Year 4 2025 - 2026
Mrs Richards
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome back to the Summer 1 Term.
I hope that you all had a lovely break with lots of Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns!
As always, we have a busy half term ahead with new topics for Geography (Volcanoes) and Science (Digestive System,Teeth, Food Chains).
Our new Pathways to Write book is Where the Forest Meets the Sea - a beautifully illustrated book about a rainforest in North Queensland, Australia.
Please note, PE lessons will be on a Tuesday and Thursday this half term. For our PE lessons, the children will need to wear their PE kits (red hoodie/jumper, red T-shirt, black leggings or tracksuit bottoms, and pumps or trainers). Please could you ensure that all uniform is labelled. For health and safety reasons, earrings must be removed during PE lessons.
Reading regularly at home remains incredibly important - it helps children to develop fluency, prosody and strengthens their comprehension skills.
Homework is assigned on Atom Prime every Friday and is due in the following Wednesday. Please make sure that your child’s account is activated and that they are completing their weekly assignments. You can access Atom Prime here.
We’re also continuing to use Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRockstars) to support maths fluency. Regular practice at home is encouraged to ensure that children further develop their recall of key multiplication and division facts. Please help your child practise their times tables daily in preparation for the Multiplication Check that takes place in June. Your child can practise using the Mathsframe MTC game which mirrors the check. We use this is school and it is very effective.
Dates for the check are Monday 1st - Friday 12th June. There is no pass mark for the check.
This term, Year 4 will be trialling a new spelling scheme and therefore the lists of words that you are used to getting will be slightly different. We will be using the Pathways to Spell scheme which is a progressive and research based approach to spelling. With this scheme, there is a cycle of review objectives covering the whole curriculum to ensure gaps in learning are constantly revised. We are very hopeful that this scheme will help our children to become more confident spellers. Please see the Overview attached in the Files section.
I do hope that the information provided is useful. If you do have any questions or concerns, or require any further information, please feel free to get in touch - our door is always open.
Mrs Richards and Mrs Foster