Broadoak Backpack Character Values
Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Kindness - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Courage - Resilience - Acceptance - Gratitude -
Welcome to Year 4
Welcome to our Year Four page!
Here you will find regular updates, throughout the year, relating to everything that is happening in Year Four. Please find below key information related to our class curriculum, along with news, dates and important updates. You will also be able to see photographs of the exciting things we have been doing and work that we have been producing via our window into the classroom via our Twitter page.
Year Four Team
Miss Ward's Class
2026-2027
Mr Moran's Class
2026-2027
The Year 4 Staff Team
Teaching Team: Miss Ward, Mr Moran & Mrs Cahill
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
SENDCO: Mrs. Puckey/ Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Key Dates / Reminders / Homework
PE: Every Tuesday - children to wear PE kits on this day.
Homework: This is allocated, every Wednesday and should be completed and submitted by Monday - in Homework books.
TT RockStars: Children are asked to learn all of their times tables in Year 4, practising on TTRS using the heat map allows the children to focus on the times table facts that they are finding the most difficult.
Reading: We ask that all children have their reading record signed by an adult each time they have read at home. We have adopted a traffic light system to encourage the consistency of reading at home across the school. On Friday, staff will check the reading records and record either a red, amber or green traffic light:
Red : Read 3 times or less
Amber : Read 4 times
Green : Read 5 times or more
The children who read 5 times or more will enjoy an additional playtime each Friday.
myHappymind
The children will complete the Meet your Brain unit in Autumn 1. They will learn how to train their minds to focus on whatever they want. They will learn that this is Neuroplasticity, and they can do anything they put their mind to. How they use each part of Team H-A-P and reflect on when they use them to develop their understanding. They will learn how the Amygdala reacts to real and perceived danger; about what triggers their own Amygdala to fight, flight and freeze, and how they can train their brain to calm their Amygdala down. They will also learn about the brain's structure and how Neurons carry messages to create Neural Pathways. They will understand how Neural Pathways help us to form habits. They will also learn more about how to look after their brains and what happens if they don't. Additionally, they will learn how our minds can feel like a snow globe, leaving us unable to see clearly.
In Autumn 2, as part of the Celebrate module, the children will learn that scientists have discovered that we all have 24 Character Strengths, but in different amounts. The children will identify their top Character Strengths out of the following:
- Love and Kindness
- Bravery and Honesty
- .Exploring and Learning
- Teamwork and Friendship
- Love of Life and Our World
They will learn why Strengths Spotting is so powerful and how the best way to learn about strengths is by noticing them and how when we spot strengths over and over, we will build Neural Pathways to create a habit. They will learn that Character Strengths can help them solve problems and that everyone uses different strengths and that Character Strengths can always help them. They will also learn that Team H-A-P loves it when we use our Character Strengths because Dopamine gets released in the brain to help us perform at our best.
For more information about mental Health provision at Broadoak, please visit:
https://www.broadoak.salford.sch.uk/mental-health-provision-home-page
Our Online Safety Rules
Rewards and Celebrations
Class Dojo: Children can earn 'Dojo Points' for any number of positive reasons, such as: following our Golden Rules, demonstrating our character values, excellent attitude, effort and achievement.
Dojo Class Champion: Weekly celebration for a child in each class who are awarded the most Dojo Points. The winner receives a certificate and a trophy for the week.
Achievement Awards: One child from each class is awarded the Achievement Award to reflect the excellent learning they have demonstrated that week These certificates are awarded to the children during Friday Celebration Assembly.
Wild Card Award: Each week, one child from each class will receive the Wild Card Award certificate. This can be for any reason from using their manners, handwriting or anything they have done to wow their teacher that week.
Sparkle and Shine Book: Each week, a child is selected from each class who has been demonstrating our focus Broadoak Value. This is announced in the Friday Celebration Assembly and children may receive a special postcard home for their efforts.
Class Rewards: As a reward for positive behaviour, the whole class receives a treat when they have received 100 merits/points.
Reward and Celebration Day: Every half-term, each class takes part in Reward and Celebration Day - usually on the Friday before each half-term.
Star of PE: Our Health and Well-being coaches award 'Star of PE' to children who show a commitment to their physical and mental well-being.
Online Safety - Child-friendly Policy
Our School Anti-Bullying Policy - Child Friendly
Parent Curriculum Presentation
Head Bump Protocol
If children have a head injury when at school, they will be assessed by a First Aider. Should the injury be a minor bump, parents/carers will receive an email to inform them that their child has bumped their head in addition to a sticker and a first aid note being sent home. Parents/carers do not need to respond to this email – it is just another way to ensure parents and carers are informed. If a child has a head injury which the first aider believes need to be checked or the child is unwell after a head injury, a telephone call to parents/carers will be made and they will be asked to collect their child and advised to seek medical advice. In the most serious cases, medical assistance would be called to school.
The Year 4 Curriculum
Our broad and balanced curriculum aims to develop in children a curiosity and fascination of the world around us. It is our intention that our children will be inquisitive about the world- locally, nationally and globally; to have a sense of awe and wonder about the physical and natural world: places, people, processes, times, changes and development.
Our curriculum is focused on the development of children’s knowledge and skills across all curriculum subjects. We know learning is defined as changes in long term memory so we ensure children build upon and recall previous learning to enable them to know more and remember more in the long term. We aim for our children to become happy, resilient and determined life-long learners who are great thinkers, problem solvers and who are fully prepared for further learning and life events ahead of them.
We prioritise the personal development of our children through our curriculum. They will learn how to take care of themselves, and be healthy -physically, emotionally and mentally, knowledge which will stay with them throughout their life.
Our Broadoak Backpack character values encourage them to celebrate differences, be respectful, have empathy, to be tolerant and kind. They learn and appreciate Fundamental British Values and the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural dimensions of the world as part of our curriculum, to ensure they are fully prepared for life in modern Britain.
Our curriculum aspires to develop a ‘Backpack’ for life for each Broadoak child, filled with knowledge, skills, experiences, personal attributes and ultimately, an understanding about the world around them which will enable them to thrive and have the confidence and courage to achieve their best in all they do, whilst at Broadoak and beyond.
Broadoak Backpack for Life Curriculum
Year 4 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Autumn
Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children
What is Reading at Broadoak?
At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:
- Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
- Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
- Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
We use individual reading books, author focus units, high quality key texts and Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books to engage all our children in reading.
Reading at Home - Support for Parents
Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress. Below are some suggestion question stems that can be used by parents whilst completing reading at home.
Retrieval Questions
Children have to pick out information from a text in order to answer questions about it.
- Who is/are the main characters in the text?
- Where is this story set?
Word meaning and Effective language Questions
Children have to explain how phrases/ words have been used to add to the meaning of the text
- Find and copy one word that means the same as…
- What does the word …….. tell you about the character/setting/mood?
Inference Questions
Children have to look for clues in the text in order to answer questions about how someone might be feeling or why something is happening. Encourage children to support their answers by finding evidence in the text.
- I think… Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer
- Look at page 6. How do you think … is feeling at this point in the story? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.
Summary Questions
Children have to summarise the main points or main events in a paragraph or whole text
- Look at the first paragraph. What is the main theme?
- Sum up what has happened so far in less than 20 words.
Author Focus - Autumn
Tom Fletcher
Key Text - Autumn
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Key Text - Autumn
The Heart Scarab
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 4
Mathematics
This term we will be focussing on Place Value, working with four digit numbers, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000, ordering numbers, counting in 25s, negative numbers and Roman Numerals.
We will also be focussing on Addition and Subtraction -using the column method. We have made sure to lay out our work carefully putting one digit in each square and lining up our thousands, hundreds, tens and units correctly.
Finally, we will focus on the key operations of Multiplication and Division. We will continue to use the grid method for multiplication to solve calculations involving one digit numbers multiplied by two or three digit numbers. For Division, we will introduce the chunking method as outlined in our calculation policy opposite.
Following on from this, we will look at Measurement: length and perimeter.
Our Homework will consolidate some of the work covered in class and introduce new concepts too.
We will also be focussing on learning our times tables in preparation for the Multiplication Times Tables Check which the children take in June.
Year 4 Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication / Division Strategies
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
After School Clubs Timetable
Life Skills Curriculum
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