Welcome to Year 4

Miss Bancroft is our Year 4 teacher and Miss Smith is our Teaching Assistant. 

PE Lessons:

Our PE lesson is on a Tuesday. Please make sure your child come to school in the correct PE uniform (school jumper, white t-shirt, black shorts/leggings/joggers, trainers or pumps) and if they have long hair, please ensure that it is tied up.

We will be going swimming on Mondays. All children need to buy a swimming cap to wear for swimming. Please ensure that girls wear a 1-piece swimming costume and not a 2 piece bikini. Boys will need swimming trunks that are not excessively short. The children will come to school in their uniform and bring a towel, swimming outfit and swimming cap in a bag.   

Reading Books:

Reading books should be in school everyday as we also read with the children. Please continue to encourage your child to read regularly at home, for 10 minutes daily, and make some time to discuss and ask questions about the text to develop comprehension skills. We would be grateful if you could please make a note of how your child reads, in their reading diary, each time your child is heard to read by an adult, whether this is a school book, an online book, comic, newspaper or a book of their own.

Our school day starts at 9am, with children arriving from 8:40am, and finishes at 3:30pm. 

Here is our weekly timetable for the Autumn term: 

Communication

We use ClassDojo as our main communication tool. We will share what the children have been learning in class and communicate all class/school-related information with you using this platform. It is essential that you are connected to our class page.

We also use School Spider (which is our website provider) for you to sign up your children to after school clubs and booking a parent/teacher meeting when the time comes.  

It is really important that you have access to both of these platforms so you know exactly what is happening in our school. 

Our Curriculum

We adopted the Dimensions' Learning Means the World curriculum in September 2022 and we love it! The curriculum is driven by the 4Cs of communication, conflict, conservation and culture which meets the needs of our diverse school community. It is designed to inspire an enthusiasm for learning, engaging with and learning about challenging 21st century issues, dealing with tomorrow’s issues today.

The progression through school follows four phases: Explorers (EYFS), Pathfinders (Years 1 and 2), Adventurers (Years 3 and 4) and Navigators (Years 5 and 6).

To find out more about our new curriculum please click here.

In the files at the bottom of this page, you will find our curriculum newsletters and WHISK (WHat I Should Know) sheets for each Learning Means the World Unit.

Adventurers

As well as developing subject-specific skills through the themes, the children will also be acquiring skills which will help them become well-rounded individuals and ready for their next phase of learning. Our Adventurers will learn to be brave, risk-takers, resilient and prepared. For more information about Adventurers, click here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact Miss Bancroft via ClassDojo or speak to her at the start or end of the school day.