Year Four Meet and Greet Evening

Year Four Meet and Greet Evening Tuesday 9th September 2014 Thank you for attending

Teaching Staff Mrs Jenner(TLM and 4J), Miss Cushing(4Fa),Miss Eyre (4E), Miss Gray (4G) and Miss Finney (4Fi) Support Staff Mrs Walker ,Mrs Greenslade, Mrs Bryant, Mrs Park, Mrs Priest, MrsEverett, Year Four Staff We are very lucky in Year Four to have such a great team working together.

Contacting the teacher If you wish to speak to your child’s teacher: • You can write a message in your child’s reading record • They will be available on the playground at the beginning and end of the day, if you have a quick, short message. • If you wish to have a more in-depth discussion with the teacher, please arrange an appointment with them for a time after school which is suitable for you both. • The teacher’s email addresses will be on the website. Please remember that the teacher may not get to read this message until after school, or even the following day!

Behaviour Expectations Now they have reached Year Four and spent a year in our school learning about our expectations, routines and rules, we expect the children to show a more mature approach to learning. This includes a willingness to listen in class and follow instructions when asked to complete independent tasks. We hope that throughout the year, the children will become more organised, independent and more responsible for their own learning and belongings. In order to achieve this goal, the year group has a series of incentives to reward those children who display excellent learning behaviour(and also consequences for those who don’t!)

Courtesy • Consideration • Care • Co-operation • Commitment The 5 Cs

Please make sure the children are wearing the correct school uniform • Wrist bands, jewellery and nail varnish are not part of the uniform so please make sure they are removed before your child comes to school • PE and Games kit • All clothing needs to be named so that it can be returned if it has been lost. Uniform

Rewards Housepoints Children can earn housepoints for both themselves and their ‘house’. Staff will reward children with housepoints for a variety of reasons, including; Excellent class work. For reading at home For being helpful and organised. Gold Children who show continuously good or exceptionally good behaviour may work their way up to “gold” They will them be sent to see Mrs Clarke

Our traffic light system encourages good behaviour. • But also indicates to the children when to make a change in their behaviour. • Reminder / warning / amber / red • Red: children will be sent to Mrs Jenner to reflect on their behaviour at break-time if they have three reds during a half term. • 4 reds: Miss Hyland Consequences

Yr4 Curriculum The children will be studying a broad and interesting curriculum throughout the year, with topics in the Autumn term including; English (Diary entries/ recounts / Instructions ) Topic (We are Archaeologists) ICT (Wikki pages) PE (multi-skills, gymnastics and dance) Music RE (Buddhism) French

Intervention As in Year Three, the intervention programmes will also be running in Year Four at different times throughout the year. The main focus of the programmes are to support those children who have ‘slipped behind’ in their expected personal progress since starting our school. The groups are not designed for those children who are judged as ‘behind’ against a ‘national average’ – these children will be supported within the classroom. Mrs Everett is our Intervention TA

Homework Homework will be set every week on a Friday It needs to be in on Tuesday to give the teachers time to mark it Please sign the log and write any comments about your children’s work Spellings will be sent half termly Timestables, weekly All children are expected to read everyday even at the weekends as research shows this really helps their progress

Your child should have their PE / Games kit on a • 4E Thursday 4J Wednesday • 4Fa Monday • 4Fi Friday • 4G Tuesday • And their library book on a • 4E Tuesday • 4Fa Monday • 4Fi Monday • 4G Friday • 4J Tuesday • Please encourage your children to be independent and responsible for their own property. PE / GAMES / LIBRARY TIMES

Children will be sent to meet who-ever they are meeting. • The teacher will be outside if your child cannot find an adult • Please let us know if you wish us to hold onto your child. Collecting your children from school

Year Four Meet and Greet Evening