Welcome Muntjac Parent Information Evening Hardest Things Taught
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Welcome Muntjac Parent Information Evening
Hardest Things Taught This Year 3: - Tell the time to the nearest minute - Bus-stop method of division - Subordinate clauses - Present perfect form - Spellings of ‘accidentally, knowledge, experience’
Hardest Things Taught This Year 4: - All times tables up to 12 x 12 and associated division facts - Understanding of decimals - Full punctuation of direct speech - Fronted adverbials - Spellings of ‘medicine, occasionally, possession, separate’
What the children need to bring in Every day: Water bottle, reading record and book Tuesday: P. E kit and spelling book Wednesday: Homework book ready for the spelling test Friday: P. E kit
Home Expectations • Children need their homework books in on a Wednesday, which will be used for the Spelling test, marked, and returned Thursday with new Spellings. • Reading books and records need to be brought in every day, with 5 separate signatures from an adult over the course of a week, to be checked on a Friday. • Times Table Rockstars needs to be used by the children every week, to be checked on a Friday.
Extra Homework • There will be a fortnightly extra Maths, Topic or English task added to your child’s homework book. • This will be related to what we are studying in school that week. • The work must be completed and handed in on the following Wednesday as normal.
Times Tables • Multiplication Test for Year 4 s in Summer 2020. • 6 seconds to answer each of the 25 questions. • Pass mark is 25! • New Wiltshire scheme to teach and test the children.
Behaviour and Rewards • We operate a system of House Points for good behaviour. • For sanctions the children first get a warning, then are on a time-out for the next break/lunch • Headteacher’s Award • Growth Mindset Award
French (Madame Sophie) Break Maths Break PSHE (Mrs Turner) Lunch Maths English Lunch Assembly PE Music (Mrs Turner) English Handwriting Maths Break English Lunch Assembly Science Reflection Maths Break English Lunch English Spellings Topic Maths Break English Grammar/Big Writing Lunch RE PE Assembly
P. E Kit • In on a Tuesday and Friday • After half term, a bag for muddy trainers and a jumper may be necessary due to the weather.
English • 4 main areas this term, starting currently with Roman Myths and Legends • Moving onto Roman Craft Instruction Writing, traditional stories about Pompeii and then shape poetry before Christmas. • Extended writing also encouraged every fortnight, swapping with a focused grammar lesson. • Clear links with Topic lessons.
Maths • Lots of work on Place Value to start with this term • Moving onto addition then subtraction before Christmas • Formal written methods will be used for these. • We will also be looking at measures, such as g/kg/m/ml and being able to tell the time • Groupings will change a lot.
Assessment • Beginning – by Christmas • Developing – by Easter • Secure – by End of Year • Green and pink marking
Monday Mornings • Monday Mornings the children have French taught by Madame Sophie. • They then have Music and PSHE taught by Mrs Turner, studying the glockenspiel and relationships and feelings.
Topic • What do we have to thank the Romans for? • Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to 476 AD. • In Britain from 43 AD to 410 AD. • Focus on our calendar, numbers and some towns and cities. • Also look at our justice system and links with democracy and money. • Art and Computing have a big link with this topic • Visit on 23 rd October to Chedworth and later to Littlecote. • After Christmas we study the Vikings. • In the summer we will look at the geography and history of Japan in the lead-up to the Olympic Games.
Science, R. E and P. E • Throughout the year in Science we will look at animals, rocks & fossils, light, electricity and forces & magnets. • R. E focusing on the Creation story before half-term… • …and the Trinity up until Christmas. • Daily assemblies. • P. E working on netball and dance.
How You Can Help • Reading with your children every night. • Encouraging your child to go on Times Table Rockstars. • Helping with the PTA • Testing on Maths problems – Tables, Fractions, Time • Letting me know of any worries you may have, or changes the children may be experiencing at home. • Reminding children it is their responsibility to remember their things.
Questions?
- Parent taught 101
- What is the hardest thing to say
- Some things are caught not taught
- Good afternoon and welcome to the 6.54
- Welcome to parent orientation
- Welcome to parent orientation
- Welcome speech for kindergarten parent orientation
- Hardest optical illusions
- Hardest type of rock
- Hardest optical illusion
- What is the allusion in nothing gold can stay
- Her hardest hue to hold figurative language
- Habit 4 examples
- Hardest quiz ever game
- Robert frost nothing gold can stay poem
- Sorry seems to be the hardest word meaning
- Hardest simultaneous equations
- Blending examples
- The hardest quiz game