch • No excessive hair accessories

16. P.E. Plain white or black shorts Plain white or burgundy t-shirt (or with school logo) Plain black pumps Hair must be tied up if below collar length No ear-rings or jewellery Trainers may be worn for ‘morning mile’ After school activities – separate appropriate kit from home

17. Homework All children from EYFS up to year six should read a little of their school reading book each night All children from year two to year six will have a set of weekly spellings to learn for a written test (a strip a night and learn meanings). Younger children who are able will have spellings Year 4 - English, maths, spellings go out on a Wednesday and back in on Monday.

18. Websites Oxford Owl – great selection of free ebooks and an increasing selection of comprehension activities to accompany the books www.oxfordowl.co.uk (select ‘find a book’ tab, click on the ‘go to the library’ on the owl logo, narrow down your search using the drop down lists, choose a book by clicking on the ‘e’) All children have Reading Eggs, TT Rockstars passwords which are great resources that the school pay for. Please encourage their use – occasionally their homework will be an activity on one of these.

19. FSM All children in KS1 are entitled to a free school meal Please inform the office if your child is entitled to a free school meal (whether or not they decide to use it) as the school receives money for each child.

20. Caterlink School Dinners are now provided by a catering company - Caterlink. All food is cooked from fresh each day. New menus are delicious!

21. Parent Mail We have been using Parentmail for over a year to take online payments for dinners, trips, after and before school clubs. The School Office is cashless.

22. Important Dates Year group mass: Thursday 3rd October Class 9 assembly: Class 10 assembly: Friday 12th June 2020

23. Questions?