Welcome to Year 4!

Moonstone and Sapphire

Our teaching team: Miss Smalley (Moonstone class), Mr Johnson and Mrs Stewart (Sapphire class)

Additional teaching staff: Mrs Talmage, Mr Minei

Teaching assistants: Mrs Wales and Mrs Somasundaram

PE

Our PE days are Mondays (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor). Children will need to come to school wearing their PE kids on these days. They will stay in their PE kits all day. If your child wears earrings, please make sure they are removed before school on PE days.

Spellings

 Our weekly spelling tests are on Tuesdays for those who have completed the RWI (Read Write Inc) scheme. We will send home the list of words to practise every Tuesday, and go through them together in school on Thursdays. Please help your child practise them at home so that they become fluent spellers and writers - the words they are tested on are frequently used words, and so the more familiar they are with reading and writing them, the better!

Spelling activities will be available electronically on The Spelling Shed, where your child can access a range of activities. It can be accessed here: The Spelling Shed. They should aim to complete at least 3 spelling activities each week. Spellings can also be practised using a range of handwritten methods, such as:

• Look, Cover, Write Check
•  Rainbow Writing (e.g. beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful)
•  Waterfall Writing (e.g. below)

b

be

bea

beau

beaut

beauti

beautif

beautifu

beautiful

Time Tables Test

We have weekly times tables tests in school. With the National Times Tables check happening in June, this will become increasingly more regular to help the children practise and become familiar with the format the questions will be delivered in for the check. Children are given 2.5 minutes to complete 25 questions (6 seconds per question). All children will be practising all times tables to expose them to as many as possible. Support will be given in school to those children still finding times tables tricky but please practise these at home as much as you can to give them every chance of success they can get! Maths Frame Times Table check is a fantastic resource to use online at home. We are currently practising our tests completing 25 questions in 10 seconds. We will steadily decrease this to 6 seconds over the months leading up to the check. Please feel free to do this at home too!