Hamstel Junior School is situated to the East of Central Southend, on a hill above the sandy end of the Thames Estuary. Our fantastic, dedicated staff here at Hamstel Junior School are committed to providing the very best for your child. 1/7 Bem-vindo à Hamstel Junior School Cartas para casa Pai Pagar Jantar Cardápio Mais recentes Notícias Datas de mandato e calendário Weekly Newsletters

Over the year, the children will be taught a broad and balanced curriculum which provides a range of opportunities to support and extend their learning. ​ Year 4 Over the year, the children will be taught a broad and balanced curriculum which provides a range of opportunities to support and extend their learning. More information about the curriculum at Hamstel Junior School can be found under ‘Curriculum’. Meet the team 4H- Year group le ader Miss Hall 4B Miss Bath 4D Ms Dimoglou 4M Miss Mountier 4W Mr Wallis Library Children should have their library books in school every day. PE Children should wear their PE kit to school on the days they have PE. Parents will be notified if these days change. Monday - 4B Tuesday - 4H, 4W & 4D Wednesday - 4M Thursday - 4M, 4B & 4D Friday - 4W & 4H 1/2 Year 4 Letters Newsletters Arbor Calendar Lunch Menu Bikeability Spellings KIRFs Multiplication Tables Check Key Dates 2025-2026 * Dates may be liable to change, please use as a guide. Curriculum Overview Homework Homework expectations for each week Year 4 Reading - daily reading for approx. 15 minutes Spelling - weekly spelling task - searching the books read at home for words matching the weekly spelling pattern/ learning the list of 'Words We Need to Know' - 10 Books to Read in Year 4 Maths - daily practice of the key skills (KIRFs) as outlined for each half term. TT Rock Stars - Practising your tables regularly will really help you learn them and speed up your recall. Using TT Rock Stars will help you. Aim to practise your tables every day. Year 4 Latest News Ainda não há posts publicados nesse idioma Assim que novos posts forem publicados, você poderá vê-los aqui.

Over the year, the children will be taught a broad and balanced curriculum which provides a range of opportunities to support and extend their learning. ​ Year 5 Over the year, the children will be taught a broad and balanced curriculum which provides a range of opportunities to support and extend their learning. More information about the curriculum at Hamstel Junior School can be found under ‘Curriculum’. Meet the team 5W- Year group leader Mrs Woolf 5D Miss Dobson 5L Mr Lynch 5Mu Miss Murphy 5S Mrs Smale Library Children should have their library books in school every day. PE Children should wear their PE kit to school on the days they have PE. Parents will be notified if these days change. Monday - 5W, 5L & 5M Tuesday - 5L, 5S & 5D Wednesday - Thursday - 5W &, 5M Friday - 5D & 5S 1/1 Year 5 Letters Newsletters Arbor Calendar Lunch Menu 11+ Skreens Park Spellings KIRFs Key Dates 2025-2026 * Dates may be liable to change, please use as a guide. Year 5 Curriculum Overview Homework Homework expectations for each week Year 5 Reading - daily reading for approx. 25 minutes - 10 Books to Read in year 5 Spelling - weekly spelling task - searching the books read at home for words matching the weekly spelling pattern/ learning the list of 'Words We Need to Know' Maths - daily practice of the key skills (KIRFs) as outlined for each half term. Additional homework will also be set for those children attending 11+ clubs or receiving additional support TT Rock Stars - Practising your tables regularly will really help you learn them and speed up your recall. Using TT Rock Stars will help you. Aim to practise your tables every day. Year 5 Latest News Ainda não há posts publicados nesse idioma Assim que novos posts forem publicados, você poderá vê-los aqui.

Please view our Sports Premium documents here. Sports Premium Please read the information in the documents below which gives details of our P.E Premium Grant and how we allocate the funding. PE and Sport Premium Grant Expenditure: categories of grant spending 2025 PE and Sport Premium Grant Expenditure: opportunities, impacts and sustainability details 2025 1/1

Well done to all of the children who have represented the school this year. Representing Hamstel We wish all the children representing Hamstel Junior School this year the very best of luck in all of their events. Quad Kids Team Street Dance Club Multisports Team Essex Cross Country Finals Team Debating Team Girls Tag Rugby Team Tag Rugby Team Indoor Athletics Team Netball Team A Netball Team B Hockey Teams Year 6 Sportshall Athletics Boys' Football Team - Lower School Boccia Team New Age Kurling Team Year 6 Boys' Football Team Basketball Team Girls' Football Team Tag Rugby Team Table Tennis Teams Cross Country Teams

Each year children in each class vote for one of their peers to represent them on our school council. Congratulations to the elected children for 2022-2023 School Council Each year children in each class vote for one of their peers to represent them on our school council. Congratulations to the elected children for 2025-26. Harvest Festival 2025 Thank you to everyone who donated to the Southend Food Bank. Our school council did a great job of displaying the food that has been so generously donated for our special harvest assembly where both lower and upper school performed a harvest song. Children In Need 2025 Thank you to the school council for their hard work selling Pudsey inspired biscuits and activity booklets to raise funds for Children In Need. The amount raised will be anounced soon - watch this space! School News Ainda não há posts publicados nesse idioma Assim que novos posts forem publicados, você poderá vê-los aqui.

Click on the images below to open the information on how to get support from local projects. PTA/Friends of Hamstel About the PTA (Parent, Teacher Association) / Friends of Hamstel All parents and carers of children at the Hamstel Schools and all teachers, are automatically members of the PTA. We also welcome and encourage extended family members, non-teaching staff, and people from the local community with close links to the school to get involved. Meet the Team Chairperson: Kate McCrae Vicechair: Ronnie Fisher Secretary: Louise Fisher Treasurer: Marilyn Higgs The school elected core members: Mrs C Farrell Headteacher of Hamstel Junior School Mrs V Tracy Vice Principal of Hamstel Infant School and Nursery What do we do? We organise a variety of events throughout the year such as a Summer Fayre, Mother’s Day Sale, Raffles and Father’s Day Sale. We aim for our events to be affordable and fun for our children and families and help to raise money for the schools. We have general meetings every term as well as other meetings over the year to plan our activities. All PTA members are welcome to come along. Why do we do it? Our PTA / Friends of Hamstel is a registered charity which raises funds for the schools. Our fundraising contributes towards any projects or new equipment the schools may need to support or enhance the children’s education and day to day school life. Contact us If you would like to join our PTA / Friends of Hamstel then please contact us via either of the school offices. PTA Meeting Dates Please feel free to come along to our meetings or assist us with any of our forthcoming events. We would love to see you. Next Meeting: TBC Calendar of PTA Events Pre-Loved Uniform Shop Our PTA sells a range of good quality second-hand uniform (sweatshirts, cardigans, trousers, skirts, pinafores, shirts and blouses), which has been donated to us. Pre-loved uniform is sold from the cabin at the edge of the main playground (where the year 4, 5 and 6 children exit at the end of the day) from 3:10pm until 3:45pm on the first Wednesday of every month. All items cost from 50p. Card payments can be taken for purchases over £1. School Lottery Both Hamstel Junior School and Hamstel Infant School often work together to raise funds for the benefit of all our children. You can also help to raise money for our school by purchasing both of the below third party sundries. www.yourschoollottery.co.uk

Children with SEND may have a difficulty that makes it harder for them to learn at the same rate as their peers. These children often need extra or different support than that of other children. Hamstel Junior School caters for children with a variety of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Children with SEND Children with SEND may have a difficulty that makes it harder for them to learn at the same rate as their peers. These children often need extra or different support than that of other children. Hamstel Junior School caters for children with a variety of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). At present we cater for children in each of the categories of need: Communication and interaction; Cognition and learning; Social, mental and emotional health; Sensory and / or physical. Hamstel Junior School is a fully inclusive mainstream school which strives to ensure that all pupils achieve their potential personally, socially, emotionally and academically in all areas of the curriculum, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, social background, religion, physical ability and educational needs. This document is intended to give you information regarding the ways in which we strive to support all of our pupils, particularly those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in order that they can realise their full potential. The policies for working with children with SEND are available through the school office. If you would like further information about what we offer at Hamstel Junior School, then please do not hesitate to contact our SENCo, Miss Gale, via the school office. We hope that you find the information, taken from our 'SEND Information Report 2025 ', helpful. Click on the icons below to read information about the following: 1/1 Click on the documents below to view our SEN Policy and Local Offer. SEND Policy - September 2025 - 2026 Livewell Southend Peer Education Programme Partner - 2023-2024

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Year 6 English Reading Autumn Term In the autumn term Year 6 children will: have a reading age of 11 years read age appropriate books with confidence and fluency (to include whole novels) read aloud with intonation that shows understanding work out the meaning of word from the context retrieve information from non-fiction predict what might happen from details stated and implied summarise main ideas, identifying key details and using quotations for illustration Spring Term In the spring term Year 6 children will: have a reading age of 11 years and 3 months explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read, drawing inferences and justifying these with evidence evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader make comparisons within and across books Suggested Reading Expected Standard of Work Writing Autumn Term In the Autumn Term Year 6 children learn: use joined, consistent handwriting style choose words to create atmosphere create noun phrases that create atmosphere embed dialogue that tells the reader about a character choose vocabulary to signal how formal the text is use inverted commas correctly in a story evaluate and edit by ensuring correct subject and verb agreement evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of own and others' writing with reasoning proofreads for spelling errors linked to the spelling statements use a combination of adverbs, ENPs and prepositional phrases to add detail embed dialogue that moves the story forward use modal verbs to suggest different degrees of certainty extend sentences with relative clauses extend some sentences with subordinate clauses use commas to punctuate clauses use a range of linking words to make links between sentences select language that shows good awareness of the reader evaluate and edit by proposing reasoned changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning proofread for punctuation errors including capital letters, full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, inverted commas Spring Term In the Spring Term Year 6 children learn: use a range of linking word to make links between paragraphs start some sentences with a subordinate clause use ing and ed clauses attempt to use semi-colons, dashes, colons and hyphens write effectively for a range of purpose and audiences use verb tenses consistently throughout writing use the passive voice in some sentences evaluate and edit by ensuring the consistent and correct use of tense throughout a piece of writing proofreads for punctuation errors including semi-colons, colons, dashes, use of hyphens write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences by selecting the appropriate form and drawing independently on what they have learned related to literary language, structure and characterisation distinguish between the language of speech and writing and choose the appropriate register exercise an assured and conscious control over levels of formality, manipulating grammar and vocabulary to achieve this use punctuation precisely to enhance meaning and avoid ambiguity 1/1 1/2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Autumn Term In the Autumn Term Year 6 children will: select and spell the appropriate plural endings for range of words spell words with double consonants correctly spell words with the prefixes un, de, im, in, il, ir, auto, trans, bi, tri, semi, aero, micro, super, sub, inter, tele, mis, anti, photo and hyphenated prefixes spell words ending in tial, cial, cious and tious spell words with 'ay' and 'ough' sounds choose 'ph' or 'f' and spell words correctly demonstrate familiarity with eight word classes and their use recognise and write all four sentence types identify the subject, verb and object in a sentence identify and use expanded noun phrases for description and concision identify tense accurately demarcate sentences accurately (beginning and end) spell the list of Autumn Term 'Words We Need To Know' spell words ending in -ant/-ance/ancy and -ent/ency and recognise which ending is more likely for unfamiliar words spell words that end in -ous -al -el and -le spell words ending in -ible/-ibly and -abe/-ably and recognise which ending is more likely for unfamiliar words distinguish between coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and can choose the appropriate ones to link clauses identify and use main clause and subordinate clauses (relative clause included) in a sentence distinguish between formal and informal English; standard and non-standard English ensure correct subject-verb agreement identify, form and expand contractions accurately Spring Term Use commas to mark clauses or phrases including fronted adverbials spell words with the ending -cial and -tial and recognise which is the more likely ending for unfamiliar words add suffixes which begin with vowel letters to words ending in -fer identify and use the active and passive form; can accurately convert active to passive/ passive to active use prefix and suffixes to change the meaning of words/ change the word class of words recognise and form words from the same word family use apostrophes correctly for omission and singular possession and most accurately for plural possession identify and use colons, semi-colons, single dashes and hypens spell the list of Spring Term 'Words We Need To Know' use a hyphen to join prefixes which end in a vowel to a root word which begins with one spell given homophones and chooses which one to use in the context of the sentence recognise where pronouns have been used to clarity and cohesion choose pronouns for clarity and cohesion with accuracy recognise and selects a range of forms for regular and irregular verbs identify modal verbs to express certainty and possibility choose the correct modal to ensure meaning select appropriate synonyms and antonyms for a wide range of words identify and use punctuation to indicate parenthesis Statutory Words Spellings

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Year 4 Maths Autumn Term In the autumn term Year 4 children will: Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000 Find 1000 more or less than a given number Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones) Order and compare number beyond 1000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations including measures Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000 Solve numbers and practical problems that involve all of the above and with the increasingly large positive numbers Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why Read Roman numerals to 100( i to c) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12x12 Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; multiplying together three numbers Use place value, known and derived facts to divide mentally, including dividing by 1 Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as 'n' objects are connected to 'm' objects Spring Term In the spring term Year 4 children will: Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods including bar charts and time graphs solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tabes and other graphs Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions Count up and down in hundredths Recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object y one hundred and dividing tenths by ten Solve problems involving increasing harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds, years to months; weeks to days Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths and hundredths Recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4, 12, 3/4 Find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number Compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence Summer Term In the summer term Year 4 children will: Convert between different units of measure - mass Estimate, compare and calculate - mass Convert between different units of measure - volume Estimate, compare and calculate - volume Convert between different units of measure Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting square Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size Identify line of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in different orientations Complete a simple symmetrical with respect to a specific line of symmetry, including beginning to explore shapes with 2 lines of symmetry Describe positions in a 2D grid as co-ordinates in the first quadrant Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon 1/1 Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) In June each year, children in year 4 will be entered for the MTC. The purpose of the check is to determine whether children can recall their times tables (up to 12 x 12) fluently and at speed as this skills is considered essential for success in mathematics. Find out more by reading the government's Information for Parents booklet. Year 4 KIRFs Autumn Term 1 Autumn Term 2 Spring Term 1 Spring Term 2 Summer Term 1 Summer Term 2