Welcome to Toucan Class, which is made up of 29 wonderful Year 4 children. Our class teacher is Mrs Marriott and our teaching assistants are Miss Ashton and Ms Rawson. Mrs Ashton will teach the class every other Tuesday. 

On our class webpage you will find lots of useful information and updates.

Updates and photos will also be posted regularly on Class Dojo. 

  Please feel free to send me a message on Class Dojo or via my school email which you will see below.
cmarriott@dovedale.derbyshire.sch.uk

Dates to remember:

• Monday 2nd November - Inset Day 
• Tuesday 3rd November - Children back in school and KS2 drumming workshops
• Friday 6th November – Diwali activities during the afternoon 
• Wednesday 11th November - Remembrance Service/Assembly
• Friday 13th November - Children In Need 
• Wednesday 18th November – Art experts leading an activity in our classroom during the afternoon 
• W/C Monday 30th November - Celebration Week 
• Monday 7th December - KS1 performance to the school 
• Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December – Christmas Jumper Day and Grotto 
• Wednesday 16th December - Christmas Dinner Day 
• Friday 18th December - Break up for Christmas 
• Monday 4th January - Back to school 

PE days: 

On PE days, children are asked to wear their school PE kit which includes a plain red t-shirt with or without the school logo, a plain black sports jacket/zip-up jacket and plain black or navy joggers/shorts. 

Autumn PE Days

Monday – indoors. 

Wednesday – outdoors. 

Please click on the relevant star above to access the knowledge organiser for each half-term, along with a bank of games and activity ideas to help your child practise their times tables at home.

Homework and Spellings...

Each Friday one of the following activities will be set online: MyMaths, TTRS or Spag.

Alongside the online activity homework will consist of the following:

• Reading (school diary signed 3 times for a merit)
• Times tables to learn and practice 
• Spelling List

Spelling lists of 10 spellings, following a set rule, will be given out each week. Each list will be given out and placed in reading diaries to learnt by the following week (tested on a Friday). One way of learning the spelling can be using their Spelling Shed account. 

Most of the lists, aside from when we cover the Year 3 and Year 4 statutory word lists, have an extra "super speller" challenge to think of three extra words that follow the same given rule to learn. If the children can spell the extra words correctly in their spelling test they can gain a merit!