Welcome to Year 4 - Your child will be coming home with a pack of information for you - Cobham Primary School, Kent

Welcome to Year 4

Your child will be coming home with a
    pack of information for you.

Aims

•To give you important information about the
next year with both curriculum details and our
school priorities.
•To outline expectations of our home-school
partnership regarding behaviour, homework and
reading support.

Aims
        Whole School aims and priorities

•   Mastery in Maths across the whole school
•   Phonics, Reading and Spelling
•   Challenge
•   Jigsaw PSHE new scheme of work
•   Skills, Knowledge and Concepts across the
    foundation subjects

Meet the team
     Mrs Joshua                 Mrs Brooker
                    Mrs Merry
 We work collaboratively together to support and develop the
children’s learning experience at school. If you have any worries
  or concerns, please do not hesitate to share the information
     with any member of the team. All information is shared
     between the adults to ensure the best possible learning
                  environment for your children.

Communication

•Communication should be primarily with a member of the
Year 4 team, as a first point of contact.
•If you have any worries, questions or concerns, then
please do not hesitate to contact us.
•The school diaries are an excellent method of
communication – any notes, questions or concerns can be
placed into these as the children can show us these daily.

Year 4 Overview

What we expect in
                                       Year 4
      Rights and                            Independence
    responsibilities
•    Year 4 provides the children with a chance to develop their
     independence and behaviour.
•    As a class, we have created a charter which includes a list of the
     responsibilities needed to achieve a safe, happy learning
     environment.

•    The children need to be encouraged to become independent
     learners, at school and with their homework.
•    They need to organise their time efficiently to ensure they are
     learning to their best possible standard.

Homework

Spelling Contract

New spellings
will be given
     each
 Thursday.

Spelling tests
   will take
  place on a
 Wednesday.

Positivity is the key

Reading, Writing,
                               Spelling and
                                 Phonics
A specific aim and priority for the whole school this year is
Purposeful Reading, spellings and Phonics

Reading
Reading remains a focus at Cobham this year and we have already
made a fantastic start. All of our children at Cobham can read
aloud beautifully, however it is now their the understanding,
comprehension and deeper meaning of the text that we are
focusing on.

All classes have a focused guided reading system which enables
the children to explore a range of different concepts and skills
throughout the week.

Reading Challenge

Cobham Primary School Reading Challenge
• We are encouraging the children to read on five days out of
  the seven in the week to earn their ‘gold star’ for that week.
• The week goes from Monday to Monday.
• Once the children have achieved their first five stars they
  receive a certificate for their excellent reading and
  dedication.
• Throughout the year, the children have a chance to earn
  SEVEN certificates and once all certificates have been
  achieved the children will be able to choose a FREE book of
  their choice from the selections.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP YOUR
  CHILD?
Provide a wide range of reading material
A school reading book is only one part of a child’s
reading repertoire

•Books (picture books; short stories; chapter books);
magazines; comics; annuals; membership handbooks
•Information books; brochures; catalogues; flyers;
newspapers; guide-books
•Websites ; take-away menus; instructions;
•Visit the library and or bookshop

Think about why
                          the writer has       Decide whether we
           Make
                           used certain         think it is a good
      predictions or
                           features e.g.              book.
       give opinions,
                        layout and words.
      then decide if
       we are right.                                      Work out
                                                          the main
   Think of                                              characters
questions that          What do we do                     and the
  we want to
   find the
                        when we read?                       main
                                                          themes.
 answers to.

                                                      Compare the
   Try to                                                book to
understand               Decide whether we agree       others that
the author’s            with what characters do, or   we have read.
  message.              how our lives are the same
                           or different to theirs.

Writing
• Each Year Group has
  their own GPaS focus
  for each week linked
  to the National
  Curriculum. The GPaS
  focus also links in to
  the children’s spelling
  learning.

English Learning
                   Writing

English Learning
                   Writing

Spelling and
                                phonics
Each year group has a specific list of spellings and rules they will
be working on through their contracts, lessons and specific GPaS
lessons as well as in Key Stage 1 Phonics sessions. The links and
learning between home an school are crucial. In your Meet and
Greet pack you have a list of our Year 3 and 4 spellings the
children should know and work on.

Spelling and
                            phonics
SOMETIMES THERE
ARE SPELLINGS WE
CANNOT LEARN AND
NEED TO FIND A
CLEVER WAY…

THE FUTURE OF
SPELLING!
THERE IS A PARENT ZOOM
SESSION ON FRIDAY 17TH.
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW.   Sir Linkalot – The Future of Spelling

English

Maths Learning
                                       Maths
•Maths teaching will encourage exploration of concepts to great depth.
•Using accurate mathematical language is a central part to learning and
reasoning. Visual images and manipulates are used alongside the teaching of
each concept in every year group.
•To develop a true understanding of each mathematical concept, we encourage
the children to ‘Make it, Draw it, Write it and Apply it’.

Maths
Class 4’s Maths Learning
•   From time to time, we will be sending home a maths Parent
    Factor homework for all the family to get involved in. They help
    to bring maths to life and provide the children with a real
    context for their learning.
•   Mathletics is used within Year 4 to support the children’s
    understanding in maths: http://www.mathletics.co.uk/
This is the final year that they will have access to Mathletics, so
please make the most of it.
•   Learning times tables facts are a vital part of any child’s
    mathematical development. Once rapid recall of multiplication facts
    becomes fluent, a whole host of maths concepts will seem easier.

Maths
Times Tables Expectations

Maths
Times Tables
How can I help my child learn their times tables?
•Repetition. Go over the x table again and again. Chant it, sing it, stamp your
feet or bang a drum to it!

•Look out for patterns. What do you notice? For example the 5x table always
ends in 5 or 0 and the digits of the 11x table are the same up to 10x.
•Be detectives and find maths rules. For example: are multiples of 6 always
even? What do you notice about adding the digits of the 9x table together?
•10 is the key! The 10x table is perhaps the easiest, so use it to help with 9x and
11x of other numbers. For example: if we know that 10x7 is 70 then 11x7 must
be 7 more or 9x7 must be 7 less.
•Time yourself. Can you get quicker at reciting your x table up to 12x?

Maths
 Times Tables
 Which resources could help my child to learn their times tables?
https://www.timestables.co.uk/
This site includes interactive exercises and tests, as
well as test printouts.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-
years/times-tables
This site has interactive games for both KS1 and KS2
to help develop the pace of times tables recall.
https://www.wikihow.com/Teach-the-Multiplication-
Tables-to-Your-Child
This site gives more useful hints on how to approach
times tables.
Multiplication Tables Check – Mathsframe
This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication
Tables Check' that will be given to children at the
end of Year 4.

Maths
Multiplication Tables Check
• MTC is a Key Stage 2 assessment
  to be taken by pupils at the end of
  year 4 (in June).
• The purpose is to make sure the
  times tables knowledge is at the
  expected level: recall their
  multiplication tables up to 12x12
  fluently.
• It is an online test where pupils
  are asked 25 questions on times       https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermove
  tables 2 to 12.                       rs/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4

• 6 seconds will be given to answer
  each question.

Maths
Addition

Maths
Addition

Maths
Subtraction

Maths
Subtraction

Maths
Multiplication

Maths
Division

Maths
Division

Bar model
            Maths

Maths

Maths

Maths
What Can I do to Help
 My Child at Home?
     Homework

    Times tables

     Board games

  The Parent Factor

Website
Cobham Primary School
With the amazing support and help from one of our
parents, Cobham Primary School has a new and up to date
website that holds key details and information that you
need.

   http://www.cobham.kent.sch.uk

Health Issues
Health Issues
•If there is anything new that we need to know about your child,
then please either put it in writing in your child’s contact book or
contact the school office by email.
•If there are any changes to medication, it is imperative that we
are informed.
•If your child is asthmatic, we should be informed about it and
have asthma pumps in school.
•If your child is allergic to anything, we should be informed and if
they have an epi pen, there should be two in school! One that we
have within the classroom and one that goes into the Emergency
Box closest to the school field and playground.

Internet Safety
• With our world continuing to grow in technological
  advances, keeping our children safe online is of paramount
  importance both inside of school and at home.
• The way of the world today relies heavily on mobile
  devices, I-pads, computers, YouTube and the internet and
  children are having greater access to social media at a
  younger age.
• Keeping children safe online is a key priority at Cobham,
  and E-safety teaching and learning is a key feature of
  computing a PSHE based learning.

Internet Safety

SAFE – Keep safe by being careful not to give out personal
information – including full name and email address - to people
who you don’t trust online.
MEETING – Meeting up with someone you have only been in touch
with online can be dangerous. Only do so with your parent’s/carer’s
permission and even then only when they can be present.
ACCEPTING – Accepting e-mails, IM messages or opening
files from people you don’t know can be dangerous – they may
contain viruses or nasty messages!
RELIABLE      – Someone online may be lying about who they
are, and information you find on the internet may not be true.
Check information and advice on other websites, in books or ask
someone who may know.
TELL   – Tell your parent/carer or teacher if someone or
something makes you feel uncomfortable or worried, or you or
someone you know is being cyberbullied.

Thinkuknow a great resource for children and parents.

One of the e-Safety activities being used at Cobham to
teach children how to stay safe from risks they
encounter online.