Year 4 - Birch Class 2024 - 2025
Miss McEnaney
Welcome to the Year 4 Birch Class Homepage!
'Be supported, feel supported - make a difference'
Class Teacher: Miss McEnaney
Teaching Support: Miss Danby, Miss Haag & Mrs Smallwood
Welcome to our information page where you will find key information typical to our class.
Class Dojo is used to communicate any key information about our class or, indeed, the whole school. It is important you download this onto your phones to keep up to date. If you require school to know something about your child please phone school on 01606 663650 or email admin@overhall.cheshire.sch.uk. Do not hesitate in contacting us to share any key news or information regarding the welfare of your child – only together can we make a difference.
In order to ensure your child is ready for school each day please make sure they are
- Wearing their school uniform/school PE kit. Our class PE days are Monday and Thursday.
- Wearing appropriate black flat shoes/trainers.
- Carry their school book bag with reading book and reading record
- Carry their water bottle (water only due to allergies of others)
- Bring a coat for outdoor play
- Bring a healthy snack for breaktime if you wish
Our topics this term
You will find the information in our knowledge organisers regarding the topics we have, are or will be studying this academic year. These include the key areas of learning, vocabulary and, of course, how this links to our prior learning. This will help you as parents to see what we need to know and provide any possible support.
Home learning (homework)
Home learning activities are set to compliment the learning completed in class and sometimes as an introduction to forthcoming activities in class.
Home learning will be set weekly on a Friday to be completed by Thursday each week. This will include reading, spelling and timetables activities. A typical amount of time spent on these each night can be calculated by the age of your child multiplied by 2 e.g., a child aged 6 would be expected to spend approximately 12 minutes (a range of 10-20 minutes each day and this does not have to be in one sitting). A child aged 10 would be expected to spend approximately 20 minutes ( a range of 20-30 minutes)
It is important for every child to read regularly at home (ideally five but at least three times a week for approximately 10 minutes). This can be done aloud to a family member, shared or even modelled (reading aloud to your child), enjoying a book, magazine or any reading material together. Once your child has read 100 times at home, they become a star reader and get to choose a reading for pleasure book as a gift from school to keep!
Spelling is an area of focus for all classes with year group spelling lists alongside topic related. Look at how they are spelt, what they sound like, explore any patterns and of course know what the word means so that it can be used correctly in their writing. We urge them to use the Look, say, cover, write and check method.
Time can also be spent upon their Time Tables Rockstars Accounts, Atom Learning, Purple Mash and our class Reading Plus. Your child has their own access/log on details for this in the front of their home learning book. Contact the school if you require the details.
In our year group we require to know the x6 x7 x9 x11 and x12 multiplication tables. There are a number of songs and a range of methods that can be used to learn these. Simply learning them by rote, repeating regularly and then randomly asking them are strong ways to learn them so that the response time decreases as confidence increases.
Typical spelling lists may include any of the following age-related spellings. These are included here as your child could practice reading and spelling previously learned words and attempt words they are expected to read/spell in future years.
Key Information:
In the Spring term our class will take part in weekly swimming lessons at Sandbach Leisure Centre. They will swim weekly with the last session being in the Summer term.
Please ensure your child has a complete swim kit for this term. Please label all clothing with your child's name. Girls will need a one-piece costume and boy's trunks will need to be above their knees. Earrings, bikinis, armbands and sprays are not allowed. Don't forget to pack a towel! Your child can bring a piece of fruit and water for a snack after they are changed.
Our class will take part in a six week block of Forest School in the Spring 2 term. The children will be required to come into school in old clothes or old uniform and have a change of shoes (ideally a pair of wellies).
If your child needs prescribed medication, we will require parental consent by completeing a medical form. Contact school in advance of the start date to request the paperwork which can be completed on our Health & Medical page. We will only be able to administer the medication upon receiving this completed information. Please provide, at the main office, the medication in the original box that has the child’s name printed at the pharmacy.
Click on the link for information on Tree Tops After School Club
Click on the link for information on Early Birds Breakfast Club