Castle Bromwich Junior School
Year 3 and 4 Curriculum
Evening
17th September 2015
5.30pm - 6.00pm
Meet the teams
Year 3
Year 4
Miss Pittaway
Mrs Lavender
Mrs Talibudeen
Miss Saleem
Miss Blomeley
Miss Varnam
Miss Shakes
Mrs Chaplain and
Mrs Lewis
Plus Teaching Assistants in each
class during the morning
lessons.
Learning in Lower School
Year 3
Map skills and a Local study of Birmingham
Stone Age
China
Greece
Year 4
Egyptians
Invasion- Romans
Anglo-Saxons
English in Lower School
- English and Guided Reading lessons
based around books
- Children have the opportunity to learn
skills and apply these skills in extended
pieces of writing
- Daily opportunities to read for
enjoyment
- Weekly GAPS (Grammar, Punctuation,
Spelling) lessons
- Reading and writing also part of all other
topics
Maths in LowerSchool
- Daily Maths lessons
- Children have the opportunity to learn
skills and apply these skills to problems
- Regular opportunities to practise times
tables (Times Star Awards)
- Mathletics certificates awarded for use at
home
- Maths also part of all other topics when
relevant
How do we assess in Maths and English?
- Children are judged as low, secure or
high against expectations for their year
group
- National expectation = Secure
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and
Other Performance Indicators (OPIs)- see
target sheet
- Secure = Regular independent use of all
KPIs and majority of OPIs
- High = Regular independent application
of all KPIs and all OPIs over a period of
time
How do we assess in Maths and English?
contd.
- Children work on targets for
approximately 2 weeks intensively
- Spelling assessed through day-to-day
writing
- Homework may be used to reinforce
these targets or to recap previous work
- Evidence collected from all lessons
(including across the curriculum)
Home – School Communication
How do we communicate with families?
- Dojo messages- have you signed up?
- Dojo communicates behaviour- 98% expectation
- Text messages
- Letters
- Phone calls home
- Conversations on the playground
- Postcards and ‘notes’ home
- Comments in Reading Records
How can families communicate with school?
- Dojo messages
- Speak to us on the playground (teachers will be
out at the end of each day)
- Notes with your child
- Email (see final slide)
- Leave a message with the office
- Reply slips on letters
- Leave a message with Year 3 Teacher/TA who is
on the door in the morning.
Children need to be ‘Preparing for Year 6’
during Year 4
- We aim to make the children ready for the
Year 5/6 transition so this is as smooth as
possible when the children reach the Upper
year groups.
- There are some aspects of Upper school
which Year 3&4 children can find difficult
when moving up
- We intend for children to be ready and
prepared for Upper School
- We need your support in helping us to
develop these areas
Our Year Group Expectations
- Correct equipment for lessons (pen, pencil, ruler,
rubber)
- Timely arrival for lessons/school
- Correct school uniform at all times
- Correct PE and Games kit in school all week
- Weekly homework completed
- Mathletics used regularly (1000 points+)
- Knowledge of all times table facts
- Daily home reading (10 minutes) and regular
recording in reading records
- Reading record and reading book brought to
school every day
Spellings
- Ensure that relevant spellings are directly taught within the
spelling lesson.
- Ask the students to take their own personal spelling mistake
words home as a homework and come up with a way of
remembering them that works - this will be different for each
student and is often word dependent.
- The students test one another but teachers not taking in a
score.
- Teacher randomly selects a few students to present one of
their words and how they chose to remember the correct
spelling, zoning in on the part that they wrote incorrectly.
What does LEARN mean?
L – Look and Listen
 Noticing
 Making links
 Imitating / adopt or adapt ideas
E – Engage with the environment
 Collaboration
 Interdependence / Partner support / exchange ideas
 Focus
A – Ask and Think
 Questioning
 Planning
 Reasoning
R - Reflect
 Revising
 Evaluate
 Summarise
N – Never give up
 Persevering
 Responsibility
Other expectations:
- Children are ready to LEARNsee poster.
- Excellent behaviour at all
times.
- Correct uniform worn at all
times including no trainers in
school.
Email addresses:
Year 3 staff:
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Year 4 staff:
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