Broadoak Backpack Character Values
Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Happiness - Kindness - Love - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Courage - Resilience - Determination - Enthusiasm - Peacefulness - Creativity - Acceptance - Gratitude - Confidence - Humour - Optimism -
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 Williams' Class
2023 - 2024
Mrs Allen's Class
2023 - 2024
The Year 4 Staff Team
Teaching Team: Miss Williams, Mrs Allen and Mrs Flitcroft
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
Key Stage Leader: Miss Ward
SENDCO: Mrs. Manson / Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Teaching Team
Health and Well-being Team
Key Dates / Reminders / Homework
PE: Every Thursday is our PE day. Please can the children come into school wearing 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 their 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables - logins have been issued.
Spelling Shed: Children are issued weekly spellings on Spelling Shed. These should be practised each evening.
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!
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 Day: Child who achieves the most Dojos each day.
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.
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 metal well-being.
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.
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
We have introduced a program to all year groups at school called myHappymind. myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to be their very best selves!
myHappymind is delivered in school by class teachers and the Health and Wellbeing Team through a series of interactive lessons and then the children apply these learnings throughout the day. To further embed this learning and ensure that you are able to engage in these topics with your child, myHappymind has developed a set of resources for parents. These resources can be accessed online on your computer, or through an app on your phone. The resources allow children to continue to practise some of the habits they have developed at school, such as Happy Breathing, for you to learn more about what they are learning in the program. Also included are activities for you to do together at home, to complement the in-school lessons.
To access these materials, just go to https://myhappymind.org/parent-resources and enter your name, email, and authentication code. Your authentication code has been communicated via email to all of our parents and carers.
Year 4 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Summer
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Year 4 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Summer
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Please click on the link below to download the document
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?
The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss, “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!”
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 - Summer
Christina Balit
Key Text - Summer
(Linked to Author Focus)
Key Text - Summer
British-born writer and illustrator Christina Balit grew up in the Middle East, and her experiences living in this exotic culture are especially evident in her first published writing, An Arabian Home: Leila and Mustapha's Story, as well as in her illustrations of Arabian tales.
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 4
Mathematics
This term, we will focus on measure. Children will use pounds and pence to order money, add and subtract money and convert between pounds and pence. They will also consolidate their knowledge of 5 minute intervals on an analogue clock before understanding 1 minute intervals. They will then convert analogue to digital time, before exploring time word problems.
We will also explore statistics, in which children will work towards being able to interpret different charts including line graphs, bar charts and pictograms.
Finally, we will focus on shape, working towards being able to identify the different types of angles in order to compare and order angles. They will then explore quadrilaterals and triangles, before moving onto symmetry. Children will be able to describe position on a grid using coordinates. They will be able to plot and read coordinates, before being able to describe movement on a grid.
Throughout the term, children will continue to develop their arithmetic skills through regular practice of the four operations, as well as continuing to practise their times tables.
Our homework will consolidate some of the work covered in class and introduce new concepts too.
Year 4 Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication / Division Strategies
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
After School Clubs Timetable
Life Skills Curriculum
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