Class 4 2025 - 2026
Mrs Richards
Autumn 2 2025
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to Year 4
I hope you all had a wonderful half-term break and are refreshed and ready for the next term.
This term is always quite busy with all the lovely Christmas events that we have planned, so please keep your eye out for dates as they come through.
We will be continuing to have swimming this term, so please make sure that your child has their swimming kit each Wednesday. The swimming pool do prefer that the children wear caps, and goggles do make life a bit easier on the eyes.
Our Year 3 and 4 Christmas Concert is going to be held on Thursday 11th December at 2pm and 5.30 pm. More details to follow soon.
Time Tables - next June the children will take a formal times table check. This will require the children to know their times tables up to 12 x 12. They will be given 25 questions with 6 seconds per question. This is a check and not a test and therefore there is no pass mark. However, we hope that as many children as possible achieve full marks. In school we will undertake daily times table practise and the children will have regular opportunities to practise the check using the Mathframe MTC website - this mimics the officical check and can be accessed at home. That said, practise at school alone is not enough so please can you encourage your child to spend 5 – 10 minutes (a day if possible) on TTRockstars (they should already have a login from Year 3) or other tables websites. If you do not have internet access, then practising together or making matching games with facts and answers is a great way to support their learning. Although the Multiplication Tables Check feels a long way in the future, we know that it comes around fast so we appreciate any extra help you can give your child at home. Little and often is the key :)
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
Homework: We are continuing to use Atom Prime for homework. If you have forgotten your login details then you will need to reset your password using your personal email. We are unable to do that for you. Each week, your child will get a maths, reading and grammar piece of homework. The questions are adapted to your child's responses and there are videos and help-buttons to assist if your child is struggling. All work set is designed to support the work that we are doing in class.
Children are also expected to read at home most days for between 10 - 20 minutes. This will build their 'reading miles' which has multiple benefits for their Literacy, plus have a positive effect on other subjects. Please could you encourage your child to do this or, even better, read with them. They are definitely not too old for this, and it is a great way to discuss the books that they are reading which, in turn, will help with their comprehension skills.
In the meantime, if you have any queries then please contact me via email or, if possible, speak with me at the end of the day as morning are a bit busy.
Thank you in advance for all your support and here’s to another great term.
Mrs Richards 😊
Subject Details:
Pathways to Write – Leon and the Place Between
Class reading book – Rumaysa - A Fairy Tale
Numeracy – Area, Multiplication and Dvision
Geography - Countries of the World
DT - Light up Chirstmas Cards
PE – Swimming and Game Sense
RE – God and the Prophets
Science – Electricity
PSHE – It's Good to be Me!
Music – Charanga and Christmas Concert
ICT – Auto Editing
Spanish - My Town, Your Town
Key information for the week:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday: Swimming - starts 17.9.2025, Homework due in
Thursday:
Friday: Homework set for next week, PE (this day may change)