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Year 4

Year 4

 Dear Y4 Parents/Carers,

 

At Davies Lane, we aim to use our broad and robust curriculum to ensure our children acquire knowledge in a sequential way that allows them to become confident and resilient, 21st century learners.

 

Our curriculum layout clarifies the end points that all children should achieve at the end of the week, term and year. We know how important it is that children are able to see the big picture of whatever they are learning, we have broken our curriculum into manageable composites and components of knowledge that ensures that they learn everything that they need to know by the time they move to the next year group. We use retrieval recall, recap and rehearsal as a strategy to ensure that children commit relevant knowledge to the long term memory for automaticity, which means they can recall learned concepts quickly to solve more complex concepts.

 

Our curriculum is sequenced, to ensure cumulative layers of knowledge, it makes it our progression model for assessing the progress made by each child. To assess progress, we check that the curriculum has been delivered to all children as intended and that they have demonstrated how they know and remember each block of knowledge. It means that year on year, our children know more and remember more. They develop dispositions that allow them to confidently approach and tackle problems. Please find some information about what your child will be learning below in the curriculum overview link.

 

Healthy eating


We encourage our children to eat healthily, we have subscribed to Food for Life to work with us to ensure our food takes sustainability into account. We have designed our curriculum to ensure that we teach children how to grow, cook and eat seasonal food that are mostly locally sourced. Please join us in monitoring what children bring into school for their packed lunch.

 

Charity work


As we emerge from the pandemic, there has never been a time when supporting charities has been more relevant. We want to continue showing our support for cancer and heart charities to name a few. We have local soup kitchens, residential homes for the elderly, hospices and lots of our local community that need our support. We will appreciate your support in carrying out this vital work and highlighting the need to serve the community to our children.

 

Sustainability


Our world needs children who understand and share the passion to save it from the climate emergency it faces. We want to highlight reusing and recycling in all we do at school and beyond the school gates. The children will be learning a lot about the effects our actions on the earth. They will be looking at litter, water usage and energy use, please join us in this drive. The curriculum ensures our children understand the consequences of travel and the food they eat.

 

Physical Education


PE in school is once a week. This year we will continue to ask children to come in to school in their PE kit on the days that they have PE. Please ensure that your child wears the correct school recommended PE kit.  They should wear (Please note that football kits or branded T shirts are not part of our school uniform):

  ·        a white T shirt or polo shirt

  ·        black shorts, leggings or tracksuit bottoms

  ·        trainers or plimsolls

  ·        School jumper or fleece


PE Day: Thursday

 

We will also be going swimming each week on a Wednesday. All Children will need to bring a towel, swimming costume, swimming cap (if your child has long hair) to school on the day of their swimming lesson. They will need 20p for the locker, which will be left in school and will be used over the whole term.

 

Remote learning

To ensure that children do not miss out on their learning during days off sick or isolating due to covd-19, we use google classroom as an online platform for remote learning. Over the next week, we will be giving your child their login details, if they do not already have it, so that they can access google classroom. We use this platform when teaching remotely, in the case of self-isolation, and to upload weekly homework. Your child will be able to access their homework on a Friday and will need to complete it by the following Thursday. Homework can be completed either in the homework book provided or online.

 

Reading is at the heart of our curriculum, we want our children to read widely for pleasure. Children will bring a book home each week as part of their homework. We ask that you please read with your children daily and record your comments in the reading record provided. Books are changed every Thursday. As there are opportunities for us to hear your child read at school, we ask that they bring their reading books in each day with them.

 

We look forward to working closely with you over the year to support your child’s progress. If you wish to contact your child’s teacher, please do so using the email address below:


Beech           -    Hayriye.Seytan@davieslane.arboracademytrust.co.uk

Cedar           -    Yousra.Dahmanit@davieslane.arboracademytrust.co.uk     

Eucalyptus   -    Louise.ClavierStJohn@davieslane.arboracademytrust.co.uk

Hawthorn      -   stuart.harris@davieslane.arboracademytrust.co.uk

 

Regards

Jacalyn Cheeseman

Head of School

Our school policy is that homework is sent home every Friday and should be returned every Thursday, signed by parents. There is a strong emphasis on project-based homework, which will be due in every 3 to 4 weeks.


You will receive a report card at the end of each term to keep you informed as to how your child is progressing at school.  PE takes place twice weekly. Please ensure your child keeps their PE kit in school.  Please feel free to talk to us if you have any concerns or would like to visit us in class.


What you can do to help:

 

 

 

  • Help your child learn their times tables from memory – it will really help your child with their learning in Numeracy.

 

 

 

 

  • Please take your child to the local library to indulge in both fiction and non-fiction books. Reading a variety of styles can help to support their writing skills. 

 


As always, if you would like to know more about what we are doing, or you have any queries concerning your child, please do not hesitate to make an appointment to see us after school. If you can support our topic in any way, please let us know!


Yours sincerely

The Y4 team



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