Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

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Year 4 dates for your diary:

(Please check the main school calendar for whole school events)

	H	F	P	S
Trip Name	Date	Date	Date	Date
Assemblies (for parents to attend)	17.04.26	24.04.26	08.05.26	15.05.26
Gardening and Cooking	10.11.25	11.11.25	12.11.25	14.11.25

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Design and Technology

In the coming weeks, Year 4 will begin our DT unit making Cam toys. For this project, the children will need to use a box to create their toys. If you have cardboard, cuboid shaped boxes at home (delivery boxes, shoe boxes etc), please send them to school with your child. The more, the merrier!

Many thanks, the Year 4 Team

Cooking & Gardening

We are proud to offer all pupils the opportunity to take part in cooking sessions during the school day. These sessions take place in the School House kitchen and are led by the class teacher.

Fresh ingredients from our school garden are used wherever possible, helping children learn about food, nutrition, and sustainability.

To support this programme, we ask for a voluntary annual contribution of £13.00, which covers the cost of additional ingredients for the full school year (September 2025 – July 2026).

To contribute, please log into your MCAS account
The fee can be found in the Clubs section and added to your basket.

Your support helps us continue offering this valuable hands-on learning experience. Thank you!

Healthy Snacks

To help keep energy levels up and minds focused, we encourage pupils to bring a healthy snack for break time.

Great options include:

Fresh fruit or vegetables
Plain rice cakes or crackers
A small pot of dried fruit
Cheese cubes or yoghurt (in a cool pack)

Please do not send sweets, chocolate, crisps, or fizzy drinks. Let’s work together to support healthy habits and happy learning!

Homework

Reading

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent to school daily.

Mathematics

Every child in Year 4 must play Timestable Rockstars for at least 5 minutes every day. This is essential for their quick recall of multiplication and division facts, reducing the cognitive load when answer problem solving and reasoning questions.

Spelling patterns

The spelling patterns for the remainder of the half-term are below.

Week	Spelling Pattern
03.11.25	Prefix inter- (intergalactic, interact)
10.11.25	Words with the ay sound spelt eigh, ei, ey (sleigh, vein, they)
17.11.25	Words ending in -ous (serious, enormous)
24.11.25	Words with the s sound spelt sc (scissors, muscle)
1.12.25	Words ending in *zhun* spelt -sion (invasion, television)
8.12.25	Adding il- revising un-, im-, dis- (illogical, unkind, impatient, disqualify)
15.12.25	Term 1 review

Handwriting

Whole class reading texts

Term	Book and Author	ISBN
Autumn 1	The Borrowers Mary Norton
Autumn 2	The Borrowers Mary Norton
Spring 1	Who Let the Gods Out? Maz Evans	978-1-910655-41-2
Spring 2	Who Let the Gods Out? Maz Evans
Summer 1	The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q. Rauf	978-1-51010-501-0
Summer 2	The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q. Rauf