Dear Parents & Carers,

We would like to warmly welcome you to our Year 4 team. Our team include Mrs Foley and Miss Hudson, who are the two class teachers. Mrs Rowley, Miss Ashley and Miss McGuone will assist in supporting the children in all areas of their learning while Mrs Kevane will continue to teach French, Music and Computing.  Year 4 is an exciting and challenging year and we are very enthusiastic about the year ahead. It may be useful to have some information regarding routine, expectations and home learning.

Reading

Reading is a very important part of your child’s development and is a key indicator of success later in life. In Year 4 the expectations are very high and all children should be reading every day for at least 20 minutes at home. It is important that children develop their comprehension skills as well as their ability to decode words and read fluently. Therefore it is important to ask your child questions about their reading to confirm their understanding of a text. Your child should be completing detailed entries in their reading record nightly to reflect what they have read and understood that day.

Key Facts

It is very important that children develop a quick recall of their key mathematical facts in order to carry out a range of calculations quickly and accurately. All children in Year 4 should be able to fluently recall their multiplication facts and the related division facts with speed. This will help them to prepare for the National end of Year 4 times tables test in June 2026. Please ensure these are practised regularly.

Homework

The children will be set homework three times a week and this is designed to support and develop their learning in school. It is essential that all homework is completed to a high standard and is handed in on time.

Maths Homework:  This is set on Monday and is due on Wednesday. Maths homework consists of an online MyMaths activity based on the weekly Maths topic.

English Homework: This is set on Wednesday on Teams and is due in on Friday. English homework consists of either a reading comprehension activity or a grammar, punctuation and spelling activity.

Spelling: The children will be given a set of spellings every Monday to be practised throughout the week for a test on Friday.

Weekend Homework: This is set on Friday and will either cover RE, Geography, History or Science. This should be handed back on the following Monday.

PE

Please ensure your child is wearing their PE kit and trainers every Monday and Friday for PE lessons.

We hope that your child has a successful and enjoyable year in Year 4 and we look forward to working with you more closely,

Mrs Foley and Miss Hudson

Meet Seanie!

Mrs Sloan brought her new baby in for 4H to meet. Mrs Sloan answered all our questions and we had quite a few! We said a beautiful prayer for for him and thanked God for him. Mrs Jones said she wanted to take him home!

Year 4 Computing

This term we are studying digital media.  We understand that media is used to communicate.  Posters, newspapers, videos, adverts all communicate a message to the reader.  We are using skills in cropping, zooming, rotating and colouring to edit photos for a purpose.  We intend to create photos to support our History learning.  While we cannot visit Ancient Greece, our editing skills will enable us to use a photo for the purpose of pretending.  Additionally, we are learning a very important online safety message ie photos may not tell the correct story.

Ici on Parle Français!

This Autumn we are determined to build on our excellent learning of year 3.  We have a very solid base of phonic and core language learning.  We are beginning to understand the skills a linguist uses to learn.  In fact, we are learning to learn a language by using listening, repetition, questions, answers and lots of language games.  This term we focus on using numbers in our learning.  We have made an excellent start.  On y va!