Welcome to
Year 4
Year 4 Teacher: Mr Day
Class LSA: Mrs James
Topics
• Autumn: Starry Starry Night
• Spring: Exploring the Unknown
(Ufton Court)
• Summer: Invaders and Settlers
(Y3&4 trip)
‘Friends on a learning journey
achieving success together’
• This year we are moving away from using the NC
‘Levels’ which you may have previously seen in
reports. Your child’s progress will be measured in
school by whether they have achieved the
‘Milestone’ objectives specific to their year or
phase group. Further information will be shared
regarding the reporting process later this term.
• Children will be set learning challenges in school
and always encouraged to challenge themselves
in their own learning to move on and make
progress.
Year Specific Expectations
From our Year 4 class charter:
 Keep the classroom tidy and look after school
equipment
 be polite and show respect to adults and children
and their property
 be sensible, helpful and kind
 listen to each other and the teacher
 keep ourselves safe and healthy
 be honest and follow the school rules and values
 work hard and do our best
A few reminders…
• PE kit
• Water bottles
• Break time snacks
• Morning arrival
• Reading books
• Pencil cases – pens and pencils
Naming Items
Please would you ensure that all equipment and
clothing and water bottles are clearly labelled with
your child’s name.
Our Home learning Expectations
At Warfield we expect that all children
undertake all Maths and English home learning
set by their class teacher.
Home Learning Grids
• These have been given out for this half term. Children should keep a
record of their points totals and share any home learning on a Friday. Class
teachers will award their own certificates and prizes for outstanding effort
or individual home learning pieces.
Mental Maths
• Half termly Maths learning at home sheets are provided to focus on which
mental maths target areas to test your child on at home in preparation for
weekly tests in school.
Spellings
• Spelling lists will be given out. Results will be recorded in school and the
children made aware of their marks.
Meeting your child’s individual needs
Within lessons tasks are differentiated by teachers to
meet children’s needs either by task, by level of
support or by expected outcome.
Children are encouraged to challenge themselves
within lessons by choosing a level of challenge activity
appropriate for them.
Children may often work in mixed ability pairs or
groups within a classroom to encourage peer support.
Children may be invited to attend groups outside of the
classroom to meet their specific learning needs.
Reading
At Warfield CE Primary School we feel that regular and
appropriately challenging reading of a range of texts is
essential to ensuring the development of all of our
children.
We ask that parents listen to their child read on a daily
basis and record this in their child’s Reading Journal.
In Year 4 your child’s reading will be listened to
regularly in school. This will happen through lesson and
guided reading times. Your child may not be heard
individually on a weekly basis by their class teacher but
will be heard regularly by other adults in school who
will record the reading session in their Reading Journal.
Our Website
All of the information for your child’s class is
available under the class page on our school
website. This can be found under Children/Class
Pages/ Year 4
All of the documents for your child’s year group
can be found on the right hand side of the page
under Documents to download.
Documents that can be found on the
class webpages include:
Termly Learning
Overview of Topic
Home Learning grids
and class specific
home work
documents
Lists of weekly spellings and maths to
learn at home for weekly tests
How to contact me
• If you wish to speak to me quickly please pop in
after school. If you have a general enquiry that is
not urgent please phone or email the office who
will pass on your query to me.
• If you require a longer appointment please ring
the school office or pop in to arrange a date and
time with me.
• I will contact you if there is something important
with regards to your child which I would like to
discuss.
Diary Dates:
Parents’ Evenings this term will be on
Wednesday 4th November – 5.30 to 8.00 pm
Thursday 5th November – 3.30 to 6.00 pm
Thank you for attending tonight. I look forward to seeing you soon.