Welcome to year 4!

Below you will find some helpful details about Year 4.
The adults in Year 4 are Mrs McGowan and Mrs Hinxman.

Reading books and Diaries

On Mondays, children bring their books and diaries to school. We use
diaries to record progress in reading and to communicate further with
families and staff check the diaries every day. Children take two books
home to read throughout the week, one is a levelled reading book and one
is a book of choice from the class library. We also ask you to help us
support which area of reading we are focussing on that week. Further
details of this can be found in the front of your child’s diary.
We really encourage reading at home and are proud of the enjoyment our
class take in reading for pleasure.

Water bottles

Children bring in water bottles on Mondays which are kept in school
throughout the week. We send them home on Friday.

Snacks
Children may bring in a small fruit snack for break.

Wellies / outdoor shoes
We are fortunate to have beautiful grounds at Ovingham CE First School
and we use them at every possible opportunity, whatever the weather! We
ask that children have a pair of labelled wellies or sturdy outdoor shoes
that are kept in school for these occasions.

PE

On Wednesdays, children have PE with NUFC – Children come in PE clothes
this day to maximise time with our excellent NUFC coaches. We also have a
session of PE on a Monday afternoon so if children could bring their PE kits
in on this day. They will be able to get changed in school. For the first term
Monday’s PE will be swimming lessons. Please send you child to school with
their swimming kit on this day.

PE kit includes a school jumper, a white T-shirt and black shorts or jogging
bottoms with trainers for outdoors. All uniform should be labelled, including
coats, shoes and PE kits.

Homework

Spellings will be posted weekly on Spelling Shed and should be practised
regularly. Your support in helping your child with this and exploring VIPERs
in their reading is greatly appreciated. Times Table Rocks stars is also
available to help your child practise multiplication tables. If you need a
reminder for passwords for either of these applications then do let us