Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

In Year 4 we follow the school’s mission statement by aiming to live, love and learn as Jesus taught us throughout everything we do in and out of class.  We discussed and came up with our class rules at the start of the year. This year is a time for the children to develop their independence as a member of KS2 and become good role models for the new Year 3s.

Staff

• Class Teacher - Miss Conod

• Learning Assistant - Mrs Jones

• Learning Assistant  - Mrs Griffiths

Class Routine

School starts with a soft start at 8:40 am, where the children are greeted with a smile as they enter their classroom. They complete daily calculations and a spelling activity. Reading to an adult and reading for pleasure happens during this time too.

Registration happens at 8.50am followed by a child each day leading prayers.

Friday is French Friday with the register taken in French and prayers in French too.

To ensure the children are knowing more and remembering more, Friday is Flashback Friday with four retrieval questions set each week to see if the children have retained the previous knowledge taught.

The remainder of the morning consists of a Maths lesson, comprising arithmetic, reasoning and problem solving and English, consisting of writing, reading, punctuation, grammar and spelling.

The afternoon sessions are used to teach the remaining subjects: RE (20% of the timetable), science, history, geography, PE, art, DT, music, French, RSE and computing.

Our School Rules:

At St. Mary’s, in everything we say and do we follow the teaching of Jesus.

1. We always listen carefully so that we can learn and be safe.

2. We work hard and persevere to achieve our best.

3. We take responsibility for our actions.

4. We show good manners by being kind and treating others as we would like to be treated.

5. We value and care for our school and all the things in it.

6. When lining up and walking round school, we always walk quietly.

Homework Timetable

Children have 3 main pieces of homework in Y4: reading, maths, and spellings. Reading books are sent home on a Tuesday with the children to be read every night with an adult. These should be read more than once to develop fluency and returned to school the following Monday. Children should read a variety of other books at home in addition to the school scheme.

Maths homework based on the learning from that week is sent home on Friday and to be returned the following Friday. Spellings go home on a Tuesday for a test on Monday.

In addition to this, children are expected to learn and practice up to their 12x tables in preparation for our multiplication check in the summer term.

Useful websites: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check https://spellingframe.co.uk/ https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf26g2p#z87skhv https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary#england https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Our Class Saint

See the presentation below for some interesting information about St Therese.

A part of our R.E. work and our beliefs in British Values, we also visit the Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham.  This helps us learn about Jewish life and its traditions.

Click here for more information on the Synagogue - https://www.birminghamsynagogue.com/.