Meet the Teachers

Year 4

Classroom Organisation

• Two Year 4 classes

• Myrtle Class: Mr Kavanagh

• Clove Class: Miss Donovan & Miss Seckin

• Year 4 Teaching Assistant: Miss Sherron

Classroom Organisation

• Mixed ability classes

• Miss Seckin is a student teacher in Clove class

• Miss Sherron is our Year 4 teaching assistant and will be

shared across both classes

Year 4

Timetable

Topics in Year 4

Autumn 1 – The Sound of Music

Autumn 2 – The Sound of Music

Spring 1 – India

Spring 2 – India/Rocking Romans

Summer 1 – Rocking Romans

Summer 2 – Reduce Reuse Recycle/Raging Rivers

English

• Talk For Writing

• Texts chosen to reflect the half-termly topic

• Separate SPaG lessons to concentrate on terminology and practice skills

• Creative outputs – drama, roleplay, newspaper reports, iPad books

• Shared reading

• Quality over quantity

Maths

• Concrete – Pictorial – Abstract

• Based on strategies from Singapore Maths

• The children all work on the same topic within Maths throughout the year

• Pre-teaching and consolidation lessons

Uniform

• Girls: grey skirt, dress or trousers; white blouse; school sweatshirt

or navy cardigan, sensible black shoes.

• Boys: grey trousers; white shirt, navy jumper, sensible black

shoes.

• P.E.: kit should be brought to school on Mondays and will go

home on a Friday.

Please Label Everything

• Uniform

• Water Bottle

• Book Bag

• PE kits

• Lunch Boxes

• Spare Clothes

What children should bring to school

everyday

• Water Bottles

• Reading Records

• Reading Books

• Home Learning Books (On Wednesday)

• Weather appropriate clothing e.g. coats, raincoats, hats

• Stay on Green is our positive behaviour management system

• All children are expected to show green behaviour at all times as this is behaviour for learning

• Exceptional effort, attitude or behaviour can be rewarded with bronze, silver and gold awards – these are big

achievements!

• All children have a pocket with their name on and a green card in the pocket at the start of each day.

• Respect

• Honesty

• Fairness

• Responsibility

• Friendliness

• Generosity

• Creativity

• Perseverance

• Courage

Values

Communication

• All important messages will be shared on all school’s social media, as well as the school website.

• We will remind the children of key information during the school day!

• The school opening hours are 7.45 – 6.00pm. If you have a question or query or need to make an

appointment to speak to your child’s teacher, please give Tanya or Marion in the office a call and they will pass

on a message or ask the teacher or teaching assistant to call or email you back.

• If you need further advice about something or you have a concern or comment that the class teams are

unable to help with, we would encourage you to speak to the Phase Leaders or Assistant Heads who are

always happy to help!

• All contact details of key staff and their responsibilities are available on the school’s website.

Home Learning

• Reading – Aim for 25 minutes per day – both reading alone and reading with an adult

• Maths – activities to consolidate in class learning

• English – writing activity

• Home Learning helps children to develop responsibility, independence and ownership of their learning

• Please insist home learning is completed and that some time is spent on learning at home

• Sent home Friday – returned on Wednesday

The Importance of Reading

Reading Agreement

• Children should aim to read for 20-25 minutes every day

• Children or the adults that read with them, need to record in their records every time they read

• Every week morning, it is the child’s responsibility to put their reading record in the classroom box

• If the reading agreement is not met, we will be contacting parents/carers.

Home School Agreement

• An important contract to ensure the best progress for your child

• Signed and filed with the school office

• Will be sent home with your child this week

Attendance and Lateness

• School starts at 8:55am

• Please ensure that your children arrive in plenty of time for the start of the

school day

• Good attendance is extremely important – missed school is missed learning

and can affect your child’s progress

Trips and Special Days

• Parents/carers will need to give permission for their children to attend each trip via ParentPay

• An automatic contribution of ₤1 will be required

• Trips which are free will not require you to give permission on ParentPay (M25 permissions letter)

• Letters for trips will suggest a recommended donation based upon the cost to the school

• Some trips can be very expensive for the school and so we will ask for a contribution to help make these fantastic trips possible!

Volunteering

• Would you be able to spare some time to volunteer on a regular

basis?

• Parent volunteers are vital for school trips – visits won’t be able to

go ahead without out!

• Special days e.g. trips, topic day

‘Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, every day’

• · The health and safety of all children

• · Making sure that the adults who work here have undergone safety and security checks

• · Protecting children from deliberate harm

• · Being an anti-bullying school

• · Meeting the needs of children with medical conditions

• · Children enjoying safe educational visits

• · Making sure our school is secure and safe

• · Being a ‘listening school’.

• · Ensuring they know who to go to in school if they have a problem

• Keeping children safe on school trips

E-Safety

• Here at Whitehall Park we take Online Safety extremely seriously. From fully managed internet access with strict web filtering to making online safety a natural part of any lesson involving the use of the internet we take as many steps as possible to ensure that children are kept safe.

• We also know that there are many different ways that children can access the internet and so we prepare the children for the dangers that may be out there and provide them with strategies for dealing with unwanted communications and being aware of how other people may interact with them. Please take a look at the links below for more information on keeping our children safe online.

• Keeping Under Fives Safe Online

• Internet Safety for Kids

• Advice for Parents

Upcoming Dates for your Diary

• Myrtle class assembly – 9th October 2018, 9 am, WPS school hall

• Clove class assembly – 16th October 2018, 9 am, WPS school hall

• Visit to Archway library – 12th September 2018 (during school hours)

• ‘School of Rock’ theatre visit – 20th September 2018 (late return to school – 6:30 p.m)

Thank you for listening.

Any questions?