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
Mrs Rowland's Class
2024-2025
Miss Williams' Class
2024-2025
The Year 4 Staff Team
Teaching Team: Mrs. Rowland, Miss Williams, Mrs Flitcroft, Mrs Davidson, Miss Roberts
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
SENDCO: Mrs. Puckey/ Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Teaching Team
Health and Well-being Team
Key Dates / Reminders / Homework
PE: This term, the children are swimming every Friday. Children should wear PE kits on this day and bring their swimming kit in a separate bag.
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.
Spelling Shed: Children are issued weekly spellings on Spelling Shed. Children will also take home their spellings plus an activity in their spelling books on a Monday, to be returned on a Friday. These should be practised each evening. These spellings will be consolidated within school, with children having a short informal spelling test on a Friday.
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's names are put into a 'Traffic Light Treat' draw on a Friday, if your child has read 5 times or more that week and their name comes out of the box, they will choose a special prize from the Traffic Light Treat box!
myHappymind
The children will complete the Appreciate module in Spring 1. In this module, they will learn how they can develop an Attitude of Gratitude at home and school. They will learn how to create a Gratitude Domino Effect - when we notice what makes us feel good, we show more gratitude to others and then that makes them feel good and show more gratitude too.
They will learn that the more time they think about gratitude, the stronger the Neural Pathways get and the easier it is to give gratitude. This is because of Neuroplasticity, and we need to make it a habit. They will explore how giving gratitude can help us get through tough times, and when we can see everything we are grateful for, it makes the problems we face a little easier to manage.
https://www.broadoak.salford.sch.uk/mental-health-provision-home-page
Our Online Safety Rules
Who Can you Speak to If you Have a Problem?
Window into the Classroom - Twitter
To enable you to gain an insight into some of the learning and experiences that your child will have whilst in Year 4, we will tweet pictures, videos and work which you can use as a starting point for discussion at home with your child.
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 Dip Winner: Weekly celebration for a child in each class who are awarded the most Dojo Points. The winner selects a book as a reward for their achievement.
Star of the Week: Two children from each class are awarded the Star of the Week to reflect the excellent learning they have demonstrated that week These certificates are awarded to the children during Friday Celebration Assembly.
Handwriting Hero: Each week, one child from each class will be recognised for producing excellent handwriting which will be celebrated in assembly and they will receive a certificate 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
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 - Spring
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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 - Spring Term
"If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books."
-Roald Dahl
Key Text - Spring
Key Text - Spring
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 4
Mathematics
Addition & Subtraction: Children will continue to consolidate their knowledge of adding and subtracting numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of column addition and subtraction, where appropriate. They will also add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
Multiplication & Division: The children will continue to recall multiplication and division facts for tables up to 12x12, improving their speed. They will use the grid method to multiply and chunking to divide. Children will multiply and divide numbers with up to 2 decimal places by 10 and 100.
Measures: Children will explore coordinates, using them to describe position. They will also find the area of rectilinear shapes, as well as exploring symmetry in 2D shapes.
Number: Children will explore Roman Numerals, as well as families of fractions. They will also practice recognising equivalent fractions, as well as adding and subtracting fractions. Children will then consider decimals and will convert between the two.
Our Homework will consolidate some of the work covered in class and introduce new concepts too.
We will also be focusing 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
Year 4 Parent Curriculum Meeting Presentation -2024/2025
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
After School Clubs Timetable
Life Skills Curriculum
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