Welcome Meet The TEACHER Yr 3 and 4

1. Welcome Meet The TEACHER Yr3 and 4 There is a signing in sheet coming round – please make sure you have signed this before you leave!

2. Dahl Class – Year 4 Teacher: Miss E Noice – Yr 3 and 4 Phase Leader/Curriclum Leader TA: Mrs E Jackson Murphy Class – Year 4 Teacher: Mr A Marshall TA: Miss J New Fletcher Class – Year 3 Teacher: Miss K Diggins TA: TBC Hughes Class Teacher: Mrs C Wellington TA: Mrs T Sheppherd Year 3 and 4 September 2019

3. Our Aims and Vision End of Year Expectations: English Maths Reading Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Our Topics Home Learning/Homework Website/Class Email/Communication Attendance Agenda Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

4. I T Y N U C O M M P R E I D I N I V I T Y S U C L Aims and Vision T O Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher N I T Y T P S I I V O A P E C T S E R S S N K I E N D

5. VISION • Every child in the school is important, every child should have the opportunity to learn, every child should be happy at school, every child should feel safe and every child should have the opportunity to shine. • ♥At the heart of it all is the children ♥ • We strive to build foundations for lifelong learning and equip children for the next steps as kind, confident and successful adults. We will inspire, excite and work together to create amazing memories in a school that the whole community can be proud of. Aims and Vision Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

6. Reading - word reading • Pupils should be taught to: • apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in - both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet • read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word End of Year Expectations - Reading • Reading - comprehension • Pupils should be taught to: • develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by: • listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks • reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes • using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read • increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally • identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books • preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action • discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination • recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry] • understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by: • checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context • asking questions to improve their understanding of a text • drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence • predicting what might happen from details stated and implied • identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these • identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning • retrieve and record information from non-fiction • participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a copy of your child’s end of year expectations please see the website.

7. Reading Challenge Children read at least 3 times a week at home in autumn term, 4 times a week in spring term and 5 times a week in summer term. For every entry in their reading record, they will colour in a block on the reading challenge. The whole class will receive a treat for achieving whole class goals at the end of the half term and individuals will be rewarded for reading at 18, 30 and 50 entries . Treats will include trips to the park, games or fun activities of their choice. Reading Challenge Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

8. End of Year Expectations – Writing Year 3 Begin to use the present perfect tense Using a range of conjunctions to extend sentences Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express Spelling many common exception words consistently correctly Use paragraphs (with headings/subheadings) to group ideas Spell and use the correct homophone Adding prefixes and suffixes to spell some words correctly in writing eg. –ation, -ly, -ous, un-, dis-, mis-, im- Spelling most words from the word list correctly Using joined, legible writing independently and consistently Use ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly in front of nouns Demarcating all sentences with: capital letters, including Proper Nouns full stops And some use of: question marks exclamation marks commas (lists, fronted adverbials, inserted clauses) inverted commas for speech apostrophes for possession and contraction Continue using a range of sentences in writing including statements, questions, commands and exclamations To start sentences with An adverb An adverbial phrase A verb (ING word) A preposition Use a range of nouns and pronouns to help flow and avoid repeating Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a copy of your child’s end of year expectations please see the website.

9. End of Year Expectations – Writing Year 4 Spells words with: Suffixes Prefixes Words from the wordlist Homophones Use standard English Knows the grammatical difference between plural and possessive s Chooses nouns and pronouns to avoid repetition Use present perfect form of verbs Use expanded noun phrases Use a range of conjunctions Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions for time and cause Organise paragraphs around a theme Use fronted adverbials Make correct use of: Use apostrophes for possession Commas after fronted adverbials Inverted commas and other punctuation for speech Describe character, setting, and plot in narrative Use organisational devices where necessary Assess and suggest improvements to writing Proofread for spelling and punctuation errors Use neat, legible handwriting ensuring correct use of joins Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a copy of your child’s end of year expectations please see the website.

10. End of Year Expectations – Spelling Year 3 and 4 Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a copy of your child’s spellings please see the website.

11. End of Year Expectations – Maths Year 3 •  - compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators • solve problems that involve all of the above • Measures • measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml) • measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes • add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts • tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks • estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; recrd and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, am/pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight • know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year • compare durations of events [for example, to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks] • Geometry (Including properties of shapes and position and direction) • draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them • recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn • identify right angles, recognise that 2 right angles make a half-turn, 3 make three-quarters of a turn and 4 a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle • identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines • Statistics • interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables • solve one-step and two-step questions [for example ‘How many more?’ and ‘How many fewer?’] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables • Year 3 • Number and Place Value • count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; • find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number • recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (100s, 10s, 1s) • compare and order numbers up to 1,000 • identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations • read and write numbers up to 1,000 in numerals and in words • solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas • Addition and subtraction • add and subtract numbers mentally, including: • a three-digit number and 1s • a three-digit number and 10s • a three-digit number and 100s • add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction • estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers • solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction • Multiplication and division • recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables • write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods • solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects • Fractions, decimals and percentages • count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10 • recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators • recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators • recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators • add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a copy of your child’s end of year expectations please see the website.

12. End of Year Expectations – Maths Year 4 • Geometry (Including properties of shapes and position and direction) • compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes • identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size • identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations • complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry. • describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant • describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down • plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon. • Multiplication and division • recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12 • use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers • recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations • multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout • solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects. • Fractions, decimals and percentages • recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions • solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number • add and subtract fractions with the same denominator • recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths • recognise and write decimal equivalents to ¼ ½ ¾ • find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths • round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number • compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places • solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places. • count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten. • Number and Place Value • count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000 • find 1000 more or less than a given number • count backwards through zero to include negative numbers • recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones) • order and compare numbers beyond 1000 • identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations • round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000 • solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers • read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value • Addition and subtraction • add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate • estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why. • solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why. • Measures • Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute] • measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres • find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares • estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence • read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24- hour clocks • solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days. • Statistics • interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs. • solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs. Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a copy of your child’s end of year expectations please see the website.

13. Our Topics – Year 3 Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a to see what your child is currently learning please see the website.

14. Our Topics – Year 4 Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a to see what your child is currently learning please see the website.

15. Our Topics – Year 3 Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a to see what your child is currently learning please see the website.

16. Our Topics – Year 4 Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher If you would like a to see what your child is currently learning please see the website.

17. Homework – Year 3 and 4 Homework is given out on a Friday and due in on Wednesday. Children are responsible for bringing in their reading records and homework books. Multiplication Test – Please practise your times tables with your child regularly using the given website. Times tables strategies and ICT games will be put on the Year group pages on the website each half term. Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

18. Behaviour – Year 3 and 4 The Golden Rules are: Be safe, Be respectful, Do your Best We aim to: Enable all pupils to grow academically, socially and emotionally . Promote self-discipline, regard for authority and acceptance of responsibility for our own actions Create and maintain a positive, safe and orderly school climate where effective learning can take place . Promote mutual respect between all members of the school community, for belongings and our school environment. Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher Please see our website for our full behaviour policy.

19. Home/School Agreement – Year 3 and 4 Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher Please ensure you and your child have read and signed the home/school agreement and passed this back to your child’s class teacher or hand it into the office.

20. Website/Class Email/Communication Website: We are becoming a paperless school therefore letters and communication will primarily be delivered through parent mail/ parent texts and the website. The school calendar is updated by teachers and admin staff for any events or activities going on during the school term. Letters will also be uploaded to the website as well as sent via parent mail. If you have any issues with parent mail please see the office for further assistance. Class Emails: Fletcher@miltonparkprimaryschool.co.uk Hughes@miltonparkprimaryschool.co.uk Dahl@miltonparkprimaryschool.co.uk Murphy@miltonparkprimaryschool.co.uk Teachers will check these emails regularly but may not reply straight away. If you need to speak to your child’s class teacher urgently, please make an appointment. Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

21. Here Everyday Ready On time Consistent and regular attendance allows children to build on foundations on lessons each day and make connections in their learning Lateness – Being on time to school ensures your child maximises their learning time and can reduce anxiety for children Persistent Unauthorised absences may lead to fines – 5 days in a term (10 sessions) Attendance/Lateness Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

22. The school is using Studybugs to communicate absence. Parents can download the app and link to the school through the website www.studybugs.co.uk Timings 8:40 – Doors open for children to come in to school 9:00 – Registers are officially taken (doors close) 9:00 – 9:10 – Your child will be marked as late (“L” Code) After 9:10 – Your child will receive a “U” code and this will count as an unauthorised absence Good attendance is important. We accept that 100% attendance may not be possible, so set “good attendance” at 97% or above. The school’s attendance last year was 95.3%, so there is more work to be done! Attendance Here Everyday Ready On time Unauthorised Absence The school reserves the right to not authorise an absence. This may be taking a holiday during term time that isn’t for exceptional circumstances, not being provided a legitimate reason for a child's absence or intelligence suggesting that the absence is not for the reason provided. In this instance, should the total number of unauthorised sessions be 10 or above within a term, a fine may then be issued. This fine would be £60 per parent* per child. *In this instance, a “parent” refers to any adult living in the property that the child mainly resides in and any adult who has parental responsibility plus their partner (if they live together)

23. Attendance/Lateness Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher Portsmouth City Council are running the “Miss School, Miss Out” campaign across the city, so more work is being done on improving attendance

24. Good hygiene helps prevent illness which is why we remind children not to share food and drinks, to use tissues and to wash their hands. Please help us by reminding your children of these things at home too. If your child has no temperature but just has a cough, cold, headache or earache then, as with adults, medical advice is to give paracetamol and send them to school. We are happy to administer paracetamol in school as well as any medication your child has been prescribed by the doctor. Illness Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

25. Health Related Absence Nurse (HRA) : Kate Watts 07768513136 Working hours 8.30 – 14.30 Monday-Friday Email enquiries to : Kathryn.Watts@nhs.net NO child/family identifiable information will be sent via unsecured email Contact Details Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher

26. Thank you for attending our Meet The Teacher Meeting. We are all looking forward to getting to know you and your children more and making memorable experiences. Please see your child’s class teacher if you have any questions. Questions? Year 3 and 4 Meet The Teacher