Welcome to Year 4 (2022 - 2023) from Mr Millett, Mrs Entwistle, and Mrs Jewess!

Hello and welcome from everyone in the Year 4 team.

Some important things to know are, every Wednesday the children have PE and on Friday they go swimming some please send them to school in their PE kit on both days and with swimming attire on the Friday.

Some other key days are Thursday where we check the children's reading diaries and Friday where the children also get a weekly spelling test. Further information on these two aspects can be found below.   

Spelling and Reading

Spellings are stuck into the children’s spelling records at the beginning of each term.  A spelling overview for each half-term is provided, as well as weekly lists.  Please ensure that children are remembering to practise, using the spelling strategies learned in class. 

Spelling tests are carried out every Friday morning.  Expectations are that children score at least 5 or above (out of 10).  Scores are tracked weekly as well as which spellings they got correct and incorrect.

Children need to read at home at least four times a week for 10 minutes at a time.  When your child has read, please ensure it is recorded in their reading diary (by you or themselves). if the child has read by themselves please try and give their reading diary a quick sign. Children’s reading records are checked, against this expectation, by Mrs Entwistle each Thursday morning. 

Please encourage your children to read a range of different genres and for a range of different purposes, (as this forms part of their assessment): even if it is reading a bus timetable, reading something online as research or reading an information leaflet– it all counts as ‘reading’. 

Times Tables

All children have access to the website Times Tables Rock Stars, where tables work is set for them to complete.  High scores and year group winners are put up on display in the school.  If your child has lost their log in or password, then just let us know and we can remind them.

At the end of this school year the children will face a times tables test. We are doing a lot of preparation in school for this. If the children would like to further practice at home, this is a link to a game that replicates the test exactly:

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We will send regular Marvellous Me messages to keep you up-to-date with any imprtant information, as well as to celebrate children's amazing achievements, academically or socially.  

If you do have any questions, then please talk to us at the end of the day, when we will be happy to help.