Welcome to Chameleon Class! 

Happy New Year and Welcome Back.

I look forward to being the Year 4 teacher for the rest of the academic year and can't wait to see the progress we will all make.

I have placed below the overview of the year so that you can have an idea of what your children will be learning throughout year 4.

We are very lucky to have lots of adults with us in Chameleon class this year.

Every morning we have the wonderful Mrs Burton who works with the children. In addition, we have Mrs Duggan and Miss Gibbs who support their individual children in the morning. We are also fortunate to have Miss Smith and Miss Jerwood in the afternoons who support their individual children.

I can't wait to see where the rest of year 4 takes us all. Its such a wonderful year to teach and I look forward to meeting and working with you all.

Mr J Keeping

Reading Records & Reading at home

We collect in the children's reading records every Monday morning and hand them back in the afternoons. Children will have the opportunity to change their books once they have finished during morning mission time they will need to let an adult know so we can support this.

Reading at home is incredibly important it helps to develop their reading skills and confidence which have an impact both within school and outside of school. Reading at home 5 times can much huge differences as I have been lucky enough to see the impact this can have. 

Please sign your child's reading records so that we can see who has read aloud 5 times at home so we can celebrate them.

Times Table Rockstars

Each child will be given their personal log in which will be stuck in their reading record. The expectation will be to complete 25 minutes a week! All children should know their times tables up to 12X12 by the end of Year 4 and will be tested on their knowledge.

Your children will remember using TTRS from Year 3. Its a fun, interactive way to practice their times tables, earning coins as they go! 

Spellings

New spellings will be given out every Friday which will be tested the following Friday so they will need their yellow spelling books in school.

I will also put these on the door of the classroom each week in case of lost spellings.

My Maths 

Each week children will be set 2 pieces of homework on My Maths which links to work they have been doing in class that week. Their login will be stuck in their reading records. 

PE Days - Term 3

Wednesday and Friday are our PE days this term.

Please can you ensure children come into school in their school PE kit.

Their hair should be tied back and all jewellery removed.

On Wednesday we aim to be outside for PE so please ensure the children wrap up warm. On a Friday we will have indoor PE.