Our Curriculum

English

 (including reading lists)

Timetable

Music Timetables

Writing Assessments

Dear Parents,

As we transition to a new approach to teaching writing, called I am a Clever Writer (IAACW), you may notice that your child's writing outcomes appear lower than expected when they are published. This is due to the adjustments we are making to align with this new method. You can find out more in our news article here. These are the key indicators for children to be working at age-related expectations at this point in the school year. We have redesigned our curriculum to fit with the new approach.

Key indicators include:

• Record, discuss and use vocabulary and grammar from books that have been exposed to me to inspire my writing.
• Use individual story map to plan the order of a story.
• Plan the order of the writing, begin to understand the importance of cohesion and make notes under appropriate sections.
• Decide appropriate paragraph breaks for work.
• Modify a noun phrase with an adjective, noun or preposition.
• Use ambitious adjectives to enhance the nouns in the writing.
• Use more sophisticated similes to describe things in my writing.
• Choose the most appropriate verbs to accurately describe to the reader what is being described.
• Extend sentences to add more detail by using a variety of subordinating conjunctions (All of Year 3 + during, since) at the start and in the middle of a sentence.
• Use the acronym FANBOYS to help me remember coordinating conjunctions (All of Year 3 + for, nor).
• Use a comma after a fronted adverbial.
• Use prepositions as fronted adverbials and include an adjective to give the reader more information.
• Know the difference between the plural and possessive ‘s’.
• Use an apostrophe for plural possession with regular plurals.
• Use the Standard Form of English, drawing on my knowledge of Subject Verb Agreement.
• Identify the difference between simple past and simple present tense.
• Include direct speech in stories but change where the reporting clause is in the sentence (beginning and end).
• Mark the reporting clause (who said it) with a comma when it is not at the end of the sentence.
• Use a consistent and efficient style of handwriting
• Retrieve information in note form from a non-fiction text and begin to group similar information using appropriate subheadings.
• Adverbs to show how (manner) root word spelling change
• Use a simile as a sentence opener.
• Use more sophisticated metaphors to describe things in my writing.
• Short sentences to move events on quickly in a story.
• Start a new paragraph when the setting, action or time change in narrative writing.
• Use a fluent, consistent style and write at speed
• Beginning to use personification to describe things in my writing.
• Use a mixture of short sentences, simple sentences, compound and complex sentences.
• Use fronted adverbials followed by a comma. When (Frequency) and How (Degree).
• Include complex sentences in my writing which start with a subordinating conjunction and marking the subordinating clause with a comma.
• Add an ‘s’ to show plural and use irregular plural noun forms of plural (children, women)
• Add an ‘s’ to show plural and use irregular plural noun forms of plural. -es words (foxes, boxes).
• Understand the difference between the use of conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions and can explain this.

Cooking and Gardening:

We are very proud to continue to provide a fantastic opportunity for our pupils to attend cooking sessions. These sessions take place with their class teacher, within the School House kitchen, during the school day.

An annual voluntary contribution of £13.00 has been added to MCAS to cover the cost of ingredients, required to supplement the fresh ingredients provided from the school garden. This fee covers sessions for the whole school year, from September 2024 until July 2025.

This fee is voluntary, however, without the support of our parents, we will be unable to provide an opportunity such as this for our pupils.

To make payment, please log into your MCAS account. The fee, located within the Clubs section, is now available to be added to your basket. Thank you!

The Borrowers, Mary Norton

ISBN: 0141354860

The Borrowers, Mary Norton

ISBN: 0141354860

 Eye Witness, Ancient Greece

ISBN-10: ‎ 1409343650

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1409343653

 Eye Witness, Ancient Greece

ISBN-10: ‎ 1409343650

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1409343653

Onjali Rauf

ISBN: 1510105018

Onjali Rauf

ISBN: 1510105018

Reading and talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week.

Please do ensure that you allocate time to to talk about what you have read with your child during each session. So if you set aside 20 minutes for reading, spend 10 minutes reading and 10 minutes asking your child questions about what they have just read.  Look at the 'KS2 Reading Prompts' document at the bottom of the page for help with questioning.

Complete your child’s reading record each time they read and sign at the end of the week. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent into school daily.

Updated recommended reading list for Year 4 can be found here.

Children should log on and practise TT Rock Stars 4 times per week. All children are expected to be able to fluently recall their times tables by the end of Year 4 and will take the Multiplication Times Table Check in the Summer term. Regular practise at home will go a long way in ensuring your child can meet this National Curriculum goal.

This half-term we are practising the 9 times table.

Have a read of the TTRS Parents Guide  and the MTC preparation schedule at the bottom of the page.

This half-term we are learning about place value.

Our spelling words are updated every other week. There will be 6 words based on the spelling pattern of our spelling program. 
Children will now be using their Read, Write Inc Spelling Log Books to record the new words. Please practise the spelling words at home ready for our dictation lesson.

Spelling words for WB20.01.25:

ascend
descend
scent
scene
muscle
fascinate