Year 4
Welcome to Year 4
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Mr Broom with Mrs White |
Mrs Wapshott Supporting |
Mr Fischer with Mrs Capaldi |
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A very warm welcome back to both the children and parents of year 4. It's wonderful to have you with us again and we are very much looking forward to the new academic year. |
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The School Day
In line with the latest government guidelines to ensure safety of both pupils and staff the school drop off and pick up times have altered from the previous year. Children are now expected to arrive promptly at 9.00am and will leave school at 3.15pm. Children will have their hands sanitised at least 6 times a day, and always upon entering and leaving the school.
Items
Children are no longer expected to bring in any personal belongings other than book bags (only Mondays and Fridays), a warm winter coat and a spare pair of indoor shoes or trainers.
Spellings
Spellings will be tested weekly, at the beginning of the week, following classroom practise. The results are logged using the Hive games on Spelling Shed. The first 6 weeks of spellings have been sent out via parentmail and can be seen on our 'Spelling' page. Please encourage your child to regularly use Spelling Shed and practise at home so that they have a good level of confidence in class.
Reading
To help with reducing cross contamination, children will only be taking home one book per week which will be issued Monday, returning any read books on Fridays, allowing us a 72 hour quarantine period before books are placed back into circulation for the use of other children. Because of this reduction, children are encouraged to use Oxford Reading Buddy on a far more regular basis at home, as they do in school.
Oxford Reading Buddy moves students automatically through Oxford Levels. Once a student has met specified thresholds, based on the number of quiz scores above 80%, they are ready to move up to the next Oxford Level. Threshold numbers vary between levels, and numbers reduce at higher levels because the texts are longer and take more time to read.
The conditions for movement through Oxford Levels have been based on expected rates of progress and achievement. In the event that a student runs out of books at a given Oxford Level without having met the thresholds necessary to move up to the next Oxford Level, previously-read books will appear at the start of their eBook library ready for re-reading, and quizzes will be reset for a second attempt.
We are coaching students regularly on how to improve their book Quiz results in the classroom. As there is no time limit and no sense of competition in the quizzes, we are focussing on taking the time to read the questions and search the text before commiting to the answer, just as students will need to in a Reading Comprehension Test. Consistently scoring 80% or more will maximise their progression to the next level, where many more e-books will be available.
Uniform
Children should wear full school uniform, that needs to be changed and washed as much as possible. Black outdoor school shoes should be worn to and from school, and these should be suitable for field play and wet weather.